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#	Author	Country	Subfield rank	c-score	Cites 2025	h	hm	Self-cit.	Papers	Active
1	Wang, Zhong Lin Chinese Academy of Sciences	CHN	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology #1 · top <0.01%	5.272	40,653	73	41.2	11.0%	3,026	1986–2026
2	Kresse, Georg Universität Wien	AUT	Applied Physics #1 · top <0.01%	5.247	38,337	32	15.9	0.7%	411	1992–2026
3	Mirjalili, Seyedali Torrens University Australia	AUS	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing #1 · top <0.01%	5.235	26,703	62	30.9	3.7%	679	2010–2026
4	Bandura, Albert Stanford University	USA	Social Psychology #1 · top <0.01%	5.222	12,668	41	32.9	0.2%	210	1953–2024
5	Grimme, Stefan Universität Bonn	DEU	Chemical Physics #1 · top <0.01%	5.171	24,555	38	23.7	2.2%	749	1992–2026
6	Bengio, Yoshua Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms	CAN	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing #2 · top <0.01%	5.099	56,641	67	26.4	0.5%	665	1988–2026
7	Ajzen, Icek University of Massachusetts Amherst	USA	Social Psychology #2 · top <0.01%	5.067	13,862	30	21.9	0.2%	104	1969–2026
8	Girshick, Ross B. Vercept		Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing #3 · top <0.01%	5.055	61,379	40	13.8	0.0%	92	2004–2025
9	Ryan, Richard M. Australian Catholic University	AUS	Social Psychology #3 · top 0.01%	5.053	25,049	58	33.6	1.3%	357	1980–2026
10	Altman, Douglas G. University of Oxford Medical Sciences Division	GBR	General & Internal Medicine #1 · top <0.01%	5.039	71,089	89	38.6	1.3%	1,116	1972–2025
11	Gross, James J. Stanford University	USA	Experimental Psychology #1 · top <0.01%	5.020	12,874	54	32.0	4.2%	644	1989–2026
12	Hinton, Geoffrey E. University of Toronto	CAN	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing #4 · top <0.01%	5.011	52,780	45	24.6	0.1%	293	1979–2026
13	Perdew, John Tulane University School of Science and Engineering	USA	Applied Physics #2 · top <0.01%	5.010	30,316	37	18.6	0.6%	365	1970–2026
14	McClements, David Julian University of Massachusetts Amherst	USA	Food Science #1 · top <0.01%	5.004	23,170	52	36.9	5.9%	1,855	1987–2027
15	Lal, Rattan A. The Ohio State University	USA	Agronomy & Agriculture #1 · top <0.01%	5.003	11,227	44	33.9	4.0%	1,415	1922–2026
16	Breiman, Leo University of California, Berkeley	USA	Statistics & Probability #1 · top <0.01%	5.001	22,015	15	13.1	0.0%	58	1960–2018
17	Li, Heng Harvard Medical School	USA	Bioinformatics #1 · top <0.01%	4.988	21,239	40	15.0	2.5%	134	2004–2026
18	Moher, David Ottawa Hospital Research Institute	CAN	General & Internal Medicine #2 · top <0.01%	4.986	88,329	75	19.9	1.0%	937	1984–2026
19	Higgins, Julian P.t. Bristol Medical School	GBR	General & Internal Medicine #3 · top <0.01%	4.956	54,555	58	23.3	0.8%	415	1996–2026
20	Neese, Frank Max Planck Institute for Coal Research	DEU	Chemical Physics #2 · top <0.01%	4.955	11,720	39	22.9	6.6%	673	1995–2026
21	Tibshirani, Robert John Stanford University	USA	Statistics & Probability #2 · top <0.01%	4.950	14,290	42	20.9	1.7%	432	1982–2026
22	Teece, David J. University of California, Berkeley	USA	Business & Management #1 · top <0.01%	4.938	9,389	31	25.9	0.5%	300	1971–2026
23	Friston, K. J. UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology	GBR	Neurology & Neurosurgery #1 · top <0.01%	4.934	12,794	46	29.4	9.0%	1,373	1989–2026
24	Ioannidis, John P.A. Stanford University School of Medicine	USA	General & Internal Medicine #4 · top <0.01%	4.926	26,012	56	27.9	3.1%	1,488	1994–2026
