top-cited scientists

Top-cited scientists in Music

2025 single-year list · 81 listed authors · Visual & Performing Arts

81 researchers whose main subfield is Music, part of Visual & Performing Arts, are in the 2025 list of top-cited scientists, out of 3,762 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); 4 of these are in the top 100,000.

Listed authors
81
2.15% of the subfield’s Scopus authors
Scopus authors in the subfield
3,762
Median citations
2
top 1% from 81 · all authors in the subfield
Highest-ranked
#53,235
Hess, Juliet

Top countries

  1. United States4151%
  2. United Kingdom1519%
  3. Australia911%
  4. Canada45%
  5. Hong Kong34%
  6. Finland22%
  7. Norway22%
  8. Germany11%
  9. Denmark11%
  10. China11%

Top institutions

  1. University of Huddersfield34%
  2. Michigan State University22%
  3. Monash University22%
  4. Griffith University22%
  5. The Education University of Hong Kong22%
  6. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor22%
  7. The City University of New York22%
  8. Boston University22%
  9. Northwestern University22%
  10. The Graduate Center22%

81 listed scientists in Music

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