Among the top 2% of medical research worldwide are members of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Medicine (AUTh), in the recent classification of the bibliometric study of the publishing house Elsevier and Stanford University.

In this ranking, which is announced every year and is the most valid worldwide, evaluated with objective bibliometric criteria -number of cross-references, impact factor etc.-, the impact of the scientific work of almost 10,000,000 scientists around the world, classifying them in 22 scientific fields and 176 subfields.

The data is drawn from Scopus, the largest international bibliographic database, which includes abstracts and citations for academic articles from reputable scientific journals. This list includes rankings by final year and overall career.

For their entire career in their scientific field, 8 members of AUTH Medicine are in this top 2% of the world ranking and they are, in order of ranking, the following:

1. Konstantinos Foundoulakis, professor of Psychiatry

2. Pantelis Sarafidis or. Professor of Nephrology

3. Dimitris Hatzichristou, professor of Urology

4. Efstratios Kolymbianakis, professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology

5. Stergios Polyzos, associate professor of Endocrinology

6. Prodromos Chytiroglou, professor of Pathological Anatomy

7. Eleftherios Tsiridis, professor of Orthopedic Surgery

8. Panagiotis Bamidis, professor of Medical Physics and Informatics in Medical Education

Based on the annual ranking for 2022-23, twenty active AUTH professors were distinguished and ranked in the highest 2% and they are, in order:

1. Konstantinos Foundoulakis, professor of Psychiatry

2. Stergios Polyzos, associate professor of Endocrinology

3. Pantelis Sarafidis or. Professor of Nephrology

4. Panagiotis Bamidis, professor of Medical Physics and Informatics in Medical Education

5. Apostolos Tsapas, professor of Pathology

6. Emilios Lallas, if. Professor of Dermatology

7. Fotis Topouzis, professor of Ophthalmology

8. Dimirios Zafiriou, professor of Pediatric Neurology

9. Dumas Michael an. Professor of Pathology

10. Efstratios Kolymbianakis, professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology

11. Sotiriadis Alexandros an. professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology

12. Dimitris Hatzichristou, professor of Urology

13. Vasilis Liakopoulos, professor of Nephrology

14. Eleftherios Tsiridis, professor of Orthopedic Surgery

15. Zoi Apalla, if. Professor of Dermatology

16. Anastasios Georgios Konstas, professor of Ophthalmology

17. Georgios Tsoulfas, an. Professor of Surgical Oncology

18. Dimitrios Ioannidis, professor of Dermatology

19. Evangelos Papanikolaou, senior professor of Reproductive Medicine

20. Iordanis Konstantinidis, an. professor of otolaryngology