25	Gogotsi, Yury G. Drexel University	USA	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology #2 · top <0.01%	4.897	31,860	85	35.3	3.7%	1,170	1984–2026
26	Diener, Edward University of Virginia	USA	Social Psychology #4 · top 0.01%	4.887	11,137	41	25.4	0.7%	357	1972–2025
27	Kessler, Ronald C. Harvard University	USA	Psychiatry #1 · top <0.01%	4.857	19,102	64	22.9	5.7%	1,311	1969–2026
28	Libby, Peter A. Harvard Medical School	USA	Cardiovascular System & Hematology #1 · top <0.01%	4.854	13,693	54	26.9	6.6%	1,080	1972–2026
29	Acemoglu, Daron Massachusetts Institute of Technology	USA	Economics #1 · top <0.01%	4.847	9,196	44	26.9	1.7%	303	1993–2026
30	Newman, Mark E.J. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	USA	Fluids & Plasmas #1 · top <0.01%	4.838	7,442	33	26.9	0.2%	211	1991–2026
31	Lu, Tian Beijing Kein Research Center for Natural Sciences	CHN	Chemical Physics #3 · top <0.01%	4.836	16,150	29	15.7	1.4%	105	2011–2026
32	Bakker, Arnold Bastiaan Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam	NLD	Business & Management #2 · top <0.01%	4.836	16,280	48	30.1	2.6%	516	1993–2026
33	Sovacool, Benjamin K. Aarhus Universitet	DNK	Energy #1 · top <0.01%	4.817	9,593	48	27.9	5.3%	675	2005–2026
34	Ostrom, Elinor Indiana University Bloomington	USA	Political Science & Public Administration #1 · top <0.01%	4.814	6,627	32	25.1	0.3%	251	1965–2024
35	Austin, Peter C. Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences	CAN	Cardiovascular System & Hematology #2 · top <0.01%	4.812	8,308	33	23.6	2.6%	761	1997–2026
36	Zadeh, Lotfi A. University of California, Berkeley	USA	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing #5 · top <0.01%	4.811	7,347	23	22.0	0.0%	239	1949–2024
37	Becke, Axel D. Dalhousie University	CAN	Chemical Physics #4 · top <0.01%	4.805	9,775	21	16.5	0.1%	93	1977–2024
38	Murray, Christopher J.L. University of Washington	USA	General & Internal Medicine #5 · top <0.01%	4.800	40,690	89	16.4	4.1%	724	1987–2026
39	Venkatesh, Viswanath Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	USA	Information Systems #1 · top <0.01%	4.792	15,627	32	19.8	1.1%	175	1994–2026
40	Cohen, Jacob New York University	USA	Psychiatry #2 · top <0.01%	4.777	11,508	16	13.6	0.0%	89	1951–2013
41	Rubin, Donald B. Harvard University	USA	Statistics & Probability #3 · top 0.01%	4.774	10,551	32	24.8	0.6%	323	1967–2025
42	Hair, Joseph Franklin University of South Alabama	USA	Marketing #1 · top <0.01%	4.763	27,820	45	17.0	0.6%	180	1975–2026
43	Deci, Edward L. University of Rochester	USA	Social Psychology #5 · top 0.02%	4.756	18,981	42	22.7	0.5%	199	1971–2026
44	Ivanov, Dmitry Aleksandrovich Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Recht Berlin	DEU	Operations Research #1 · top <0.01%	4.756	6,541	43	29.5	12.7%	315	2004–2026
45	Witten, Edward Institute for Advanced Study	USA	Nuclear & Particle Physics #1 · top <0.01%	4.755	5,165	36	30.2	0.9%	332	1970–2026
46	Clevers, Hans C. University Medical Center Utrecht	NLD	Developmental Biology #1 · top <0.01%	4.752	16,319	60	25.6	4.8%	872	1985–2026
47	Manthiram, Arumugam Texas Materials Institute	USA	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology #3 · top <0.01%	4.752	11,328	43	28.0	4.5%	1,083	1975–2026
48	Pesaran, M. Hashem Trinity College Cambridge	GBR	Econometrics #1 · top 0.07%	4.744	10,620	25	17.3	0.1%	215	1973–2026
49	Floridi, Luciano Yale University	USA	Philosophy #1 · top <0.01%	4.730	7,467	42	24.0	1.7%	372	1993–2026
50	Ridker, Paul M. Imperial College London	GBR	Cardiovascular System & Hematology #3 · top <0.01%	4.727	15,865	60	20.2	8.1%	1,292	1985–2026
