top-cited scientists

Top-cited scientists at KU Leuven

2025 single-year list · 370 listed authors · Belgium

370 researchers at KU Leuven ( Belgium) are in the 2025 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the top 2% scientists list. 177 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). By listed authors it is 59th of 28,577 institutions worldwide and 2nd in Belgium.

Listed authors
370
2nd in Belgium
In the global top 100,000
177
47.8% of its listed authors
Rank worldwide
#59
of 28,577 institutions by listed authors
Highest-ranked
#246
Carmeliet, Peter F.M.

Top fields

  1. Clinical Medicine7219%
  2. Engineering4011%
  3. Chemistry329%
  4. Enabling & Strategic Technologies329%
  5. Information & Communication Technologies267%
  6. Social Sciences267%
  7. Physics & Astronomy257%
  8. Biomedical Research246%
  9. Agriculture, Fisheries & Forestry205%
  10. Psychology & Cognitive Sciences164%

Top subfields

  1. Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing216%
  2. Materials175%
  3. Industrial Engineering & Automation154%
  4. Organic Chemistry123%
  5. Education113%
  6. Microbiology103%
  7. Political Science & Public Administration103%
  8. Acoustics92%
  9. Applied Physics92%
  10. Agronomy & Agriculture92%

370 listed scientists at KU Leuven

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