You are currently viewing a new version of our website. To view the old version click .
MDPI Editors Named Highly Cited Researchers in 2025

MDPI Editors Named Highly Cited Researchers in 2025

25 November 2025


We are proud to announce that 623 members of MDPI’s editorial boards have been recognized as 2025 Highly Cited Researchers by Clarivate, placing them among the most influential scientific minds shaping global research today.
 

This milestone reinforces our commitment to editorial excellence and demonstrates the exceptional caliber of expertise guiding our peer-reviewed journals. These distinguished researchers, spanning 33 countries and territories across 21 scientific disciplines, represent approximately 1 in 1,000 scientists worldwide, an elite group whose work has fundamentally shaped their fields over the past decade. 

Impact That Transcends Boundaries 

Clarivate's 2025 Highly Cited Researchers list recognizes 6,868 individuals who received 7,131 awards from more than 1,300 institutions across 60 countries and regions. Our recognized editors span diverse fields, from clinical medicine and environmental science to engineering and artificial intelligence, reflecting the breadth of cutting-edge research published across our journals.

The identification of Highly Cited Researchers begins with an analysis of approximately 200,000 highly cited papers and reviews—those ranking in the top 1% of their field by citation count. Clarivate's team then applies careful filtering, removing retracted papers and excluding works with more than 30 authors, where assessing individual scholarly contributions becomes challenging. 

For authors and readers, this recognition serves as independent validation of the exceptional editorial oversight guiding our journals.


Abate, Antonio
Aguilera, Ruth V.
Ahmed, Warish
Ahn, Myung-Ju
An, Zhisheng
Annabi, Nasim
Arendrup, Maiken Cavling
Asa, Sylvia L.
Asara, John
Atala, Anthony
Balch, Jennifer K.
Balsamo, Gianpaolo
Bandodkar, Amay J.
Banks, William A.
Bardelli, Alberto
Barnes, Peter J.
Barrow, Colin
Basit, Abdul W.
Bassetti, Matteo
Batrakova, Elena V.
Behnood, Ali
Bellomo, Nicola
Benediktsson, Jon Atli
Berardi, Umberto
Blaschke, Thomas
Blay, Jean-Yves
Bonomo, Robert A.
Boyd, Robert W.
Boyer, Cyrille
Brezesinski, Torsten
Bush, Ashley I.
Byrd, John C.
Cabot, Andreu
Cai, Baoping
Cai, Jianchao
Cai, L.
Cambria, Erik
Cappuzzo, Federico
