top-cited scientists

Top-cited scientists in Classics

2025 single-year list · 77 listed authors · Historical Studies

77 researchers whose main subfield is Classics, part of Historical Studies, are in the 2025 list of top-cited scientists, out of 3,682 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); 3 of these are in the top 100,000.

Listed authors
77
2.09% of the subfield’s Scopus authors
Scopus authors in the subfield
3,682
Median citations
4
top 1% from 76 · all authors in the subfield
Highest-ranked
#17,271
Scheidel, Walter

Top countries

  1. United Kingdom3647%
  2. United States2735%
  3. Belgium34%
  4. Germany23%
  5. Australia23%
  6. Netherlands23%
  7. Israel11%
  8. Greece11%
  9. Denmark11%
  10. Canada11%

Top institutions

  1. University of Oxford912%
  2. University of Exeter45%
  3. Stanford University34%
  4. All Souls College34%
  5. Trinity College Cambridge34%
  6. University of California, Berkeley34%
  7. Columbia University34%
  8. New York University23%
  9. The University of Chicago23%
  10. Princeton University23%

77 listed scientists in Classics

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