top-cited scientists

Top-cited scientists in Demography

2025 single-year list · 85 listed authors · Social Sciences

85 researchers whose main subfield is Demography, part of Social Sciences, are in the 2025 list of top-cited scientists, out of 3,977 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); 57 of these are in the top 100,000.

Listed authors
85
2.14% of the subfield’s Scopus authors
Scopus authors in the subfield
3,977
Median citations
13
top 1% from 416 · all authors in the subfield
Highest-ranked
#2,824
de Haas, Hein

Top countries

  1. United States3238%
  2. United Kingdom89%
  3. Netherlands67%
  4. Austria56%
  5. Germany56%
  6. Italy45%
  7. Australia45%
  8. China34%
  9. Norway34%
  10. Canada22%

Top institutions

  1. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill45%
  2. Princeton University34%
  3. The Australian National University34%
  4. University of Oxford22%
  5. Vienna Institute of Demography22%
  6. University of Pennsylvania22%
  7. Rijksuniversiteit Groningen22%
  8. Brown University22%
  9. University of Wisconsin-Madison22%
  10. University of Maryland, College Park22%

85 listed scientists in Demography

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