top-cited scientists

Top-cited scientists in Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences

2025 single-year list · 1,974 listed authors · Earth & Environmental Sciences

1,974 researchers whose main subfield is Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences, part of Earth & Environmental Sciences, are in the 2025 list of top-cited scientists, out of 84,638 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); 1,794 of these are in the top 100,000.

Listed authors
1,974
2.33% of the subfield’s Scopus authors
Scopus authors in the subfield
84,638
Median citations
38
top 1% from 1,847 · all authors in the subfield
Highest-ranked
#191
Trenberth, Kevin E.

Top countries

  1. United States89946%
  2. United Kingdom19810%
  3. China19310%
  4. Germany1337%
  5. Canada533%
  6. Australia503%
  7. France492%
  8. Netherlands392%
  9. Switzerland372%
  10. Japan322%

Top institutions

  1. National Center for Atmospheric Research482%
  2. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration372%
  3. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center271%
  4. University of Colorado Boulder231%
  5. Met Office191%
  6. Massachusetts Institute of Technology171%
  7. University of Reading171%
  8. Scripps Institution of Oceanography161%
  9. Institute of Atmospheric Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences161%
  10. University of Exeter151%

1,974 listed scientists in Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences

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