Citation Rankings (Highly Cited Researchers) 2024 and list of influential and most cited researchers in Agriculture and Forestry, Art, Design and Architecture, Business and Management, Economics and Econometrics, Education, Engineering and Technology, History, Philosophy, Theology, Law, Medicine and Health Sciences, Natural Sciences and Social Sciences and their 256 sub-branches is a unique service offered only by “AD Scientific Index”. You can see the most cited and influential researchers in the country and region. See also for more specific citation analyses: "last 6 years citation index" Universities Rankings 2024 (Sort by: Total Citations) and Universities Rankings 2024 (Sort by : Last 6 Years Citations)
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Rank
38,593
Country Rank
330
Institution Rank : 22
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/9865.jpg)
![Brazil](/flags/br.png)
![Luiz Gustavo Cançado](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/ef/897465.jpg)
Raman
near-field optics
TERS graphene
2D materials
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
20,309
9,899
0.487
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Rank
39,167
Country Rank
344
Institution Rank : 1
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/9897.png)
![Brazil](/flags/br.png)
![Jorge Alberto Vieira Costa](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/f3/1088813.jpg)
Food Engineering
Biochemical Engineering
Bioprocess
Microalgae
Biotechnology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
20,103
12,091
0.601
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Rank
39,648
Country Rank
352
Institution Rank : 24
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/9826.png)
![Brazil](/flags/br.png)
![Glaucia Maria Pastore](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/53/5005009.jpg)
Food Science Nutrition Functional Foods
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
19,931
11,465
0.575
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Rank
39,690
Country Rank
353
Institution Rank : 3
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/9936.jpg)
![Brazil](/flags/br.png)
![Leandro Nunes De Castro](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/d6/847965.jpg)
Artificial Intelligence
Natural Computing
Machine Learning
Data Science
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
19,918
3,387
0.170
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Rank
40,051
Country Rank
358
Institution Rank : 8
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/9875.png)
![Brazil](/flags/br.png)
![Soraya Smaili *|Soraya Soubhi Smaili, Soraya Shoubi Smaili, Soraya S Smaili](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/ea/1101981.jpg)
Signaling and Cell Death
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
19,781
9,640
0.487
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Rank
40,205
Country Rank
359
Institution Rank : 23
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/9865.jpg)
![Brazil](/flags/br.png)
![Fabrício Benevenuto](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/35/883793.jpg)
Misinformation
hate speech
Sentiment analysis
social computing
complex Networks
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
19,729
9,668
0.490
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Rank
40,529
Country Rank
364
Institution Rank : 6
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/9873.png)
![Brazil](/flags/br.png)
![Edgar Dutra Zanotto](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/28/1090015.jpg)
glass
glass-ceramics
crystallization
nucleation
bioglass
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
19,620
10,276
0.524
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Rank
41,303
Country Rank
106
Institution Rank : 14
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/1357.png)
![Mexico](/flags/mx.png)
![Octavio Paredes Lopez](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/e6/642573.jpg)
Food Biotechnology
Nutraceuticals
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
19,355
7,128
0.368
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Rank
41,415
Country Rank
107
Institution Rank : 45
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/9535.png)
![Mexico](/flags/mx.png)
![Victor Manuel Castaño Meneses|Victor Manuel Castaño Meneses, Victor Castano](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/02/790218.jpg)
nanoingenieria
óptica
ciencia de materiales
inteligencia tecnológica
nano biomedicina
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
19,317
6,422
0.332
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Rank
42,316
Country Rank
383
Institution Rank : 14
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/9847.png)
![Brazil](/flags/br.png)
![Michael Brennan](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/b0/886746.jpg)
vibration
structural dynamics
acoustics
energy_harvesting
wave_propagation
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
19,001
8,478
0.446
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Rank
43,175
Country Rank
391
Institution Rank : 28
