top-cited scientists

Top-cited scientists in Philosophy

2025 single-year list · 306 listed authors · Philosophy & Theology

306 researchers whose main subfield is Philosophy, part of Philosophy & Theology, are in the 2025 list of top-cited scientists, out of 14,569 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); 171 of these are in the top 100,000.

Listed authors
306
2.10% of the subfield’s Scopus authors
Scopus authors in the subfield
14,569
Median citations
5
top 1% from 212 · all authors in the subfield
Highest-ranked
#49
Floridi, Luciano

Top countries

  1. United States16353%
  2. United Kingdom5418%
  3. Netherlands134%
  4. Canada134%
  5. Australia114%
  6. Germany62%
  7. Denmark52%
  8. Switzerland41%
  9. Hong Kong41%
  10. South Africa31%

Top institutions

  1. New York University134%
  2. University of Oxford103%
  3. University of California, Berkeley93%
  4. Princeton University83%
  5. Yale University62%
  6. Rutgers University52%
  7. Massachusetts Institute of Technology52%
  8. University of Toronto52%
  9. University of Cambridge52%
  10. Stanford University52%

306 listed scientists in Philosophy

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