top-cited scientists

Top-cited scientists in Evolutionary Biology

2025 single-year list · 655 listed authors · Biology

655 researchers whose main subfield is Evolutionary Biology, part of Biology, are in the 2025 list of top-cited scientists, out of 31,128 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); 537 of these are in the top 100,000.

Listed authors
655
2.10% of the subfield’s Scopus authors
Scopus authors in the subfield
31,128
Median citations
29
top 1% from 1,079 · all authors in the subfield
Highest-ranked
#275
Yang, Ziheng

Top countries

  1. United States28143%
  2. United Kingdom9915%
  3. Canada376%
  4. France335%
  5. Australia325%
  6. Germany315%
  7. Switzerland244%
  8. Sweden213%
  9. Japan122%
  10. Spain112%

Top institutions

  1. The University of British Columbia112%
  2. Harvard University102%
  3. Université de Montpellier102%
  4. University of Oxford91%
  5. University of California, Berkeley91%
  6. The University of Edinburgh91%
  7. Universität Zürich91%
  8. University of California, Riverside91%
  9. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew81%
  10. The University of Texas at Austin81%

655 listed scientists in Evolutionary Biology

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