top-cited scientists

Top-cited scientists at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

2025 single-year list · 177 listed authors · United States

177 researchers at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University ( United States) are in the 2025 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the top 2% scientists list. 74 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). By listed authors it is 232nd of 28,577 institutions worldwide and 84th in the United States.

Listed authors
177
84th in the United States
In the global top 100,000
74
41.8% of its listed authors
Rank worldwide
#232
of 28,577 institutions by listed authors
Highest-ranked
#39
Venkatesh, Viswanath

Top fields

  1. Engineering3017%
  2. Information & Communication Technologies1911%
  3. Agriculture, Fisheries & Forestry1710%
  4. Earth & Environmental Sciences158%
  5. Physics & Astronomy158%
  6. Biology127%
  7. Biomedical Research127%
  8. Chemistry116%
  9. Enabling & Strategic Technologies106%
  10. Social Sciences106%

Top subfields

  1. Electrical & Electronic Engineering127%
  2. Dairy & Animal Science116%
  3. Geochemistry & Geophysics74%
  4. Chemical Physics74%
  5. Polymers74%
  6. Networking & Telecommunications74%
  7. Aerospace & Aeronautics63%
  8. Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing53%
  9. Applied Physics53%
  10. Statistics & Probability42%

177 listed scientists at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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