top-cited scientists

Top-cited scientists in Family Studies

2025 single-year list · 87 listed authors · Social Sciences

87 researchers whose main subfield is Family Studies, part of Social Sciences, are in the 2025 list of top-cited scientists, out of 4,074 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); 41 of these are in the top 100,000.

Listed authors
87
2.14% of the subfield’s Scopus authors
Scopus authors in the subfield
4,074
Median citations
17
top 1% from 453 · all authors in the subfield
Highest-ranked
#6,356
Amato, Paul R.

Top countries

  1. United States7687%
  2. Canada22%
  3. Belgium22%
  4. Ireland11%
  5. Puerto Rico11%
  6. Finland11%
  7. Georgia11%
  8. South Korea11%
  9. Sweden11%
  10. Israel11%

Top institutions

  1. University of Georgia67%
  2. University of Minnesota Twin Cities56%
  3. Brigham Young University56%
  4. Bowling Green State University45%
  5. Pennsylvania State University33%
  6. University of California, Los Angeles33%
  7. University of Denver33%
  8. The Ohio State University22%
  9. University of Southern California22%
  10. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University22%

87 listed scientists in Family Studies

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