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Which institutions have the most top-cited scientists in Information & Library Sciences?

340 researchers whose main subfield is Information & Library Sciences are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list. The University of Sheffield has the most (8, 2.4%), followed by The University of Texas at Austin (7) and Universiteit Leiden (6). A row opens its scientists in the subfield in the table of all authors.

#InstitutionCountryListed authorsTop 100kHighest-ranked author
1The University of Sheffield United Kingdom84Thelwall, Mike A. #1,299
2The University of Texas at Austin United States71Zhang, Yan Jessie #38,404
3Universiteit Leiden Netherlands65Waltman, Ludo #916
4The University of Tennessee, Knoxville United States60Tenopir, Carol #116,888
5College of Computing & Informatics United States53Chen, Chaomei #296
6University of California, Los Angeles United States53Caswell, Michelle #33,714
7University of the Punjab Pakistan51Mahmood, Khalid #37,227
8University of Washington United States52Shah, Chirag #48,528
9University of South Africa South Africa52Ngulube, Patrick #87,214
10Universidad de Granada Spain50Martín-Martín, Alberto #137,613
11Wuhan University China50Zhang, Lin #149,476
12Tampere University Finland41Savolainen, Reijo #12,080
13Bar-Ilan University Israel41Bar-Ilan, Judit #41,989
14Western University Canada42Quan-Haase, Anabel #70,075
15Nanjing University China41Zhao, Yuxiang (Chris) #72,615
16University of Toronto Canada41Choo, Chun Wei #81,447
17University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign United States40Downie, J. Stephen #248,283
18Universiteit van Amsterdam Netherlands31Leydesdorff, Loet #1,378
19The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill United States31Jarrahi, Mohammad Hossein #2,732
20University of North Texas United States31Lund, Brady Daniel #5,556
21Rutgers University–New Brunswick United States30Belkin, Nicholas J. #199,435
22Florida State University United States30Chatman, Elfreda A. #243,776

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Data: Ioannidis, John P.A. (2026), ‘August 2026 data-update for “Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators”’, Mendeley Data, v9, doi:10.17632/btchxktzyw.9. 2026 list, ranked by composite citation score (c) excluding self-citations.

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