top-cited scientists

Top-cited scientists in Surgery

2025 single-year list · 3,089 listed authors · Clinical Medicine

3,089 researchers whose main subfield is Surgery, part of Clinical Medicine, are in the 2025 list of top-cited scientists, out of 146,713 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); 408 of these are in the top 100,000.

Listed authors
3,089
2.11% of the subfield’s Scopus authors
Scopus authors in the subfield
146,713
Median citations
14
top 1% from 765 · all authors in the subfield
Highest-ranked
#3,037
Clavien, Pierre Alain

Top countries

  1. United States1,37144%
  2. United Kingdom2127%
  3. Italy1876%
  4. Japan1455%
  5. Germany1374%
  6. France1104%
  7. Netherlands1023%
  8. Canada1013%
  9. Australia632%
  10. South Korea622%

Top institutions

  1. Harvard Medical School441%
  2. Mayo Clinic281%
  3. David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA251%
  4. Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University251%
  5. Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis241%
  6. Stanford University School of Medicine241%
  7. Massachusetts General Hospital231%
  8. Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine231%
  9. University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine231%
  10. University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine221%

3,089 listed scientists in Surgery

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