top-cited scientists

Top-cited scientists in Astronomy & Astrophysics

2025 single-year list · 1,786 listed authors · Physics & Astronomy

1,786 researchers whose main subfield is Astronomy & Astrophysics, part of Physics & Astronomy, are in the 2025 list of top-cited scientists, out of 58,202 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); 1,288 of these are in the top 100,000.

Listed authors
1,786
3.07% of the subfield’s Scopus authors
Scopus authors in the subfield
58,202
Median citations
66
top 1% from 4,741 · all authors in the subfield
Highest-ranked
#205
Springel, Volker

Top countries

  1. United States77844%
  2. United Kingdom17710%
  3. Germany1418%
  4. Italy965%
  5. France905%
  6. Australia644%
  7. Canada543%
  8. China523%
  9. Spain453%
  10. Netherlands442%

Top institutions

  1. California Institute of Technology322%
  2. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center302%
  3. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics261%
  4. The University of Arizona241%
  5. Princeton University201%
  6. Space Telescope Science Institute201%
  7. Max Planck Institute for Astronomy191%
  8. Sterrewacht Leiden181%
  9. Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics181%
  10. Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics161%

1,786 listed scientists in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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