Park Suncheol, Hanyang University Guri Hospital Professor, Named Among the 'World's Top 2% Scientists'

Ranked 1,568th among more than 90,000 researchers in psychiatry, placing him in the top 1.73%

Park Suncheol, a professor of psychiatry at Hanyang University Guri Hospital, has been named one of the “World’s Top 2% Scientists of 2026.”

Hanyang University Guri Hospital said on October 19 that Park had been included in the list of the world’s top 2% of scientists published by researchers at Stanford University and Elsevier.

Park Suncheol, professor of psychiatry at Hanyang University Guri Hospital. Hanyang University Guri Hospital

The list is compiled by evaluating researchers’ citation impact based on Scopus, an international academic paper database. In the single-year category of the list released on October 7, Park ranked 1,568th among 90,846 researchers worldwide in psychiatry, placing him in approximately the top 1.73%. The international journal Alpha Psychiatry also announced on October 13 that Park had been selected as one of its 26 editorial board members.

Park continues to provide care and conduct research, focusing on mood disorders, network analysis, psychopathology, and the diagnosis and classification of mental disorders. His research includes analyzing the associations among symptoms of depressive disorders through multinational collaborative studies in Asia.

He has also received the Hwanin Psychiatry Award from the Korean Neuropsychiatric Association, the Joongang Psychiatry Paper Award, the Lundbeck Neuroscience Research Award from the Korean Society of Biological Psychiatry, the Otsuka Young Medical Scientist Award from the Korean College of Neuropsychopharmacology, and the Hanmi Essay Award from the Young Doctors.

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