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Top-cited scientists who started publishing in 2002–2011

75,626 listed authors · first paper 2002–2011

How many top 2% scientists started publishing in 2002–2011?

75,626 researchers whose first paper indexed in Scopus is from 2002–2011 are in the 2025 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 30.3% of everyone on it. 27,112 of them (35.9%) 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 (17,369, 23.0%), and Clinical Medicine is their largest field. The stage counts from the first paper, not from age.

Listed authors
75,626
30.3% of the list
In the global top 100,000
27,112
35.9% of its listed authors
Countries
148
most in the United States, 23.0%
Highest-ranked
#3
Mirjalili, Seyedali

Top countries

  1. United States17,36923%
  2. China17,28223%
  3. United Kingdom4,5866%
  4. Germany2,8214%
  5. Australia2,6393%
  6. India2,5693%
  7. Italy2,3413%
  8. Canada2,1893%
  9. South Korea1,6252%
  10. France1,4142%

Top institutions

  1. Tsinghua University315<1%
  2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences308<1%
  3. Harvard Medical School273<1%
  4. College of Engineering253<1%
  5. Huazhong University of Science and Technology223<1%
  6. Monash University219<1%
  7. Shanghai Jiao Tong University218<1%
  8. Tianjin University218<1%
  9. Fudan University201<1%
  10. University College London190<1%

Top fields

  1. Clinical Medicine20,97028%
  2. Enabling & Strategic Technologies9,21812%
  3. Engineering6,9369%
  4. Information & Communication Technologies6,5889%
  5. Chemistry5,8058%
  6. Physics & Astronomy5,2987%
  7. Biomedical Research4,3366%
  8. Agriculture, Fisheries & Forestry2,9024%
  9. Biology2,4123%
  10. Social Sciences2,2243%

