top-cited scientists

Top-cited scientists in Biology

2025 single-year list · 9,494 listed authors · 7 subfields

9,494 researchers whose main field is Biology (Natural Sciences) are in the 2025 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the top 2% scientists list, out of 445,736 Scopus authors in the field. 4,737 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). The field has 7 subfields.

Listed authors
9,494
2.13% of the field’s Scopus authors
In the global top 100,000
4,737
Scopus authors in the field
445,736
Highest-ranked
#55
Zhu, Jian Kang

Subfields 1–4 of 7

  1. Plant Biology & Botany4,27245%
  2. Ecology1,96921%
  3. Marine Biology & Hydrobiology1,15912%
  4. Entomology8679%

Subfields 5–7 of 7

  1. Evolutionary Biology6557%
  2. Zoology4355%
  3. Ornithology1111%

9,494 listed scientists in Biology

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