top-cited scientists

Top-cited scientists in Archaeology

2025 single-year list · 469 listed authors · Historical Studies

469 researchers whose main subfield is Archaeology, part of Historical Studies, are in the 2025 list of top-cited scientists, out of 21,336 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); 75 of these are in the top 100,000.

Listed authors
469
2.20% of the subfield’s Scopus authors
Scopus authors in the subfield
21,336
Median citations
13
top 1% from 374 · all authors in the subfield
Highest-ranked
#2,719
Smith, Laurajane

Top countries

  1. United States15232%
  2. United Kingdom10122%
  3. Israel266%
  4. Australia255%
  5. Germany184%
  6. Canada174%
  7. France153%
  8. Spain133%
  9. Italy133%
  10. South Africa112%

Top institutions

  1. University of Cambridge153%
  2. Tel Aviv University92%
  3. The Australian National University71%
  4. Oxford Social Sciences Division71%
  5. Harvard University71%
  6. The University of Arizona71%
  7. Arizona State University61%
  8. University of York61%
  9. Durham University61%
  10. University of Liverpool61%

469 listed scientists in Archaeology

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