Top fields for scientists who started publishing in 2002–2011

20 fields · 174 subfields · Started 2002–2011

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In which fields are the top-cited scientists who started publishing in 2002–2011?

75,626 researchers whose first paper indexed in Scopus is from 2002–2011 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 (20,970, 27.7%), followed by Enabling & Strategic Technologies (9,218) and Engineering (6,936); the largest subfield is Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing (3,940). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Field and subfield	Listed authors	Share	Top 100k	Highest-ranked author
Clinical Medicine · 20,970 listed authors (27.7%)
General & Internal Medicine	2,485	3.3%	411	Murray, Christopher J.L. #135
Oncology & Carcinogenesis	2,386	3.2%	729	Siegel, Rebecca L. #209
Neurology & Neurosurgery	1,792	2.4%	744	Uddin, Lucina Q. #998
Cardiovascular System & Hematology	1,284	1.7%	462	Burgess, Stephen #71
Pharmacology & Pharmacy	1,218	1.6%	206	Keam, Susan J. #611
Surgery	918	1.2%	75	Soreide, K. #9,467
Immunology	887	1.2%	319	Galluzzi, Lorenzo #696
Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging	847	1.1%	105	Mazurowski, MacIej Andrzej #8,524
Dentistry	625	0.8%	101	Isola, Gaetano #4,804
Orthopedics	619	0.8%	105	Fernández De Las Peñas, César #5,781
Gastroenterology & Hepatology	604	0.8%	220	Loomba, Rohit #343
Urology & Nephrology	566	0.7%	122	Carrero, Juan Jesús #1,746
Obstetrics & Reproductive Medicine	528	0.7%	76	Khalil, Asma A. #8,695
Psychiatry	465	0.6%	329	Borsboom, Denny #155
Ophthalmology & Optometry	419	0.6%	69	Ting, Daniel Shu Wei #6,327
Pediatrics	418	0.6%	37	Lahariya, Chandrakant #11,453
Endocrinology & Metabolism	402	0.5%	199	Cani, Patrice D. #270
Anesthesiology	359	0.5%	56	Kang, Hyun #2,478
Respiratory System	340	0.4%	80	Chalmers, James D. #3,794
Dermatology & Venereal Diseases	324	0.4%	59	Silverberg, Jonathan I. #398
Otorhinolaryngology	312	0.4%	13	Lin, Frank Robert #2,795
Sport Sciences	306	0.4%	145	Halson, Shona L. #3,438
Emergency & Critical Care Medicine	293	0.4%	55	Martin-loeches, Ignacio #10,059
Tropical Medicine	252	0.3%	18	Wilder-Smith, Annelies #17,233
Arthritis & Rheumatology	216	0.3%	78	Singh, Jasvinder A. #224
General Clinical Medicine	141	0.2%	6	Cavalier, Etienne #32,779
Complementary & Alternative Medicine	122	0.2%	7	Cramer, Holger #9,780
Pathology	121	0.2%	24	Gill, Anthony J. #12,584
Legal & Forensic Medicine	106	0.1%	5	Dinis-Oliveira, R. J. #6,129
Allergy	96	0.1%	36	Peng, Roger D. #14,076
Environmental & Occupational Health	79	0.1%	4	Birkeland Nielsen, Morten Birkeland #33,102
Geriatrics	72	0.1%	34	Veronese, Nicola #2,308
Enabling & Strategic Technologies · 9,218 listed authors (12.2%)
Energy	2,995	4.0%	1,143	Sovacool, Benjamin K. #33
Materials	2,495	3.3%	755	Stukowski, Alexander #517
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology	1,908	2.5%	1,875	Snaith, Henry James #210
