top-cited scientists

Top-cited scientists in Nursing

2025 single-year list · 1,556 listed authors · Public Health & Health Services

1,556 researchers whose main subfield is Nursing, part of Public Health & Health Services, are in the 2025 list of top-cited scientists, out of 73,697 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); 258 of these are in the top 100,000.

Listed authors
1,556
2.11% of the subfield’s Scopus authors
Scopus authors in the subfield
73,697
Median citations
13
top 1% from 477 · all authors in the subfield
Highest-ranked
#336
Sandelowski, Margarete J.

Top countries

  1. United States48431%
  2. Australia19012%
  3. United Kingdom17912%
  4. Canada1097%
  5. South Korea523%
  6. Hong Kong473%
  7. China473%
  8. Sweden372%
  9. Ireland342%
  10. Taiwan342%

Top institutions

  1. University of Alberta191%
  2. University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing191%
  3. King's College London161%
  4. University of California, San Francisco161%
  5. The Hong Kong Polytechnic University161%
  6. The Ohio State University131%
  7. College of Nursing131%
  8. Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences121%
  9. Griffith University111%
  10. NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine111%

1,556 listed scientists in Nursing

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