Top fields for scientists who started publishing in 1992–2001

20 fields · 174 subfields · Started 1992–2001

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In which fields are the top-cited scientists who started publishing in 1992–2001?

60,750 researchers whose first paper indexed in Scopus is from 1992–2001 are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list, across 20 fields and 174 subfields. Clinical Medicine has the most (20,184, 33.2%), followed by Physics & Astronomy (5,048) and Biomedical Research (4,774); the largest subfield is Oncology & Carcinogenesis (2,289). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Field and subfield	Listed authors	Share	Top 100k	Highest-ranked author
Clinical Medicine · 20,184 listed authors (33.2%)
Oncology & Carcinogenesis	2,289	3.8%	958	Bray, Freddie Ian #52
Neurology & Neurosurgery	2,250	3.7%	1,141	Smith, Stephen M. #103
Cardiovascular System & Hematology	1,430	2.4%	683	Austin, Peter C. #35
General & Internal Medicine	1,413	2.3%	315	Higgins, Julian P.t. #19
Immunology	1,049	1.7%	499	Medzhitov, Ruslan M. #166
Surgery	872	1.4%	123	Pawlik, Timothy M. #4,218
Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging	725	1.2%	131	Ye, Jongchul #4,129
Pharmacology & Pharmacy	703	1.2%	153	Mitragotri, Samir S. #609
Gastroenterology & Hepatology	681	1.1%	313	Younossi, Zobair M. #82
Obstetrics & Reproductive Medicine	589	1.0%	158	Taylor, Hugh S. #4,599
Orthopedics	589	1.0%	143	Armstrong, David G. #2,364
Endocrinology & Metabolism	572	0.9%	378	Hu, Frank B. #74
Urology & Nephrology	533	0.9%	200	Vickers, Andrew J. #1,694
Psychiatry	524	0.9%	443	Viechtbauer, Wolfgang #214
Dentistry	495	0.8%	115	Özcan, Mutlu #5,970
Pediatrics	474	0.8%	59	Anderson, Peter John #6,064
Ophthalmology & Optometry	470	0.8%	125	Wong, Tienyin #474
Respiratory System	444	0.7%	175	Maher, Toby M. #2,004
Dermatology & Venereal Diseases	385	0.6%	99	Simpson, Eric L. #3,567
Anesthesiology	354	0.6%	87	Gan, Tongjoon #2,400
Otorhinolaryngology	339	0.6%	28	Bhattacharyya, Neil #3,795
Emergency & Critical Care Medicine	297	0.5%	95	Kellum, John A. #532
Arthritis & Rheumatology	268	0.4%	127	Schett, Georg Andreas #736
Sport Sciences	253	0.4%	156	Hagger, Martin S. #1,063
Tropical Medicine	224	0.4%	28	Tatem, Andrew J. #3,262
Pathology	162	0.3%	42	McCluggage, William Glenn #4,471
Allergy	120	0.2%	47	Akdiş, Cezmi A. A. #817
General Clinical Medicine	105	0.2%	4	Šimundić, Ana Maria #41,851
Legal & Forensic Medicine	90	0.1%	8	Krishan, Kewal #7,201
Environmental & Occupational Health	85	0.1%	13	Rugulies, Reiner #17,781
Geriatrics	82	0.1%	43	Chen, Liang-Kung #1,749
Complementary & Alternative Medicine	70	0.1%	13	Lyu, Aiping #18,306
Physics & Astronomy · 5,048 listed authors (8.3%)
Applied Physics	1,591	2.6%	438	Kresse, Georg #2
Nuclear & Particle Physics	854	1.4%	303	Maldacena, Juan M. #221
Chemical Physics	609	1.0%	244	Grimme, Stefan #5
Astronomy & Astrophysics	601	1.0%	444	Springel, Volker #205