Optoelectronics & Photonics	983	1.3%	71	Dai, Daoxin #4,280
Biotechnology	560	0.7%	131	Show, Pau Loke #576
Strategic, Defence & Security Studies	233	0.3%	57	Baker, Jack W. #1,280
Bioinformatics	186	0.2%	97	Li, Heng #17
Engineering · 6,936 listed authors (9.2%)
Mechanical Engineering & Transports	1,070	1.4%	259	Sheikholeslami, Mohsen #691
Electrical & Electronic Engineering	1,034	1.4%	135	Guerreros, Josep M. #1,693
Industrial Engineering & Automation	1,031	1.4%	380	Scaramuzza, Davide #1,071
Chemical Engineering	779	1.0%	334	Hameed, Bassim H. #1,230
Geological & Geomatics Engineering	620	0.8%	372	Zhu, Xiao Xiang #2,919
Biomedical Engineering	582	0.8%	124	Zadpoor, Amir A. #934
Civil Engineering	559	0.7%	193	Gardner, Leroy #926
Environmental Engineering	489	0.6%	170	Tabari, Hossein #3,645
Aerospace & Aeronautics	449	0.6%	25	Huang, Wei #6,228
Mining & Metallurgy	282	0.4%	23	Chehreh Chelgani, S. #22,472
Operations Research	234	0.3%	135	Ivanov, Dmitry Aleksandrovich #44
Automobile Design & Engineering	17	0.0%	0	Zhao, Jian #173,564
Information & Communication Technologies · 6,588 listed authors (8.7%)
Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	3,940	5.2%	1,725	Mirjalili, Seyedali #3
Networking & Telecommunications	1,861	2.5%	449	Lyu, Zhihan #571
Software Engineering	197	0.3%	56	Karras, Tero #1,558
Medical Informatics	192	0.3%	63	Mesko, Bertalan #4,865
Computer Hardware & Architecture	167	0.2%	26	Mittal, Sparsh #5,837
Information Systems	158	0.2%	136	Dwivedi, Yogesh K. #93
Computation Theory & Mathematics	81	0.1%	16	Gil-Garcia, J. Ramon #15,749
Distributed Computing	58	0.1%	2	Hoefler, Torsten #16,420
Chemistry · 5,805 listed authors (7.7%)
Organic Chemistry	1,384	1.8%	359	Gong, Jinlong #1,415
Analytical Chemistry	1,093	1.4%	213	Płotka-Wasylka, Justyna Małgorzata #1,128
Polymers	987	1.3%	313	Siengchin, Suchart #698
Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry	973	1.3%	146	Sahebkar, Amirhossein #157
Inorganic & Nuclear Chemistry	588	0.8%	78	Shariatinia, Zahra #4,305
General Chemistry	307	0.4%	30	Farha, Omar K. #3,416
Physical Chemistry	281	0.4%	103	Dong, Fan #3,325
Physics & Astronomy · 5,298 listed authors (7.0%)
Applied Physics	1,860	2.5%	396	Fu, Liang #442
Nuclear & Particle Physics	911	1.2%	271	Di Valentino, Eleonora #3,142
Optics	654	0.9%	109	Pan, Bing #2,395
Chemical Physics	577	0.8%	199	Lu, Tian #31
General Physics	559	0.7%	164	Pirandola, Stefano #2,312
Astronomy & Astrophysics	484	0.6%	284	Hopkins, Philip F. #397
Acoustics	237	0.3%	39	Lei, Yaguo #894
Fluids & Plasmas	235	0.3%	94	Perc, Matjaž #648
Mathematical Physics	18	0.0%	6	Owolabi, Kolade Matthew #19,507
Biomedical Research · 4,336 listed authors (5.7%)
Microbiology	1,358	1.8%	443	Singh, Brajesh Kumar #725
Developmental Biology	999	1.3%	528	Dixon, Scott James #563
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology	624	0.8%	117	Tang, Daolin #361
Toxicology	420	0.6%	80	Gasparrini, Antonio G. #423
Virology	420	0.6%	48	Krammer, Florian H. #1,451
