top-cited scientists

Top-cited scientists in Aerospace & Aeronautics

2025 single-year list · 1,445 listed authors · Engineering

1,445 researchers whose main subfield is Aerospace & Aeronautics, part of Engineering, are in the 2025 list of top-cited scientists, out of 66,382 Scopus authors in the subfield. Authors qualify by ranking in the top 2% of their main subfield or in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c); 142 of these are in the top 100,000.

Listed authors
1,445
2.18% of the subfield’s Scopus authors
Scopus authors in the subfield
66,382
Median citations
8
top 1% from 345 · all authors in the subfield
Highest-ranked
#381
Menter, Florian R.

Top countries

  1. United States65045%
  2. China32623%
  3. United Kingdom705%
  4. Italy544%
  5. Germany473%
  6. Japan332%
  7. South Korea312%
  8. Netherlands292%
  9. France282%
  10. Canada252%

Top institutions

  1. College of Engineering715%
  2. Beihang University524%
  3. Northwestern Polytechnical University483%
  4. Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics383%
  5. NASA Langley Research Center373%
  6. National University of Defense Technology China272%
  7. NASA Ames Research Center201%
  8. California Institute of Technology191%
  9. Air Force Research Laboratory181%
  10. Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR)171%

1,445 listed scientists in Aerospace & Aeronautics

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