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Top-cited scientists who started publishing in 2012 or later

39,630 listed authors · first paper 2012 or later

How many top 2% scientists started publishing in 2012 or later?

39,630 researchers whose first paper indexed in Scopus is from 2012 or later are in the 2025 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 15.9% of everyone on it. 11,153 of them (28.1%) rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations), against 40.1% of the whole list. China has the most of them (11,812, 29.8%), and Clinical Medicine is their largest field. The most recent first published in 2024 (29 of them). The stage counts from the first paper, not from age.

Listed authors
39,630
15.9% of the list
In the global top 100,000
11,153
28.1% of its listed authors
Countries
132
most in China, 29.8%
Highest-ranked
#124
Sarker, Iqbal H.

Top countries

  1. China11,81230%
  2. United States6,51216%
  3. India2,3116%
  4. United Kingdom1,9125%
  5. Saudi Arabia1,2393%
  6. Italy1,0883%
  7. Australia1,0703%
  8. Germany1,0063%
  9. Iran8742%
  10. South Korea7802%

Top institutions

  1. Tsinghua University2041%
  2. Shanghai Jiao Tong University190<1%
  3. Southeast University161<1%
  4. Huazhong University of Science and Technology157<1%
  5. Northwestern Polytechnical University155<1%
  6. Hunan University139<1%
  7. Sun Yat-Sen University136<1%
  8. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences132<1%
  9. The Hong Kong Polytechnic University131<1%
  10. Peking University128<1%

Top fields

  1. Clinical Medicine8,39521%
  2. Enabling & Strategic Technologies6,62717%
  3. Information & Communication Technologies5,94015%
  4. Engineering4,10310%
  5. Chemistry3,7599%
  6. Physics & Astronomy2,5116%
  7. Agriculture, Fisheries & Forestry1,3843%
  8. Biomedical Research1,2643%
  9. Economics & Business1,1553%
  10. Earth & Environmental Sciences1,0213%

