top-cited scientists

Top-cited scientists in Optoelectronics & Photonics

2025 single-year list · 3,046 listed authors · Enabling & Strategic Technologies

3,046 researchers whose main subfield is Optoelectronics & Photonics, part of Enabling & Strategic Technologies, are in the 2025 list of top-cited scientists, out of 140,272 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); 238 of these are in the top 100,000.

Listed authors
3,046
2.17% of the subfield’s Scopus authors
Scopus authors in the subfield
140,272
Median citations
6
top 1% from 504 · all authors in the subfield
Highest-ranked
#360
Fan, Shanhui

Top countries

  1. China92630%
  2. United States71924%
  3. United Kingdom1354%
  4. Italy1244%
  5. Germany1114%
  6. Japan1043%
  7. India983%
  8. Canada672%
  9. France532%
  10. Australia411%

Top institutions

  1. Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications351%
  2. Huazhong University of Science and Technology311%
  3. Nokia Bell Labs291%
  4. College of Engineering241%
  5. California Institute of Technology241%
  6. University of Electronic Science and Technology of China221%
  7. University of Southampton211%
  8. The University of Arizona211%
  9. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences211%
  10. Tsinghua University211%

3,046 listed scientists in Optoelectronics & Photonics

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