Top-cited scientists by institution in Singapore

24 institutions with 10 or more listed authors · Singapore

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

24 universities and institutes in Singapore 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. National University of Singapore has the most (463), followed by Nanyang Technological University (202) and NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine (71). Each institution’s page has its top fields and subfields and its first 100 scientists.

#	Institution	Listed authors	Top 100k
1	National University of Singapore	463	253
2	Nanyang Technological University	202	100
3	NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine	71	32
4	Duke-NUS Medical School	50	19
5	Singapore Management University	41	25
6	School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering	39	10
7	School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering	32	11
8	Singapore University of Technology and Design	25	10
9	Singapore General Hospital	24	5
10	National University Hospital	21	7
11	National Institute of Education	18	11
12	School of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology	17	7
13	A-Star, Institute of Materials Research and Engineering	16	3
14	Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore	16	4
15	Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine	16	4
16	Faculty of Dentistry	15	4
17	National University Health System	15	4
18	School of Computer Science and Engineering	15	6
19	Institute of Sustainability for Chemicals, Energy and Environment	14	9
20	A-Star, Institute of High Performance Computing	11	2
21	National Cancer Centre, Singapore	11	3
22	School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences	11	3
23	Singapore Eye Research Institute	11	5
24	A-Star, Institute for Infocomm Research	10	3

Institution names are only recorded for large institutions. The 118 in Singapore with fewer than 10 listed authors are not listed here; the authors table finds them by name.