Top Scientists in Earth & Environmental Sciences (2026)
Explore scientists classified in Earth & Environmental Sciences in the 2026 single-year ranking, with global rankings, institutions, countries and historical representation.
Historical Listings
2020–2026 · Both ranking typesDisciplines with Similar Representation
Closest scientist counts listed in 2026 Single-year dataset.
Top 10 Scientists in Earth & Environmental Sciences
2026 · Single-year| Field position | Worldwide | Scientist | c-score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 150 |  Smith, Pete University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom | 4.49 |
| 2 | 191 | Trenberth, Kevin E. University of Auckland, New Zealand | 4.43 |
| 3 | 263 | Emanuel, Kerry A. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States of America | 4.35 |
| 4 | 273 | Pata, Ugur Korkut Mustafa Kemal Üniversitesi, Turkey | 4.34 |
| 5 | 344 | Filho, Walter Leal Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften Hamburg, Germany | 4.30 |
| 6 | 352 | Dai, Aiguo State University of New York Albany, United States of America | 4.29 |
| 7 | 376 | Fu, Bojie Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences Chinese Academy of Sciences, China | 4.28 |
| 8 | 378 | Adger, W. Neil University of Exeter, United Kingdom | 4.28 |
| 9 | 453 | Adebayo, Tomiwa Sunday VIZJA University, Poland | 4.24 |
| 10 | 478 | Lobell, David B. Stanford University, United States of America | 4.22 |
Top 10 Institutions in Earth & Environmental Sciences
Number of listed scientists by recorded affiliation.
Top 10 Countries in Earth & Environmental Sciences
Number of listed scientists by country.
How to Interpret These Figures
The Earth & Environmental Sciences grouping follows the broad Science-Metrix field recorded in the underlying bibliometric dataset. Counts refer to scientists listed in the 2026 single-year dataset, not to all researchers working in the field.
Discipline position is derived from the number of listed scientists across the 20 fields. It is not an official ranking of disciplinary quality. Country figures reflect recorded affiliations, not citizenship. Institution names may have variants; historical changes may also reflect changes in dataset coverage.
Frequently Asked Questions
Answers about Earth & Environmental Sciences based on the 2026 single-year ranking data.
8,545 researcher records are classified under Earth & Environmental Sciences in the 2026 single-year dataset. This is not a census of everyone conducting research in the field.
Earth & Environmental Sciences is positioned #10 when broad disciplines are ordered by their listed researcher counts in the selected dataset. This is not a ranking of disciplinary quality or scientific importance.
The Top 10 Institutions and Top 10 Countries charts show where listed researchers classified under Earth & Environmental Sciences are most frequently associated in the selected dataset. These figures represent researcher counts, not comparisons of institutional or national research quality.
The page uses the broad Science-Metrix field recorded in the underlying Scopus-derived ranking dataset. This classification should not be interpreted as a complete description of a researcher’s expertise or interdisciplinary work.
Both views can be explored, but they summarize citation impact over different timeframes. Their counts and positions should not be treated as directly interchangeable measures of disciplinary performance.
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