Citation Rankings
Highly Cited Researchers
Europe Business & Management Highly Cited Researchers 8.930 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
Business Process Management
Data Science
Process Mining
Petri nets
Information Systems
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
156,199
46,892
0.300
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
Research Methods
Trust
HRM aspects of management of change
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
95,638
45,280
0.473
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
65,817
19,627
0.298
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Future studies
Climate and energy policy
System dynamics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
65,404
17,569
0.269
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
Organization
international business
strategic alliances
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
63,918
10,452
0.164
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
Entrepreneurship
innovation
strategy
internationalization
business models
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
61,365
23,909
0.390
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
Strategic management
strategy
organization theory
entrepreneurship
Austrian economics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
60,789
23,508
0.387
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
Statistical Computing
Statistics
Probability
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
60,708
33,267
0.548
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
strategic management
strategy as practice
strategy
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
56,584
14,403
0.255
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
information systems
design
business model
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
54,409
24,827
0.456
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
Business
Economics
Finance
Law
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
54,296
23,611
0.435
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
Accounting and Accountability
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
52,926
15,910
0.301
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
business relationships and networks
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
50,579
6,385
0.126
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
Organisation and management theory
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
50,553
10,191
0.202
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
Business Process Management
Process Mining
Information Systems
Software Engineering
unitartucs
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
46,768
15,712
0.336
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
Applied psychology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
43,852
10,582
0.241
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
Emerging Multinational Firms
Indigenous Research on Chinese Management
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
43,299
19,330
0.446
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
feminist and processual perspective on organizing
connections between popular culture and practice of management
the robotizat
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
43,043
9,949
0.231
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
sustainability
circular business models
business experiments
sufficiency
regeneration
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
42,300
34,496
0.816
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
International Business
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
42,034
7,596
0.181
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 21
Bureaucracy
Organization Studies
Sociology
Public Administration
Ethics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
41,377
8,660
0.209
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 22
business process management
process mining
information systems
software engineering
process science
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
40,503
16,507
0.408
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 23
RFID/IoT/Blockchain
Cognitive analytics management
Business Analytics
Big Data
AI
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
38,733
31,769
0.820
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 24
public management
public administration
public governance
trust
performance management
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
38,073
11,429
0.300
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 25
Organizational knowledge
organizational change
philosophy and management studies
practical reason
process research
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
35,683
11,421
0.320
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,358
35
2
Ranking Based On Selection: 1
Wil van der Aalst
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
156,199
46,892
0.300
Business Process Management
Data Science
Process Mining
Petri nets
Information Systems
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
3,531
291
9
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
Mark NK Saunders
University of Birmingham
Birmingham, United Kingdom
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
95,638
45,280
0.473
Research Methods
Trust
HRM aspects of management of change
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
6,611
566
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Julian Birkinshaw
London Business School
London, United Kingdom
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
65,817
19,627
0.298
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
6,682
27
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Jorgen Randers
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
65,404
17,569
0.269
Future studies
Climate and energy policy
System dynamics
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
6,953
592
15
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
John Child
University of Birmingham
Birmingham, United Kingdom
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
63,918
10,452
0.164
Organization
international business
strategic alliances
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
7,401
642
53
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
Erkko Autio
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
61,365
23,909
0.390
Entrepreneurship
innovation
strategy
internationalization
business models
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
7,519
51
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
Nicolai Foss
Copenhagen Business School
Frederiksberg, Denmark
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
60,789
23,508
0.387
Strategic management
strategy
organization theory
entrepreneurship
Austrian economics
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
7,534
52
2
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
Peter Dalgaard
Copenhagen Business School
Frederiksberg, Denmark
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
60,708
33,267
0.548
Statistical Computing
Statistics
Probability
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
8,467
732
105
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
Richard Whittington
University of Oxford
Oxford, United Kingdom
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
56,584
14,403
0.255
strategic management
strategy as practice
strategy
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
9,017
154
14
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
Yves Pigneur
Université de Lausanne
Lausanne, Switzerland
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
54,409
24,827
0.456
information systems
design
business model
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
9,045
25
2
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
Connor Hannan
University of Limerick
Limerick, Ireland
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
54,296
23,611
0.435
Business
Economics
Finance
Law
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
9,418
819
8
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
Rob Gray
University of Saint Andrews
St Andrews, United Kingdom
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
52,926
15,910
0.301
Accounting and Accountability
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
10,135
38
2
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
Håkan Håkansson
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
50,579
6,385
0.126
business relationships and networks
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
10,146
879
2
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
Hugh Willmott
City University London
London, United Kingdom
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
50,553
10,191
0.202
Organisation and management theory
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
11,403
13
10
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
Marlon Dumas
University of Tartu
Tartu, Estonia
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
46,768
15,712
0.336
Business Process Management
Process Mining
Information Systems
Software Engineering
unitartucs
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
12,685
1,118
19
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
Peter Warr
University of Sheffield
Sheffield, United Kingdom
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
43,852
10,582
0.241
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
12,944
104
4
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
Peter Ping Li
Copenhagen Business School
Frederiksberg, Denmark
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
43,299
19,330
0.446
Emerging Multinational Firms
Indigenous Research on Chinese Management
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
13,064
149
18
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
Barbara Czarniawska
University of Gothenburg
Göteborg, Sweden
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
43,043
9,949
0.231
feminist and processual perspective on organizing
connections between popular culture and practice of management
the robotizat
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
13,444
329
26
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
Nancy Bocken|N.M.P. Bocken
Maastricht University
Maastricht, Netherlands
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
42,300
34,496
0.816
sustainability
circular business models
business experiments
sufficiency
regeneration
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
13,563
1,193
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
Alan M Rugman
Henley Business School University of Reading
Henley-on-Thames, United Kingdom
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
42,034
7,596
0.181
International Business
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
13,913
112
5
Ranking Based On Selection: 21
Paul Du Gay
Copenhagen Business School
Frederiksberg, Denmark
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
41,377
8,660
0.209
Bureaucracy
Organization Studies
Sociology
Public Administration
Ethics
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
14,421
619
8
Ranking Based On Selection: 22
Jan Mendling
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
40,503
16,507
0.408
business process management
process mining
information systems
software engineering
process science
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
15,474
286
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 23
Fosso Wamba Samuel
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
38,733
31,769
0.820
RFID/IoT/Blockchain
Cognitive analytics management
Business Analytics
Big Data
AI
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
15,920
130
39
Ranking Based On Selection: 24
Geert Bouckaert
Catholic University of Leuven
Leuven, Belgium
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
38,073
11,429
0.300
public management
public administration
public governance
trust
performance management
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
17,604
11
5
Ranking Based On Selection: 25
Haridimos Tsoukas
University of Cyprus
Nicosia, Cyprus
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
35,683
11,421
0.320
Organizational knowledge
organizational change
philosophy and management studies
practical reason
process research