Citation Rankings
Highly Cited Researchers

Asia Highly Cited Researchers Citation Social Sciences / Linguistics and Literature Rankings 2025

The Citation Rankings (Highly Cited Researchers) 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
Pakistan
Sana Khan
English Language Teaching
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
44,001
24,075
0.547
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :2
Israel
Batia Laufer
Vocabulary
Vocabulary acquisition
Second language acquisition
Lexicography
Attrition
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
34,589
12,011
0.347
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :3
Pakistan
Ismail Abbasi
English Literature
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
30,189
11,682
0.387
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :4
Hong Kong
Catherine Mcbride
literacy development across cultures
dyslexia
dysgraphia
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
28,053
11,798
0.421
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :5
Japan
Peter Robinson
second language acquisition
applied linguistics
psycholinguistics
individual differences
task-based language learning
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
27,379
7,955
0.291
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :6
Nepal
Haris C. Adhikari
Poetics
Creative Process and ABR
Writing Research
Translation
Border Literature
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
25,799
15,189
0.589
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :7
Qatar
Preslav Nakov
Computational Linguistics
NLP
Large Language Models
Fact-checking
Fake News
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
24,977
18,661
0.747
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :8
Kazakhstan
Gulziya Pirali
Kazakh literature
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
24,733
8,856
0.358
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :9
Bangladesh
Aisha Rahman Asha
South Asian Literature
Gender Studies
Cultural Studies
Feminism
Postcolonialism
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
21,392
8,313
0.389
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :10
China
Qun Liu|刘群, 劉群
Computational Linguistics
Natural Language Processing
Machine Translation
Chinese Language Processing
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
20,787
12,905
0.621
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :11
Hong Kong
John Flowerdew
Applied linguistics
Discourse Analysis
Academic Discourse
English for Specific Purposes
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
20,705
8,045
0.389
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :12
Indonesia
Miftahul Huda
Applied Linguistics
Teaching of Literature
Cultural Studies
TEFL
Classroom Management
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
19,002
11,402
0.600
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :13
Hong Kong
Amy Bm Tsui
Language education
language policy
learning
teacher education
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
17,041
5,399
0.317
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :14
Indonesia
Lulud Oktaviani
Teaching Media
English Education
TEFL
Curricullum
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
15,822
15,817
1.000
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :15
Israel
Malka Hovav
Theoretical linguistics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
15,645
4,086
0.261
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :16
Hong Kong
Guangwei Hu
English for academic purposes
English for specific purposes
second language writing
language policy
applied linguistics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
14,729
8,550
0.580
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :17
China
Anqi Peng
Comparative literature
philosophy and literature
gender and womens studies
science fiction
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
14,511
3,463
0.239
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :18
India
NV Siva Kumari
ENGLISH
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
14,243
6,884
0.483
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :19
Indonesia
Rmhe Harimurti Kridalaksana
Bahasa
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
13,793
7,224
0.524
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :20
Azerbaijan
Eliyeva Seadet
philology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
13,373
9,006
0.673
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :21
Hong Kong
Icy Lee
Second language writing
second language teacher education
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
13,247
7,731
0.584
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :22
Pakistan
Saira Iqbal
South asian literature
Architecture
Urdu literature
Phenomenology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
13,048
3,256
0.250
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :23
India
Mukhtar Ahmed
Modern Persian literature
Indo-Persian literature
Persian Historiography during later Mughals.
