top-cited scientists

Top-cited scientists in Ecology

2025 single-year list · 1,969 listed authors · Biology

1,969 researchers whose main subfield is Ecology, part of Biology, are in the 2025 list of top-cited scientists, out of 82,882 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); 1,878 of these are in the top 100,000.

Listed authors
1,969
2.38% of the subfield’s Scopus authors
Scopus authors in the subfield
82,882
Median citations
37
top 1% from 1,575 · all authors in the subfield
Highest-ranked
#65
Tilman, David G.

Top countries

  1. United States68335%
  2. United Kingdom1849%
  3. Australia1678%
  4. Canada1226%
  5. Germany1146%
  6. China884%
  7. Spain653%
  8. Switzerland633%
  9. France593%
  10. Netherlands543%

Top institutions

  1. Wageningen University & Research241%
  2. University of California, Davis211%
  3. The University of British Columbia201%
  4. University of California, Santa Cruz181%
  5. University of Minnesota Twin Cities171%
  6. Stanford University161%
  7. University of Oxford161%
  8. University of Wisconsin-Madison151%
  9. University of Florida151%
  10. ETH Zürich151%

1,969 listed scientists in Ecology

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