Citation Rankings
Highly Cited Researchers
Arab League Social Sciences / Library and Information Science Highly Cited Researchers 142 Scientists Citation Rankings - 2025
The Citation Rankings (Highly Cited Researchers) list highlight the most cited and influential researchers across a vast range of scientific fields, covering 197 main and sub-disciplines, including the Art and Humanities Citation Rankings and Social Sciences and Humanities Citation Rankings. This service, offered exclusively by AD Scientific Index, aims to provide a balanced perspective by excluding data from CERN and other statistical sources that disproportionately favor certain researchers, particularly in the social sciences and humanities. This unique approach addresses the advantages researchers with multi-author publications and CERN involvement hold over others. Furthermore, citation rankings help uncover rule violations and unethical practices within the research community. For more detailed citation analyses, explore the Scientists Last 6 Years Citation Index, Universities Total Citations Rankings 2025, and Universities Last 6 Years Citations Rankings 2025.
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 1
Website quality
Digital transformation
Technology adoption
e-Government
Social Media
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
7,012
1,792
0.256
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
Arabic Natural Language Processing
Text Mining
Information Extraction
Sentiment Analysis
Semantic Annotation
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3,256
1,582
0.486
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Graph theory
Cheminformatics
Information Systems
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2,951
1,266
0.429
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Arabic OCR
Distributed systems and Network Security
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,030
497
0.483
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
Business Intelligence
E-Business
Digital Transformation
Business Analytics
Knowledge Management
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
989
981
0.992
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
Artificial Intelligence
Knowledge Management
Knowledge Sharing
Mobile Learning
Mobile Commerce
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
983
450
0.458
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
Information Science
teaching and learning
assessment
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
978
462
0.472
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
Knowledge management
Knowledge sharing
Library information system
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
928
680
0.733
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
Knowledge Mapping
Bibliometrics
Scientometrics
Library Automation
Data Science
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
824
368
0.447
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
Information Literacy
Research Evaluation
Scientometrics
Information Management
Libraries
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
712
706
0.992
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
Health Informatics
Cloud Computing
Information Science
Statistical Analysis
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
628
530
0.844
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
Management Information Systems
IS strategy
Information Technology in Educational Management
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
583
561
0.962
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
libraries
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
556
487
0.876
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
Library and Information Science
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
517
209
0.404
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
Knowledge management
library technologies
academic libraries
education of librarians
value of
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
498
222
0.446
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
Information science
Digital libraries
Scholarly communication
Scholarly publishing
Information
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
458
402
0.878
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
Bibliometric
Digital Libraries
Library Automation
Systematic reviews
AI in Libraries
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
454
453
0.998
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
433
105
0.242
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
Bibliometrics
Informetrics
Scientometrics
LIS research
Bibliographic control
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
392
243
0.620
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
Information Sciences
E-Commerce
Quantitative Methods
IS adoption
Information culture
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
372
329
0.884
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 21
Library Science
Information Science
Library Automation
Library 2.0
Information Management
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
319
116
0.364
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 22
Blockchain in records management
digital curation
museum records management and displaced archives
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
298
198
0.664
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 23
Arabic Literature
Qur'anic Studies
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
294
154
0.524
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 24
Information seeking
information behaviour
biometrics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
286
86
0.301
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 25
Artificial Intelligence
Information Management
Digital Libraries
Information Seeking Behaviour
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
282
280
0.993
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
148,902
20
7
Ranking Based On Selection: 1
Adel M Aladwani
Kuwait University
Kuwait City, Kuwait
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
7,012
1,792
0.256
Website quality
Digital transformation
Technology adoption
e-Government
Social Media
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
307,045
765
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
Samhaa R El Beltagy
New Giza University
6th of October City, Egypt
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3,256
1,582
0.486
Arabic Natural Language Processing
Text Mining
Information Extraction
Sentiment Analysis
Semantic Annotation
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
