top-cited scientists

Top-cited scientists in Chemical Physics

2025 single-year list · 2,599 listed authors · Physics & Astronomy

2,599 researchers whose main subfield is Chemical Physics, part of Physics & Astronomy, are in the 2025 list of top-cited scientists, out of 121,889 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); 1,125 of these are in the top 100,000.

Listed authors
2,599
2.13% of the subfield’s Scopus authors
Scopus authors in the subfield
121,889
Median citations
19
top 1% from 921 · all authors in the subfield
Highest-ranked
#5
Grimme, Stefan

Top countries

  1. United States75429%
  2. China25010%
  3. Germany2058%
  4. United Kingdom1616%
  5. India1054%
  6. France903%
  7. Italy893%
  8. Japan833%
  9. Poland622%
  10. Canada592%

Top institutions

  1. University of Cambridge191%
  2. ETH Zürich171%
  3. Argonne National Laboratory141%
  4. Universität Stuttgart12<1%
  5. University College London12<1%
  6. University of Oxford12<1%
  7. College of Engineering12<1%
  8. Princeton University11<1%
  9. University of Bristol11<1%
  10. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor10<1%

2,599 listed scientists in Chemical Physics

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