top-cited scientists

Top-cited scientists in Political Science & Public Administration

2025 single-year list · 899 listed authors · Social Sciences

899 researchers whose main subfield is Political Science & Public Administration, part of Social Sciences, are in the 2025 list of top-cited scientists, out of 27,183 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); 885 of these are in the top 100,000.

Listed authors
899
3.31% of the subfield’s Scopus authors
Scopus authors in the subfield
27,183
Median citations
17
top 1% from 526 · all authors in the subfield
Highest-ranked
#34
Ostrom, Elinor

Top countries

  1. United States42347%
  2. United Kingdom12314%
  3. Netherlands485%
  4. Germany384%
  5. Italy344%
  6. Australia273%
  7. Switzerland243%
  8. Sweden243%
  9. Canada212%
  10. Denmark182%

Top institutions

  1. Stanford University182%
  2. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor172%
  3. Harvard University172%
  4. University of California, Berkeley152%
  5. Princeton University152%
  6. London School of Economics and Political Science131%
  7. Yale University131%
  8. Göteborgs Universitet111%
  9. Universiteit van Amsterdam101%
  10. KU Leuven101%

899 listed scientists in Political Science & Public Administration

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