Top fields for scientists who started publishing in 2012 or later

20 fields · 171 subfields · Started 2012 or later

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In which fields are the top-cited scientists who started publishing in 2012 or later?

39,630 researchers whose first paper indexed in Scopus is from 2012 or later 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 171 subfields. Clinical Medicine has the most (8,395, 21.2%), followed by Enabling & Strategic Technologies (6,627) and Information & Communication Technologies (5,940); the largest subfield is Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing (4,086). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Field and subfield	Listed authors	Share	Top 100k	Highest-ranked author
Clinical Medicine · 8,395 listed authors (21.2%)
General & Internal Medicine	2,052	5.2%	250	Sallam, Malik #1,405
Pharmacology & Pharmacy	724	1.8%	99	Syed, Yahiya Y. #1,939
Oncology & Carcinogenesis	709	1.8%	150	Liu, Hengrui #2,168
Neurology & Neurosurgery	435	1.1%	108	Rai, Sachchida Nand #11,622
Cardiovascular System & Hematology	395	1.0%	92	Mensah, George A. #1,637
Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging	390	1.0%	26	Mahmood, Faisal #11,628
Surgery	364	0.9%	18	Emile, Sameh Hany #22,536
Dentistry	308	0.8%	28	Schwendicke, Falk #862
Orthopedics	247	0.6%	24	Migliorini, Filippo #14,239
Gastroenterology & Hepatology	204	0.5%	46	Hagström, Hannes #8,456
Immunology	186	0.5%	42	Allemailem, Khaled S. #20,727
Obstetrics & Reproductive Medicine	179	0.5%	14	Sengupta, Pallav #2,365
Urology & Nephrology	152	0.4%	15	Rhee, Connie M. #21,794
Psychiatry	129	0.3%	77	Fried, Eiko I. #583
Ophthalmology & Optometry	120	0.3%	7	Liu, Xiaoxuan #32,431
Dermatology & Venereal Diseases	117	0.3%	11	Kridin, Khalaf #14,507
Sport Sciences	116	0.3%	40	Grgic, Jozo #6,284
Anesthesiology	108	0.3%	10	Abd-Elsayed, Alaa A. #35,359
Pediatrics	87	0.2%	7	Zimmermann, Petra S. #16,535
Endocrinology & Metabolism	86	0.2%	40	Mantovani, Alessandro #8,857
General Clinical Medicine	83	0.2%	1	Henry, Brandon Michael #31,058
Emergency & Critical Care Medicine	77	0.2%	16	Gottlieb, Michael A. #12,495
Otorhinolaryngology	76	0.2%	1	Sedaghat, Ahmad R. #32,633
Respiratory System	65	0.2%	13	Agusti, Àlvar A. #5,524
Arthritis & Rheumatology	64	0.2%	18	Sparks, Jeffrey Andrew #9,745
Complementary & Alternative Medicine	57	0.1%	1	Ng, Jeremy Y. #91,227
Legal & Forensic Medicine	53	0.1%	0	Klales, Alexandra R. #100,421
Tropical Medicine	46	0.1%	2	Furuya-Kanamori, Luis #44,217
Pathology	34	0.1%	5	Xu, Bin #23,364
Geriatrics	27	0.1%	12	Kojima, Gotaro #4,211
Environmental & Occupational Health	17	0.0%	0	Kang, Mo-yeol #181,491
Allergy	14	0.0%	5	Lyons, Jonathan J. #40,234
Enabling & Strategic Technologies · 6,627 listed authors (16.7%)
Energy	2,460	6.2%	748	Sharifi, Ayyoob #229
Materials	1,614	4.1%	331	Sathish, T. #126
