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
	Pollard, Jeffrey W.	Cross-Field	University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom	Albert Einstein College of Medicine, United States
	Pollard, Katherine S.	Cross-Field	The J David Gladstone Institutes, United States	University of California San Francisco, United States
	Pommier, Yves	Cross-Field	National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA, United States
	Pond, Sergei L. Kosakovsky	Cross-Field	Temple University, United States
	Pongratz, Julia	Cross-Field	University of Munich, Germany	Max Planck Society, Germany
	Pontecorvo, Michael J.	Cross-Field	Avid, United States
	Poon, Leo L. M.	Cross-Field	University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
	Poorter, Hendrik	Plant and Animal Science	Helmholtz Association, Germany
	Poortmans, Philip	Clinical Medicine	University of Antwerp, Belgium
	Popat, Sanjay	Clinical Medicine	Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, United Kingdom

2025 Analysis

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Highly Cited Researchers: Key trends 2015-2025

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