Top-cited scientists by institution in Russia

23 institutions with 10 or more listed authors · Russia

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Which institutions in Russia have the most top 2% scientists?

23 universities and institutes in Russia have 10 or more researchers in the 2025 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list. Lomonosov Moscow State University has the most (75), followed by Saint Petersburg State University (35) and Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (25). Each institution’s page has its top fields and subfields and its first 100 scientists.

#	Institution	Listed authors	Top 100k
1	Lomonosov Moscow State University	75	22
2	Saint Petersburg State University	35	12
3	Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology	25	7
4	HSE University	22	7
5	Russian Academy of Sciences	22	5
6	P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences	17	3
7	Ural Federal University	16	5
8	N.D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences	15	5
9	Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University	15	7
10	Boreskov Institute of Catalysis SB RAS	13	3
11	RUDN University	13	6
12	Saint Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics University ITMO	13	1
13	Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology	12	4
14	Bogoliubov Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research	11	2
15	Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna	11	3
16	National University of Science & Technology (MISIS)	11	1
17	Prokhorov General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences	11	1
18	Tomsk State University	11	4
19	A.N. Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences	10	3
20	Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences	10	4
21	Ioffe Institute	10	4
22	Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University	10	3
23	Tomsk Polytechnic University	10	4

Institution names are only recorded for large institutions. The 295 in Russia with fewer than 10 listed authors are not listed here; the authors table finds them by name.