The top 100 who started publishing in 2002–2011, in order

  1. 1
    Mirjalili, Seyedali
    🇦🇺 Torrens University Australia
  2. 2
    Girshick, Ross B.
    🇺🇸 Vercept
  3. 3
    Li, Heng
    🇺🇸 Harvard Medical School
  4. 4
    Lu, Tian
    🇨🇳 Beijing Kein Research Center for Natural Sciences
  5. 5
    Sovacool, Benjamin K.
    🇩🇰 Aarhus Universitet
  6. 6
    Ivanov, Dmitry Aleksandrovich
    🇩🇪 Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Recht Berlin
  7. 7
    VanDerWeele, Tyler J.
    🇺🇸 Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
  8. 8
    Burgess, Stephen
    🇬🇧 MRC Biostatistics Unit
  9. 9
    Lim, Weng Marc
    🇲🇾 Sunway University
  10. 10
    Dwivedi, Yogesh K.
    🇸🇦 King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
  11. 11
    Henseler, Jörg
    🇳🇱 Universiteit Twente
  12. 12
    He, Kaiming
    🇺🇸 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  13. 13
    Wickham, Hadley
    🇺🇸 PBC
  14. 14
    Han, Heesup
    🇰🇷 Sejong University
  15. 15
    Paul, Justin
    🇵🇷 Universidad de Puerto Rico
  16. 16
    Murray, Christopher J.L.
    🇺🇸 Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
  17. 17
    Govindan, Kannan
    🇦🇺 The University of Adelaide
  18. 18
    Borsboom, Denny
    🇳🇱 Universiteit van Amsterdam
  19. 19
    Sahebkar, Amirhossein
    🇮🇷 Mashhad University of Medical Sciences
  20. 20
    Provis, John Lloyd
    🇨🇭 Paul Scherrer Institut
  21. 21
    Shahbaz, Muhammad
    🇵🇱 VIZJA University
  22. 22
    Siegel, Rebecca L.
    🇺🇸 American Cancer Society
  23. 23
    Snaith, Henry James
    🇬🇧 University of Oxford
  24. 24
    Singh, Jasvinder A.
    🇺🇸 The University of Alabama at Birmingham
  25. 25
    Saleh, Tawfik A.
    🇸🇦 King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
  26. 26
    Page, Matthew James
    🇦🇺 Monash University
  27. 27
    Lee, Chien-Chiang
    🇲🇴 City University of Macau
  28. 28
    Lakens, Daniël
    🇳🇱 Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
  29. 29
    Yu, Guangchuang
    🇨🇳 Southern Medical University
  30. 30
    Cani, Patrice D.
    🇧🇪 UCLouvain
  31. 31
    Le, Quocviet
    🇬🇧 Google DeepMind
  32. 32
    Zhu, Fan
    🇳🇿 University of Auckland
  33. 33
  34. 34
    Fosso-Wamba, Samuel
    🇫🇷 TBS Business School
  35. 35
    Hainmueller, Jens
    🇺🇸 Stanford University
  36. 36
    Loomba, Rohit
    🇺🇸 UC San Diego School of Medicine
  37. 37
    Tang, Daolin
    🇺🇸 UT Southwestern Medical School
  38. 38
    Barron, Jonathan T.
    🇬🇧 Google Deepmind
  39. 39
    Lin, Boqiang
    🇨🇳 Xiamen University
  40. 40
    Van Der Linden, Sander L.
    🇬🇧 University of Cambridge
  41. 41
    Hasanuzzaman, Mirza
    🇧🇩 Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University
  42. 42
    Ghobakhloo, Morteza
    🇸🇪 Uppsala Universitet
  43. 43
    Hopkins, Philip F.
    🇺🇸 California Institute of Technology
  44. 44
    Silverberg, Jonathan I.
    🇺🇸 The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences
  45. 45
    Kshetri, Nir
    🇺🇸 Bryan School of Business and Economics
  46. 46
    Leskovec, Jure
    🇺🇸 Stanford University
  47. 47
    Rudin, Cynthia D.
    🇺🇸 Department of Computer Science
  48. 48
    Gasparrini, Antonio G.
    🇬🇧 London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
  49. 49
    Silver, David
    🇬🇧 Google DeepMind
  50. 50
    Zhao, Xuanhe
    🇺🇸 MIT School of Engineering
  51. 51
    Murad, Mohammad Hassan
    🇺🇸 Mayo Clinic
  52. 52
    Jafari, Seid Mahdi
    🇮🇷 Gorgan University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources
  53. 53
    Fu, Liang
    🇺🇸 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  54. 54
    Borlaug, Barry A.
    🇺🇸 Mayo Clinic
  55. 55
    Hamari, Juho J.
    🇫🇮 Tampere University
  56. 56
    Choi, Tsan Ming
    🇬🇧 University of Liverpool Management School
  57. 57
    Gandomi, Amir H.
    🇦🇺 University of Technology Sydney
  58. 58
    Thuiller, Wilfried
    🇫🇷 Université Grenoble Alpes
  59. 59
    Ozturk, Ilhan Tekin
    🇦🇪 University of Sharjah
  60. 60
    Wang, Qiang
    🇷🇺 Saint Petersburg State University
  61. 61
    McLaughlin, Katie A.
    🇺🇸 University of Oregon
  62. 62
    Stukowski, Alexander
    🇩🇪 OVITO GmbH
  63. 63
    Wei, Li
    🇬🇧 UCL Institute of Education
  64. 64
    Abatzoglou, John T.
    🇺🇸 School of Engineering
  65. 65
    Collins, Gary S.
    🇬🇧 University of Birmingham
  66. 66
    Dixon, Scott James
    🇺🇸 Stanford University
  67. 67
    Iravani, Siavash
    🇮🇷 Independent Researcher
  68. 68
    Lyu, Zhihan
    🇨🇳 Xidian University
  69. 69
    Show, Pau Loke
    🇲🇾 UCSI University
  70. 70
    Behler, Jörg
    🇩🇪 Ruhr-Universitat Bochum
  71. 71
    Keam, Susan J.
    🇩🇪 Springer Nature
  72. 72
    Taherdoost, Hamed
    🇹🇼 National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology
  73. 73
    Xiao, Jianbo
    🇨🇳 Zhejiang Agriculture and Forestry University
  74. 74
    Cambria, Erik
    🇸🇬 Nanyang Technological University
  75. 75
    Ferrara, Emilio
    🇺🇸 USC Viterbi School of Engineering
  76. 76
    Chen, Yushan
    🇹🇼 National Taipei University
  77. 77
    Chiappetta Jabbour, Charbel Jose
    🇫🇷 NEOMA Business School
  78. 78
    Perc, Matjaž
    🇸🇮 Univerza v Mariboru
  79. 79
    Kraus, Sascha
    🇩🇪 Universität Siegen
  80. 80
    Alù, Andrea
    🇺🇸 The City University of New York
  81. 81
    Hollebeek, Linda D.
    🇲🇾 Sunway University
  82. 82
    Kaplan, Gilaad G.
    🇨🇦 Cumming School of Medicine
  83. 83
    Bocken, Nancy M.P.
    🇳🇱 Maastricht University School of Business and Economics
  84. 84
    Győrffy, Balázs
    🇭🇺 Semmelweis Egyetem
  85. 85
    Al-Aly, Ziyad
    🇺🇸 Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
  86. 86
    Sheikholeslami, Mohsen
    🇮🇷 Babol Noshirvani University of Technology
  87. 87
    Galluzzi, Lorenzo
    🇺🇸 Fox Chase Cancer Center
  88. 88
    Siengchin, Suchart
    🇹🇭 King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok
  89. 89
    Smith, George Davey
    🇬🇧 Bristol Medical School
  90. 90
    Li, Xuelong
    🇨🇳 China Telecom Corporation Limited
  91. 91
    Derakhshan, Ali
    🇮🇷 Golestan University
  92. 92
    Epskamp, Sacha
    🇸🇬 National University of Singapore
  93. 93
    Singh, Brajesh Kumar
    🇦🇺 The University of Western Australia
  94. 94
    Brunton, Steven L.
    🇺🇸 UW College of Engineering
  95. 95
    Segata, Nicola
    🇬🇧 King's College London
  96. 96
    Mullard, Asher
    🇨🇦 Science journalist
  97. 97
    Hatzenbuehler, Mark L.
    🇺🇸 Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
  98. 98
    Velte, Patrick
    🇩🇪 Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
  99. 99
    Dhillon, Sohita
    🇩🇪 Springer Nature
  100. 100
    Grant, Adam M.
    🇺🇸 Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

75,626 listed scientists who started publishing in 2002–2011

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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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