top-cited scientists

Top-cited scientists in Oceanography

2025 single-year list · 350 listed authors · Earth & Environmental Sciences

350 researchers whose main subfield is Oceanography, part of Earth & Environmental Sciences, are in the 2025 list of top-cited scientists, out of 16,622 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); 97 of these are in the top 100,000.

Listed authors
350
2.11% of the subfield’s Scopus authors
Scopus authors in the subfield
16,622
Median citations
16
top 1% from 546 · all authors in the subfield
Highest-ranked
#2,121
Millero, Frank J.

Top countries

  1. United States14943%
  2. United Kingdom3510%
  3. China319%
  4. Australia226%
  5. Netherlands216%
  6. Germany154%
  7. Japan134%
  8. Spain113%
  9. France82%
  10. Italy82%

Top institutions

  1. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution247%
  2. Scripps Institution of Oceanography82%
  3. Ocean University of China82%
  4. Delft University of Technology62%
  5. UNSW Sydney62%
  6. Oregon State University62%
  7. National Oceanography Centre Southampton62%
  8. Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute41%
  9. State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research41%
  10. The Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research41%

350 listed scientists in Oceanography

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