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
	Voors, Adriaan A.	Clinical Medicine	University of Groningen, Netherlands
	Vorholt, Julia A.	Cross-Field	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland
	Vos, Theo	Clinical Medicine	Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, United States	University of Washington Seattle, United States
	Vousdoukas, Michalis	Cross-Field	University of the Aegean, Greece
	Voytas, Daniel F.	Plant and Animal Science	University of Minnesota Twin Cities, United States
	Voznyy, Oleksandr	Materials Science	University Toronto Scarborough, Canada	University of Toronto, Canada
	Vuletic, Vladan	Physics	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States
	Vunjak-Novakovic, Gordana	Cross-Field	Columbia University, United States
	Wada, Yoshihide	Environment and Ecology	King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
	Wada, Yoshihide	Geosciences	King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia

2025 Analysis

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Highly Cited Researchers: Key trends 2014-2024

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