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/9826.png)
![Brazil](/flags/br.png)
![Anderson S Sant Ana](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/cd/884414.jpg)
Food Microbiology
Food Safety
Predictive Microbiology
Risk Analysis
Probiotics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
18,706
15,189
0.812
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Rank
43,480
Country Rank
397
Institution Rank : 25
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/9896.png)
![Brazil](/flags/br.png)
![Silvia Guterres](/user/assets/images/profile/no-profile-photo.png)
nanotecnologia
medicamentos
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
18,610
9,356
0.503
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Rank
43,823
Country Rank
48
Institution Rank : 13
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/6959.png)
![Chile](/flags/cl.png)
![Eugenio Rodriguez Balboa](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/5e/830372.jpg)
visual perception
consciousness research
signal processing
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
18,505
5,435
0.294
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Rank
44,432
Country Rank
54
Institution Rank : 22
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/9569.png)
![Argentina](/flags/ar.png)
![Noemi Zaritzky](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/e5/852992.jpg)
Food Engineering- Heat and Mass Transfer- Water treatment
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
18,324
6,425
0.351
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Rank
44,889
Country Rank
419
Institution Rank : 28
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/9865.jpg)
![Brazil](/flags/br.png)
![Virgilio Almeida](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/42/904945.jpg)
Social algorithms
cyberspace and digital governance
distributed systems
network science
performance modeling
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
18,188
4,926
0.271
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Rank
45,499
Country Rank
431
Institution Rank : 6
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/13784.jpg)
![Brazil](/flags/br.png)
![Gilberto Camara](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/b4/4412466.jpg)
Geoinformatics
GIScience
Spatial Data Science
Satellite Image Time Series
Land Use Change
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
18,006
5,662
0.314
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Rank
45,801
Country Rank
50
Institution Rank : 4
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/9440.png)
![Chile](/flags/cl.png)
![Jorge Ignacio González López](/user/assets/images/profile/no-profile-photo.png)
Galaxy evolution
Interstellar medium
high redshift galaxies and data science
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
17,924
13,521
0.754
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Rank
46,116
Country Rank
442
Institution Rank : 2
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/9760.png)
![Brazil](/flags/br.png)
![Maria Cristina Gonzalez](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/84/843320.jpg)
body composition
nutritional assessment
surgery
eldely
cancer
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
17,827
13,335
0.748
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Rank
46,195
Country Rank
52
Institution Rank : 4
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/9292.png)
![Chile](/flags/cl.png)
![Sergio N Torres](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/98/832808.jpg)
Optoelectronics
Infrared Imaging
Hyperspectral Imaging
interferometry
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
17,804
14,420
0.810
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Rank
46,340
Country Rank
58
Institution Rank : 3
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/9590.png)
![Argentina](/flags/ar.png)
![Galo Soler Illia](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/bb/934737.jpg)
nanotechnology
chemistry
materials
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
17,764
4,359
0.245
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Rank
47,471
Country Rank
55
Institution Rank : 4
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/9711.png)
![Chile](/flags/cl.png)
![Marcelo A Perez](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/f2/1099027.jpg)
Power electronics
multilevel converters
smart grids
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
17,456
8,269
0.474
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Rank
47,668
Country Rank
463
Institution Rank : 144
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/9794.jpg)
![Brazil](/flags/br.png)
![Pedro Leite Da Silva Dias](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/1c/831941.jpg)
Meteorologia
computação
clima
Meteorology
Climate Change
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
17,410
4,847
0.278
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Rank
47,866
Country Rank
468
Institution Rank : 7
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/13784.jpg)
![Brazil](/flags/br.png)
