top-cited scientists

Top-cited scientists in International Relations

2025 single-year list · 223 listed authors · Social Sciences

223 researchers whose main subfield is International Relations, part of Social Sciences, are in the 2025 list of top-cited scientists, out of 9,646 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); 218 of these are in the top 100,000.

Listed authors
223
2.31% of the subfield’s Scopus authors
Scopus authors in the subfield
9,646
Median citations
12
top 1% from 322 · all authors in the subfield
Highest-ranked
#1,081
Hickel, Jason E.

Top countries

  1. United States8036%
  2. United Kingdom4822%
  3. Canada2310%
  4. Australia167%
  5. Sweden84%
  6. Germany73%
  7. Denmark63%
  8. Norway52%
  9. Netherlands52%
  10. Switzerland42%

Top institutions

  1. Columbia University63%
  2. Københavns Universitet52%
  3. University of Toronto52%
  4. London School of Economics and Political Science42%
  5. University of Warwick42%
  6. The University of Manchester42%
  7. The Australian National University42%
  8. Johns Hopkins University42%
  9. University of Sussex31%
  10. University of Waterloo31%

223 listed scientists in International Relations

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