top-cited scientists

Top-cited scientists in Folklore

2025 single-year list · 15 listed authors · Visual & Performing Arts

15 researchers whose main subfield is Folklore, part of Visual & Performing Arts, are in the 2025 list of top-cited scientists, out of 762 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 of these are in the top 100,000.

Listed authors
15
1.97% of the subfield’s Scopus authors
Scopus authors in the subfield
762
Median citations
2
top 1% from 56 · all authors in the subfield
Highest-ranked
#99,221
Bauman, Richard W.

Top countries

  1. United States960%
  2. Germany213%
  3. Iceland17%
  4. Canada17%
  5. Sweden17%
  6. Estonia17%

Top institutions

  1. Indiana University213%
  2. Haskoli Islands17%
  3. The Ohio State University17%
  4. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa17%
  5. University of Wisconsin-Madison17%
  6. The University of British Columbia17%
  7. Georg-August-Universität Göttingen17%
  8. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee17%
  9. University of California, Davis17%
  10. Umeå Universitet17%

15 listed scientists in Folklore

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