[World’s top 2% scientists] They are among the top 2% of the world’s most influential researchers. UTBM is proud to count them among its faculty members. 

Stanford University in the United States recently updated its global list of researchers most frequently cited by their peers for their work.
This list includes 200,196 names (186,177 in 2021), representing the top 2% of the world’s most influential researchers. 5,509 of these researchers are affiliated with French institutions, accounting for 2.75% of those cited (5,912 in 2021)

Among them, 8 are faculty members at the University of Technology of Belfort-Montbéliard (5 in 2021).

"Energy" Sector

• Mohamed BECHERIF, Associate Professor
• Maurizio CIRRINCIONE, University Professor

"Materials" Field

• Ghislain Montavon, University Professor
• Christian CODDET, University Professor
• Hanlin LIAO, University Professor
• Rija RAOELISON, Associate Professor

The Stanford University study is based on an analysis of SCOPUS (
), the world’s largest database of scientific citations and abstracts
drawn from peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books, and conference proceedings.