top-cited scientists

Top-cited scientists in Neurology & Neurosurgery

2025 single-year list · 7,932 listed authors · Clinical Medicine

7,932 researchers whose main subfield is Neurology & Neurosurgery, part of Clinical Medicine, are in the 2025 list of top-cited scientists, out of 379,830 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); 4,090 of these are in the top 100,000.

Listed authors
7,932
2.09% of the subfield’s Scopus authors
Scopus authors in the subfield
379,830
Median citations
29
top 1% from 1,392 · all authors in the subfield
Highest-ranked
#23
Friston, K. J.

Top countries

  1. United States3,49944%
  2. United Kingdom6608%
  3. Germany5667%
  4. Canada3745%
  5. Italy3424%
  6. China3244%
  7. Australia2533%
  8. France2533%
  9. Netherlands2083%
  10. Switzerland1552%

Top institutions

  1. Harvard Medical School1532%
  2. Mayo Clinic801%
  3. Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine741%
  4. UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology601%
  5. Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis591%
  6. UCSF School of Medicine581%
  7. University of Oxford Medical Sciences Division541%
  8. University of California, San Francisco521%
  9. King's College London501%
  10. University College London491%

7,932 listed scientists in Neurology & Neurosurgery

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