Optics	463	0.8%	133	Kivshar, Yuri S. #581
General Physics	446	0.7%	165	Vidal, Guifré #766
Fluids & Plasmas	324	0.5%	150	Fortunato, Santo #1,623
Acoustics	205	0.3%	64	Antoni, Jérôme #1,051
Mathematical Physics	23	0.0%	7	Fan, Engui Gui #16,475
Biomedical Research · 4,774 listed authors (7.9%)
Microbiology	1,344	2.2%	536	Fierer, Noah G. #97
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology	1,054	1.7%	285	Mizushima, Noboru N. #190
Developmental Biology	1,003	1.7%	604	Stockwell, Brent R. #51
Virology	505	0.8%	83	Klein, Sabra L. #1,868
Toxicology	366	0.6%	90	Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J. #317
Nutrition & Dietetics	297	0.5%	148	Zimmermann, Michaël Bruce #1,505
Genetics & Heredity	263	0.4%	58	Rehm, Heidi L. #2,513
Mycology & Parasitology	163	0.3%	39	Dai, Yucheng #3,941
Physiology	112	0.2%	40	Sokolova, Inna M. #6,183
Biophysics	106	0.2%	14	Wang, Guangshun #7,630
Anatomy & Morphology	42	0.1%	4	Tubbs, Richard Shane #12,827
Microscopy	14	0.0%	1	Nellist, Peter D.L. #71,308
Enabling & Strategic Technologies · 4,516 listed authors (7.4%)
Materials	1,476	2.4%	558	ZHANG, Yong #1,177
Energy	1,359	2.2%	627	Olabi, Abdul Ghani #144
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology	711	1.2%	703	Novoselov, Konstantin Sergeevich #104
Optoelectronics & Photonics	639	1.1%	48	Fan, Shanhui #360
Biotechnology	322	0.5%	101	Liu, Yu #1,716
Bioinformatics	147	0.2%	85	Stamatakis, Alexandros P. #195
Strategic, Defence & Security Studies	142	0.2%	48	Zio, Enrico E. #704
Engineering · 4,402 listed authors (7.2%)
Mechanical Engineering & Transports	699	1.2%	199	Turkyilmazoglu, Mustafa #1,362
Industrial Engineering & Automation	682	1.1%	314	Sitti, Metin #579
Electrical & Electronic Engineering	576	0.9%	100	Emadi, Ali N. #2,603
Biomedical Engineering	402	0.7%	125	Acharya, U. R. #1,393
Chemical Engineering	388	0.6%	192	Awual, Md Rabiul #149
Geological & Geomatics Engineering	385	0.6%	274	Pradhan, Biswajeet K. #319
Environmental Engineering	359	0.6%	132	Hoekstra, Arjen Y. #909
Aerospace & Aeronautics	353	0.6%	31	Martins, Joaquim R.R.A. #4,676
Civil Engineering	312	0.5%	134	Han, L. H. #1,266
Operations Research	163	0.3%	90	Zhang, Peter G. #7,553
Mining & Metallurgy	161	0.3%	19	Tavares, Luís Marcelo M. #10,977
Automobile Design & Engineering	10	0.0%	0	Bruni, Stefano #122,147
Chemistry · 3,586 listed authors (5.9%)
Organic Chemistry	813	1.3%	299	Binnemans, Koen #619
Analytical Chemistry	621	1.0%	153	Fiehn, Oliver E. #804
Polymers	596	1.0%	236	Sun, Runcang Cang #879
Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry	586	1.0%	99	Gülçın, İlhami #299
Inorganic & Nuclear Chemistry	425	0.7%	78	Yan, Bing #4,160
Physical Chemistry	229	0.4%	88	Hu, Yun Hang #6,053
General Chemistry	152	0.3%	32	MacMillan, David W.C. #780
Information & Communication Technologies · 3,206 listed authors (5.3%)
Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	1,738	2.9%	885	Hochreiter, Sepp #117
Networking & Telecommunications	871	1.4%	242	Cui, Tiejun Cui #663
