top-cited scientists

Top-cited scientists in Microbiology

2025 single-year list · 4,837 listed authors · Biomedical Research

4,837 researchers whose main subfield is Microbiology, part of Biomedical Research, are in the 2025 list of top-cited scientists, out of 232,186 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); 1,875 of these are in the top 100,000.

Listed authors
4,837
2.08% of the subfield’s Scopus authors
Scopus authors in the subfield
232,186
Median citations
30
top 1% from 1,207 · all authors in the subfield
Highest-ranked
#97
Fierer, Noah G.

Top countries

  1. United States1,57533%
  2. United Kingdom4018%
  3. China2706%
  4. Germany2696%
  5. France2104%
  6. Italy1904%
  7. Canada1704%
  8. Australia1543%
  9. Spain1413%
  10. Netherlands1323%

Top institutions

  1. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention461%
  2. University of Oxford271%
  3. University of Wisconsin-Madison22<1%
  4. Harvard Medical School21<1%
  5. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine21<1%
  6. Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis20<1%
  7. Wageningen University & Research19<1%
  8. Imperial College London19<1%
  9. Stanford University School of Medicine19<1%
  10. Monash University19<1%

4,837 listed scientists in Microbiology

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