top-cited scientists

Top-cited scientists in Distributed Computing

2025 single-year list · 199 listed authors · Information & Communication Technologies

199 researchers whose main subfield is Distributed Computing, part of Information & Communication Technologies, are in the 2025 list of top-cited scientists, out of 9,369 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); 17 of these are in the top 100,000.

Listed authors
199
2.12% of the subfield’s Scopus authors
Scopus authors in the subfield
9,369
Median citations
7
top 1% from 530 · all authors in the subfield
Highest-ranked
#256
Plimpton, Steven J.

Top countries

  1. United States9246%
  2. China3618%
  3. Iran95%
  4. India95%
  5. Australia74%
  6. Spain63%
  7. Switzerland42%
  8. United Kingdom42%
  9. Canada42%
  10. Türkiye32%

Top institutions

  1. Argonne National Laboratory74%
  2. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory63%
  3. Tsinghua University53%
  4. ETH Zürich42%
  5. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign42%
  6. NVIDIA42%
  7. Hunan University32%
  8. Shanghai Jiao Tong University32%
  9. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory32%
  10. The University of Tennessee, Knoxville21%

199 listed scientists in Distributed Computing

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