The top 100 who started publishing in 2012 or later, in order

  1. 1
    Sarker, Iqbal H.
    🇦🇺 Edith Cowan University
  2. 2
    Sathish, T.
    🇮🇳 Saveetha School of Engineering
  3. 3
    Abualigah, Laith Mohammad Qasim
    🇯🇴 Al Al-Bayt University
  4. 4
    CHIU, Thomas K.F.
    🇭🇰 Chinese University of Hong Kong
  5. 5
    Sharifi, Ayyoob
    🇯🇵 Hiroshima University
  6. 6
    Pata, Ugur Korkut
    🇹🇷 Mustafa Kemal Üniversitesi
  7. 7
    Zhang, Dongyang
    🇨🇳 Capital University of EcoNomics and Business
  8. 8
    Adebayo, Tomiwa Sunday
    🇵🇱 VIZJA University
  9. 9
    Rochman, Chelsea M.
    🇨🇦 University of Toronto
  10. 10
    Osman, Ahmed I.
    🇬🇧 Canterbury Christ Church University
  11. 11
    Bibri, Simon Elias
    🇨🇭 École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
  12. 12
    Bürkner, Paul Christian
    🇩🇪 Technische Universität Dortmund
  13. 13
    Fried, Eiko I.
    🇳🇱 Universiteit Leiden
  14. 14
    Hoang, Anh Tuan
    🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City University of Transport
  15. 15
    Varjani, Sunita J.
    🇮🇳 University of Petroleum and Energy Studies
  16. 16
    Camilleri, Mark A.
    🇲🇹 L-Università ta' Malta
  17. 17
    Moustafa, Nour
    🇦🇺 University of New South Wales at Australian Defence Force Academy
  18. 18
    McNeish, Daniel M.
    🇺🇸 Arizona State University
  19. 19
    Huang, Gao
    🇨🇳 Tsinghua University
  20. 20
    Atangana, Abdon
    🇿🇦 University of the Free State
  21. 21
    Sharifi-Rad, Javad
    🇪🇨 Universidad Espíritu Santo
  22. 22
    Rabiee, Navid
    🇨🇳 Tsinghua School of Medicine
  23. 23
    Ozili, Peterson K.
    🇳🇬 Central Bank of Nigeria
  24. 24
    Zhang, Richard
    🇺🇸 Adobe Inc.
  25. 25
    Schwendicke, Falk
    🇩🇪 Klinikum der Universität München
  26. 26
    Bouri, Elie I.
    🇱🇧 Lebanese American University
  27. 27
    Punia Bangar, Sneh
    🇺🇸 Rochester Institute of Technology
  28. 28
    Chatterjee, Sheshadri
    🇮🇳 Indian Institute of Information Technology, Lucknow
  29. 29
    Murshed, Muntasir
    🇧🇩 North South University
  30. 30
    Peters, Micah D.J.
    🇦🇺 University of South Australia
  31. 31
    Al-Adwan, Ahmad Samed
    🇯🇴 Al-Ahliyya Amman University
  32. 32
  33. 33
    Labrague, Leodoro J.
    🇺🇸 The University of Oklahoma
  34. 34
    Prata, Joana Correia
    🇵🇹 Instituto Universitário de Ciências da Saúde (IUCS)
  35. 35
    Dawood, Mahmoud A.O.
    🇪🇬 Kafrelsheikh University
  36. 36
    Hickel, Jason E.
    🇬🇧 London School of Economics and Political Science
  37. 37
    Castro‑Muñoz, Roberto
    🇵🇱 Gdańsk University of Technology
  38. 38
    Vickram, A. S.
    🇮🇳 Saveetha School of Engineering
  39. 39
    Sarkodie, Samuel Asumadu
    🇳🇴 Nord Universitet
  40. 40
    Bag, Surajit
    🇫🇷 Excelia Business School
  41. 41
    Raissi, Maziar
    🇺🇸 University of Colorado Boulder
  42. 42
    Roy, Vandana
    🇮🇳 Gyan Ganga Institute of Technology and Sciences
  43. 43
    Hamilton, William L.
    🇨🇦 Quebec AI Institute
  44. 44
    Tariq, Muhammad Usman
    🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi University
  45. 45
    Lipton, Zachary Chase
    🇺🇸 Abridge AI
  46. 46
    Flammer, Caroline
    🇺🇸 Columbia University
  47. 47
    Venkatesh, R.
    🇮🇳 Saveetha School of Engineering
  48. 48
    Yaseen, Zaher Mundher
    🇸🇦 King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
  49. 49
    Sallam, Malik
    🇯🇴 The University of Jordan
  50. 50
    Vagnozzi, Sunny
    🇮🇹 Università di Trento
  51. 51
    Mouratidis, Kostas
    🇩🇰 Københavns Universitet
  52. 52
    Liu, Ziwei
    🇸🇬 Nanyang Technological University
  53. 53
    Javaid, Mohd
    🇮🇳 Jamia Millia Islamia
  54. 54
    Zhang, Xiangyu
    🇨🇳 Beijing MEGVII Technology Co., Ltd.
  55. 55
    Benelli, Giovanni
    🇮🇹 Università di Pisa
  56. 56
    Mensah, George A.
    🇺🇸 National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
  57. 57
    Szegedy, Christian
    🇺🇸 Morph Labs
  58. 58
    Raihan, Asif
    🇸🇦 King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
  59. 59
    Ahinkorah, Bright Opoku
    🇦🇺 The University of Adelaide
  60. 60
    Xu, Xiaojie
    🇺🇸 NC State University
  61. 61
    Zhou, Yuekuan
    🇨🇳 Central South University
  62. 62
    Tahir, Muhammad
    🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates University
  63. 63
    Howard, Matt C.
    🇺🇸 Mitchell College of Business
  64. 64
    Victor Bekun, Festus Vıctor
    🇹🇷 İstanbul Gelişim Üniversitesi
  65. 65
    Carlini, Nicholas
    🇺🇸 Anthropic
  66. 66
    Kirchherr, Julian
    🇩🇰 Roskilde Universitet
  67. 67
    Raffel, Colin
    🇨🇦 Vector Institute
  68. 68
    Williamson, Ben
    🇬🇧 The University of Edinburgh
  69. 69
    Acheampong, Alex O.
    🇦🇺 Bond University
  70. 70
    Butt, Muhammad A.
    🇵🇱 Politechnika Warszawska
  71. 71
    Syed, Yahiya Y.
    🇩🇪 Springer Nature
  72. 72
    Ghosh, Aritra
    🇬🇧 University of Exeter
  73. 73
    Al-Emran, Mostafa
    🇦🇪 British University in Dubai
  74. 74
    Wang, Yongliang
    🇨🇳 North China University of Water Resources and Electric Power
  75. 75
    Sajid, Muhammad
    🇵🇰 University of Management and Technology Lahore
  76. 76
    Sayyed, M. I.
    🇯🇴 Isra University
  77. 77
    Behnood, Ali
    🇺🇸 University of Mississippi
  78. 78
    Kirikkaleli, Dervis
    🇱🇧 Lebanese American University
  79. 79
    Markham, Anthony
    🇩🇪 Springer Nature
  80. 80
    Teng, Mark Feng
    🇲🇴 Macao Polytechnic University
  81. 81
    Liu, Hengrui
    🇬🇧 University of Cambridge
  82. 82
    Lo, Chung Kwan
    🇭🇰 The Education University of Hong Kong
  83. 83
    Rasheed, Tahir
    🇸🇦 King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
  84. 84
    Lin, Tsungyi
    🇺🇸 NVIDIA
  85. 85
    Wu, Qingqing
    🇨🇳 Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  86. 86
    Jiang, Weiwei
    🇨🇳 Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
  87. 87
    Abdelhamid, Hani Nasser
    🇪🇬 Assiut University
  88. 88
    Anthony Jnr, Bokolo
    🇳🇴 Institutt for energiteknikk
  89. 89
    Ng, Tsz Kit Davy
    🇭🇰 The Education University of Hong Kong
  90. 90
    Al-Tarawneh, Alalddin Tawfiq
    🇯🇴 Zarqa University
  91. 91
    Roy, Swarup
    🇮🇳 Lovely Professional University
  92. 92
    Duan, Xiaoguang
    🇦🇺 The University of Adelaide
  93. 93
    Sengupta, Pallav
    🇦🇪 Gulf Medical University
  94. 94
    Hassan, Qusay
    🇮🇶 University of Diyala
  95. 95
    Cuschieri, Sarah
    🇲🇹 L-Università ta' Malta
  96. 96
    Zhu, Zhe
    🇺🇸 University of Connecticut
  97. 97
    Ravi, Vinayakumar
    🇸🇦 Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University
  98. 98
    Dogan, Eyup
    🇹🇷 Abdullah Gül Üniversitesi
  99. 99
    Blair, Hannah A.
    🇩🇪 Springer Nature
  100. 100
    He, Baojie
    🇨🇳 Chongqing University

39,630 listed scientists who started publishing in 2012 or later

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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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