top-cited scientists

Top-cited scientists in Applied Physics

2025 single-year list · 6,862 listed authors · Physics & Astronomy

6,862 researchers whose main subfield is Applied Physics, part of Physics & Astronomy, are in the 2025 list of top-cited scientists, out of 323,282 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); 1,808 of these are in the top 100,000.

Listed authors
6,862
2.12% of the subfield’s Scopus authors
Scopus authors in the subfield
323,282
Median citations
11
top 1% from 778 · all authors in the subfield
Highest-ranked
#2
Kresse, Georg

Top countries

  1. United States1,58923%
  2. China1,08916%
  3. India4507%
  4. Germany4316%
  5. Japan4246%
  6. United Kingdom2464%
  7. South Korea2393%
  8. France2173%
  9. Saudi Arabia1873%
  10. Italy1372%

Top institutions

  1. The University of Tokyo541%
  2. College of Engineering481%
  3. Tohoku University461%
  4. Nanjing University411%
  5. Oak Ridge National Laboratory381%
  6. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences371%
  7. Tsinghua University351%
  8. Fudan University33<1%
  9. National Institute for Materials Science32<1%
  10. Peking University32<1%

6,862 listed scientists in Applied Physics

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