top-cited scientists

Top-cited scientists in Forestry

2025 single-year list · 781 listed authors · Agriculture, Fisheries & Forestry

781 researchers whose main subfield is Forestry, part of Agriculture, Fisheries & Forestry, are in the 2025 list of top-cited scientists, out of 36,413 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); 115 of these are in the top 100,000.

Listed authors
781
2.14% of the subfield’s Scopus authors
Scopus authors in the subfield
36,413
Median citations
17
top 1% from 583 · all authors in the subfield
Highest-ranked
#1,448
Pretzsch, Hans

Top countries

  1. United States16721%
  2. China8611%
  3. Canada749%
  4. Finland476%
  5. Germany466%
  6. Spain314%
  7. Sweden314%
  8. Australia304%
  9. Italy253%
  10. France223%

Top institutions

  1. The University of British Columbia172%
  2. Nanjing Forestry University172%
  3. Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet172%
  4. USDA Forest Service162%
  5. Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke)142%
  6. Chinese Academy of Forestry111%
  7. USDA Forest Products Laboratory101%
  8. Itä-Suomen yliopisto101%
  9. Helsingin Yliopisto101%
  10. Technische Universität München91%

781 listed scientists in Forestry

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