Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers 2025

Of the world’s population of scientists and social scientists, Highly Cited Researchers are 1 in 1,000

Highly Cited Researchers demonstrate significant and broad influence in their field(s) of research. Each researcher selected has authored multiple Highly Cited Papers which rank in the top 1% by citations for their field(s) and publication year in the Web of Science Core Collection over the past eleven years. However, citation activity is not the sole selection indicator. This list, based on citation data, is then refined using other quantitative metrics, as well as qualitative analysis and expert judgment.

7,131 Highly Cited Researcher awards in 2025

Full Name		Category	Primary Affiliation	Secondary Affiliations
	Bisquert, Juan	Cross-Field	Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain	Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC), Spain
	Castellanos-Gomez, Andres	Cross-Field	Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC), Spain
	Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel	Environment and Ecology	Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC), Spain
	Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel	Microbiology	Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC), Spain
	Enjuanes, Luis	Microbiology	Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC), Spain
	Espin, Juan Carlos	Cross-Field	Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC), Spain	CSIC - Centro de Edafologia y Biologia Aplicada del Segura (CEBAS), Spain
	Gotor, Cecilia	Plant and Animal Science	Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC), Spain	University of Sevilla, Spain
	Huerta-Cepas, Jaime	Biology and Biochemistry	Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC), Spain	Centro de Investigacion en Biotecnologia Genomica de Plantas (CBGP), Spain; Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (UPM), Spain
	Romero, Luis C	Cross-Field	Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC), Spain	University of Sevilla, Spain
	Rossello-Mora, Ramon	Microbiology	Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC), Spain	Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain

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