Citation Rankings
Highly Cited Researchers
EuropeHistory, Philosophy, Theology / Philosophy Highly Cited Researchers 14.187 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
filosofia del linguaggio
pragmatica
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
84,596
20,732
0.245
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
Information Theory and Error-correcting Codes
Reliable Computation with Unreliable Hardware
Machine Learning and Bayesian Data Modelling
Sustainable Energy and Public Understanding of Science
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
81,023
17,708
0.219
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
AI Ethics
Digital Ethics
Information Ethics
Philosophy of Information
Philosophy of Technology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
65,088
44,481
0.683
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Philosophy
Cognitive Science
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
63,884
21,008
0.329
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
ancient DNA
pathogen evolution
human history
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
54,706
28,979
0.530
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
Crustal evolution
geochronology
microanalysis
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
42,321
18,804
0.444
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
Poverty
Growth
Health
Economic History
Development
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
41,440
38,199
0.922
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
Health services research
health care policy
health care history
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
40,469
12,352
0.305
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
palaeontology anthropology archaeology quaternary pleistocene
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
39,439
9,970
0.253
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
Deep Transitions
History of Technology
Sustainability Transitions
Strategic Niche Management
Multi-Level Perspective
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
39,285
18,179
0.463
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
Palaeoclimate
Palaeoceanography
Human Evolution
Climate Change
Earth History
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
37,663
20,446
0.543
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
phenomenology
philosophy of mind
consciousness and embodiment
Husserl and Merleau-Ponty
medieval Christian Neoplatonism
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
36,982
11,120
0.301
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
Philosophy
Logic
Epistemology
Metaphysics
Philosophy of Language
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
36,327
12,336
0.340
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
Philosophy
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
36,177
15,892
0.439
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
Prehistory
human evolution
archeology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
36,034
12,564
0.349
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
invasion ecology
global change ecology
life-history evolution
pollination
phenotypic plasticity
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
33,099
21,611
0.653
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
Philosophy
Artificial Intelligence
Ethics
Technology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
32,976
17,416
0.528
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
Human behavioural ecology
Life history
Social behaviour
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
32,272
11,791
0.365
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
History and philosophy of science
philosophy of social technology
causal inference
objectivity in science
evidence
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
30,489
8,994
0.295
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
Mycology
systematics
molecular identification
conservation
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
30,395
15,676
0.516
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 21
Palynology
Holocene
Climate change
Cultural change
Neolithic
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
29,870
9,743
0.326
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 22
Philosophy of Science
Social Studies of Science
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
29,635
6,463
0.218
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 23
bumblebees
systematics
biogeography
ecology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
28,862
6,094
0.211
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 24
Astrophysics
History of Cosmology
Ancient Science
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
27,727
8,899
0.321
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 25
Lithic technology
Prehistory
Human Evolution
Paleoecology
Paleolithic
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
26,442
8,283
0.313
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
4,326
245
3
Ranking Based On Selection: 1
Marina Sbisa
Università degli Studi di Trieste
Trieste, Italy
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
84,596
20,732
0.245
filosofia del linguaggio
pragmatica
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
4,695
378
33
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
David MacKay
University of Cambridge
Cambridge, United Kingdom
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
81,023
17,708
0.219
Information Theory and Error-correcting Codes
Reliable Computation with Unreliable Hardware
Machine Learning and Bayesian Data Modelling
Sustainable Energy and Public Understanding of Science
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
6,735
574
82
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Luciano Floridi
University of Oxford
Oxford, United Kingdom
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
65,088
44,481
0.683
AI Ethics
Digital Ethics
Information Ethics
Philosophy of Information
Philosophy of Technology
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
6,945
595
4
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Andy Clark
University of Sussex
Brighton, United Kingdom
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
63,884
21,008
0.329
Philosophy
Cognitive Science
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
8,914
358
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