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology	1,285	3.2%	1,244	Rabiee, Navid #808
Optoelectronics & Photonics	737	1.9%	29	Butt, Muhammad A. #1,921
Biotechnology	289	0.7%	44	S Salem, Salem Salah #3,287
Strategic, Defence & Security Studies	169	0.4%	24	Yazdi, Mohammad #10,445
Bioinformatics	66	0.2%	31	Le, Nguyen Quoc Khanh #6,847
Information & Communication Technologies · 5,940 listed authors (15.0%)
Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	4,086	10.3%	1,451	Sarker, Iqbal H. #124
Networking & Telecommunications	1,448	3.7%	239	Moustafa, Nour #738
Computer Hardware & Architecture	98	0.2%	2	Zhang, Jiliang #42,922
Medical Informatics	95	0.2%	17	Choudhury, Avishek #12,629
Software Engineering	66	0.2%	17	Wang, Peng Shuai #30,452
Distributed Computing	50	0.1%	3	Ghobaei-Arani, Mostafa #32,693
Information Systems	45	0.1%	36	Hajli, Nick #2,628
Computation Theory & Mathematics	30	0.1%	2	Cohen-Addad, Vincent #74,203
Engineering · 4,103 listed authors (10.4%)
Electrical & Electronic Engineering	848	2.1%	52	Yu, Gang #12,924
Mechanical Engineering & Transports	747	1.9%	145	Khan, Muhammad Ijaz #2,875
Chemical Engineering	572	1.4%	184	Castro‑Muñoz, Roberto #1,105
Industrial Engineering & Automation	566	1.4%	153	Jin, Xu #6,139
Geological & Geomatics Engineering	326	0.8%	167	Zhu, Zhe #2,428
Civil Engineering	307	0.8%	60	Maraveas, Chrysanthos #4,535
Biomedical Engineering	236	0.6%	35	Vijayavenkataraman, Sanjairaj #7,856
Mining & Metallurgy	217	0.5%	4	Chen, Jianhua #44,181
Aerospace & Aeronautics	212	0.5%	7	Yang, Chen #3,901
Environmental Engineering	195	0.5%	46	Yaseen, Zaher Mundher #1,399
Operations Research	72	0.2%	36	Javaid, Mohd #1,578
Automobile Design & Engineering	5	0.0%	0	Singh, Kanwar Bharat #493,208
Chemistry · 3,759 listed authors (9.5%)
Organic Chemistry	937	2.4%	159	Coley, Connor W. #3,187
Analytical Chemistry	658	1.7%	81	Sajid, Muhammad #2,013
Polymers	607	1.5%	126	Rangappa, Sanjay Mavinkere #6,896
Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry	523	1.3%	34	Bukhari, Syed Nasir Abbas #12,292
General Chemistry	469	1.2%	27	Shah, Syed Shaheen #14,461
Inorganic & Nuclear Chemistry	312	0.8%	23	Mohan, Brij #11,002
Physical Chemistry	170	0.4%	31	Duan, Xiaoguang #2,350
Physics & Astronomy · 2,511 listed authors (6.3%)
Applied Physics	963	2.4%	159	Sayyed, M. I. #2,031
Nuclear & Particle Physics	472	1.2%	101	Vagnozzi, Sunny #1,426
General Physics	303	0.8%	51	Vickram, A. S. #1,141
Optics	295	0.7%	22	Shen, Yijie #7,547
Chemical Physics	282	0.7%	77	Verma, Chandrabhan #3,986
Acoustics	128	0.3%	19	Feng, Ke #12,326
Astronomy & Astrophysics	125	0.3%	59	Buchner, Johannes #6,374
Fluids & Plasmas	62	0.2%	13	Wang, Kangjia #5,479
Mathematical Physics	9	0.0%	3	Jahanshahi, Hadi #47,540
Agriculture, Fisheries & Forestry · 1,384 listed authors (3.5%)
Food Science	567	1.4%	270	Punia Bangar, Sneh #901
Dairy & Animal Science	267	0.7%	14	Abd El-Hack, Mohamed E. #10,179
Agronomy & Agriculture	252	0.6%	53	Zhao, Chunjiang #13,115
