top-cited scientists

Top-cited scientists in Literary Studies

2025 single-year list · 439 listed authors · Communication & Textual Studies

439 researchers whose main subfield is Literary Studies, part of Communication & Textual Studies, are in the 2025 list of top-cited scientists, out of 21,141 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); 40 of these are in the top 100,000.

Listed authors
439
2.08% of the subfield’s Scopus authors
Scopus authors in the subfield
21,141
Median citations
2
top 1% from 62 · all authors in the subfield
Highest-ranked
#1,049
Mignolo, Walter D.

Top countries

  1. United States21549%
  2. United Kingdom9221%
  3. Australia245%
  4. Canada194%
  5. Germany164%
  6. France92%
  7. Netherlands82%
  8. South Africa82%
  9. Belgium72%
  10. Finland41%

Top institutions

  1. New York University143%
  2. Columbia University133%
  3. University of California, Berkeley113%
  4. University of California, Los Angeles102%
  5. University of Pennsylvania82%
  6. Harvard University72%
  7. Yale University72%
  8. Duke University61%
  9. The University of Chicago61%
  10. Princeton University61%

439 listed scientists in Literary Studies

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