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The high quality research work produced at the Technical University of Crete (TUC), as well as the international reputation TUC has acquired, have been confirmed once again this year, according to the recent ranking of the bibliometric study by John P.A. Ioannidis (2025) of Stanford University published on September 19, 2025. This ranking, entitled this time "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators", is announced annually and evaluates the performance of all academics worldwide. Forty one (41) faculty members of the Technical University of Crete appear cumulatively in the ranking lists.

The updated 2025 ranking of the world's top scientists is based on a number of indicators, focusing on the impact of their published work, during the year 2024 and on their overall work respectively, and concerns the evaluation of these indicators for over 8,000,000 scientists worldwide. The broader annual evaluation of John P.A. Ioannidis is based on the impact of the published research work and in particular on the citations received by each scientist with at least 5 publications according to the Scopus database.

Thirty (30) faculty members of the Technical University of Crete are included based on year 2024 in the list of the top 100,000 scientists worldwide, who are either in the first 100,000 positions of the ranking, or belong to the top 2% worldwide in their scientific area (over 22 scientific fields and 174 subcategories analyzed). These are (in order of ranking):

1. Assistant Professor Alexandros Stefanakis (School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering)
2. Emeritus Professor Markos Papageorgiou (School of Production Engineering and Management)
3. Professor Michalis Konsolakis (School of Production Engineering and Management)
4. Professor Dionysia Kolokotsa (School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering)
5. Professor Konstantinos Komnitsas (School of Mineral Resources Engineering)
6. Associate Professor Paraskevi Panagiotopoulou (School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering)
7. Professor Elefteria Psillakis (School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering)
8. Dr. Manolis Grillakis, Laboratory Teaching Staff (School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering)
9. Associate Professor Aristeidis Koutroulis (School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering)
10. Professor Fotis Kanellos (School of Production Engineering and Management)
11. Professor Theocharis Tsoutsos (School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering)
12. Emeritus Professor Nicolas Kalogerakis (School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering)
13. Professor Konstantinos Zopounidis (School of Production Engineering and Management)
14. Professor Evangelos Grigoroudis (*) (School of Production Engineering and Management)
15. Professor Konstantinos Tsagarakis (School of Production Engineering and Management)
16. Professor Despina Vamvuka (School of Mineral Resources Engineering)
17. Professor Petros Gikas (School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering)
18. Professor Constantinos Chrysikopoulos (**) (School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering)
19. Professor Georgios Christidis (School of Mineral Resources Engineering)
20. Professor Ioannis Yentekakis (**) (School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering)
21. Professor Yannis Marinakis (School of Production Engineering and Management)
22. Associate Professor Konstantinos Gyftakis (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering)
23. Associate Professor Evangelos Kalogerakis (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering)
24. Assistant Professor Emmanouil Varouchakis (School of Mineral Resources Engineering)
25. Retired Professor Ioannis Tsanis (School of Environmental Engineering)
26. Associate Professor Nikolaos Bekiaris-Liberis (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering)
27. Professor Eftichios Koutroulis (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering)
28. Professor Aggelos Bletsas (**) (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering)
29. Professor Sotiris Ioannidis (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering)
30. Professor Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos (**) (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering)

Similarly, in the list of  leading scientists based on their total scientific work, there are thirty five (35) Professors of the Technical University of Crete, twenty four (24) of whom are also included in the above list (again, in order of ranking):

1. Emeritus Professor Markos Papageorgiou (School of Production Engineering and Management)
2. Professor Dionysia Kolokotsa (School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering)
3. Professor Konstantinos Zopounidis (School of Production Engineering and Management)
4. Professor Elefteria Psillakis (School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering)
5. Professor Konstantinos Komnitsas (School of Mineral Resources Engineering)
6. Associate Professor Paraskevi Panagiotopoulou (School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering)
7. Professor Despina Vamvuka (School of Mineral Resources Engineering)
8. Professor Constantinos Chrysikopoulos (**) (School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering)
9. Professor Michalis Konsolakis (School of Production Engineering and Management)
10. Emeritus Professor Nicolas Kalogerakis (School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering)
11. Professor Angelos Bletsas (**) (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering)
12. Emeritus Professor Evan Diamadopoulos (School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering)
13. Professor Yannis Marinakis (School of Production Engineering and Management)
14. Professor Theocharis Tsoutsos (School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering)
15. Professor Michalis Doumpos (School of Production Engineering and Management)
16. Assistant Professor Alexandros Stefanakis (School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering)
17. Professor Evangelos Grigoroudis (*) (School of Production Engineering and Management)
18. Professor Konstantinos Tsagarakis (School of Production Engineering and Management)
19. Professor Petros Gikas (School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering)
20. Professor Ioannis Yentekakis (**) (School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering)
21. Retired Professor Ioannis Tsanis (School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering)
22. Professor Pagona-Noni Maravelaki (School of Architecture)
23. Professor Fotis Kanellos (School of Production Engineering and Management)
24. Professor Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos (**) (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering)
25. Professor Eftichios Koutroulis (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering)
26. Professor Nikolaos Nikolaidis (School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering)
27. Associate Professor Nikolaos Bekiaris-Liberis (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering)
28. Emeritus Professor Yannis Phillis (School of Production Engineering and Management)
29. Professor Euripides Petrakis (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering)
30. Professor Michalis Zervakis (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering)
31. Emeritus Professor Stavros Christodoulakis (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering)
32. Emeritus Professor Nikolaos Matsatsinis (School of Production Engineering and Management)
33. Professor Spiros Papaefthimiou (School of Production Engineering and Management)
34. Emeritus Professor Konstantinos Kalaitzakis (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering)
35. Associate Professor Konstantinos Gyftakis (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering)

In both of these lists, a total of forty-one (41) members of the academic staff of the Technical University of Crete are included. 

The Technical University of Crete congratulates its Professors, its teaching and research faculty members, for this important distinction, which reflects the high-level research work carried out at the Institution.

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Professor Evangelos Grigoroudis passed away in November 2023.

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Professor Constantinos Chrysikopoulos: TUC faculty member also affiliated with Khalifa University of Science and Technology.

Professor Ioannis Yentekakis: TUC faculty member also affiliated with Institute of Geoenergy / Foundation for Research and Technology—Hellas (IG/FORTH).

Professor Aggelos Bletsas: TUC faculty member also affiliated with The State University of New Jersey.

Professor Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos: TUC faculty member also affiliated with EURECOM – Graduate School and Research Centre in Digital Science.