top-cited scientists

Top-cited scientists in Statistics & Probability

2025 single-year list · 516 listed authors · Mathematics & Statistics

516 researchers whose main subfield is Statistics & Probability, part of Mathematics & Statistics, are in the 2025 list of top-cited scientists, out of 24,695 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); 469 of these are in the top 100,000.

Listed authors
516
2.09% of the subfield’s Scopus authors
Scopus authors in the subfield
24,695
Median citations
18
top 1% from 1,024 · all authors in the subfield
Highest-ranked
#16
Breiman, Leo

Top countries

  1. United States26050%
  2. United Kingdom5210%
  3. Canada245%
  4. Germany204%
  5. China173%
  6. France153%
  7. Australia143%
  8. Netherlands133%
  9. Switzerland122%
  10. Austria92%

Top institutions

  1. University of California, Berkeley122%
  2. Stanford University122%
  3. University of Washington92%
  4. Harvard University61%
  5. University of Minnesota Twin Cities61%
  6. University of Cambridge61%
  7. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill61%
  8. University of Pennsylvania51%
  9. NC State University51%
  10. University of Michigan School of Public Health51%

516 listed scientists in Statistics & Probability

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