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
12,754
9,498
0.745
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :24
Indonesia
Achmad Yudi Wahyudin
English Language Teaching
Classroom Pedagogy
TESOL
Distance Learning
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
12,690
12,671
0.999
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :25
Hong Kong
Chu-Ren Huang 黄居仁|黄 居仁
computational linguistics
corpus linguistics
Chinese linguistics
lexical semantics
ontology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
12,037
5,493
0.456
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
12,167
Pakistan
13
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 1
Sana Khan
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
44,001
24,075
0.547
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
17,846
Israel
98
3
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
Batia Laufer
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
34,589
12,011
0.347
Vocabulary
Vocabulary acquisition
Second language acquisition
Lexicography
Attrition
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
22,029
Pakistan
23
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Ismail Abbasi
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
30,189
11,682
0.387
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
24,720
Hong Kong
223
56
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Catherine Mcbride
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
28,053
11,798
0.421
literacy development across cultures
dyslexia
dysgraphia
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
25,607
Japan
353
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
Peter Robinson
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
27,379
7,955
0.291
second language acquisition
applied linguistics
psycholinguistics
individual differences
task-based language learning
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
28,028
Nepal
2
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
Haris C. Adhikari
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
25,799
15,189
0.589
Poetics
Creative Process and ABR
Writing Research
Translation
Border Literature
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
29,392
Qatar
11
4
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
Preslav Nakov
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
24,977
18,661
0.747
Computational Linguistics
NLP
Large Language Models
Fact-checking
Fake News
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
29,847
Kazakhstan
4
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
Gulziya Pirali
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
24,733
8,856
0.358
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
36,730
Bangladesh
14
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
Aisha Rahman Asha
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
21,392
8,313
0.389
South Asian Literature
Gender Studies
Cultural Studies
Feminism
Postcolonialism
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
38,236
China
1,422
4
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
Qun Liu|刘群, 劉群
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
20,787
12,905
0.621
Computational Linguistics
Natural Language Processing
Machine Translation
Chinese Language Processing
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
38,444
Hong Kong
330
53
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
John Flowerdew
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
20,705
8,045
0.389
Applied linguistics
Discourse Analysis
Academic Discourse
English for Specific Purposes
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
43,230
Indonesia
62
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
Miftahul Huda
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
19,002
11,402
0.600
Applied Linguistics
Teaching of Literature
Cultural Studies
TEFL
Classroom Management
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
50,215
Hong Kong
410
106
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
Amy Bm Tsui
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
17,041
5,399
0.317
Language education
language policy
learning
teacher education
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
55,462
Indonesia
92
5
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
Lulud Oktaviani
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
15,822
15,817
1.000
Teaching Media
English Education
TEFL
Curricullum
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
56,270
Israel
388
96
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
Malka Hovav
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
15,645
4,086
0.261
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
60,872
Hong Kong
498
70
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
Guangwei Hu
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
14,729
8,550
0.580
English for academic purposes
English for specific purposes
second language writing
language policy
applied linguistics
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
62,105
China
2,481
25
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
Anqi Peng
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
14,511
3,463
0.239
Comparative literature
philosophy and literature
gender and womens studies
science fiction
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
63,616
India
656
2
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
NV Siva Kumari
K L University Vaddeswaram, India India
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
14,243
6,884
0.483
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
66,431
Indonesia
117
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
Rmhe Harimurti Kridalaksana
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
13,793
7,224
0.524
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
69,080
Azerbaijan
6
2
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
Eliyeva Seadet
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
13,373
9,006
0.673
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
69,949
Hong Kong
569
141
Ranking Based On Selection: 21
Icy Lee
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
13,247
7,731
0.584
Second language writing
second language teacher education
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
71,333
Pakistan
103
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 22
Saira Iqbal
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
13,048
3,256
0.250
South asian literature
Architecture
Urdu literature
Phenomenology
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
73,370
India
804
16
Ranking Based On Selection: 23
Mukhtar Ahmed
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
12,754
9,498
0.745
Modern Persian literature
Indo-Persian literature
Persian Historiography during later Mughals.
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
73,831
Indonesia
126
11
Ranking Based On Selection: 24
Achmad Yudi Wahyudin
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
12,690
12,671
0.999
English Language Teaching
Classroom Pedagogy
TESOL
Distance Learning
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
78,766
Hong Kong
647
97
Ranking Based On Selection: 25
Chu-Ren Huang 黄居仁|黄 居仁
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
12,037
5,493
0.456
computational linguistics
corpus linguistics
Chinese linguistics
lexical semantics
ontology