top-cited scientists

Top-cited scientists in Sport Sciences

2025 single-year list · 872 listed authors · Clinical Medicine

872 researchers whose main subfield is Sport Sciences, part of Clinical Medicine, are in the 2025 list of top-cited scientists, out of 41,112 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); 470 of these are in the top 100,000.

Listed authors
872
2.12% of the subfield’s Scopus authors
Scopus authors in the subfield
41,112
Median citations
25
top 1% from 1,000 · all authors in the subfield
Highest-ranked
#1,063
Hagger, Martin S.

Top countries

  1. United States19522%
  2. United Kingdom12815%
  3. Australia11213%
  4. Canada607%
  5. Spain496%
  6. Germany324%
  7. Norway233%
  8. France192%
  9. Switzerland182%
  10. Portugal172%

Top institutions

  1. Loughborough University142%
  2. The University of Queensland121%
  3. Edith Cowan University101%
  4. Norges Idrettshøgskole91%
  5. University of Jyväskylä91%
  6. The University of British Columbia81%
  7. University of Calgary81%
  8. University of Toronto81%
  9. Liverpool John Moores University81%
  10. Auckland University of Technology81%

872 listed scientists in Sport Sciences

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