Four members of the Bosnian Arts and Sciences Academy (ANU BiH) are listed among the two percent of scientists in the world with the highest impact of citations throughout their careers and in 2020, published by one of the world's largest publishers of scientific literature ELSEVIER BV.

An article published by Elsevier, authored by professors John PA Ioannidis, Kevin W. Boyack and Jeroen Baas of Stanford University in California (USA) contains a list of 2% of scientists in the world with the highest impact of citations throughout their careers and in 2020, which is based on a scientific analysis of data available in Elsevier's citation and bibliographic database of the SCOPUS group of researchers from Stanford University.

The four Bosnian scientists from that list are:

-Academic prof. dr. Kemal Hanjalic, Department of Technical Sciences;
-Academic prof. dr. Dejan Milosevic, Department of Natural and Mathematical Sciences;
-Academic prof. dr. Asif Sabanovic, Department of Technical Sciences;
-Academic prof. dr. Enver Zerem, Department of Medical Sciences.

The authors of the study state that the influence of citations of world scientists is often misinterpreted and in order to achieve maximum objectivity they created a publicly available database with more than 100,000 leading scientists of the world, where using artificial intelligence principles to design algorithms, they evaluated each individual scientist. Also, the authors especially emphasize the importance of distinguishing the concepts of the number of citations and the impact of citations. The available database contains standardized information on citations, the h-index, hm-index adapted to co-authorship, citations of articles in different positions of authors in the analyzed article and a cumulative indicator of the impact of citations.

Scientists were classified into 22 scientific fields and 176 scientific branches. For all scientists who have published at least 5 papers, percentages specific to the scientific field and scientific branch were also given. Data for the entire career are updated by the end of 2020. The selection is based on the first 100,000 by c-score (with and without self-citations) or on the percentage range of 2% of the most cited. The methodology used during the compilation of the list of scientists with the greatest citation impact was published in the Plos Biology 2020 scientific journal, the BiH Arts and Sciences Academy announced.