top-cited scientists

Top-cited scientists in Education

2025 single-year list · 2,432 listed authors · Social Sciences

2,432 researchers whose main subfield is Education, part of Social Sciences, are in the 2025 list of top-cited scientists, out of 115,687 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); 1,386 of these are in the top 100,000.

Listed authors
2,432
2.10% of the subfield’s Scopus authors
Scopus authors in the subfield
115,687
Median citations
14
top 1% from 473 · all authors in the subfield
Highest-ranked
#59
Sweller, John

Top countries

  1. United States93038%
  2. United Kingdom27211%
  3. Australia24210%
  4. Germany964%
  5. Hong Kong924%
  6. Canada843%
  7. Netherlands592%
  8. China542%
  9. Taiwan522%
  10. Finland442%

Top institutions

  1. The Education University of Hong Kong351%
  2. The University of Hong Kong271%
  3. UCL Institute of Education261%
  4. Monash University251%
  5. University of Wisconsin-Madison251%
  6. University of Oxford241%
  7. Michigan State University221%
  8. Australian Catholic University211%
  9. University of Georgia201%
  10. Chinese University of Hong Kong191%

2,432 listed scientists in Education

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