On September 19, Stanford University and Elsevier jointly released the 2025 world’s Top 2% Scientists Rankings. The list is divided into "Lifetime Scientific Impact Ranking" and "Annual Scientific Impact Ranking". A total of 48 scholars of GDUT were selected into the "Lifelong Scientific Impact Ranking", an increase of 6 over last year, and a total of 134 scholars were selected into the "Annual Scientific Impact Ranking", an increase of 12 over last year. The selected scholars of GDUT are mainly engaged in engineering, artificial intelligence, electronic information, environmental chemistry, materials, energy, optics and other fields, which reflects the international academic competitiveness of GDUT.