top-cited scientists

Top-cited scientists in Developmental Biology

2025 single-year list · 3,458 listed authors · Biomedical Research

3,458 researchers whose main subfield is Developmental Biology, part of Biomedical Research, are in the 2025 list of top-cited scientists, out of 167,121 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); 2,071 of these are in the top 100,000.

Listed authors
3,458
2.07% of the subfield’s Scopus authors
Scopus authors in the subfield
167,121
Median citations
54
top 1% from 2,718 · all authors in the subfield
Highest-ranked
#46
Clevers, Hans C.

Top countries

  1. United States1,83853%
  2. United Kingdom34910%
  3. Germany2216%
  4. China1805%
  5. Japan1043%
  6. Switzerland933%
  7. Canada852%
  8. France702%
  9. Netherlands692%
  10. Australia602%

Top institutions

  1. Harvard Medical School692%
  2. Broad Institute431%
  3. Stanford University School of Medicine361%
  4. University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School321%
  5. Stanford University291%
  6. UCSF School of Medicine291%
  7. Weizmann Institute of Science Israel281%
  8. Massachusetts Institute of Technology271%
  9. University of Cambridge271%
  10. Rockefeller University251%

3,458 listed scientists in Developmental Biology

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