![Alberto Setzer](/user/assets/images/profile/no-profile-photo.png)
remote sensing of wildfires
antarctic meteorology
air pollution impacts
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
17,352
4,687
0.270
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Rank
48,199
Country Rank
471
Institution Rank : 145
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/9794.jpg)
![Brazil](/flags/br.png)
![Julio CB Ferreira *](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/0f/834893.jpg)
Cardiovascular Physiology/Biology
protein-protein interaction
mitochondria metabolism/dynamics
exercise training
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
17,265
9,446
0.547
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Rank
48,662
Country Rank
476
Institution Rank : 147
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/9794.jpg)
![Brazil](/flags/br.png)
![Benjamim Bley De Brito Neves](/user/assets/images/profile/no-profile-photo.png)
geocronologia
geoctectônica
geologia regional
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
17,151
5,589
0.326
Luiz Gustavo Cançado
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
20,309
9,899
0.487
Raman
near-field optics
TERS graphene
2D materials
Jorge Alberto Vieira Costa
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
20,103
12,091
0.601
Food Engineering
Biochemical Engineering
Bioprocess
Microalgae
Biotechnology
Glaucia Maria Pastore
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
19,931
11,465
0.575
Food Science Nutrition Functional Foods
Leandro Nunes De Castro
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
19,918
3,387
0.170
Artificial Intelligence
Natural Computing
Machine Learning
Data Science
Soraya Smaili *|Soraya Soubhi Smaili, Soraya Shoubi Smaili, Soraya S Smaili
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
19,781
9,640
0.487
Signaling and Cell Death
Fabrício Benevenuto
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
19,729
9,668
0.490
Misinformation
hate speech
Sentiment analysis
social computing
complex Networks
Edgar Dutra Zanotto
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
19,620
10,276
0.524
glass
glass-ceramics
crystallization
nucleation
bioglass
Octavio Paredes Lopez
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
19,355
7,128
0.368
Food Biotechnology
Nutraceuticals
Victor Manuel Castaño Meneses|Victor Manuel Castaño Meneses, Victor Castano
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
19,317
6,422
0.332
nanoingenieria
óptica
ciencia de materiales
inteligencia tecnológica
nano biomedicina
Michael Brennan
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
19,001
8,478
0.446
vibration
structural dynamics
acoustics
energy_harvesting
wave_propagation
Anderson S Sant Ana
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
18,706
15,189
0.812
Food Microbiology
Food Safety
Predictive Microbiology
Risk Analysis
Probiotics
Silvia Guterres
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
18,610
9,356
0.503
nanotecnologia
medicamentos
Eugenio Rodriguez Balboa
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
18,505
5,435
0.294
visual perception
consciousness research
signal processing
Noemi Zaritzky
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
18,324
6,425
0.351
Food Engineering- Heat and Mass Transfer- Water treatment
Virgilio Almeida
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
18,188
4,926
0.271
Social algorithms
cyberspace and digital governance
distributed systems
network science
performance modeling
Gilberto Camara
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
18,006
5,662
0.314
Geoinformatics
GIScience
Spatial Data Science
Satellite Image Time Series
Land Use Change
Jorge Ignacio González López
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
17,924
13,521
0.754
Galaxy evolution
Interstellar medium
high redshift galaxies and data science
Maria Cristina Gonzalez
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
17,827
13,335
0.748
body composition
nutritional assessment
surgery
eldely
cancer
Sergio N Torres
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
17,804
14,420
0.810
Optoelectronics
Infrared Imaging
Hyperspectral Imaging
interferometry
Galo Soler Illia
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
17,764
4,359
0.245
nanotechnology
chemistry
materials
Marcelo A Perez
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
17,456
8,269
0.474
Power electronics
multilevel converters
smart grids
Pedro Leite Da Silva Dias
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
17,410
4,847
0.278
Meteorologia
computação
clima
Meteorology
Climate Change
Alberto Setzer
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
17,352
4,687
0.270
remote sensing of wildfires
antarctic meteorology
air pollution impacts
Julio CB Ferreira *
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
17,265
9,446
0.547
Cardiovascular Physiology/Biology
protein-protein interaction
mitochondria metabolism/dynamics
exercise training
Benjamim Bley De Brito Neves
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
17,151
5,589
0.326
geocronologia
geoctectônica
geologia regional