51	Stockwell, Brent R. Columbia University	USA	Developmental Biology #2 · top <0.01%	4.721	19,369	56	15.0	2.1%	225	1997–2026
52	Bray, Freddie Ian Centre international de Recherche sur le Cancer	FRA	Oncology & Carcinogenesis #1 · top <0.01%	4.720	59,574	63	19.6	0.9%	518	1996–2026
53	VanDerWeele, Tyler J. Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health	USA	Epidemiology #1 · top <0.01%	4.717	9,273	36	24.0	9.5%	592	2006–2026
54	Barney, Jay Bryan The University of Utah	USA	Business & Management #3 · top <0.01%	4.714	7,068	26	16.8	0.4%	146	1985–2025
55	Zhu, Jian Kang Southern University of Science and Technology	CHN	Plant Biology & Botany #1 · top <0.01%	4.712	11,525	49	23.9	3.3%	623	1991–2026
56	Goodenough, John B. Texas Materials Institute	USA	Applied Physics #3 · top <0.01%	4.707	9,936	43	23.9	1.5%	988	1953–2025
57	Friedman, Jerome H. Stanford University	USA	Statistics & Probability #4 · top 0.02%	4.701	10,584	21	13.0	0.1%	106	1965–2024
58	Fredrickson, Barbara L. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	USA	Social Psychology #6 · top 0.02%	4.696	6,465	33	20.3	3.2%	203	1990–2026
59	Sweller, John UNSW Sydney	AUS	Education #1 · top <0.01%	4.692	6,615	29	21.3	1.5%	213	1972–2026
60	McEwen, Bruce S. Rockefeller University	USA	Neurology & Neurosurgery #2 · top <0.01%	4.690	7,485	37	26.1	2.5%	1,211	1959–2024
61	Mayer, Richard E. University of California, Santa Barbara	USA	Education #2 · top <0.01%	4.685	5,695	36	29.0	4.6%	485	1972–2026
62	Kroemer, Guido Institut de Cancerologie Gustave Roussy	FRA	Immunology #1 · top <0.01%	4.680	29,730	80	30.3	4.7%	1,809	1984–2026
63	Schmidhuber, Jürgen U. King Abdullah University of Science and Technology	SAU	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing #6 · top <0.01%	4.674	20,804	31	15.0	0.5%	398	1989–2026
64	Baumeister, Roy F. The University of Queensland	AUS	Social Psychology #7 · top 0.03%	4.674	8,605	38	24.7	1.1%	505	1976–2026
65	Tilman, David G. University of Minnesota Twin Cities	USA	Ecology #1 · top <0.01%	4.673	12,007	51	22.6	3.0%	324	1976–2026
66	KUZYAKOV, Yakov V. Georg-August-Universität Göttingen	DEU	Agronomy & Agriculture #2 · top <0.01%	4.667	14,785	55	27.9	9.7%	1,009	1993–2026
67	Grätzel, Michael École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	CHE	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology #4 · top <0.01%	4.662	16,099	55	24.7	4.9%	1,804	1971–2026
68	Kanehisa, Minoru I. Institute for Chemical Research	JPN	Bioinformatics #2 · top <0.01%	4.656	13,577	28	12.0	0.3%	268	1972–2026
69	Petersen, Ronald C. Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota	USA	Neurology & Neurosurgery #3 · top <0.01%	4.655	17,847	53	18.0	12.5%	1,486	1974–2026
70	Sheldrick, George Michael Georg-August-Universität Göttingen	DEU	Inorganic & Nuclear Chemistry #1 · top <0.01%	4.654	11,859	16	8.8	0.4%	657	1965–2024
71	Burgess, Stephen MRC Biostatistics Unit	GBR	Cardiovascular System & Hematology #4 · top <0.01%	4.653	18,925	51	21.4	2.6%	424	2010–2026
72	NØrskov, Jens Kehlet Technical University of Denmark	DNK	Physical Chemistry #1 · top <0.01%	4.652	20,589	66	27.9	1.7%	732	1977–2026
73	Yaghi, Omar M. University of California, Berkeley	USA	General Chemistry #1 · top <0.01%	4.651	17,267	64	28.9	1.3%	394	1989–2026
74	Hu, Frank B. Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health	USA	Endocrinology & Metabolism #1 · top <0.01%	4.650	20,614	57	25.5	4.8%	1,558	1994–2023
75	Dincer, I. Ontario Tech University	CAN	Energy #2 · top <0.01%	4.649	11,463	39	27.7	8.0%	1,849	1991–2027
