top-cited scientists

Top-cited scientists in Orthopedics

2025 single-year list · 2,080 listed authors · Clinical Medicine

2,080 researchers whose main subfield is Orthopedics, part of Clinical Medicine, are in the 2025 list of top-cited scientists, out of 98,781 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); 483 of these are in the top 100,000.

Listed authors
2,080
2.11% of the subfield’s Scopus authors
Scopus authors in the subfield
98,781
Median citations
21
top 1% from 726 · all authors in the subfield
Highest-ranked
#730
Maffulli, Nicola

Top countries

  1. United States99548%
  2. China1085%
  3. Canada975%
  4. United Kingdom945%
  5. Australia804%
  6. Germany794%
  7. Japan784%
  8. Italy713%
  9. Switzerland583%
  10. Netherlands543%

Top institutions

  1. Hospital for Special Surgery - New York573%
  2. Mayo Clinic462%
  3. Rush University Medical Center251%
  4. Harvard Medical School241%
  5. Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis201%
  6. UCSF School of Medicine161%
  7. Stanford University151%
  8. Massachusetts General Hospital141%
  9. IRCCS Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute, Bologna131%
  10. University of Utah School of Medicine111%

2,080 listed scientists in Orthopedics

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