Citation Rankings
Highly Cited Researchers

North America Highly Cited Researchers Citation 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
Canada
Geoffrey Hinton
machine learning
psychology
artificial intelligence
cognitive science
computer science
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
864,413
570,037
0.659
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :2
Canada
Yoshua Bengio
Machine learning
deep learning
artificial intelligence
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
857,721
672,149
0.784
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :3
United States
Ahmedin Jemal
Cancer disparities
Cancer treatment and outcomes
Cancer surveillance
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
841,033
506,137
0.602
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :4
United States
Eric Lander
Biology
Genomics
Genetics
Bioinformatics
Mathematics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
721,349
278,478
0.386
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :5
United States
Michael E Porter
Competitive Strategy
Digital Transformation
Economic Development
Health Care
U.S. Political System
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
631,797
169,672
0.269
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :6
United States
Kaiming He
Computer Vision
Machine Learning
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
627,838
564,802
0.900
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :7
Canada
Gordon Guyatt
Evidence-based medicine
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
593,508
291,745
0.492
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :8
United States
John PA Ioannidis
meta-research
clinical epidemiology
evidence-based medicine
research methods
meta-analysis
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
586,885
369,708
0.630
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :9
United States
Ronald C Kessler
Psychiatric Epidemiology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
581,824
205,674
0.353
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :10
United States
Ilya Sutskever
Machine Learning
Neural Networks
Artificial Intelligence
Deep Learning
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
564,917
457,707
0.810
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :11
United States
Daniel Kahneman
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
555,707
184,757
0.332
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :12
United States
Edward L Deci
self-determination theory
motivation
psychology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
537,721
247,365
0.460
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :13
United States
Ali H Mokdad
Health Metrics
Population Health
IHME
Global Health
Epidemiology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
525,126
331,167
0.631
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :14
United States
Icek Ajzen
Attitudes
Persuasion
Attitude-Behavior Relation
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
522,344
213,951
0.410
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :15
United States
Frank B Hu
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
517,909
227,263
0.439
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :16
Canada
Salim Yusuf
Cardiology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
516,791
165,677
0.321
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :17
United States
Ross Girshick
computer vision
machine learning
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
513,666
442,415
0.861
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :18
United States
Bert Vogelstein
Cancer
Biology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
512,802
109,304
0.213
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :19
United States
Robert Tibshirani
Statistics
data science
Machine Learning
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
511,166
219,105
0.429
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :20
United States
Joseph F Hair Jr
multivariate analysis
business analytics
marketing
structural equation modeling
PLS
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
504,607
318,406
0.631
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :21
United States
Paul M Ridker
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
490,524
166,887
0.340
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :22
United States
Fuquan Wang
Particle Physics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
487,284
288,763
0.593
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :23
United States
Joann E Manson
Endocrinology
Epidemiology
Cardiovascular Disease
Diabetes
Women's health
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
481,026
148,914
0.310
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :24
United States
Joey Huston
high energy physics
particle physics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
460,013
160,312
0.348
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :25
United States
James Brau
particle physics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
459,052
223,332
0.487
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1
Canada
1
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 1
Geoffrey Hinton
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
864,413
570,037
0.659
machine learning
psychology
artificial intelligence
cognitive science
computer science
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
2
Canada
2
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
Yoshua Bengio
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
857,721
672,149
0.784
Machine learning
deep learning
artificial intelligence
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
3
United States
1
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Ahmedin Jemal
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
841,033
506,137
0.602
Cancer disparities
Cancer treatment and outcomes
Cancer surveillance
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
4
United States
2
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Eric Lander
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
721,349
278,478
0.386
Biology
Genomics
Genetics
Bioinformatics
Mathematics
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
5
United States
3
2
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
Michael E Porter
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
631,797
169,672
0.269
Competitive Strategy
Digital Transformation
Economic Development
Health Care
U.S. Political System
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
7
United States
4
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
Kaiming He
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
627,838
564,802
0.900
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
10
Canada
3
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
Gordon Guyatt
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
593,508
291,745
0.492
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
11
United States
5
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
John PA Ioannidis
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
586,885
369,708
0.630
meta-research
clinical epidemiology
evidence-based medicine
research methods
meta-analysis
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
12
United States
6
3
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
Ronald C Kessler
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
581,824
205,674
0.353
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
14
United States
7
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
Ilya Sutskever
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
564,917
457,707
0.810
Machine Learning
Neural Networks
Artificial Intelligence
Deep Learning
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
15
United States
8
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
Daniel Kahneman
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
555,707
184,757
0.332
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
16
United States
9
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
Edward L Deci
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
537,721
247,365
0.460
self-determination theory
motivation
psychology
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
17
United States
10
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
Ali H Mokdad
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
525,126
331,167
0.631
Health Metrics
Population Health
IHME
Global Health
Epidemiology
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
18
United States
11
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
Icek Ajzen
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
522,344
213,951
0.410
Attitudes
Persuasion
Attitude-Behavior Relation
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
19
United States
12
4
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
Frank B Hu
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
517,909
227,263
0.439
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
20
Canada
4
2
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
Salim Yusuf
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
516,791
165,677
0.321
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
21
United States
13
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
Ross Girshick
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
513,666
442,415
0.861
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
22
United States
14
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
Bert Vogelstein
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
512,802
109,304
0.213
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
24
United States
15
2
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
Robert Tibshirani
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
511,166
219,105
0.429
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
27
United States
16
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
Joseph F Hair Jr
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
504,607
318,406
0.631
multivariate analysis
business analytics
marketing
structural equation modeling
PLS
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
29
United States
17
5
Ranking Based On Selection: 21
Paul M Ridker
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
490,524
166,887
0.340
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
30
United States
18
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 22
Fuquan Wang
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
487,284
288,763
0.593
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
31
United States
19
6
Ranking Based On Selection: 23
Joann E Manson
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
481,026
148,914
0.310
Endocrinology
Epidemiology
Cardiovascular Disease
Diabetes
Women's health
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
37
United States
20
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 24
Joey Huston
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
460,013
160,312
0.348
high energy physics
particle physics
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
38
United States
21
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 25
James Brau
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
459,052
223,332
0.487