top-cited scientists

Top-cited scientists at UNSW Sydney

2025 single-year list · 459 listed authors · Australia

459 researchers at UNSW Sydney ( Australia) are in the 2025 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the top 2% scientists list. 235 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). By listed authors it is 30th of 28,577 institutions worldwide and 4th in Australia.

Listed authors
459
4th in Australia
In the global top 100,000
235
51.2% of its listed authors
Rank worldwide
#30
of 28,577 institutions by listed authors
Highest-ranked
#59
Sweller, John

Top fields

  1. Clinical Medicine11224%
  2. Engineering5612%
  3. Enabling & Strategic Technologies4911%
  4. Physics & Astronomy378%
  5. Social Sciences286%
  6. Information & Communication Technologies266%
  7. Biomedical Research255%
  8. Earth & Environmental Sciences245%
  9. Biology184%
  10. Chemistry163%

Top subfields

  1. Applied Physics194%
  2. Materials184%
  3. General & Internal Medicine184%
  4. Ophthalmology & Optometry174%
  5. Energy153%
  6. Psychiatry143%
  7. Civil Engineering143%
  8. Education133%
  9. Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing133%
  10. Nanoscience & Nanotechnology123%

459 listed scientists at UNSW Sydney

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