top-cited scientists

Top-cited scientists in Information & Library Sciences

2025 single-year list · 340 listed authors · Social Sciences

340 researchers whose main subfield is Information & Library Sciences, part of Social Sciences, are in the 2025 list of top-cited scientists, out of 15,996 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); 80 of these are in the top 100,000.

Listed authors
340
2.13% of the subfield’s Scopus authors
Scopus authors in the subfield
15,996
Median citations
5
top 1% from 334 · all authors in the subfield
Highest-ranked
#296
Chen, Chaomei

Top countries

  1. United States10932%
  2. United Kingdom299%
  3. Canada226%
  4. China206%
  5. Spain154%
  6. Netherlands124%
  7. Pakistan103%
  8. South Africa82%
  9. Germany72%
  10. Finland72%

Top institutions

  1. The University of Sheffield82%
  2. The University of Texas at Austin72%
  3. Universiteit Leiden62%
  4. The University of Tennessee, Knoxville62%
  5. College of Computing & Informatics51%
  6. University of California, Los Angeles51%
  7. University of the Punjab51%
  8. University of Washington51%
  9. University of South Africa51%
  10. Universidad de Granada51%

340 listed scientists in Information & Library Sciences

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