top-cited scientists

Top-cited scientists in Development Studies

2025 single-year list · 111 listed authors · Economics & Business

111 researchers whose main subfield is Development Studies, part of Economics & Business, are in the 2025 list of top-cited scientists, out of 5,287 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); 95 of these are in the top 100,000.

Listed authors
111
2.10% of the subfield’s Scopus authors
Scopus authors in the subfield
5,287
Median citations
17
top 1% from 475 · all authors in the subfield
Highest-ranked
#2,109
Kabeer, Naila

Top countries

  1. United Kingdom3834%
  2. United States3532%
  3. Netherlands76%
  4. China44%
  5. Canada33%
  6. Sweden33%
  7. South Africa33%
  8. Germany22%
  9. Belgium22%
  10. Indonesia22%

Top institutions

  1. Institute of Development Studies, Brighton65%
  2. London School of Economics and Political Science55%
  3. The University of Manchester55%
  4. International Food Policy Research Institute55%
  5. University of Oxford33%
  6. King's College London33%
  7. The World Bank, USA33%
  8. Cornell University33%
  9. China Agricultural University33%
  10. The World Bank Group33%

111 listed scientists in Development Studies

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