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
	Ochiya, Takahiro	Cross-Field	Tokyo Medical University, Japan	National Cancer Center - Japan, Japan
	Odgers, Candice L.	Cross-Field	University of California Irvine, United States	Duke University, United States
	Oesch, Pascal	Space Science	University of Geneva, Switzerland	Niels Bohr Institute, Denmark
	Offermanns, Stefan	Cross-Field	Max Planck Society, Germany	Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
	Oganov, Artem R.	Cross-Field	Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Russia
	Ogrodnik, Mikolaj	Cross-Field	Mayo Clinic, United States
	Oh, Do-Youn	Clinical Medicine	Seoul National University (SNU), South Korea
	Ohno, Hideo	Cross-Field	Tohoku University, Japan
	Oikonomou, Evangelos	Cross-Field	National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
	Okada, Hideho	Cross-Field	University of California San Francisco, United States

2025 Analysis

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Highly Cited Researchers: Key trends 2015-2025

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