The authors of the list used data from the Scopus database, which contains more than 8 million authors, and created a publicly available database of top-cited scientists that provides standardized information on citations, h-index, co-authorship adjusted hm-index, citations to papers in different authorship positions and a composite indicator (c-score).
This database is available at the following link:
https://doi.org/10.17632/btchxktzyw.6
The paper using these data was published in Plos Biology and is available at the following link:
