Elsevier has released an openly accessible database showcasing the most cited researchers. This database provides standardized information about citations, Hirsch index, h-index with co-authorship correction, citations of articles with different author positions, and component indicators (c-score), focusing on impact (citations) rather than productivity (number of publications). It also includes information about co-authorship and author positions (sole, first, last author). This is the 6th version of the database.
Congratulations to all the researchers featured in the database of the most cited scholars!
The database presents data for the entire career and separately for the impact in the last year. The career data is updated until the end of 2022, while the specific data for the last year pertains to citations received during the calendar year 2022. Scientists are categorized into 22 scientific fields and 174 subfields based on the standard Science-Metrix classification. The selection is based on the top 100,000 researchers by the c-score (with and without self-citations) or percentile rank of 2% or higher in their respective subfield. Scopus data provided by Elsevier through the ICSR laboratory were used for this purpose. The calculations were made using all Scopus author profiles as of October 1, 2023. If an author is not listed, it simply means that the value of the respective indicator was not sufficiently high to appear on the list. This does not imply that the author's work is subpar. PLEASE NOTE THAT THE DATABASE IS PUBLISHED IN AN ARCHIVAL FORMAT AND WILL NOT BE ALTERED.
