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.
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Ranking Based On Selection :1
urban planning
urban studies
geographical information science
Urban Geography
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
22,316
8,064
0.361
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :2
urban planning
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
17,436
9,462
0.543
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :3
Sustainability Assessment
Urban Resilience
Urban Climate
Urban Planning
Climate Policy
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
17,122
14,898
0.870
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :4
Land Economics
Urban Design
Urban Science
Health and Place
Property Rights
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
14,821
7,842
0.529
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :5
Urban Infrastructure Modelling
Urban Planning
Environmental Design
Architecture
Energy and Water Resources
Citation Metrics
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Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
14,782
6,063
0.410
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :6
Environmental surface chemistry
environmental geochemistry
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
14,375
7,926
0.551
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :7
Urban Forestry
Urban Biodiversity
Urban Ecology
Ecosystem Service
Remote Sensing
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
13,163
9,910
0.753
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :8
Energy Policy
Climate Change
Low Carbon Development
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
13,070
5,369
0.411
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :9
Urban Environment
Human Mobility
Exposure
Environmental Health
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
12,965
12,862
0.992
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :10
Urban Ecology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
12,353
6,955
0.563
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :11
urban planning transportation planning
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
10,236
6,842
0.668
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :12
Planning theory
just city
urba sustainability
planning and climate change
planning the risk city
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
9,015
5,694
0.632
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :13
Sustainable Urban Planning
Sustainable Architecture
Urban Climate
Urban Microclimate
Healthy Building
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
8,982
7,737
0.861
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :14
Urban Redevelopment
Gentrification
Urban Poverty
Housing
Rural-Urban Migration
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
8,261
5,320
0.644
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :15
Urban Planning
Health & Population Geography
Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
8,223
5,127
0.623
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :16
Urban China
segregation
migration
neighborhood
planning theory
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
8,113
5,409
0.667
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :17
Urban Ecology
Restoration Ecology
Pollution Studies
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6,750
3,442
0.510
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :18
Urban Sustainability
Urban Transition
Urban Design
Sustainable Urbanism
Urban Resilience
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6,601
6,276
0.951
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :19
urban data science
urban informatics
urban analytics
geographic data science
GeoAI
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6,564
5,517
0.840
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :20
Urban resilience
Infrastructure resilience
Human evacuation behavior
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6,553
4,795
0.732
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :21
architecture
urban microclimate
energy in buildings
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6,447
3,347
0.519
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :22
urban greening and ecology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6,188
4,388
0.709
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :23
urban metabolism
material flow analysis
ecological network analysis
input-output analysis
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6,085
3,632
0.597
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :24
Landscape Ecology
Spatial Planning
Remote Sensing
Mining
Urban Ecology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6,019
5,114
0.850
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :25
Urban Climatology
Climate-sensitive Urban Planning and Design
Human Thermal Comfort
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
5,987
5,440
0.909
Anthony Go Yeh
University of Hong Kong
Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
22,316
8,064
0.361
urban planning
urban studies
geographical information science
Urban Geography
Ying Tian
Tsinghua University
Beijing, China
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
17,436
9,462
0.543
Ayyoob Sharifi|シャリフィ アユーブ, ایوب شریفی
Hiroshima University
Higashihiroshima, Japan
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
17,122
14,898
0.870
Sustainability Assessment
Urban Resilience
Urban Climate
Urban Planning
Climate Policy
Chris Webster
University of Hong Kong
Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
14,821
7,842
0.529
Land Economics
Urban Design
Urban Science
Health and Place
Property Rights
Jagdish Singh
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
14,782
6,063
0.410
Urban Infrastructure Modelling
Urban Planning
Environmental Design
Architecture
Energy and Water Resources
Dongqiang Zhu
Peking University
Beijing, China
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
14,375
7,926
0.551
Environmental surface chemistry
environmental geochemistry
Jun Yang
Tsinghua University
Beijing, China
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
13,163
9,910
0.753
Urban Forestry
Urban Biodiversity
Urban Ecology
Ecosystem Service
Remote Sensing
Manmohan Kapshe
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
13,070
5,369
0.411
Energy Policy
Climate Change
Low Carbon Development
Yimeng Song
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
12,965
12,862
0.992
Urban Environment
Human Mobility
Exposure
Environmental Health
Shuqing Zhao
Peking University
Beijing, China
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
12,353
6,955
0.563
Fei Shi
Nanjing University
Nanjing, China
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
10,236
6,842
0.668
urban planning transportation planning
Yosef Jabareen
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
9,015
5,694
0.632
Planning theory
just city
urba sustainability
planning and climate change
planning the risk city
Chao Ren
University of Hong Kong
Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
8,982
7,737
0.861
Sustainable Urban Planning
Sustainable Architecture
Urban Climate
Urban Microclimate
Healthy Building
Shenjing He 何深静
University of Hong Kong
Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
8,261
5,320
0.644
Urban Redevelopment
Gentrification
Urban Poverty
Housing
Rural-Urban Migration
Boris A Portnov
University of Haifa
Haifa, Israel
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
8,223
5,127
0.623
Urban Planning
Health & Population Geography
Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Zhigang Li 李志刚
Wuhan University
Wuhan, China
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
8,113
5,409
0.667
Urban China
segregation
migration
neighborhood
planning theory
LM Chu
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Central Ave, Hong Kong
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6,750
3,442
0.510
Urban Ecology
Restoration Ecology
Pollution Studies
Ali Cheshmehzangi
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6,601
6,276
0.951
Urban Sustainability
Urban Transition
Urban Design
Sustainable Urbanism
Urban Resilience
Filip Biljecki
National University of Singapore
Queenstown, Singapore
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6,564
5,517
0.840
urban data science
urban informatics
urban analytics
geographic data science
GeoAI
Nan Li
Tsinghua University
Beijing, China
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6,553
4,795
0.732
Urban resilience
Infrastructure resilience
Human evacuation behavior
Evyatar Erell
Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Beer Sheva, Israel
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6,447
3,347
0.519
architecture
urban microclimate
energy in buildings
Tan Puay Yok
National University of Singapore
Queenstown, Singapore
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6,188
4,388
0.709
Yan Zhang
Beijing Normal University
Beijing, China
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6,085
3,632
0.597
urban metabolism
material flow analysis
ecological network analysis
input-output analysis
Alex Lechner
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6,019
5,114
0.850
Landscape Ecology
Spatial Planning
Remote Sensing
Mining
Urban Ecology
Kevin Ka Lun Lau
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Central Ave, Hong Kong
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
5,987
5,440
0.909
Urban Climatology
Climate-sensitive Urban Planning and Design
Human Thermal Comfort