top-cited scientists

Top-cited scientists at Imperial College London

2025 single-year list · 634 listed authors · United Kingdom

634 researchers at Imperial College London ( United Kingdom) are in the 2025 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the top 2% scientists list. 294 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). By listed authors it is 12th of 28,577 institutions worldwide and 3rd in the United Kingdom.

Listed authors
634
3rd in the United Kingdom
In the global top 100,000
294
46.4% of its listed authors
Rank worldwide
#12
of 28,577 institutions by listed authors
Highest-ranked
#50
Ridker, Paul M.

Top fields

  1. Clinical Medicine20332%
  2. Enabling & Strategic Technologies8113%
  3. Engineering7812%
  4. Physics & Astronomy7312%
  5. Biomedical Research559%
  6. Information & Communication Technologies386%
  7. Chemistry345%
  8. Earth & Environmental Sciences295%
  9. Biology163%
  10. Mathematics & Statistics91%

Top subfields

  1. Energy427%
  2. General & Internal Medicine376%
  3. Materials244%
  4. Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing234%
  5. Cardiovascular System & Hematology203%
  6. Nuclear & Particle Physics193%
  7. Microbiology193%
  8. Mechanical Engineering & Transports193%
  9. Organic Chemistry183%
  10. Oncology & Carcinogenesis183%

634 listed scientists at Imperial College London

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