top-cited scientists

Top-cited scientists in Ornithology

2025 single-year list · 111 listed authors · Biology

111 researchers whose main subfield is Ornithology, part of Biology, are in the 2025 list of top-cited scientists, out of 5,121 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); 11 of these are in the top 100,000.

Listed authors
111
2.17% of the subfield’s Scopus authors
Scopus authors in the subfield
5,121
Median citations
12
top 1% from 301 · all authors in the subfield
Highest-ranked
#19,171
Newton, Ian

Top countries

  1. United Kingdom2926%
  2. United States1816%
  3. Poland76%
  4. Germany65%
  5. Spain65%
  6. Sweden44%
  7. Netherlands44%
  8. Norway33%
  9. Brazil33%
  10. South Africa33%

Top institutions

  1. University of Oxford44%
  2. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology33%
  3. British Trust for Ornithology33%
  4. University of Cape Town33%
  5. Lunds Universitet22%
  6. Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior22%
  7. University of Wrocław22%
  8. University of Glasgow22%
  9. Institut für Vogelforschung Vogelwarte Helgoland (IfV)22%
  10. Royal Society for the Protection of Birds22%

111 listed scientists in Ornithology

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