Carvalho, Andre F.
Centobelli, Piera
Cerchione, Roberto
Cesco, Stefano
Chai, Jijie
Chan, Jasper Fuk-Woo
Chan, Timothy A.
Chen, Badong
Chen, Bo
Chen, Bo
Chen, Chaoji
Chen, Chen
Chen, Dan
Chen, Fahu
Chen, Gang
Chen, Jun
Chen, Kunsong
Chen, Lidong
Chen, Min
Chen, Peng
Chen, Qian
Chen, Shuangming
Chen, Wen
Chen, Xiangyu
Chen, Xiaodong
Chen, Xu
Chen, Yimin
Chen, Yu
Chen, Yulin
Cheng, Huanyu
Cheng, Jianjun
Cheng, Qiang
Choi, Wonyong
Choi, Young Hae
Chowdhary, Anuradha
Chu, Hin
Chung, Namho
Clevers, Hans
Colao, Annamaria
Cortes, Jorge
Cottin, Vincent
Creutzig, Felix
Crommie, Michael F.
Cui, Yi
Dai, Sheng
Dai, Shifeng
Dai, Xiaohu
Davis, John M.
Davis, Steven J.
Davis, Thomas P.
Dawson, Ted M.
de la Fuente-Nunez, Cesar
De Marco, Alessandra
de Vries, Rory D.
de Vries, Wim
Deb, Kalyanmoy
Degraeve, Pascal
Delord, Jean-Pierre
Deng, Jing
Deng, Xiangzheng
Ding, Aijun
Ding, Yong
Dolgui, Alexandre
Dong, Liubing
Dou, Shi Xue
Du, Bo
Du, Qian
Duan, Xidong
Dummer, Reinhard
Enjuanes, Luis
Facchetti, Antonio
Fan, Kelong
Fan, Xiulin
Fan, Zhanxi
Fang, Chen
Fang, Chuanglin
Fang, Jianguang
Fang, Jingyun
Fang, Qianrong
Fang, Yongjin
Feng, Wei
Feng, Xuning
Feng, Yongzhong
Ferrag, Mohamed Amine
Fortino, Giancarlo
Fowler, Michael
Franceschi, Claudio
Fu, Gengtao
Gai, Francesco
Gaisford, Simon
Galvano, Fabio
Gao, Huijun
Gao, Huile
Gao, Jianqing
Gao, Junkuo
Gao, Peng
Gao, Wei
Garcia-Bellido, Juan
Gasparini, Nicola
Ge, Qi
Genevet, Patrice
Geng, Yong
George, Jacob
Gerdts, Gunnar
Geschwind, Daniel H.
Ghaffari, Roozbeh
Ghamisi, Pedram
Giesel, Frederik
Godos, Justyna
Gogotsi, Yury
Goncalves, Ana M. M.
Gong, Jinlong
Gong, Peng
Gotor, Cecilia
Govindan, Kannan
Grancini, Giulia
Graus, Francesc
Green, Douglas R.
Grigoriev, Igor
Grosso, Giuseppe
Gu, Ke
Gu, Zhanjun
Guan, Cao
Gui, Guan
Guiver, Michael D.
Guo, Hengyu
Guo, Jinghua
Guo, Shiwei
Guo, Song
Guo, Zaiping
Győrffy, Balázs
Haase, Dagmar
Han, Fudong
Hanes, Justin
Hao, Junnan
Hartung, Hans-Peter
He, Bao-Jie
He, Debiao
He, Hongwen
He, Jiaqing
He, Xiangming
He, Yong
He, Zhili
Henry, Brandon Michael
Herrera, Francisco
Hong, Choong Seon
Hong, Danfeng
Hu, Enyuan
Hu, Jiangping
Hu, Jin-Song
Hu, Wenbin
Huang, Chongwen
Huang, Hongwei
Huang, Jianping
Huang, Jianxi
Hubacek, Klaus
Hwang, Jinsoo
Italiano, Antoine
Iwata, Hiroji
Jain, Atul K.
Jain, Miten
Jelezko, Fedor
Jeon, Byong-Hun
Ji, Xiaobo
Jia, Chao
Jia, Mingming
Jia, Wei
Jiang, Bin
Jiang, Lianzhou
Jiang, Shibo
Jiang, Zhongyi 

