Citation Rankings
Highly Cited Researchers
Social Sciences and Humanities Highly Cited Researchers 8.481 Scientists Citation in Germany 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: 26
Climate Economics
Integrated Assessment
Decision Analysis
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
50,915
35,118
0.690
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 27
Psychobiology
Stress
Trauma
Development
Disease Risk
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
49,466
15,143
0.306
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 28
Social Psychology
Social Cognition
Embodiment
Economic Psychology
Heuristics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
48,605
11,419
0.235
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 29
Behavioral Economics
Inequality
Climate Change
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
48,318
18,533
0.384
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 30
Management
Umwelt
Nachhaltigkeit
Unternehmertum
Accounting
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
48,317
24,398
0.505
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 31
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Psychoneuroendocrinology
Stress
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
47,296
16,371
0.346
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 32
molecular biology
ancient DNA
evolutionary genetics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
46,397
23,122
0.498
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 33
Depression
Psychotherapieforschung
Kognitive Verhaltenstherapie
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
45,101
17,320
0.384
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 34
linguistics
language typology
syntax
syntactic theory
morphology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
44,646
15,489
0.347
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 35
Psychophysics
Recognition
Multisensory Perception
Human Machine Interaction
Handling Qualities
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
43,510
11,141
0.256
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 36
Neuropsychology
Dementia
Schizophrenia
obsessive-compulsive disorder
cognitive epidemiology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
43,233
23,314
0.539
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 37
nuclear architecture
4D nucleome
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
41,465
5,470
0.132
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 38
Stress und Kognition
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
41,373
14,034
0.339
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 39
Marketing
social media
digitalization
entertainment industries
metaverse
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
40,942
14,827
0.362
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 40
Political Science
Political Behavior
Public Opinion
Political Sociology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
40,687
15,317
0.376
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 41
business process management
process mining
information systems
software engineering
process science
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
40,503
16,507
0.408
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 42
empirische Sozialforschung
Qualitative Inhaltsanalyse
Wirtschaftspsychologie
Verhaltensökonomie
Behavioral Economics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
39,972
16,219
0.406
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 43
Media Psychology
Psychology of Technology
Communication Science
Sex Research
Research Methods
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
39,823
13,820
0.347
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 44
occupational health psychology
work stress
well-being
emotional labor
workplace bullying
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
39,003
10,354
0.265
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 45
Supply Chain Management
Supply Chain
Sustainability Management
Sustainable Supply Chains
Sustainable Supply Chain Management
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
38,923
20,098
0.516
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 46
Educational Psychology
Educational Research
Instructional Design
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
38,642
12,630
0.327
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 47
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
37,364
33,292
0.891
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 48
Paleolithic
Human Evolution
Virtual Paleoanthropology
Neanderthal
Modern Humans
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
37,136
15,493
0.417
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 49
Psychosomatik
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
35,778
17,731
0.496
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 50
European Union
Governance
Comparative Regionalism
Diffusion
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
35,667
9,502
0.266
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
10,039
403
3
Ranking Based On Selection: 26
Elmar Kriegler
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
50,915
35,118
0.690
Climate Economics
Integrated Assessment
Decision Analysis
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
10,440
418
14
Ranking Based On Selection: 27
Christine Heim
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
49,466
15,143
0.306
Psychobiology
Stress
Trauma
Development
Disease Risk
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
10,723
435
5
Ranking Based On Selection: 28
Fritz Strack
Universität Würzburg
Würzburg, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
48,605
11,419
0.235
Social Psychology
Social Cognition
Embodiment
Economic Psychology
Heuristics
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
10,817
447
9
Ranking Based On Selection: 29
Armin Falk
