top-cited scientists

Top-cited scientists in Fisheries

2025 single-year list · 1,037 listed authors · Agriculture, Fisheries & Forestry

1,037 researchers whose main subfield is Fisheries, part of Agriculture, Fisheries & Forestry, are in the 2025 list of top-cited scientists, out of 47,614 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); 202 of these are in the top 100,000.

Listed authors
1,037
2.18% of the subfield’s Scopus authors
Scopus authors in the subfield
47,614
Median citations
26
top 1% from 634 · all authors in the subfield
Highest-ranked
#755
Pauly, Daniel

Top countries

  1. United States20420%
  2. China18518%
  3. Canada717%
  4. Norway697%
  5. United Kingdom555%
  6. Australia545%
  7. Spain353%
  8. Egypt293%
  9. India263%
  10. France252%

Top institutions

  1. Havforskningsinstituttet192%
  2. Technical University of Denmark151%
  3. Shanghai Ocean University131%
  4. Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences131%
  5. Ocean University of China121%
  6. The University of British Columbia111%
  7. UiT Norges Arktiske Universitet91%
  8. College of the Environment81%
  9. University of Stirling81%
  10. Wageningen University & Research81%

1,037 listed scientists in Fisheries

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