top-cited scientists

Top-cited scientists in General Physics

2025 single-year list · 1,854 listed authors · Physics & Astronomy

1,854 researchers whose main subfield is General Physics, part of Physics & Astronomy, are in the 2025 list of top-cited scientists, out of 87,024 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); 588 of these are in the top 100,000.

Listed authors
1,854
2.13% of the subfield’s Scopus authors
Scopus authors in the subfield
87,024
Median citations
10
top 1% from 799 · all authors in the subfield
Highest-ranked
#199
Preskill, John P.

Top countries

  1. United States52728%
  2. China23713%
  3. Germany1558%
  4. United Kingdom1176%
  5. Japan1046%
  6. Italy654%
  7. Canada573%
  8. France533%
  9. Spain493%
  10. Switzerland432%

Top institutions

  1. Google LLC462%
  2. University of Science and Technology of China221%
  3. University of Oxford211%
  4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology201%
  5. IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center191%
  6. The University of Tokyo191%
  7. National Institute of Standards and Technology171%
  8. Stanford University151%
  9. ETH Zürich141%
  10. University of Maryland, College Park131%

1,854 listed scientists in General Physics

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