333,072
69
30
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Paul Manuel
Kuwait University
Kuwait City, Kuwait
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2,951
1,266
0.429
Graph theory
Cheminformatics
Information Systems
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
676,159
375
144
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Maher Khemakhem
Université de Sfax
Sfax, Tunisia
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,030
497
0.483
Arabic OCR
Distributed systems and Network Security
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
690,488
1,313
6
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
Ibrahim Abu Alsondos
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
989
981
0.992
Business Intelligence
E-Business
Digital Transformation
Business Analytics
Knowledge Management
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
692,925
1,316
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
Ayman Bassam Nassuora
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
983
450
0.458
Artificial Intelligence
Knowledge Management
Knowledge Sharing
Mobile Learning
Mobile Commerce
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
694,745
406
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
Azzah Al Maskari
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
978
462
0.472
Information Science
teaching and learning
assessment
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
713,423
1,357
29
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
Abdoulaye Kaba
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
928
680
0.733
Knowledge management
Knowledge sharing
Library information system
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
755,915
4,314
723
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
Akhtar Hussain
King Saud University
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
824
368
0.447
Knowledge Mapping
Bibliometrics
Scientometrics
Library Automation
Data Science
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
806,029
4,695
52
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
Shakil Ahmad
Prince Sultan University
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
712
706
0.992
Information Literacy
Research Evaluation
Scientometrics
Information Management
Libraries
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
848,293
887
2
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
Ahmed Meri
Al-Hussain University College
Karbala, Iraq
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
628
530
0.844
Health Informatics
Cloud Computing
Information Science
Statistical Analysis
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
872,611
1,693
54
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
Rima Shishakly
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
583
561
0.962
Management Information Systems
IS strategy
Information Technology in Educational Management
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
888,544
5,596
155
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
Ahmed Selim
Menoufia University
Monufia, Egypt
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
556
487
0.876
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
915,873
5,865
391
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
Raouf Helal
Ain Shams University
Cairo, Egypt
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
517
209
0.404
Library and Information Science
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
931,288
1,826
138
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
Judith Mavodza
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
498
222
0.446
Knowledge management
library technologies
academic libraries
education of librarians
value of
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
965,190
6,324
112
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
Ahmed Shehata
Minia University
Minya, Egypt
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
458
402
0.878
Information science
Digital libraries
Scholarly communication
Scholarly publishing
Information
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
968,590
5,815
61
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
Abid Iqbal
Prince Sultan University
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
454
453
0.998
Bibliometric
Digital Libraries
Library Automation
Systematic reviews
AI in Libraries
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
988,843
6,542
335
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
Ghada Hamdy
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
433
105
0.242
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,028,886
6,155
247
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
Mirza Muhammad Naseer
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
392
243
0.620
Bibliometrics
Informetrics
Scientometrics
LIS research
Bibliographic control
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,049,415
527
26
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
Fadi Herzallah
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
372
329
0.884
Information Sciences
E-Commerce
Quantitative Methods
IS adoption
Information culture
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,112,922
6,878
7
Ranking Based On Selection: 21
Parvez Ahmad
Colleges Farabi
Almaty, Saudi Arabia
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
319
116
0.364
Library Science
Information Science
Library Automation
Library 2.0
Information Management
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,140,716
2,260
6
Ranking Based On Selection: 22
Forget Chaterera-Zambuko
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
298
198
0.664
Blockchain in records management
digital curation
museum records management and displaced archives
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,146,692
514
21
Ranking Based On Selection: 23
Raymond K Farrin
American University of Kuwait
Kuwait City, Kuwait
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
294
154
0.524
Arabic Literature
Qur'anic Studies
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,158,705
753
20
Ranking Based On Selection: 24
Muhammad Tahir
A'Sharqiyah University
Ibra, Oman
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
286
86
0.301
Information seeking
information behaviour
biometrics
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,163,408
8,205
7
Ranking Based On Selection: 25
Faiz Abdullah A Alotaibi
Workers University
Giza, Egypt
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
282
280
0.993
Artificial Intelligence
Information Management
Digital Libraries
Information Seeking Behaviour