top-cited scientists

Top-cited scientists in Physiology

2025 single-year list · 560 listed authors · Biomedical Research

560 researchers whose main subfield is Physiology, part of Biomedical Research, are in the 2025 list of top-cited scientists, out of 26,472 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); 192 of these are in the top 100,000.

Listed authors
560
2.12% of the subfield’s Scopus authors
Scopus authors in the subfield
26,472
Median citations
12
top 1% from 539 · all authors in the subfield
Highest-ranked
#921
Pörtner, Hans-O. Otto

Top countries

  1. United States24444%
  2. Canada7914%
  3. United Kingdom5510%
  4. Australia417%
  5. Denmark265%
  6. Germany183%
  7. Sweden173%
  8. Italy112%
  9. Norway71%
  10. Switzerland61%

Top institutions

  1. The University of British Columbia163%
  2. University of Florida132%
  3. Københavns Universitet102%
  4. University of Cambridge71%
  5. University of Guelph61%
  6. Karolinska Institutet61%
  7. University of Ottawa61%
  8. United States Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine51%
  9. University of California, Davis51%
  10. McMaster University51%

560 listed scientists in Physiology

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