top-cited scientists

Top-cited scientists in Social Work

2025 single-year list · 208 listed authors · Social Sciences

208 researchers whose main subfield is Social Work, part of Social Sciences, are in the 2025 list of top-cited scientists, out of 9,659 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); 45 of these are in the top 100,000.

Listed authors
208
2.15% of the subfield’s Scopus authors
Scopus authors in the subfield
9,659
Median citations
16
top 1% from 286 · all authors in the subfield
Highest-ranked
#14,162
Berger, Roni B.

Top countries

  1. United States9847%
  2. United Kingdom3818%
  3. Australia2010%
  4. Canada136%
  5. Israel136%
  6. Ireland63%
  7. South Africa21%
  8. China21%
  9. New Zealand21%
  10. Sweden21%

Top institutions

  1. University of Toronto63%
  2. Washington University in St. Louis, George Warren Brown School of Social Work63%
  3. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor42%
  4. Arizona State University Downtown Phoenix Campus42%
  5. School of Social Work31%
  6. The University of Newcastle, Australia31%
  7. University of Maryland School of Social Work31%
  8. The University of Chicago31%
  9. Tel Aviv University31%
  10. University of Huddersfield31%

208 listed scientists in Social Work

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