Fisheries	146	0.4%	19	Dawood, Mahmoud A.O. #1,077
Veterinary Sciences	124	0.3%	2	Elsohaby, Ibrahim #88,394
Forestry	83	0.2%	7	Thom, Dominik #55,255
Horticulture	25	0.1%	0	Fan, Zhongqi #120,031
Biomedical Research · 1,264 listed authors (3.2%)
Microbiology	457	1.2%	85	Almatroudi, Ahmad Abdulaziz A. #5,939
Developmental Biology	221	0.6%	85	Levine, Morgan E. #2,746
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology	208	0.5%	33	Sharifi-Rad, Javad #794
Toxicology	207	0.5%	28	Dzhambov, Angel Mario #17,567
Nutrition & Dietetics	132	0.3%	39	Holscher, Hannah D. #8,902
Virology	90	0.2%	3	Mallapaty, Smriti #6,480
Mycology & Parasitology	65	0.2%	2	Lagunas-Rangel, Francisco Alejandro #28,819
Biophysics	52	0.1%	1	Khan, Zia Ul Haq #96,761
Anatomy & Morphology	32	0.1%	2	Ghosh, Sanjib Kumar #46,967
Genetics & Heredity	26	0.1%	2	Umair, Muhammad #29,272
Physiology	17	0.0%	1	Del Vecchio, Alessandro D. #49,942
Microscopy	12	0.0%	1	Mahdy, Mohamed A.A. #75,207
Economics & Business · 1,155 listed authors (2.9%)
Business & Management	407	1.0%	380	Camilleri, Mark A. #693
Logistics & Transportation	151	0.4%	65	De Vos, Jonas #3,695
Economics	119	0.3%	112	Acheampong, Alex O. #1,894
Marketing	117	0.3%	117	Rauschnabel, Philipp A. #3,337
Sport, Leisure & Tourism	97	0.2%	91	Rather, Raouf Ahmad #2,754
Finance	75	0.2%	72	Zhang, Dongyang #443
Accounting	12	0.0%	12	Luo, Le #10,266
Agricultural Economics & Policy	12	0.0%	7	Monasterolo, Irene #19,549
Development Studies	7	0.0%	4	Hirvonen, Kalle #63,889
Industrial Relations	5	0.0%	3	Presbitero, Alfred #30,890
Econometrics	1	0.0%	1	Callaway, Brantly #79,900
Earth & Environmental Sciences · 1,021 listed authors (2.6%)
Environmental Sciences	899	2.3%	664	Pata, Ugur Korkut #273
Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences	115	0.3%	103	Rosa, Lorenzo #5,806
Geochemistry & Geophysics	43	0.1%	14	Chen, Yangkang #6,756
Geology	19	0.0%	1	Radwan, Ahmed E. #15,584
Oceanography	7	0.0%	0	Durden, Jennifer M. #192,440
Paleontology	6	0.0%	0	Scerri, Eleanor M.L. #112,037
Social Sciences · 984 listed authors (2.5%)
Education	524	1.3%	236	CHIU, Thomas K.F. #219
Information & Library Sciences	93	0.2%	8	Lund, Brady Daniel #5,556
Political Science & Public Administration	93	0.2%	87	Roberts, Margaret E. #4,391
Law	57	0.1%	14	Wachter, Sandra #16,552
Geography	46	0.1%	43	Dunlap, Alexander Antony #5,126
Social Work	33	0.1%	5	K. Kattari, Shanna Katz #22,571
Criminology	27	0.1%	10	Cross, Cassandra #21,600
Sociology	20	0.1%	20	Monk, Ellis P. #31,893
Cultural Studies	17	0.0%	2	Yuen, Samson Wai Hei #91,625
International Relations	15	0.0%	14	Hickel, Jason E. #1,081
Social Sciences Methods	11	0.0%	10	McNeish, Daniel M. #748
Demography	8	0.0%	3	Schewel, Kerilyn D. #48,987
Family Studies	7	0.0%	1	Fan, Lu #58,781
Science Studies	6	0.0%	5	Liu, Weishu #13,709
Gender Studies	2	0.0%	2	Elliott, Karla #97,147
Biology · 663 listed authors (1.7%)
