Top-cited scientists who started publishing before 1992
73,304 listed authors · first paper before 1992
How many top 2% scientists started publishing before 1992?
73,304 researchers whose first paper indexed in Scopus is from before 1992 are in the 2025 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 29.4% of everyone on it. 35,734 of them (48.7%) 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 (31,950, 43.6%), and Clinical Medicine is their largest field. The stage counts from the first paper, not from age.
Listed authors
73,304
29.4% of the list
In the global top 100,000
35,734
48.7% of its listed authors
Countries
138
most in the United States, 43.6%
Highest-ranked
#1
Wang, Zhong Lin
Top countries
Top institutions
Top fields
The top 100 who started publishing before 1992, in order
- 1Wang, Zhong Lin🇨🇳 Chinese Academy of Sciences
- 2Bandura, Albert🇺🇸 Stanford University
- 3Bengio, Yoshua🇨🇦 Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms
- 4Ajzen, Icek🇺🇸 University of Massachusetts Amherst
- 5Ryan, Richard M.🇦🇺 Australian Catholic University
- 6Altman, Douglas G.🇬🇧 University of Oxford Medical Sciences Division
- 7Gross, James J.🇺🇸 Stanford University
- 8Hinton, Geoffrey E.🇨🇦 University of Toronto
- 9Perdew, John🇺🇸 Tulane University School of Science and Engineering
- 10McClements, David Julian🇺🇸 University of Massachusetts Amherst
- 11Lal, Rattan A.🇺🇸 The Ohio State University
- 12Breiman, Leo🇺🇸 University of California, Berkeley
- 13Moher, David🇨🇦 Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
- 14Tibshirani, Robert John🇺🇸 Stanford University
- 15Teece, David J.🇺🇸 University of California, Berkeley
- 16Friston, K. J.🇬🇧 UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
- 17Gogotsi, Yury G.🇺🇸 Drexel University
- 18Diener, Edward🇺🇸 University of Virginia
- 19Kessler, Ronald C.🇺🇸 Harvard University
- 20Libby, Peter A.🇺🇸 Harvard Medical School
- 21Newman, Mark E.J.🇺🇸 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- 22Ostrom, Elinor🇺🇸 Indiana University Bloomington
- 23Zadeh, Lotfi A.🇺🇸 University of California, Berkeley
- 24Becke, Axel D.🇨🇦 Dalhousie University
- 25Murray, Christopher J.L.🇺🇸 University of Washington
- 26Cohen, Jacob🇺🇸 New York University
- 27Rubin, Donald B.🇺🇸 Harvard University
- 28Hair, Joseph Franklin🇺🇸 University of South Alabama
- 29Deci, Edward L.🇺🇸 University of Rochester
- 30Witten, Edward🇺🇸 Institute for Advanced Study
- 31Clevers, Hans C.🇳🇱 University Medical Center Utrecht
- 32Manthiram, Arumugam🇺🇸 Texas Materials Institute
- 33Pesaran, M. Hashem🇬🇧 Trinity College Cambridge
- 34Ridker, Paul M.🇬🇧 Imperial College London
- 35Barney, Jay Bryan🇺🇸 The University of Utah
- 36Zhu, Jian Kang🇨🇳 Southern University of Science and Technology
- 37Goodenough, John B.🇺🇸 Texas Materials Institute
- 38Friedman, Jerome H.🇺🇸 Stanford University
- 39Fredrickson, Barbara L.🇺🇸 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- 40Sweller, John🇦🇺 UNSW Sydney
- 41McEwen, Bruce S.🇺🇸 Rockefeller University
- 42Mayer, Richard E.🇺🇸 University of California, Santa Barbara
- 43Kroemer, Guido🇫🇷 Institut de Cancerologie Gustave Roussy
- 44Schmidhuber, Jürgen U.🇸🇦 King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
- 45Baumeister, Roy F.🇦🇺 The University of Queensland
- 46Tilman, David G.🇺🇸 University of Minnesota Twin Cities
- 47Grätzel, Michael🇨🇭 École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
