top-cited scientists

Top-cited scientists in Zoology

2025 single-year list · 435 listed authors · Biology

435 researchers whose main subfield is Zoology, part of Biology, are in the 2025 list of top-cited scientists, out of 19,073 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); 24 of these are in the top 100,000.

Listed authors
435
2.28% of the subfield’s Scopus authors
Scopus authors in the subfield
19,073
Median citations
14
top 1% from 432 · all authors in the subfield
Highest-ranked
#19,180
Maddison, Wayne Paul

Top countries

  1. United States9321%
  2. Germany358%
  3. Brazil338%
  4. Russia276%
  5. China215%
  6. Australia194%
  7. United Kingdom174%
  8. Pakistan153%
  9. South Africa123%
  10. Canada102%

Top institutions

  1. American Museum of Natural History82%
  2. Sorbonne Université82%
  3. Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum61%
  4. Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation61%
  5. Universidade de São Paulo61%
  6. Australian Museum51%
  7. Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History51%
  8. A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution Russian Academy of Sciences51%
  9. Naturalis Biodiversity Center41%
  10. Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig41%

435 listed scientists in Zoology

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