top-cited scientists

Top-cited scientists in Optics

2025 single-year list · 1,780 listed authors · Physics & Astronomy

1,780 researchers whose main subfield is Optics, part of Physics & Astronomy, are in the 2025 list of top-cited scientists, out of 83,504 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); 390 of these are in the top 100,000.

Listed authors
1,780
2.13% of the subfield’s Scopus authors
Scopus authors in the subfield
83,504
Median citations
14
top 1% from 704 · all authors in the subfield
Highest-ranked
#581
Kivshar, Yuri S.

Top countries

  1. United States49728%
  2. China45626%
  3. Germany1136%
  4. United Kingdom1086%
  5. Australia593%
  6. France533%
  7. Japan442%
  8. Italy432%
  9. Canada412%
  10. Israel272%

Top institutions

  1. College of Engineering201%
  2. Nanjing University201%
  3. National Institute of Standards and Technology201%
  4. Shenzhen University151%
  5. The University of Arizona141%
  6. University of Central Florida131%
  7. University of Southampton121%
  8. University of Rochester Institute of Optics121%
  9. The Australian National University111%
  10. Beihang University111%

1,780 listed scientists in Optics

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