Top-cited scientists in Physics & Astronomy
2025 single-year list · 20,385 listed authors · 9 subfields
20,385 researchers whose main field is Physics & Astronomy (Natural Sciences) are in the 2025 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the top 2% scientists list, out of 912,046 Scopus authors in the field. 7,157 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). The field has 9 subfields.
Listed authors
20,385
2.24% of the field’s Scopus authors
In the global top 100,000
7,157
Scopus authors in the field
912,046
Subfields 1–5 of 9
Subfields 6–9 of 9
20,385 listed scientists in Physics & Astronomy
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