top-cited scientists

Top-cited scientists in Environmental Sciences

2025 single-year list · 2,941 listed authors · Earth & Environmental Sciences

2,941 researchers whose main subfield is Environmental Sciences, part of Earth & Environmental Sciences, are in the 2025 list of top-cited scientists, out of 140,934 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); 2,300 of these are in the top 100,000.

Listed authors
2,941
2.09% of the subfield’s Scopus authors
Scopus authors in the subfield
140,934
Median citations
41
top 1% from 1,394 · all authors in the subfield
Highest-ranked
#185
Wang, Jianlong

Top countries

  1. China1,04836%
  2. United States28110%
  3. India1686%
  4. United Kingdom1375%
  5. Australia973%
  6. Germany732%
  7. Netherlands712%
  8. Canada702%
  9. Italy602%
  10. Spain522%

Top institutions

  1. Tsinghua University462%
  2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences321%
  3. Tongji University291%
  4. Nanjing University281%
  5. Beijing Normal University261%
  6. Peking University241%
  7. Chinese Academy of Sciences231%
  8. Wageningen University & Research221%
  9. Hunan University211%
  10. Guangdong University of Technology181%

2,941 listed scientists in Environmental Sciences

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