top-cited scientists

Top-cited scientists in History of Science, Technology & Medicine

2025 single-year list · 69 listed authors · Historical Studies

69 researchers whose main subfield is History of Science, Technology & Medicine, part of Historical Studies, are in the 2025 list of top-cited scientists, out of 3,157 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); 4 of these are in the top 100,000.

Listed authors
69
2.19% of the subfield’s Scopus authors
Scopus authors in the subfield
3,157
Median citations
4
top 1% from 101 · all authors in the subfield
Highest-ranked
#24,851
Daston, Lorraine J.

Top countries

  1. United States2130%
  2. United Kingdom1725%
  3. Germany69%
  4. Australia57%
  5. France57%
  6. Canada46%
  7. Spain23%
  8. Denmark11%
  9. Brazil11%
  10. China11%

Top institutions

  1. Max Planck Institute for the History of Science34%
  2. Harvard University34%
  3. University College London23%
  4. The University of Sydney23%
  5. Stanford University23%
  6. Université Paris Cité23%
  7. University of Cambridge23%
  8. University of California, Los Angeles23%
  9. Johns Hopkins University23%
  10. University of Oxford23%

69 listed scientists in History of Science, Technology & Medicine

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