Plant Biology & Botany	492	1.2%	135	Raza, Ali #3,284
Ecology	75	0.2%	68	Lefcheck, Jonathan S. #3,338
Entomology	55	0.1%	5	Benelli, Giovanni #1,612
Zoology	27	0.1%	1	Wood, Thomas James #77,735
Marine Biology & Hydrobiology	23	0.1%	4	Filbee-Dexter, Karen #40,267
Evolutionary Biology	14	0.0%	10	Larsson, Anders Olof #34,010
Ornithology	2	0.0%	0	Risely, Alice #129,889
Public Health & Health Services · 544 listed authors (1.4%)
Nursing	311	0.8%	36	Peters, Micah D.J. #965
Public Health	206	0.5%	86	Ahinkorah, Bright Opoku #1,654
Rehabilitation	44	0.1%	7	Milton, Damian Elgin Maclean #12,066
Substance Abuse	36	0.1%	12	Bahji, Anees #27,817
Speech-Language Pathology & Audiology	32	0.1%	5	Hsu, Weining #26,235
Health Policy & Services	21	0.1%	1	Pan, Jay #79,398
Gerontology	17	0.0%	6	Buffel, Tine #16,947
Epidemiology	8	0.0%	1	Sanderson, Eleanor C.M. #4,469
Built Environment & Design · 370 listed authors (0.9%)
Building & Construction	319	0.8%	238	Behnood, Ali #2,068
Design Practice & Management	49	0.1%	4	Zhou, Qi #76,561
Urban & Regional Planning	39	0.1%	36	Mouratidis, Kostas #1,516
Architecture	4	0.0%	0	Agirbas, Asli #641,024
Mathematics & Statistics · 284 listed authors (0.7%)
General Mathematics	138	0.3%	24	Gao, Xin Yi #4,243
Applied Mathematics	123	0.3%	51	Atangana, Abdon #786
Numerical & Computational Mathematics	34	0.1%	6	Arqub, Omar Abu #5,042
Statistics & Probability	29	0.1%	20	Bürkner, Paul Christian #544
Psychology & Cognitive Sciences · 266 listed authors (0.7%)
Social Psychology	66	0.2%	59	Howard, Matt C. #1,778
Human Factors	54	0.1%	31	Spiel, Katta #20,096
Experimental Psychology	39	0.1%	35	Grassini, Simone #4,440
Developmental & Child Psychology	29	0.1%	28	Botha, Monique #13,679
Clinical Psychology	26	0.1%	18	Linardon, Jake #3,052
General Psychology & Cognitive Sciences	5	0.0%	3	Keum, Brian Tae Hyuk #45,716
Behavioral Science & Comparative Psychology	4	0.0%	1	Aplin, Lucy Margaret #75,676
Psychoanalysis	1	0.0%	0	Allison, Elizabeth #448,020
Communication & Textual Studies · 206 listed authors (0.5%)
Communication & Media Studies	104	0.3%	95	Hameleers, Michael #3,858
Languages & Linguistics	85	0.2%	70	Wang, Yongliang #1,977
Literary Studies	25	0.1%	0	Meretoja, Hanna #185,173
Philosophy & Theology · 74 listed authors (0.2%)
Philosophy	31	0.1%	11	Nguyen, C. Thi #17,847
Religions & Theology	30	0.1%	1	Pihkala, Panu #4,267
Applied Ethics	27	0.1%	18	Mittelstadt, Brent Daniel #6,125
Historical Studies · 59 listed authors (0.1%)
Archaeology	33	0.1%	1	Roberts, Patrick J. #99,771
History	29	0.1%	0	Kim, Yoonho #120,499
Anthropology	5	0.0%	3	Lan, Shanshan #69,077
History of Science, Technology & Medicine	3	0.0%	0	Green, Monica H. #327,008
Visual & Performing Arts · 21 listed authors (0.1%)
Music	17	0.0%	0	Cheng, Lee #359,947
Drama & Theater	4	0.0%	0	Boffone, Trevor #297,256
Art Practice, History & Theory	2	0.0%	0	Nooney, Laine #1,110,364
Folklore	2	0.0%	0	Bareither, Christoph #954,779