Name: Top-cited scientists 2025: searchable science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators
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249,310 authors in the 2025 impact list · ranked by c-score excluding self-citations


1	Wang, Zhong Lin Chinese Academy of Sciences	CHN	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology #1 · top <0.01%	5.272	40,653	73	41.2	11.0%	3,026	1986–2026
2	Kresse, Georg Universität Wien	AUT	Applied Physics #1 · top <0.01%	5.247	38,337	32	15.9	0.7%	411	1992–2026
3	Mirjalili, Seyedali Torrens University Australia	AUS	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing #1 · top <0.01%	5.235	26,703	62	30.9	3.7%	679	2010–2026
4	Bandura, Albert Stanford University	USA	Social Psychology #1 · top <0.01%	5.222	12,668	41	32.9	0.2%	210	1953–2024
5	Grimme, Stefan Universität Bonn	DEU	Chemical Physics #1 · top <0.01%	5.171	24,555	38	23.7	2.2%	749	1992–2026
6	Bengio, Yoshua Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms	CAN	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing #2 · top <0.01%	5.099	56,641	67	26.4	0.5%	665	1988–2026
7	Ajzen, Icek University of Massachusetts Amherst	USA	Social Psychology #2 · top <0.01%	5.067	13,862	30	21.9	0.2%	104	1969–2026
8	Girshick, Ross B. Vercept		Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing #3 · top <0.01%	5.055	61,379	40	13.8	0.0%	92	2004–2025
9	Ryan, Richard M. Australian Catholic University	AUS	Social Psychology #3 · top 0.01%	5.053	25,049	58	33.6	1.3%	357	1980–2026
10	Altman, Douglas G. University of Oxford Medical Sciences Division	GBR	General & Internal Medicine #1 · top <0.01%	5.039	71,089	89	38.6	1.3%	1,116	1972–2025
11	Gross, James J. Stanford University	USA	Experimental Psychology #1 · top <0.01%	5.020	12,874	54	32.0	4.2%	644	1989–2026
12	Hinton, Geoffrey E. University of Toronto	CAN	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing #4 · top <0.01%	5.011	52,780	45	24.6	0.1%	293	1979–2026
13	Perdew, John Tulane University School of Science and Engineering	USA	Applied Physics #2 · top <0.01%	5.010	30,316	37	18.6	0.6%	365	1970–2026
14	McClements, David Julian University of Massachusetts Amherst	USA	Food Science #1 · top <0.01%	5.004	23,170	52	36.9	5.9%	1,855	1987–2027
15	Lal, Rattan A. The Ohio State University	USA	Agronomy & Agriculture #1 · top <0.01%	5.003	11,227	44	33.9	4.0%	1,415	1922–2026
16	Breiman, Leo University of California, Berkeley	USA	Statistics & Probability #1 · top <0.01%	5.001	22,015	15	13.1	0.0%	58	1960–2018
17	Li, Heng Harvard Medical School	USA	Bioinformatics #1 · top <0.01%	4.988	21,239	40	15.0	2.5%	134	2004–2026
18	Moher, David Ottawa Hospital Research Institute	CAN	General & Internal Medicine #2 · top <0.01%	4.986	88,329	75	19.9	1.0%	937	1984–2026
19	Higgins, Julian P.t. Bristol Medical School	GBR	General & Internal Medicine #3 · top <0.01%	4.956	54,555	58	23.3	0.8%	415	1996–2026
20	Neese, Frank Max Planck Institute for Coal Research	DEU	Chemical Physics #2 · top <0.01%	4.955	11,720	39	22.9	6.6%	673	1995–2026
21	Tibshirani, Robert John Stanford University	USA	Statistics & Probability #2 · top <0.01%	4.950	14,290	42	20.9	1.7%	432	1982–2026
22	Teece, David J. University of California, Berkeley	USA	Business & Management #1 · top <0.01%	4.938	9,389	31	25.9	0.5%	300	1971–2026
23	Friston, K. J. UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology	GBR	Neurology & Neurosurgery #1 · top <0.01%	4.934	12,794	46	29.4	9.0%	1,373	1989–2026
24	Ioannidis, John P.A. Stanford University School of Medicine	USA	General & Internal Medicine #4 · top <0.01%	4.926	26,012	56	27.9	3.1%	1,488	1994–2026
25	Gogotsi, Yury G. Drexel University	USA	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology #2 · top <0.01%	4.897	31,860	85	35.3	3.7%	1,170	1984–2026

# rank by c-score; Subfield rank rank and top % in main subfield; c-score composite citation score (0–6); Cites 2025 citations in 2025; h h-index; hm co-authorship-adjusted h-index; Self-cit. self-citation share; Active years of first and last paper.