top-cited scientists

Top-cited scientists in General Chemistry

2025 single-year list · 1,215 listed authors · Chemistry

1,215 researchers whose main subfield is General Chemistry, part of Chemistry, are in the 2025 list of top-cited scientists, out of 57,505 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); 181 of these are in the top 100,000.

Listed authors
1,215
2.11% of the subfield’s Scopus authors
Scopus authors in the subfield
57,505
Median citations
10
top 1% from 499 · all authors in the subfield
Highest-ranked
#73
Yaghi, Omar M.

Top countries

  1. United States37631%
  2. China28624%
  3. Japan1028%
  4. India444%
  5. Egypt343%
  6. South Korea333%
  7. United Kingdom282%
  8. Germany272%
  9. Saudi Arabia252%
  10. Switzerland222%

Top institutions

  1. Northwestern University222%
  2. National Research Centre181%
  3. Stanford University121%
  4. Berkeley College of Chemistry111%
  5. Massachusetts Institute of Technology111%
  6. The University of Tokyo101%
  7. Cornell University91%
  8. Shanghai Jiao Tong University91%
  9. Jinan University91%
  10. Princeton University81%

1,215 listed scientists in General Chemistry

See all 1,215 in the interactive table →