- 48Kanehisa, Minoru I.🇯🇵 Institute for Chemical Research
- 49Petersen, Ronald C.🇺🇸 Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota
- 50Sheldrick, George Michael🇩🇪 Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
- 51NØrskov, Jens Kehlet🇩🇰 Technical University of Denmark
- 52Yaghi, Omar M.🇺🇸 University of California, Berkeley
- 53Dincer, I.🇨🇦 Ontario Tech University
- 54Willett, Walter Churchill🇺🇸 Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
- 55Kalluri, Raghu K.🇺🇸 The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
- 56Hanahan, Douglas A.🇨🇭 Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research Lausanne
- 57Lecun, Yann Le🇺🇸 Meta Ai
- 58Schaufeli, Wilmar B.🇳🇱 Universiteit Utrecht
- 59Gelman, Andrew E.🇺🇸 Columbia University
- 60Hamblin, Michael R.🇿🇦 University of Johannesburg
- 61Davis, Fred D.🇺🇸 Texas Tech University
- 62Edgar, Robert C.🇺🇸 Independent researcher
- 63Raabe, Dierk🇩🇪 Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH
- 64Cummings, Jeffrey L.🇺🇸 Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University
- 65Topol, Eric J.🇺🇸 Scripps Research Institute
- 66Geim, Andre K.🇬🇧 The University of Manchester
- 67Wishart, David S.🇨🇦 University of Alberta
- 68Shannon, Claude E.🇺🇸 MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- 69Packer, Milton P.🇺🇸 Baylor Jack and Jane Hamilton Heart and Vascular Hospital
- 70Schwartz, Shalom H.🇮🇱 Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- 71Hayes, Andrew F.🇨🇦 Haskayne School of Business
- 72Reich, Peter B.🇺🇸 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- 73Bentler, Peter M.🇺🇸 University of California, Los Angeles
- 74Semenza, Gregg L.🇺🇸 Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
- 75Mittler, Ron🇺🇸 University of Missouri
- 76Gordon, Guyatt H.🇨🇦 McMaster University
- 77Deb, Kalyanmoy🇺🇸 Department of Computer Science
- 78Yeh, Jien Wei🇹🇼 National Tsing Hua University
- 79Barabási, Albert Lásló🇺🇸 Northeastern University
- 80Langer, Robert Samuel M.🇺🇸 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 81Wang, Joseph🇺🇸 University of California, San Diego
- 82Whitesides, G. M.🇺🇸 Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
- 83Calder, Philip C.🇬🇧 University of Southampton
- 84Jordan, Michael I.🇺🇸 University of California, Berkeley
- 85Blaabjerg, Frede🇩🇰 Aalborg University
- 86Shi, Caijun🇨🇳 Hunan University
- 87Pekrun, Reinhard H.🇦🇺 Australian Catholic University
- 88Drucker, Daniel J.🇨🇦 Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute
- 89Kahneman, Daniel🇺🇸 Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
- 90Scrivener, Karen Louise🇨🇭 École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
- 91Kroenke, Kurt K.🇺🇸 Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
- 92Penuelas, Josep J.🇪🇸 Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
- 93Griffiths, Mark D.🇬🇧 Nottingham Trent University
- 94Ritchie, Robert O.🇺🇸 Department of Materials Science and Engineering
- 95Barnes, Peter John🇬🇧 National Heart and Lung Institute
- 96Bartel, David P.🇺🇸 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 97Jain, Rakesh K.🇺🇸 Massachusetts General Hospital
- 98Volkow, N. D.🇺🇸 National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
- 99Hobfoll, Stevan E.🇺🇸 Anxiety-Resilience
- 100Morris, John C.🇺🇸 Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
73,304 listed scientists who started publishing before 1992
See all 73,304 in the interactive table →