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
48,318
18,533
0.384
Behavioral Economics
Inequality
Climate Change
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
10,818
448
2
Ranking Based On Selection: 30
Stefan Schaltegger
Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
Lüneburg, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
48,317
24,398
0.505
Management
Umwelt
Nachhaltigkeit
Unternehmertum
Accounting
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
11,203
472
5
Ranking Based On Selection: 31
Jens Pruessner
Universität Konstanz
Konstanz, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
47,296
16,371
0.346
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Psychoneuroendocrinology
Stress
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
11,563
484
2
Ranking Based On Selection: 32
Matthias Meyer
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
46,397
23,122
0.498
molecular biology
ancient DNA
evolutionary genetics
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
12,063
506
18
Ranking Based On Selection: 33
Martin Hautzinger
Universität Tubingen
Tübingen, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
45,101
17,320
0.384
Depression
Psychotherapieforschung
Kognitive Verhaltenstherapie
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
12,295
522
4
Ranking Based On Selection: 34
Martin Haspelmath
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
44,646
15,489
0.347
linguistics
language typology
syntax
syntactic theory
morphology
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
12,820
546
3
Ranking Based On Selection: 35
Heinrich H. Bülthoff
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
43,510
11,141
0.256
Psychophysics
Recognition
Multisensory Perception
Human Machine Interaction
Handling Qualities
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
12,972
553
15
Ranking Based On Selection: 36
Michael Wagner
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
43,233
23,314
0.539
Neuropsychology
Dementia
Schizophrenia
obsessive-compulsive disorder
cognitive epidemiology
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
13,866
588
34
Ranking Based On Selection: 37
Thomas Cremer
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
41,465
5,470
0.132
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
13,880
592
4
Ranking Based On Selection: 38
Oliver T. Wolf
Ruhr Universität Bochum
Bochum, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
41,373
14,034
0.339
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
14,123
604
6
Ranking Based On Selection: 39
Thorsten Hennig Thurau
Universität Münster
Münster, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
40,942
14,827
0.362
Marketing
social media
digitalization
entertainment industries
metaverse
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
14,280
611
3
Ranking Based On Selection: 40
Christian Welzel
Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
Lüneburg, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
40,687
15,317
0.376
Political Science
Political Behavior
Public Opinion
Political Sociology
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
14,421
619
8
Ranking Based On Selection: 41
Jan Mendling
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
40,503
16,507
0.408
business process management
process mining
information systems
software engineering
process science
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
14,703
634
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 42
Thomas Fenzl
Hochschule Fresenius
Idstein, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
39,972
16,219
0.406
empirische Sozialforschung
Qualitative Inhaltsanalyse
Wirtschaftspsychologie
Verhaltensökonomie
Behavioral Economics
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
14,784
638
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 43
Nicola Döring
Technische Universität Ilmenau
Ilmenau, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
39,823
13,820
0.347
Media Psychology
Psychology of Technology
Communication Science
Sex Research
Research Methods
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
15,272
660
15
Ranking Based On Selection: 44
Zapf Dieter
Goethe University Frankfurt
Frankfurt, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
39,003
10,354
0.265
occupational health psychology
work stress
well-being
emotional labor
workplace bullying
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
15,358
667
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 45
Stefan Seuring
Universität Kassel
Kassel, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
38,923
20,098
0.516
Supply Chain Management
Supply Chain
Sustainability Management
Sustainable Supply Chains
Sustainable Supply Chain Management
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
15,523
675
15
Ranking Based On Selection: 46
Alexander Renkl
Universität Freiburg
Freiburg, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
38,642
12,630
0.327
Educational Psychology
Educational Research
Instructional Design
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
16,348
712
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 47
Dmitry Ivanov
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
37,364
33,292
0.891
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
16,524
723
5
Ranking Based On Selection: 48
Jean-Jacques Hublin
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
37,136
15,493
0.417
Paleolithic
Human Evolution
Virtual Paleoanthropology
Neanderthal
Modern Humans
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
17,498
760
13
Ranking Based On Selection: 49
Christian Albus
Universität zu Köln
Köln, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
35,778
17,731
0.496
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
17,616
766
10
Ranking Based On Selection: 50
Tanja Boerzel
Freie Universität Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
35,667
9,502
0.266
European Union
Governance
Comparative Regionalism
Diffusion