top-cited scientists

Top-cited scientists in Nuclear & Particle Physics

2025 single-year list · 3,575 listed authors · Physics & Astronomy

3,575 researchers whose main subfield is Nuclear & Particle Physics, part of Physics & Astronomy, are in the 2025 list of top-cited scientists, out of 164,120 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); 1,226 of these are in the top 100,000.

Listed authors
3,575
2.18% of the subfield’s Scopus authors
Scopus authors in the subfield
164,120
Median citations
24
top 1% from 8,587 · all authors in the subfield
Highest-ranked
#45
Witten, Edward

Top countries

  1. United States98227%
  2. Germany3099%
  3. United Kingdom2567%
  4. Italy2316%
  5. China2296%
  6. France1765%
  7. Japan1494%
  8. Spain1253%
  9. Switzerland1043%
  10. India973%

Top institutions

  1. Organisation Européenne pour la Recherche Nucléaire501%
  2. Université Paris-Saclay441%
  3. California Institute of Technology391%
  4. University of Oxford321%
  5. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory301%
  6. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences301%
  7. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics241%
  8. Massachusetts Institute of Technology221%
  9. The University of Tokyo221%
  10. Stony Brook University191%

3,575 listed scientists in Nuclear & Particle Physics

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