top-cited scientists

Top-cited scientists in Physical Chemistry

2025 single-year list · 917 listed authors · Chemistry

917 researchers whose main subfield is Physical Chemistry, part of Chemistry, are in the 2025 list of top-cited scientists, out of 44,088 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); 346 of these are in the top 100,000.

Listed authors
917
2.08% of the subfield’s Scopus authors
Scopus authors in the subfield
44,088
Median citations
22
top 1% from 986 · all authors in the subfield
Highest-ranked
#72
NØrskov, Jens Kehlet

Top countries

  1. China36139%
  2. United States9711%
  3. Spain526%
  4. Italy414%
  5. Japan404%
  6. France303%
  7. United Kingdom273%
  8. Germany263%
  9. South Korea253%
  10. India192%

Top institutions

  1. Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences172%
  2. CSIC - Instituto de Catálisis y Petroleoquímica (ICP)131%
  3. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences121%
  4. Fuzhou University111%
  5. Nanchang University91%
  6. Dalian University of Technology91%
  7. University of Electronic Science and Technology of China81%
  8. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory81%
  9. Tianjin University81%
  10. Boreskov Institute of Catalysis SB RAS81%

917 listed scientists in Physical Chemistry

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