top-cited scientists

Top-cited scientists in Biotechnology

2025 single-year list · 1,456 listed authors · Enabling & Strategic Technologies

1,456 researchers whose main subfield is Biotechnology, part of Enabling & Strategic Technologies, are in the 2025 list of top-cited scientists, out of 69,700 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); 374 of these are in the top 100,000.

Listed authors
1,456
2.09% of the subfield’s Scopus authors
Scopus authors in the subfield
69,700
Median citations
26
top 1% from 789 · all authors in the subfield
Highest-ranked
#572
Nielsen, Jens B.

Top countries

  1. China33023%
  2. India19814%
  3. United States17612%
  4. South Korea846%
  5. Spain433%
  6. Germany413%
  7. Brazil413%
  8. Japan332%
  9. Malaysia322%
  10. Sweden282%

Top institutions

  1. Jiangnan University272%
  2. Nanjing Tech University121%
  3. Beijing University of Chemical Technology101%
  4. Technical University of Denmark91%
  5. Nanjing Forestry University91%
  6. Beijing Forestry University91%
  7. Tianjin University91%
  8. Tsinghua University81%
  9. Universidade Federal do Parana81%
  10. Jiangsu University81%

1,456 listed scientists in Biotechnology

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