Citation Rankings (Highly Cited Researchers) and the list of the most cited and influential researchers cover a wide range of scientific fields, spanning 197 main and sub-disciplines, as well as the Art and Humanities Citation Rankings and Social Sciences and Humanities Citation Rankings, offering a unique service. Additionally, the list without CERN, Statistical Data, etc., provided exclusively by “AD Scientific Index”, is part of our effort to balance the situation created by CERN and researchers with statistical data, who have an advantage over others, especially those in the social and humanities fields. There should be new regulations for multi-author and CERN papers. Citation lists also reveal many rule violations and unethical practices. See also for more specific citation analyses: 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 :26
Graphene
2D materials
Nanotechnology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
57,000
21,416
0.376
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :27
Thermal management
Thermoelectric materials
Oxides
Thin Films
Materials Science
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
55,339
15,239
0.275
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :28
Power Electronics
Renewable Energy Systems and Energy
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Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
54,905
38,437
0.700
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :29
Wireless Communication
MATLAB
Computer
Antenna and Propagation
Network Simulation ns2 ns 3
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
54,211
23,277
0.429
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :30
natural language processing
multimodal vision-and-language
deep learning
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
54,131
43,148
0.797
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :31
electronic structure
photocatalysis
spintronics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
53,453
33,122
0.620
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :32
silicon photonics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
53,419
43,572
0.816
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :33
Wide Bandgap Semiconductor Materials and Quantum Optoelectronics - Laser Physics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
51,643
24,964
0.483
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :34
metamaterial & metasurface
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
50,453
35,644
0.706
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :35
Organic solar cells
polymer solar cells
organic transistors
organic electronics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
50,429
35,214
0.698
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :36
High Voltage and Insulation Technology
Gas Discharge
Pulsed power
Plasma science
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
49,825
17,994
0.361
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :37
Electromagnetics
metaphotonics
low-dimensional material optics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
49,535
40,222
0.812
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :38
packaging
3D
microelectronics
interconnect
semiconductor
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
48,611
30,371
0.625
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :39
organic semiconducting materials
inorganic semiconductors
inorganic-organic hybrid materials
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
48,094
32,609
0.678
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :40
Control Systems
Operations Research
Computer Science
Aerospace Engineering
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
47,911
11,448
0.239
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :41
Fiber Gratings and Sensors
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
47,198
29,942
0.634
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :42
Translational Soft Electronics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
46,588
29,925
0.642
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :43
electronic engineering
physics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
45,987
30,743
0.669
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :44
metamaterials
topological photonics
metasurfaces
plasmonics
nonlinear optics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
45,489
27,124
0.596
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :45
Organic Semiconductor
OPV
OECT-neumorphic computing and sensing
Morphology
X-ray Scattering
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
44,560
31,906
0.716
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :46
Organic solar cells
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
44,345
33,609
0.758
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :47
Wireless Sensor Networks/RFID
Cyber Physical Systems and IoT
Privacy and Security
Cloud Computing
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
44,322
19,349
0.437
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :48
Fiber electronics
Bioelectronics
Polymer
Energy
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
42,537
28,923
0.680
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :49
Microelectronics and photonics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
42,385
14,400
0.340
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :50
semiconductors and optoelectronic devices
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
42,150
33,156
0.787
Xuesong Li
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
57,000
21,416
0.376
Graphene
2D materials
Nanotechnology
Hiromichi Ohta
Hokkaido University
Sapporo, Japan
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
55,339
15,239
0.275
Thermal management
Thermoelectric materials
Oxides
Thin Films
Materials Science
Saad Mekhilef
University of Malaya
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
54,905
38,437
0.700
Power Electronics
Renewable Energy Systems and Energy
Ravindra Prakash Gupta
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
54,211
23,277
0.429
Wireless Communication
MATLAB
Computer
Antenna and Propagation
Network Simulation ns2 ns 3
Xiaodong He (何晓冬)
JD.com, Inc.
Beijing, China
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
54,131
43,148
0.797
natural language processing
multimodal vision-and-language
deep learning
Ying Dai 戴瑛
Shandong University
Jinan, China
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
53,453
33,122
0.620
electronic structure
photocatalysis
spintronics
Shuai Wang
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
53,419
43,572
0.816
Hai Zhu 朱海
Nanyang Technological University
Jurong West, Singapore
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
51,643
24,964
0.483
Wide Bandgap Semiconductor Materials and Quantum Optoelectronics - Laser Physics
cheng qiang
Southeast University
Nanjing, China
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
50,453
35,644
0.706
metamaterial & metasurface
He Yan
Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
Sai Kung District, Hong Kong
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
50,429
35,214
0.698
Organic solar cells
polymer solar cells
organic transistors
organic electronics
Lee Li
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
49,825
17,994
0.361
High Voltage and Insulation Technology
Gas Discharge
Pulsed power
Plasma science
Cheng Wei Qiu
National University of Singapore
Queenstown, Singapore
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
49,535
40,222
0.812
Electromagnetics
metaphotonics
low-dimensional material optics
Douglas Ch Yu
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
48,611
30,371
0.625
packaging
3D
microelectronics
interconnect
semiconductor
Qichun Zhang
City University of Hong Kong
Coimbatore, Hong Kong
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
48,094
32,609
0.678
organic semiconducting materials
inorganic semiconductors
inorganic-organic hybrid materials
Eric Feron
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
47,911
11,448
0.239
Control Systems
Operations Research
Computer Science
Aerospace Engineering
Tao Wang
China University of Petroleum
Beijing, China
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
47,198
29,942
0.634
Fiber Gratings and Sensors
Dae Hyeong Kim
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
46,588
29,925
0.642
Translational Soft Electronics
Ping Li
Chongqing University
Chongqing, China
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
45,987
30,743
0.669
electronic engineering
physics
Shuang Zhang
University of Hong Kong
Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
45,489
27,124
0.596
metamaterials
topological photonics
metasurfaces
plasmonics
nonlinear optics
Wei Ma 马伟
Xi'An Jiaotong University
Xi'an, China
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
44,560
31,906
0.716
Organic Semiconductor
OPV
OECT-neumorphic computing and sensing
Morphology
X-ray Scattering
Miao Zhang
Beijing Jiaotong University
Beijing, China
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
44,345
33,609
0.758
Yunhao Liu
Tsinghua University
Beijing, China
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
44,322
19,349
0.437
Wireless Sensor Networks/RFID
Cyber Physical Systems and IoT
Privacy and Security
Cloud Computing
Huisheng Peng 彭慧胜
Fudan University
Shanghai, China
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
42,537
28,923
0.680
Fiber electronics
Bioelectronics
Polymer
Energy
HS Kwok
Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
Sai Kung District, Hong Kong
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
42,385
14,400
0.340
Microelectronics and photonics
Jiang Tang
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
42,150
33,156
0.787
semiconductors and optoelectronic devices