top-cited scientists

Top-cited scientists in History

2025 single-year list · 432 listed authors · Historical Studies

432 researchers whose main subfield is History, part of Historical Studies, are in the 2025 list of top-cited scientists, out of 20,299 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); 20 of these are in the top 100,000.

Listed authors
432
2.13% of the subfield’s Scopus authors
Scopus authors in the subfield
20,299
Median citations
3
top 1% from 76 · all authors in the subfield
Highest-ranked
#14,801
Hobsbawm, Eric J.E.

Top countries

  1. United States15135%
  2. United Kingdom13832%
  3. Netherlands246%
  4. Germany215%
  5. Australia174%
  6. Canada164%
  7. Italy82%
  8. France61%
  9. Finland51%
  10. Switzerland51%

Top institutions

  1. Yale University113%
  2. University of Oxford113%
  3. University of Cambridge102%
  4. Columbia University92%
  5. Queen Mary University of London82%
  6. Princeton University72%
  7. Harvard University72%
  8. University of Warwick72%
  9. University of Glasgow61%
  10. University of Exeter61%

432 listed scientists in History

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