top-cited scientists

Top-cited scientists in Anthropology

2025 single-year list · 215 listed authors · Historical Studies

215 researchers whose main subfield is Anthropology, part of Historical Studies, are in the 2025 list of top-cited scientists, out of 10,039 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); 118 of these are in the top 100,000.

Listed authors
215
2.14% of the subfield’s Scopus authors
Scopus authors in the subfield
10,039
Median citations
10
top 1% from 384 · all authors in the subfield
Highest-ranked
#433
Ingold, Tim

Top countries

  1. United States12257%
  2. United Kingdom3014%
  3. Germany115%
  4. Canada84%
  5. Spain73%
  6. Denmark63%
  7. South Africa52%
  8. Australia42%
  9. Sweden31%
  10. Netherlands31%

Top institutions

  1. University of California, Berkeley94%
  2. University of California, Irvine63%
  3. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor52%
  4. New York University52%
  5. University of Cambridge52%
  6. University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg42%
  7. Duke University42%
  8. The Natural History Museum, London42%
  9. Columbia University31%
  10. The City University of New York31%

215 listed scientists in Anthropology

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