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Top-cited scientists who started publishing in 1992–2001

60,750 listed authors · first paper 1992–2001

How many top 2% scientists started publishing in 1992–2001?

60,750 researchers whose first paper indexed in Scopus is from 1992–2001 are in the 2025 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 24.4% of everyone on it. 26,001 of them (42.8%) rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations), against 40.1% of the whole list. The United States has the most of them (17,893, 29.5%), and Clinical Medicine is their largest field. The stage counts from the first paper, not from age.

Listed authors
60,750
24.4% of the list
In the global top 100,000
26,001
42.8% of its listed authors
Countries
134
most in the United States, 29.5%
Highest-ranked
#2
Kresse, Georg

Top countries

  1. United States17,89329%
  2. China6,49011%
  3. United Kingdom5,0008%
  4. Germany3,5346%
  5. Australia2,5224%
  6. Canada2,3804%
  7. Italy2,3674%
  8. France1,9123%
  9. Japan1,6803%
  10. Netherlands1,4692%

Top institutions

  1. Harvard Medical School284<1%
  2. Tsinghua University265<1%
  3. University of Oxford212<1%
  4. University College London207<1%
  5. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor189<1%
  6. University of Toronto188<1%
  7. Monash University185<1%
  8. The University of British Columbia182<1%
  9. Mayo Clinic180<1%
  10. College of Engineering177<1%

Top fields

  1. Clinical Medicine20,18433%
  2. Physics & Astronomy5,0488%
  3. Biomedical Research4,7748%
  4. Enabling & Strategic Technologies4,5167%
  5. Engineering4,4027%
  6. Chemistry3,5866%
  7. Information & Communication Technologies3,2065%
  8. Biology2,8425%
  9. Earth & Environmental Sciences2,2354%
  10. Agriculture, Fisheries & Forestry2,2314%