Nutrition & Dietetics	334	0.4%	150	Grosso, Giuseppe #1,500
Genetics & Heredity	162	0.2%	24	Quinlan, Aaron R. #1,620
Mycology & Parasitology	153	0.2%	24	Dantas-Torres, Filipe #5,654
Biophysics	98	0.1%	6	Elfiky, Abdo A. #51,194
Physiology	87	0.1%	17	Kohl, Kevin D. #23,835
Anatomy & Morphology	60	0.1%	0	Tomaszewski, Krzysztof A. #111,309
Microscopy	21	0.0%	2	Ophus, Colin L. #9,466
Agriculture, Fisheries & Forestry · 2,902 listed authors (3.8%)
Food Science	937	1.2%	565	Zhu, Fan #293
Agronomy & Agriculture	680	0.9%	197	Blanco-Canqui, Humberto #1,741
Dairy & Animal Science	531	0.7%	49	Patra, Amlan Kumar #4,369
Veterinary Sciences	383	0.5%	9	Klopfleisch, Robert #31,745
Fisheries	313	0.4%	50	Bennett, Nathan J. #1,774
Forestry	272	0.4%	20	Forrester, David I. #5,160
Horticulture	29	0.0%	3	Aghdam, Morteza Soleimani #26,394
Biology · 2,412 listed authors (3.2%)
Plant Biology & Botany	1,246	1.6%	371	Hasanuzzaman, Mirza #379
Ecology	532	0.7%	493	Thuiller, Wilfried #481
Marine Biology & Hydrobiology	206	0.3%	55	Smale, Dan A. #4,665
Entomology	178	0.2%	26	Desneux, Nicolas #16,594
Evolutionary Biology	105	0.1%	77	Revell, Liam J. #3,051
Zoology	104	0.1%	2	Toledo, Luís Felipe A. #81,311
Ornithology	20	0.0%	1	Bond, Alexander L. #73,839
Social Sciences · 2,224 listed authors (2.9%)
Education	833	1.1%	452	Panadero, Ernesto #985
Political Science & Public Administration	306	0.4%	302	Hainmueller, Jens #337
Geography	165	0.2%	160	Anderson, Ben #2,058
Sociology	126	0.2%	124	Bhambra, Gurminder K. #5,077
Information & Library Sciences	125	0.2%	33	Waltman, Ludo #916
Law	122	0.2%	25	Kotzé, Louis J. J. #23,816
Criminology	95	0.1%	68	Jackson, Jonathan #7,411
International Relations	77	0.1%	74	Hale, Thomas N. #5,946
Social Work	75	0.1%	10	Liebenberg, Linda #20,476
Cultural Studies	46	0.1%	9	Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Sábelo J. #3,366
Science Studies	44	0.1%	41	Avelino, Flor #9,891
Social Sciences Methods	30	0.0%	30	Epskamp, Sacha #719
Demography	24	0.0%	16	de Haas, Hein #2,824
Family Studies	23	0.0%	7	Reczek, Corinne #33,437
Gender Studies	23	0.0%	22	Ahmed, Sara #8,691
Earth & Environmental Sciences · 2,171 listed authors (2.9%)
Environmental Sciences	1,179	1.6%	911	Wang, Qiang #493
Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences	500	0.7%	443	Abatzoglou, John T. #552
Geochemistry & Geophysics	342	0.5%	139	Vermeesch, Pieter #1,240
Paleontology	78	0.1%	23	Strömberg, Caroline A.E. #19,686
Geology	52	0.1%	7	Jowitt, Simon M. #29,605
Oceanography	33	0.0%	5	Vousdoukas, Michalis Ioannis #33,864
Economics & Business · 2,071 listed authors (2.7%)
Business & Management	766	1.0%	753	Ghobakhloo, Morteza #391
Economics	313	0.4%	309	Lee, Chien-Chiang #241
Logistics & Transportation	271	0.4%	150	de Winter, Joost C.F. #1,684
Sport, Leisure & Tourism	192	0.3%	182	Han, Heesup #111
Marketing	187	0.2%	184	Lim, Weng Marc #91
Finance	128	0.2%	128	Edmans, Alex #1,514
Accounting	52	0.1%	50	Linnenluecke, Martina K. #2,823