Jin, Hailing
Jin, Zhengyu
Jin, Zhong
Kalantar-zadeh, Kourosh
Kaner, Richard B.
Kang, Zhenhui
Karki, Rajendra
Katritch, Vsevolod
Kawi, Sibudjing
Keiluweit, Marco
Khademhosseini, Ali
Kim, Hyun Uk
Kim, Sang-Woo
Kirkwood, John M.
Kivshar, Yuri
Klein, Christian
Koo, Chulmo
Kovacs, Gabor
Kronbichler, Martin
Kuhn, Michael
Kumar, Sudhir
Kurzrock, Razelle
Kyrpides, Nikos C.
La Vecchia, Carlo
Lan, Ke
Lancellotti, Patrizio
Landi, Francesco
Larsson, Susanna C.
Lee, Chengkuo
Lee, Jin-Wook
Lee, Pooi See
Lehmann, Johannes
Lei, Ting
Lei, Yaguo
Leng, Guoyong
Li, Bin
Li, Chunzhong
Li, Dongfang
Li, Dongsheng
Li, Feng
Li, Fujun
Li, Jian
Li, Jingchao
Li, Jing-Feng
Li, Jinghong
Li, Li
Li, Linlin
Li, Naipeng
Li, Peng
Li, Quan
Li, Shutao
Li, Xiang
Li, Xin
Li, Xuecao
Li, Yanbin
Li, Yaping
Li, Yat
Li, Yingwei
Li, Yue
Li, Yurui
Liang, Chao
Liebana-Cabanillas, Francisco
Lin, Jun
Lin, Xianke
Lin, Yuehe
Liu, Hong
Liu, Jianxing
Liu, Pan
Liu, Ping
Liu, Quanlin
Liu, Xiang
Liu, Xuejun
Liu, Yang
Liu, Yang
Liu, Yongchang
Liu, Yong-Xin
Liu, Yu
Lockhart, Shawn R.
Long, Guankui
Long, Hualou
Long, Mingce
Long, Ying
Lorusso, Domenica
Lu, Nanshu
Lu, Shun
Lu, Yaxiang
Lu, Yingying
Lugato, Emanuele
Lund, Henrik
Luo, Jie
Luo, Yangchao
Luo, Zisheng
Lv, Wei
Lyons, Timothy W.
Ma, Tao
Ma, Tianyi
Ma, Yanming
Madabhushi, Anant
Maglaras, Leandros
Mahmoudi, Morteza
Makridakis, Spyros
Malik, Arunima
Mao, Dehua
Mao, Jiafu
Mao, Jianfeng
Mao, Like
Marengo, Jose A.
Mathiesen, Brian Vad
McCauley, Darren
Mei, Lin
Melenhorst, Jan Joseph
Melero, Ignacio
Mittler, Ron
Montagne, Axel
Mu, Shichun
Mu, Tiancheng
Mumtaz, Shahid
Muraro, Antonella
Nauen, Ralf
Ngo, Tuan
Niaura, Raymond S.
Oikonomou, Evangelos
Okusaka, Takuji
O'Reilly, Eileen M.
Ouyang, Minggao
Ozcan, Aydogan
Pan, Anlian
Pan, Xiaoqing
Pang, Wei Kong
Papapetropoulos, Andreas
Paulo, Joao A.
Pei, Yanzhong
Peng, Qiang
Peng, Shushi
Peng, Yue
Perlman, Stanley
Pertea, Mihaela
Petruzzelli, Antonio Messeni
Ping, Jianfeng
Pöhlmann, Stefan
Polasky, Stephen
Pommier, Yves
Poria, Soujanya
Portincasa, Piero
Potenza, Marc N.
Prata, Joana C.
Pu, Kanyi
Qiang, Yujie
Qin, Yuanwei
Qiu, Jianbin
Qiu, Jieshan
Qu, Xiaogang
Quinn, Robert A.
Ran, Jingrun
Rao, Zhonghao
Ratziu, Vlad
Ren, Jinsong
Rengel, Zed
Riahi, Keywan
Riek, Roland
Rignot, Eric
Rivero, Rosa M.
Robert, Caroline
Rocca, Maria A.
Rojas, Orlando J.
Rossolini, Gian Maria
Saad, Walid
Saif, Linda J.
Saliba, Michael
Salles, Joana Falcao
Sander, Chris
Schafer, Alexandra
Schwab, Matthias
Scott, Daniel
Scott, Stuart A.
Shao, Minhua
Shao, Shuai
Shao, Zongping
Shen, Guozhen
Shen, Jian
Shen, Jie
Shen, Liyin
Shen, Zexiang
Shi, Kai
Shi, Pei-Yong
Shi, Peng
Shi, Yumeng
Shi, Yusheng
Shin, Donghee
Shu, Lei
Singh, Vijay P.
Song, Yanlin
Soto, Claudio
Sougrati, Moulay Tahar
Souto, Eliana B.
Speiser, Daniel E.
Stephanopoulos, Gregory
Sternberg, Cora N.
Stoumpos, Constantinos C.
Sun, Fengchun
Sun, Qiang
Sun, Shuhui
Tan, Chaoliang
Tang, Chuan-He
Tang, Dianping
Tang, Yawen
Tang, Yongbing
Tanzi, Rudolph E. 