Johannes Krause
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
54,706
28,979
0.530
ancient DNA
pathogen evolution
human history
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
13,397
156
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
Martin John Whitehouse
Swedish Museum of Natural History
Stockholm, Sweden
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
42,321
18,804
0.444
Crustal evolution
geochronology
microanalysis
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
13,842
1,223
170
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
Max Roser
University of Oxford
Oxford, United Kingdom
Citation Metrics
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Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
41,440
38,199
0.922
Poverty
Growth
Health
Economic History
Development
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
14,401
1,256
26
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
Nick Black
Citation Metrics
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Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
40,469
12,352
0.305
Health services research
health care policy
health care history
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
15,022
1,309
3
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
Stringer C
Citation Metrics
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Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
39,439
9,970
0.253
palaeontology anthropology archaeology quaternary pleistocene
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
15,107
374
42
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
Johan Schot
Utrecht University
Utrecht, Netherlands
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
39,285
18,179
0.463
Deep Transitions
History of Technology
Sustainability Transitions
Strategic Niche Management
Multi-Level Perspective
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
16,158
1,405
137
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
Mark Maslin
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
37,663
20,446
0.543
Palaeoclimate
Palaeoceanography
Human Evolution
Climate Change
Earth History
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
16,606
54
14
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
Dermot Moran
University College Dublin
Dublin, Ireland
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
36,982
11,120
0.301
phenomenology
philosophy of mind
consciousness and embodiment
Husserl and Merleau-Ponty
medieval Christian Neoplatonism
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
17,080
1,497
201
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
Timothy Williamson
University of Oxford
Oxford, United Kingdom
Citation Metrics
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Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
36,327
12,336
0.340
Philosophy
Logic
Epistemology
Metaphysics
Philosophy of Language
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
17,192
1,511
204
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
John Broome
University of Oxford
Oxford, United Kingdom
Citation Metrics
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Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
36,177
15,892
0.439
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
17,299
318
6
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
Francesco D Errico
Université de Bordeaux
Bordeaux, France
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
36,034
12,564
0.349
Prehistory
human evolution
archeology
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
19,713
879
7
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
Mark van Kleunen
Universität Konstanz
Konstanz, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
33,099
21,611
0.653
invasion ecology
global change ecology
life-history evolution
pollination
phenotypic plasticity
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
19,821
1,766
233
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
Nick Bostrom
University of Oxford
Oxford, United Kingdom
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
32,976
17,416
0.528
Philosophy
Artificial Intelligence
Ethics
Technology
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
20,519
1,836
26
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
Daniel Nettle
Newcastle University
Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
32,272
11,791
0.365
Human behavioural ecology
Life history
Social behaviour
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
22,409
1,984
24
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
Nancy Cartwright
Durham University
Durham, United Kingdom
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
30,489
8,994
0.295
History and philosophy of science
philosophy of social technology
causal inference
objectivity in science
evidence
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
22,530
96
42
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
Karl Henrik Larsson
University of Oslo
Oslo, Norway
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
30,395
15,676
0.516
Mycology
systematics
molecular identification
conservation
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
23,177
409
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 21
José Antonio López Sáez
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
29,870
9,743
0.326
Palynology
Holocene
Climate change
Cultural change
Neolithic
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
23,486
100
14
Ranking Based On Selection: 22
Silvio Funtowicz
University of Bergen
Bergen, Norway
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
29,635
6,463
0.218
Philosophy of Science
Social Studies of Science
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
24,403
2,135
5
Ranking Based On Selection: 23
Paul Williams
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
28,862
6,094
0.211
bumblebees
systematics
biogeography
ecology
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
25,869
1,015
53
Ranking Based On Selection: 24
Alberto Cappi
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
27,727
8,899
0.321
Astrophysics
History of Cosmology
Ancient Science
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
27,855
509
5
Ranking Based On Selection: 25
Eudald Carbonell
Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Tarragona, Spain
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
26,442
8,283
0.313
Lithic technology
Prehistory
Human Evolution
Paleoecology
Paleolithic