76	Willett, Walter Churchill Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health	USA	Epidemiology #2 · top 0.02%	4.643	18,158	53	21.0	6.2%	2,454	1970–2026
77	Kalluri, Raghu K. The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center	USA	Oncology & Carcinogenesis #2 · top <0.01%	4.643	11,298	44	17.9	5.9%	380	1991–2026
78	Hanahan, Douglas A. Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research Lausanne	CHE	Oncology & Carcinogenesis #3 · top <0.01%	4.640	9,717	28	12.5	1.3%	247	1978–2026
79	Rillig, Matthias C. Freie Universität Berlin	DEU	Ecology #2 · top <0.01%	4.634	12,096	53	23.5	7.7%	608	1996–2026
80	Lecun, Yann Le Meta Ai	USA	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing #7 · top <0.01%	4.631	25,817	41	17.2	0.2%	275	1987–2026
81	Schaufeli, Wilmar B. Universiteit Utrecht	NLD	Business & Management #4 · top <0.01%	4.621	10,474	39	23.6	2.1%	411	1988–2026
82	Younossi, Zobair M. The Global NASH Council	USA	Gastroenterology & Hepatology #1 · top <0.01%	4.619	14,468	47	16.4	8.8%	851	1995–2026
83	Gelman, Andrew E. Columbia University	USA	Statistics & Probability #5 · top 0.02%	4.616	9,517	38	19.5	0.9%	361	1987–2026
84	Hamblin, Michael R. University of Johannesburg	ZAF	Dermatology & Venereal Diseases #1 · top <0.01%	4.615	11,050	47	25.1	3.1%	1,083	1975–2026
85	Davis, Fred D. Texas Tech University	USA	Information Systems #2 · top 0.01%	4.615	14,441	16	8.5	0.5%	88	1985–2026
86	Edgar, Robert C. Independent researcher	USA	Bioinformatics #3 · top 0.01%	4.615	7,987	19	12.4	0.7%	55	1981–2025
87	Raabe, Dierk Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH	DEU	Materials #1 · top <0.01%	4.611	14,861	52	25.9	5.5%	1,153	1991–2026
88	Cummings, Jeffrey L. Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University	USA	Neurology & Neurosurgery #4 · top <0.01%	4.610	14,031	49	19.1	6.2%	1,054	1974–2026
89	Topol, Eric J. Scripps Research Institute	USA	Cardiovascular System & Hematology #5 · top <0.01%	4.609	10,360	37	14.9	2.1%	1,511	1980–2026
90	Geim, Andre K. The University of Manchester	GBR	Applied Physics #4 · top <0.01%	4.608	15,253	47	15.4	2.3%	420	1991–2026
91	Lim, Weng Marc Sunway University	MYS	Marketing #2 · top 0.01%	4.607	10,682	39	21.4	6.7%	306	2011–2027
92	Wishart, David S. University of Alberta	CAN	Developmental Biology #3 · top <0.01%	4.606	9,660	43	18.2	3.0%	564	1969–2026
93	Dwivedi, Yogesh K. King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals	SAU	Information Systems #3 · top 0.02%	4.598	19,217	65	30.7	2.6%	754	2003–2026
94	Braun, Virginia University of Auckland	NZL	Gender Studies #1 · top 0.04%	4.596	41,906	25	13.7	0.1%	122	1997–2026
95	Geels, Frank W. Alliance Manchester Business School	GBR	Science Studies #1 · top 0.02%	4.583	4,629	31	23.4	3.1%	136	2000–2026
96	Henseler, Jörg Universiteit Twente	NLD	Marketing #3 · top 0.02%	4.582	14,419	25	14.9	0.8%	140	2008–2026
97	Fierer, Noah G. University of Colorado Boulder	USA	Microbiology #1 · top <0.01%	4.579	12,336	45	18.9	2.2%	299	2000–2026
98	Shannon, Claude E. MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	USA	Networking & Telecommunications #1 · top <0.01%	4.578	7,622	14	12.6	0.0%	11	1938–2019
99	Packer, Milton P. Baylor Jack and Jane Hamilton Heart and Vascular Hospital	USA	Cardiovascular System & Hematology #6 · top <0.01%	4.577	8,637	39	19.8	11.5%	859	1978–2026
100	Schwartz, Shalom H. Hebrew University of Jerusalem	ISR	Social Psychology #8 · top 0.03%	4.576	4,698	30	20.6	0.9%	177	1968–2026

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