top-cited scientists

Top-cited scientists in Sociology

2025 single-year list · 453 listed authors · Social Sciences

453 researchers whose main subfield is Sociology, part of Social Sciences, are in the 2025 list of top-cited scientists, out of 12,471 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); 448 of these are in the top 100,000.

Listed authors
453
3.63% of the subfield’s Scopus authors
Scopus authors in the subfield
12,471
Median citations
16
top 1% from 574 · all authors in the subfield
Highest-ranked
#616
Connell, Raewyn W.

Top countries

  1. United States26759%
  2. United Kingdom6013%
  3. Australia225%
  4. Germany225%
  5. Netherlands133%
  6. Canada123%
  7. Sweden92%
  8. Italy72%
  9. Switzerland61%
  10. Israel61%

Top institutions

  1. University of California, Los Angeles143%
  2. Princeton University123%
  3. Columbia University112%
  4. University of California, Irvine112%
  5. Duke University102%
  6. Stanford University102%
  7. University of California, Berkeley102%
  8. Cornell University102%
  9. The University of Chicago82%
  10. New York University72%

453 listed scientists in Sociology

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