Teichmann, Sarah 
Telenti, Amalio
Tian, Xinlong
Timsit, Jean-Francois
Tran, Lam-Son Phan
Tress, Wolfgang
Tsao, Rong
Tsuda, Kenichi
Tu, Xin
Tukker, Arnold
Van Mierlo, Joeri
Vandenbroucke, Roosmarijn E.
Varsani, Arvind
Vatanen, Tommi
Verbeke, Kristin
Vermote, Eric
Vincent, Jean-Louis
Vita, Antonio
Wanek, Wolfgang
Wang, Bin
Wang, Chao
Wang, Chunsheng
Wang, Deng-Shan
Wang, Fayuan
Wang, Gongming
Wang, Guoxiu
Wang, Haihui
Wang, Haiyan
Wang, Huanting
Wang, Jie
Wang, John
Wang, Joseph
Wang, Li
Wang, Lianzhou
Wang, Lihui
Wang, Lin
Wang, Lizhe
Wang, Pengfei
Wang, Ping
Wang, Qiang
Wang, Qing
Wang, Qingsong
Wang, Shaojian
Wang, Shu
Wang, Sibo
Wang, Tao
Wang, Wei
Wang, Wenguan
Wang, Xinggang
Wang, Yang
Wang, Yonggang
Wang, Zeneng
Wang, Zhenbo
Wang, Zhiyu
Wang, Ziyun
Wang, Zuankai
Wedzicha, Jadwiga
Wei, Haotong
Wei, Mingyang
Wei, Yehua Dennis
Wei, Yimin
Wei, Zhixiang
Wei, Zhongbao
Weiskirchen, Ralf
Weissleder, Ralph
Wisniewski, Thomas
Witlox, Frank
Wu, Chenxi
Wu, Haijun
Wu, Hao Bin
Wu, Hong
Wu, Shuilin
Wu, Tom
Wu, Wei
Wu, Xiaolei
Wu, Yongning
Wu, Yongzhen
Wu, Zheng-Guang
Wu, Zhong-Shuai
Xia, Jianguo (Jeff)
Xia, Xinhui
Xia, Yongyao
Xiang, Jiawei
Xie, Yi
Xin, Sen
Xing, Wei
Xiong, Rui
Xu, Bin
Xu, Li Da
Xu, Minggang
Xu, Ping
Xu, Wei
Xu, Weilin
Xu, Xiaomin
Xue, Changhu
Yamamoto, Masahiro
Yan, Chong
Yan, Da
Yan, Qingyu
Yan, Yuying
Yang, Chenghao
Yang, Chenguang
Yang, Chunhua
Yang, Guijun
Yang, Hongshun
Yang, Jianping
Yang, Jie
Yang, Jun
Yang, Shihe
Yang, Weiwei
Yang, Yun-Gui
Yao, Xiaojun
Yao, Yonggang
Ye, Mang
Yin, Peng
Yin, Shen
Yin, Shou-Wei
Ying, Guang-Guo
Yokota, Tomoyuki
Yokoya, Naoto
Young, Allan H.
Yu, Guihua
Yu, Hong
Yu, Jicheng
Yu, Jun
Yu, Le
Yu, Minghao
Yu, Quanqing
Yu, Shu-Hong
Yu, Xue-Feng
Yu, Yongsheng
Yuan, Qiangqiang
Yue, Wenze
Zarbock, Alexander
Zeadally, Sherali
Zeng, Xiaoxiong
Zhai, Guangtao
Zhang, Bin
Zhang, Chunwei
Zhang, Fei
Zhang, Fusuo
Zhang, Hongyan
Zhang, Hua
Zhang, Kai
Zhang, Kaili
Zhang, Lei
Zhang, Liangpei
Zhang, Liqun
Zhang, Qiaobao
Zhang, Qichun
Zhang, Shanqing
Zhang, Shujun
Zhang, Tierui
Zhang, Wei
Zhang, Wenjun
Zhang, Xian-Ming
Zhang, Xin
Zhang, Yan
Zhang, Yang
Zhang, Yongguang
Zhang, Yong-Wei
Zhang, Youmin
Zhang, Yu Shrike
Zhang, Yue-Jun
Zhang, Yuelin
Zhang, Zhien
Zhao, Biao
Zhao, Dewei
Zhao, Guochun
Zhao, Jian
Zhao, Jie
Zhao, Jijun
Zhao, Jun
Zhao, Li-Dong
Zhao, Qing
Zhao, Yan
Zhao, Yi
Zhao, Yufeng
Zhavoronkov, Alex
Zheng, Hao
Zheng, Hua
Zheng, Weitao
Zheng, Yufeng
Zheng, Zijian
Zhong, Yanfei
Zhou, Di
Zhou, Jizhong
Zhou, Kun
Zhou, Liming
Zhou, Weiqi
Zhou, Wenhu
Zhou, Yanhong
Zhou, Yuyu
Zhu, Chengzhou
Zhu, Chenhui
Zhu, Hongwei
Zhu, Junfa
Zhu, Jun-Jie
Zhu, Mingshan
Zhu, Yi
Zhu, Yongfa
Zhuang, Xiaodong
Zio, Enrico
Zoete, Vincent
Zou, Guoqiang
Zou, Ruqiang