The top 100 who started publishing in 1992–2001, in order

  1. 1
    Kresse, Georg
    🇦🇹 Universität Wien
  2. 2
    Grimme, Stefan
    🇩🇪 Universität Bonn
  3. 3
    Higgins, Julian P.t.
    🇬🇧 Bristol Medical School
  4. 4
    Neese, Frank
    🇩🇪 Max Planck Institute for Coal Research
  5. 5
    Ioannidis, John P.A.
    🇺🇸 Stanford University School of Medicine
  6. 6
    Acemoglu, Daron
    🇺🇸 Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyNobel laureate
  7. 7
    Bakker, Arnold Bastiaan
    🇳🇱 Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam
  8. 8
    Austin, Peter C.
    🇨🇦 Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences
  9. 9
    Venkatesh, Viswanath
    🇺🇸 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
  10. 10
    Floridi, Luciano
    🇺🇸 Yale University
  11. 11
    Stockwell, Brent R.
    🇺🇸 Columbia University
  12. 12
    Bray, Freddie Ian
    🇫🇷 Centre international de Recherche sur le Cancer
  13. 13
    KUZYAKOV, Yakov V.
    🇩🇪 Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
  14. 14
    Hu, Frank B.
    🇺🇸 Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
  15. 15
    Rillig, Matthias C.
    🇩🇪 Freie Universität Berlin
  16. 16
    Younossi, Zobair M.
    🇺🇸 The Global NASH Council
  17. 17
    Braun, Virginia
    🇳🇿 University of Auckland
  18. 18
    Geels, Frank W.
    🇬🇧 Alliance Manchester Business School
  19. 19
    Fierer, Noah G.
    🇺🇸 University of Colorado Boulder
  20. 20
    Smith, Stephen M.
    🇬🇧 University of Oxford Medical Sciences Division
  21. 21
    Novoselov, Konstantin Sergeevich
    🇸🇬 National University of SingaporeNobel laureate
  22. 22
    Horvath, Steve M.
    🇺🇸 Altos Labs, Inc.
  23. 23
    Hochreiter, Sepp
    🇦🇹 Johannes Kepler University Linz
  24. 24
    Sarstedt, Marko
    🇩🇪 Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg
  25. 25
    Mozaffarian, Dariush
    🇺🇸 Tufts University
  26. 26
    Cui, Yi
    🇺🇸 Stanford Engineering
  27. 27
    Naghavi, Mohsen
    🇸🇪 Karolinska Institutet
  28. 28
    Olabi, Abdul Ghani
    🇦🇪 University of Sharjah
  29. 29
    Hernán, Miguel A. Ángel
    🇺🇸 Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
  30. 30
    Awual, Md Rabiul
    🇯🇵 Japan Atomic Energy Agency
  31. 31
    Smith, Pete
    🇬🇧 University of Aberdeen
  32. 32
    Fischl, Bruce R.
    🇺🇸 MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
  33. 33
    Chandel, Navdeep S.
    🇺🇸 Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
  34. 34
    Medzhitov, Ruslan M.
    🇺🇸 Yale School of Medicine
  35. 35
    Sigmund, Ole
    🇩🇰 Technical University of Denmark
  36. 36
    Kock, Ned Florencio
    🇺🇸 Texas A and M International University
  37. 37
    Lehmann, Johannes C.
    🇩🇪 Institute for Advanced Study of Technical University of Munich
  38. 38
    Feldman Barrett, Lisa Feldman
    🇺🇸 Harvard Medical School
  39. 39
    Frangogiannis, Nikolaos Georgios
    🇺🇸 Albert Einstein College of Medicine
  40. 40
    Wang, Jianlong
    🇨🇳 Tsinghua University
  41. 41
    Buhalis, Dimitrios
    🇬🇧 Bournemouth University
  42. 42
    Sarkis, Joseph
    🇺🇸 Worcester Polytechnic Institute
  43. 43
    Mizushima, Noboru N.
    🇯🇵 University of Tokyo
  44. 44
    Demerouti, Evangelia
    🇳🇱 Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
  45. 45
    Stamatakis, Alexandros P.
    🇩🇪 Karlsruher Institut für Technologie
  46. 46
    Wang, Shaobin
    🇦🇺 The University of Adelaide
  47. 47
    Springel, Volker
    🇩🇪 Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
  48. 48
    Yang, Xin She
    🇬🇧 Middlesex University
  49. 49
    Candés, Emmanuel J.
    🇺🇸 Stanford University
  50. 50
    Viechtbauer, Wolfgang
    🇳🇱 Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences
  51. 51
    Maldacena, Juan M.
    🇺🇸 Institute for Advanced Study
  52. 52
    Gössling, Stefan
    🇸🇪 Linnaeus University, Kalmar
  53. 53
    Lip, Gregory Y.H.
    🇬🇧 University of Liverpool
  54. 54
    Hansson, Oskar
    🇺🇸 Eli Lilly and Company
  55. 55
    A. C. Ferrari, A. Carlo
    🇬🇧 University of Cambridge
  56. 56
    Thompson, Richard C.
    🇬🇧 University of Plymouth
  57. 57
    Imbens, Guido W.
    🇺🇸 Stanford Graduate School of BusinessNobel laureate
  58. 58
    Spence, C. J.
    🇬🇧 University of Oxford Medical Sciences Division
  59. 59
    Steg, Linda
    🇳🇱 Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
  60. 60
    Zhou, Zhihua
    🇨🇳 Nanjing University
  61. 61
    Sargent, Edward H.
    🇺🇸 Northwestern University
  62. 62
    Xu, Zeshui
    🇨🇳 Sichuan University
  63. 63
    Edmondson, Amy C.
    🇺🇸 Harvard Business School
  64. 64
    Yang, Ziheng
    🇬🇧 University College London
  65. 65
    Jemal, Ahmedin M.
    🇺🇸 American Cancer Society
  66. 66
    Winkler, Michael
    🇩🇪 Paderborn University
  67. 67
    Rajkumar, S. Vincent
    🇺🇸 Mayo Clinic
  68. 68
    He, Ji Huan
    🇨🇳 Yango University
  69. 69
    Chen, Chaomei
    🇺🇸 College of Computing & Informatics
  70. 70
    Gülçın, İlhami
    🇹🇷 Atatürk Üniversitesi
  71. 71
    Park, Nam-gyu
    🇰🇷 Sungkyunkwan University
  72. 72
    Rosseel, Yves
    🇧🇪 Universiteit Gent
  73. 73
    Jin, Yaochu
    🇨🇳 Westlake University
  74. 74
    Shepherd, Dean A.
    🇺🇸 University of Notre Dame
  75. 75
    Weigend, Florian
    🇩🇪 Karlsruher Institut für Technologie
  76. 76
    Dewaele, Jean Marc
    🇬🇧 University College London
  77. 77
    Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J.
    🇪🇸 Instituto de Salud Global de Barcelona
  78. 78
    Blei, David M.
    🇺🇸 Simons Foundation
  79. 79
    Pradhan, Biswajeet K.
    🇦🇺 University of Technology Sydney
  80. 80
    Sun, Yang-kook
    🇰🇷 Hanyang University
  81. 81
    Bloom, Nicholas Dagen
    🇺🇸 Stanford University
  82. 82
    Buckner, Randy L.
    🇺🇸 Massachusetts General Hospital
  83. 83
    Autor, David H.
    🇺🇸 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  84. 84
    Henrich, Joseph
    🇺🇸 Harvard University
  85. 85
    Liu, Yansui
    🇨🇳 Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  86. 86
    van der Aalst, Wil M.P.
    🇩🇪 Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen
  87. 87
    Blüher, Matthias
    🇩🇪 Universität Leipzig
  88. 88
    Preacher, Kristopher J.
    🇺🇸 Vanderbilt University
  89. 89
    Dai, Aiguo
    🇺🇸 State University of New York Albany
  90. 90
    Xu, Kang W.
    🇺🇸 U.S. Army Research Laboratory
  91. 91
    Wherry, Edward John
    🇺🇸 University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
  92. 92
    Fan, Shanhui
    🇺🇸 Ginzton Laboratory
  93. 93
    Menon, Vinod
    🇺🇸 Stanford University School of Medicine
  94. 94
    Twenge, Jean M.
    🇺🇸 San Diego State University
  95. 95
    Nock, Matthew K.
    🇺🇸 Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
  96. 96
    Jost, John T.
    🇺🇸 New York University
  97. 97
    Clarke, Victoria
    🇬🇧 University of the West of England
  98. 98
    Glaeser, Edward
    🇺🇸 NBER
  99. 99
    Tacke, Frank
    🇩🇪 Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
  100. 100
    Keyes, Corey Lee M.
    🇺🇸 Emory University

60,750 listed scientists who started publishing in 1992–2001

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Data: Ioannidis, John P.A. (2026), ‘August 2026 data-update for “Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators”’, Mendeley Data, v9, doi:10.17632/btchxktzyw.9. 2025 impact list, ranked by composite citation score (c) excluding self-citations.

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