top-cited scientists

Top-cited scientists in Criminology

2025 single-year list · 308 listed authors · Social Sciences

308 researchers whose main subfield is Criminology, part of Social Sciences, are in the 2025 list of top-cited scientists, out of 14,394 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); 221 of these are in the top 100,000.

Listed authors
308
2.14% of the subfield’s Scopus authors
Scopus authors in the subfield
14,394
Median citations
20
top 1% from 475 · all authors in the subfield
Highest-ranked
#1,085
Nagin, Daniel S.

Top countries

  1. United States18660%
  2. United Kingdom4816%
  3. Australia227%
  4. Canada186%
  5. Netherlands52%
  6. Italy52%
  7. Israel41%
  8. Norway41%
  9. Sweden31%
  10. Germany31%

Top institutions

  1. University of Cincinnati83%
  2. University of Maryland, College Park83%
  3. Arizona State University Downtown Phoenix Campus83%
  4. Institute of Criminology62%
  5. University of California, Irvine52%
  6. Pennsylvania State University52%
  7. Hebrew University of Jerusalem41%
  8. University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences41%
  9. Michigan State University41%
  10. State University of New York Albany41%

308 listed scientists in Criminology

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