Highly Ranked Scholars™

Identified through the creation of over 30 million detailed scholar profiles, ScholarGPS™ uniquely classifies more than 200 million scholarly publications of record into over 350,000 distinct Specialties, 177 Disciplines, and 14 Fields. For the first time, Highly Ranked Scholars™ are recognized within each Specialty, Discipline, Field, and across all Fields.

The identification of ScholarGPS® Highly Ranked Scholars™ is based on lifetime or prior five-year activity, with each publication and citation weighted by the number of authors and self-citations excluded. All scholars—including inactive, deceased, and retired—are included in the analysis. Less