top-cited scientists

Top-cited scientists at Duke University

2025 single-year list · 260 listed authors · United States

260 researchers at Duke University ( United States) are in the 2025 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the top 2% scientists list. 176 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). By listed authors it is 130th of 28,577 institutions worldwide and 54th in the United States.

Listed authors
260
54th in the United States
In the global top 100,000
176
67.7% of its listed authors
Rank worldwide
#130
of 28,577 institutions by listed authors
Highest-ranked
#339
Moffitt, Terrie Edith

Top fields

  1. Clinical Medicine5120%
  2. Social Sciences2811%
  3. Biology2710%
  4. Economics & Business249%
  5. Psychology & Cognitive Sciences187%
  6. Public Health & Health Services156%
  7. Physics & Astronomy145%
  8. Biomedical Research135%
  9. Mathematics & Statistics135%
  10. Information & Communication Technologies125%

Top subfields

  1. Sociology104%
  2. Economics104%
  3. Ecology83%
  4. Experimental Psychology73%
  5. Evolutionary Biology73%
  6. Nursing73%
  7. Psychiatry62%
  8. Literary Studies62%
  9. Political Science & Public Administration62%
  10. Plant Biology & Botany62%

260 listed scientists at Duke University

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