top-cited scientists

Top-cited scientists in Geography

2025 single-year list · 541 listed authors · Social Sciences

541 researchers whose main subfield is Geography, part of Social Sciences, are in the 2025 list of top-cited scientists, out of 21,559 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); 527 of these are in the top 100,000.

Listed authors
541
2.51% of the subfield’s Scopus authors
Scopus authors in the subfield
21,559
Median citations
17
top 1% from 554 · all authors in the subfield
Highest-ranked
#335
Liu, Yansui

Top countries

  1. United Kingdom16931%
  2. United States10920%
  3. Canada499%
  4. China356%
  5. Australia336%
  6. Netherlands183%
  7. Germany143%
  8. Norway102%
  9. Hong Kong92%
  10. Sweden81%

Top institutions

  1. Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences122%
  2. University of Oxford112%
  3. University of Cambridge92%
  4. The University of British Columbia92%
  5. The University of Manchester92%
  6. University of Toronto92%
  7. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences81%
  8. University of Exeter81%
  9. Durham University71%
  10. University of California, Los Angeles71%

541 listed scientists in Geography

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