Agricultural Economics & Policy	34	0.0%	27	Finger, Robert #4,161
Development Studies	20	0.0%	14	Levien, Michael #21,599
Industrial Relations	15	0.0%	9	Alfes, Kerstin #40,323
Econometrics	12	0.0%	12	Westerlund, Joakim #1,376
Economic Theory	2	0.0%	0	Bianchi, Milo #191,948
Public Health & Health Services · 1,336 listed authors (1.8%)
Public Health	536	0.7%	285	Hatzenbuehler, Mark L. #762
Nursing	513	0.7%	65	Munn, Zachary #1,189
Rehabilitation	190	0.3%	36	Lindsay, Sally #7,929
Health Policy & Services	132	0.2%	44	Damschroder, Laura J. #2,101
Substance Abuse	111	0.1%	57	Garland, Eric L. #3,742
Gerontology	66	0.1%	31	Marzetti, Emanuele #7,987
Speech-Language Pathology & Audiology	64	0.1%	11	Yu, Dong #27,549
Epidemiology	40	0.1%	16	VanDerWeele, Tyler J. #53
Psychology & Cognitive Sciences · 1,041 listed authors (1.4%)
Social Psychology	276	0.4%	261	Lakens, Daniël #245
Experimental Psychology	270	0.4%	244	Rand, David G. #1,100
Developmental & Child Psychology	156	0.2%	148	Wang, Mingte #2,232
Human Factors	118	0.2%	78	Lee, Min-kyung #4,922
Clinical Psychology	91	0.1%	71	Carleton, R. Nicholas #3,415
Behavioral Science & Comparative Psychology	39	0.1%	10	Thornton, Alex A. #49,884
General Psychology & Cognitive Sciences	23	0.0%	4	Duffy, Ryan D. #7,002
Psychoanalysis	13	0.0%	2	Midgley, Nick #43,115
Mathematics & Statistics · 633 listed authors (0.8%)
General Mathematics	329	0.4%	67	Karapńar, Erdal #9,190
Applied Mathematics	147	0.2%	66	Abdeljawad (Maraaba) T., Thabet #995
Statistics & Probability	103	0.1%	86	Wickham, Hadley #110
Numerical & Computational Mathematics	77	0.1%	25	Odibat, Zaid M. #8,236
Built Environment & Design · 597 listed authors (0.8%)
Building & Construction	464	0.6%	363	Provis, John Lloyd #193
Urban & Regional Planning	126	0.2%	118	Yigitcanlar, Tan #1,226
Design Practice & Management	73	0.1%	19	Flores, Paulo #13,909
Architecture	20	0.0%	1	Tibbits, Skylar #80,007
Communication & Textual Studies · 537 listed authors (0.7%)
Communication & Media Studies	204	0.3%	198	Marwick, Alice E. #2,263
Literary Studies	202	0.3%	12	Erll, Astrid #16,882
Languages & Linguistics	149	0.2%	139	Wei, Li #518
Historical Studies · 346 listed authors (0.5%)
Archaeology	146	0.2%	11	Szpak, Paul #45,236
History	125	0.2%	3	Maldonado-Torres, Nelson #15,549
Anthropology	42	0.1%	18	Pontzer, Herman #8,564
Classics	22	0.0%	0	Kaldellis, Anthony #125,515
History of Science, Technology & Medicine	12	0.0%	0	Dyck, Erika #224,315
History of Social Sciences	12	0.0%	2	Decker, Stephanie #29,703
Philosophy & Theology · 168 listed authors (0.2%)
Religions & Theology	84	0.1%	6	Campbell, Heidi A. #19,510
Philosophy	71	0.1%	26	Dotson, Kristie #9,739
Applied Ethics	41	0.1%	26	Whyte, Kyle Powys #1,618
Visual & Performing Arts · 37 listed authors (0.0%)
Music	34	0.0%	2	Hess, Juliet #53,235
Art Practice, History & Theory	21	0.0%	0	Gray, Jonathan #129,220
Drama & Theater	8	0.0%	0	Reason, Matthew #332,113
Folklore	4	0.0%	0	Shuman, Amy #408,946