Software Engineering	155	0.3%	68	Heer, Jeffrey M. #5,269
Computer Hardware & Architecture	111	0.2%	12	Xie, Yuan #14,256
Information Systems	110	0.2%	101	Venkatesh, Viswanath #39
Medical Informatics	103	0.2%	42	Eysenbach, Gunther #468
Computation Theory & Mathematics	91	0.1%	39	Regev, Oded #3,041
Distributed Computing	50	0.1%	5	Buyya, Rajkumar #2,396
Biology · 2,842 listed authors (4.7%)
Plant Biology & Botany	1,156	1.9%	482	Niinemets, Ülo #708
Ecology	679	1.1%	646	Rillig, Matthias C. #79
Marine Biology & Hydrobiology	335	0.6%	131	Thompson, Richard C. #244
Entomology	241	0.4%	53	Nauen, Ralf #5,603
Evolutionary Biology	227	0.4%	182	Yang, Ziheng #275
Zoology	153	0.3%	6	Zaher, H. El Dine #68,602
Ornithology	31	0.1%	1	Cresswell, Will R.L. #32,913
Earth & Environmental Sciences · 2,235 listed authors (3.7%)
Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences	635	1.0%	569	Dai, Aiguo #352
Geochemistry & Geophysics	622	1.0%	352	Zhao, Guochun Chuif #1,229
Environmental Sciences	580	1.0%	478	Wang, Jianlong #185
Paleontology	144	0.2%	60	Cheng, Hai J. #5,314
Oceanography	101	0.2%	19	Roshanka, Ranasinghe H.K. #17,485
Geology	74	0.1%	15	Catuneanu, Octavian #14,587
Agriculture, Fisheries & Forestry · 2,231 listed authors (3.7%)
Agronomy & Agriculture	536	0.9%	230	KUZYAKOV, Yakov V. #66
Veterinary Sciences	456	0.8%	37	Weese, Jeffrey Scott #7,867
Food Science	450	0.7%	304	Siegrist, Michael #452
Dairy & Animal Science	420	0.7%	77	Pfaffl, Michael W. #1,041
Fisheries	272	0.4%	45	Cooke, Steven J. #1,943
Forestry	239	0.4%	37	Konijnendijk, Cecil C. #7,887
Horticulture	36	0.1%	3	van Leeuwen, Corneli (Kees) #17,122
Social Sciences · 1,765 listed authors (2.9%)
Education	530	0.9%	334	Biesta, Gert J.J. #449
Political Science & Public Administration	258	0.4%	255	Druckman, James N. #598
Geography	183	0.3%	179	Liu, Yansui #335
Law	145	0.2%	40	Crenshaw, Kimberlé Williams #4,216
Sociology	127	0.2%	125	Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo #3,359
Criminology	90	0.1%	64	Hipp, John R. #9,604
International Relations	81	0.1%	81	Newell, Peter J. #2,412
Information & Library Sciences	68	0.1%	16	Chen, Chaomei #296
Social Work	62	0.1%	21	Lundy, Laura #18,686
Cultural Studies	51	0.1%	13	Zhao, Suisheng #22,437
Science Studies	38	0.1%	37	Geels, Frank W. #95
Demography	23	0.0%	17	Triandafyllidou, Anna #10,361
Family Studies	23	0.0%	12	Goldberg, Abbie E. #19,252
Social Sciences Methods	22	0.0%	22	Rosseel, Yves #307
Gender Studies	12	0.0%	12	Braun, Virginia #94
Economics & Business · 1,686 listed authors (2.8%)
Business & Management	594	1.0%	593	Bakker, Arnold Bastiaan #32
Economics	339	0.6%	335	Acemoglu, Daron #29
Marketing	167	0.3%	167	Sarstedt, Marko #119
Logistics & Transportation	147	0.2%	87	Bhat, Chandra R. #2,542
Sport, Leisure & Tourism	114	0.2%	113	Buhalis, Dimitrios #186
Finance	100	0.2%	99	Beck, Thorsten #716
Accounting	70	0.1%	70	Campbell, John L. #3,578
Agricultural Economics & Policy	44	0.1%	38	Barrett, Christopher B. #1,450
