Citation Rankings
Highly Cited Researchers
Europe History, Philosophy, Theology / History Highly Cited Researchers 9.029 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
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: 2
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: 3
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: 4
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: 5
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: 6
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: 7
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: 8
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: 9
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: 10
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: 11
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: 12
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: 13
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: 14
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: 15
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: 16
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
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
Palynology
Palaeoecology
Pollen analysis
Vegetation history
Quaternary geology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
26,061
6,801
0.261
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
Natural history of trace metals
Marine biology of trace metals
Barnacle biology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
25,524
4,748
0.186
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
Quaternary Geology
Glacial history
Paleoclimate
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
22,796
4,520
0.198
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
Systematics
arthropod evolution
palaeontology
Chilopoda
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
21,421
7,027
0.328
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 21
soil ecology
termites
ecosystem engineers
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
21,336
6,735
0.316
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 22
Technological Change
Economic Growth
Labour Markets
Economic History
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
21,327
13,595
0.637
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 23
vegetation ecology
traditional ecological knowledge
ethnoecology
landscape history
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
21,134
15,790
0.747
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 24
collections
systematics
parasitology
metazoa
evolution
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
20,192
6,549
0.324
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 25
Egyptian archaeology
Phonenician Punic Archaeology
Egyptian pottery
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
19,802
7,811
0.394
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
8,935
359
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 1
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
13,430
156
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
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
13,876
1,226
170
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Max Roser
University of Oxford
Oxford, United Kingdom
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
41,440
38,199
0.922
Poverty
Growth
Health
Economic History
Development
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
14,436
1,259
26
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Nick Black
Citation Metrics
Total
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
15,059
1,312
3
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
Stringer C
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
39,439
9,970
0.253
palaeontology anthropology archaeology quaternary pleistocene
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
15,144
374
42
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
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
16,196
1,408
137
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
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
17,342
318
6
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
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
19,763
881
7
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
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
20,569
1,839
26
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
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
22,462
1,987
24
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
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
22,584
96
42
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
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
23,232
409
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
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
24,460
2,138
5
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
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
25,931
1,017
53
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
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
27,922
509
5
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
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
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
28,510
746
68
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
Bas Van Geel
University of Amsterdam
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
26,061
6,801
0.261
Palynology
Palaeoecology
Pollen analysis
Vegetation history
Quaternary geology
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
29,384
2,558
6
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
Rainbow PS
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
25,524
4,748
0.186
Natural history of trace metals
Marine biology of trace metals
Barnacle biology
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
34,580
170
24
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
Jan Mangerud
University of Bergen
Bergen, Norway
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
22,796
4,520
0.198
Quaternary Geology
Glacial history
Paleoclimate
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
37,783
3,298
8
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
Gregory D. Edgecombe
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
21,421
7,027
0.328
Systematics
arthropod evolution
palaeontology
Chilopoda
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
37,980
3,312
9
Ranking Based On Selection: 21
Paul Eggleton
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
21,336
6,735
0.316
soil ecology
termites
ecosystem engineers
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
38,004
3,314
388
Ranking Based On Selection: 22
Carl Benedikt Frey
University of Oxford
Oxford, United Kingdom
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
21,327
13,595
0.637
Technological Change
Economic Growth
Labour Markets
Economic History
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
38,527
66
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 23
Zsolt Molnár
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
21,134
15,790
0.747
vegetation ecology
traditional ecological knowledge
ethnoecology
landscape history
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
41,055
3,572
11
Ranking Based On Selection: 24
DTJ Littlewood|Tim Littlewood
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
20,192
6,549
0.324
collections
systematics
parasitology
metazoa
evolution
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
42,148
826
27
Ranking Based On Selection: 25
María José López Grande *
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Madrid, Spain
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
19,802
7,811
0.394
Egyptian archaeology
Phonenician Punic Archaeology
Egyptian pottery