top-cited scientists

Top-cited scientists in Software Engineering

2025 single-year list · 507 listed authors · Information & Communication Technologies

507 researchers whose main subfield is Software Engineering, part of Information & Communication Technologies, are in the 2025 list of top-cited scientists, out of 24,083 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); 179 of these are in the top 100,000.

Listed authors
507
2.11% of the subfield’s Scopus authors
Scopus authors in the subfield
24,083
Median citations
12
top 1% from 755 · all authors in the subfield
Highest-ranked
#411
Slater, Mel

Top countries

  1. United States18837%
  2. China5411%
  3. Canada387%
  4. United Kingdom296%
  5. Germany275%
  6. Australia224%
  7. Switzerland153%
  8. Netherlands143%
  9. France133%
  10. Italy112%

Top institutions

  1. NVIDIA133%
  2. Monash University82%
  3. Adobe Inc.71%
  4. Microsoft Research71%
  5. Carnegie Mellon University71%
  6. The University of British Columbia61%
  7. Singapore Management University51%
  8. University College London51%
  9. Meta51%
  10. Delft University of Technology51%

507 listed scientists in Software Engineering

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