top-cited scientists

Top-cited scientists in Social Sciences

2025 single-year list · 6,698 listed authors · 15 subfields

6,698 researchers whose main field is Social Sciences (Economic & Social Sciences) are in the 2025 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the top 2% scientists list, out of 265,152 Scopus authors in the field. 4,408 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). The field has 15 subfields.

Listed authors
6,698
2.53% of the field’s Scopus authors
In the global top 100,000
4,408
Scopus authors in the field
265,152
Highest-ranked
#59
Sweller, John

Subfields 1–8 of 15

  1. Education2,43236%
  2. Political Science & Public Administration89913%
  3. Geography5418%
  4. Sociology4537%
  5. Law3956%
  6. Information & Library Sciences3405%
  7. Criminology3085%
  8. International Relations2233%

Subfields 9–15 of 15

  1. Social Work2083%
  2. Cultural Studies1833%
  3. Science Studies1432%
  4. Social Sciences Methods1432%
  5. Family Studies871%
  6. Demography851%
  7. Gender Studies601%

6,698 listed scientists in Social Sciences

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