Development Studies	35	0.1%	31	Béné, Christophe #3,430
Econometrics	26	0.0%	26	Imbens, Guido W. #247
Industrial Relations	10	0.0%	8	Cooke, Fang Lee #5,312
Economic Theory	9	0.0%	2	Marinacci, Massimo #80,789
Public Health & Health Services · 1,296 listed authors (2.1%)
Public Health	488	0.8%	293	Holt-Lunstad, Julianne #872
Nursing	412	0.7%	72	Coyne, Imelda T. #7,195
Rehabilitation	223	0.4%	64	Finlay, Linda #4,234
Health Policy & Services	185	0.3%	79	Terwee, Caroline Barbara #2,201
Substance Abuse	103	0.2%	50	Degenhardt, Louisa J. #1,790
Gerontology	91	0.1%	55	Levy, Becca R. #3,533
Speech-Language Pathology & Audiology	83	0.1%	21	Roy, Nelson #13,596
Epidemiology	53	0.1%	28	Hernán, Miguel A. Ángel #147
Psychology & Cognitive Sciences · 1,077 listed authors (1.8%)
Experimental Psychology	309	0.5%	293	Feldman Barrett, Lisa Feldman #174
Social Psychology	290	0.5%	279	Steg, Linda #253
Developmental & Child Psychology	174	0.3%	165	Ungar, Michael T. #669
Clinical Psychology	102	0.2%	89	Hofmann, Stefan G. #496
Human Factors	79	0.1%	55	Dourish, Paul #4,748
Behavioral Science & Comparative Psychology	73	0.1%	41	Blumstein, Daniel T. #2,641
General Psychology & Cognitive Sciences	17	0.0%	10	Nadal, Kevin Leo Yabut #11,307
Psychoanalysis	17	0.0%	3	Target, Mary #72,961
Mathematics & Statistics · 664 listed authors (1.1%)
General Mathematics	358	0.6%	90	Winkler, Michael #279
Statistics & Probability	130	0.2%	121	Candés, Emmanuel J. #213
Applied Mathematics	98	0.2%	46	Baleanu, Dumitru I. #1,760
Numerical & Computational Mathematics	98	0.2%	36	Diethelm, Kai #3,529
Communication & Textual Studies · 367 listed authors (0.6%)
Languages & Linguistics	155	0.3%	146	Dewaele, Jean Marc #314
Literary Studies	124	0.2%	15	Mignolo, Walter D. #1,049
Communication & Media Studies	84	0.1%	83	Valkenburg, Patti M. #1,004
Historical Studies · 342 listed authors (0.6%)
History	144	0.2%	7	McNeill, John Robert #24,524
Archaeology	124	0.2%	25	Smith, Laurajane #2,719
Anthropology	55	0.1%	30	Mahmood, Saba #9,265
Classics	17	0.0%	1	Elsner, Jas̈ #91,683
History of Science, Technology & Medicine	12	0.0%	1	Arnold, David #96,229
History of Social Sciences	8	0.0%	1	van Zanden, Jan Luiten #43,510
Built Environment & Design · 335 listed authors (0.6%)
Building & Construction	228	0.4%	184	Siddique, Rafat #658
Urban & Regional Planning	78	0.1%	77	Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés #441
Design Practice & Management	77	0.1%	22	Sigmund, Ole #167
Architecture	12	0.0%	2	DeLanda, Manuel #34,563
Philosophy & Theology · 173 listed authors (0.3%)
Philosophy	84	0.1%	48	Floridi, Luciano #49
Religions & Theology	70	0.1%	5	Meyer, Birgit #26,409
Applied Ethics	37	0.1%	28	Sparrow, Robert James #10,634
Visual & Performing Arts · 21 listed authors (0.0%)
Art Practice, History & Theory	19	0.0%	0	Smith, Pamela H. #156,395
Music	14	0.0%	1	Born, Georgina #57,750
Drama & Theater	9	0.0%	0	Lepecki, André #231,989
Folklore	3	0.0%	0	Hafstein, Valdimar Tr #351,025