top-cited scientists

Top-cited scientists in Pediatrics

2025 single-year list · 1,702 listed authors · Clinical Medicine

1,702 researchers whose main subfield is Pediatrics, part of Clinical Medicine, are in the 2025 list of top-cited scientists, out of 81,129 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); 263 of these are in the top 100,000.

Listed authors
1,702
2.10% of the subfield’s Scopus authors
Scopus authors in the subfield
81,129
Median citations
12
top 1% from 673 · all authors in the subfield
Highest-ranked
#1,198
Van Buuren, Stef

Top countries

  1. United States84450%
  2. United Kingdom1237%
  3. Australia996%
  4. Italy885%
  5. Canada875%
  6. China473%
  7. India463%
  8. Netherlands433%
  9. Switzerland312%
  10. France302%

Top institutions

  1. Boston Children's Hospital302%
  2. The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia282%
  3. Stanford University School of Medicine201%
  4. Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center171%
  5. Harvard Medical School171%
  6. University of Washington School of Medicine171%
  7. Baylor College of Medicine151%
  8. UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health131%
  9. University of Melbourne131%
  10. The Hospital for Sick Children131%

1,702 listed scientists in Pediatrics

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