top-cited scientists

Top-cited scientists in Paleontology

2025 single-year list · 516 listed authors · Earth & Environmental Sciences

516 researchers whose main subfield is Paleontology, part of Earth & Environmental Sciences, are in the 2025 list of top-cited scientists, out of 23,292 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); 234 of these are in the top 100,000.

Listed authors
516
2.22% of the subfield’s Scopus authors
Scopus authors in the subfield
23,292
Median citations
27
top 1% from 760 · all authors in the subfield
Highest-ranked
#1,215
Bronk Ramsey, Christopher

Top countries

  1. United States14027%
  2. United Kingdom10120%
  3. Germany428%
  4. China408%
  5. France255%
  6. Australia194%
  7. Italy173%
  8. Canada163%
  9. Netherlands112%
  10. Norway102%

Top institutions

  1. University College London112%
  2. The Natural History Museum, London82%
  3. Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History61%
  4. University of Leicester61%
  5. CNRS Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique61%
  6. The Australian National University51%
  7. Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology Chinese Academy of Sciences51%
  8. Chinese Academy of Sciences51%
  9. Naturhistoriska riksmuseet51%
  10. University of Oxford41%

516 listed scientists in Paleontology

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