Citation Rankings
Highly Cited Researchers
Social Sciences Highly Cited Researchers 76 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: 1
Neurosymbolic AI
Knowledge Graphs
Web Science
Digital Libraries
Industry 4.0
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
34,797
14,528
0.418
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
Cartography
Geographical Information Science
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
13,896
3,899
0.281
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
palaeoclimate
palaeolimnology
paleohydrology
terrestrial archives
stable isotopes
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
7,379
2,596
0.352
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Information Science
Scientometrics
Social Media
Smart Cities
Information Markets
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6,138
2,393
0.390
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
Bibliometrics
Information Retrieval
History of Science
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
5,468
2,623
0.480
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
Bibliometrics
Scientometrics
Altmetrics
Chemistry
Physics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4,790
3,217
0.672
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
Knowledge Management
Information science
Socio-Technical Systems
Intellectual Capital
Process Design
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4,709
1,394
0.296
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
carbonate sediments and rocks as archives of environmental and climate variation
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4,514
1,496
0.331
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
Semantic Evolution
Digital Libraries
Web Archiving
Data Management in Distributed Systems
Self-organizing Systems
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3,778
607
0.161
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
Cartography
Geovisualisation
Geographic Information Science
Generalisation
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3,071
1,082
0.352
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
Information Retrieval
Recommender Systems
Data Science
Information Science
Lifelogging
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2,879
1,280
0.445
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
Multimedia Information Retrieval
Vision and Language
Digital Libraries
Multimodal Machine Learning
Visual Analytics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2,646
1,582
0.598
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
Digital Librariess
Information Retrieval
Database Systems
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,845
420
0.228
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
Today: Information techniques in libraries / Former: Glycosciences
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,679
300
0.179
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
Publishing
Open Science
Open Access
Library and Information Science
LIS
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,648
1,018
0.618
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
Recommender Systems
Information Science
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,369
815
0.595
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,228
184
0.150
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
Information science - informational city - digital city - knowledge city - social media - digital education
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,206
551
0.457
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
bibliometrics
network analysis
open access
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,053
482
0.458
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
Scientific Communication
Science Communication
Scientometrics
Data Analytics
Science Indicators
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,043
504
0.483
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 21
Bibliothek in der Digitalen Gesellschaft
Informationsverhalten
Wissensmanagement
Strategisches Management von Informationseinrichtungen
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
934
363
0.389
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 22
Information Retrieval
Information Science
Digital Libraries
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
879
486
0.553
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 23
Information Science
Social Media Research
Gamification
Information Behavior
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
876
707
0.807
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 24
Information Science
Computational Neuroscience
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
836
296
0.354
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 25
Carbonate Sedimentology
Diagenesis
Isotope Geochemistry
Paleoclimatology
Paleoenvironmental Archives
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
775
293
0.378
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
18,260
805
7
Ranking Based On Selection: 1
Sören Auer
Universität Hannover
Hannover, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
34,797
14,528
0.418
Neurosymbolic AI
Knowledge Graphs
Web Science
Digital Libraries
Industry 4.0
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
67,563
2,978
54
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
Li Zhilin
Technische Universität Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
13,896
3,899
0.281
Cartography
Geographical Information Science
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
141,146
6,006
100
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Andreas Lücke
Forschungszentrum Jülich
Jülich, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
7,379
2,596
0.352
palaeoclimate
palaeolimnology
paleohydrology
terrestrial archives
stable isotopes
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
170,710
7,171
95
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Wolfgang G. Stock
Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6,138
2,393
0.390
Information Science
Scientometrics
Social Media
Smart Cities
Information Markets
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
191,418
7,927
35
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
Werner Marx
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
5,468
2,623
0.480
Bibliometrics
Information Retrieval
History of Science
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
217,692
8,845
37
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
Robin Haunschild
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4,790
3,217
0.672
Bibliometrics
Scientometrics
Altmetrics
Chemistry
Physics
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
221,185
8,963
2
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
Peter Heisig
Fachhochschule Potsdam
Potsdam, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4,709
1,394
0.296
Knowledge Management
Information science
Socio-Technical Systems
Intellectual Capital
Process Design
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
230,103
9,269
163
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
Eberhard Gischler
Goethe University Frankfurt
Frankfurt, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4,514
1,496
0.331
carbonate sediments and rocks as archives of environmental and climate variation
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
270,307
10,685
182
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
Thomas Risse
Goethe University Frankfurt
Frankfurt, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3,778
607
0.161
Semantic Evolution
Digital Libraries
Web Archiving
Data Management in Distributed Systems
Self-organizing Systems
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
322,361
12,405
223
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
Dirk Burghardt
Technische Universität Dresden
Dresden, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3,071
1,082
0.352
Cartography
Geovisualisation
Geographic Information Science
Generalisation
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
339,690
12,995
13
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
Frank Hopfgartner
Universität Koblenz Landau
Koblenz, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2,879
1,280
0.445
Information Retrieval
Recommender Systems
Data Science
Information Science
Lifelogging
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
363,574
13,760
157
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
Ralph Ewerth
Universität Hannover
Hannover, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2,646
1,582
0.598
Multimedia Information Retrieval
Vision and Language
Digital Libraries
Multimodal Machine Learning
Visual Analytics
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
473,917
17,234
55
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
Michael Ley
Universität Trier
Trier, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,845
420
0.228
Digital Librariess
Information Retrieval
Database Systems
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
505,346
18,194
404
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
Andreas Bohne Lang
Ruprecht Karls Universität Heidelberg
Heidelberg, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,679
300
0.179
Today: Information techniques in libraries / Former: Glycosciences
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
511,581
18,391
185
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
Birgit Schmidt
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Göttingen, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,648
1,018
0.618
Publishing
Open Science
Open Access
Library and Information Science
LIS
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
574,899
20,270
119
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
Lukas Lerche
Technische Universität Dortmund
Dortmund, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,369
815
0.595
Recommender Systems
Information Science
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
613,185
21,393
211
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
Jan Brase
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Göttingen, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,228
184
0.150
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
619,571
21,581
190
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
Agnes Mainka
Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,206
551
0.457
Information science - informational city - digital city - knowledge city - social media - digital education
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
668,230
23,069
327
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
Frank Havemann
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,053
482
0.458
bibliometrics
network analysis
open access
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
671,634
23,176
428
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
Dirk Tunger
Forschungszentrum Jülich
Jülich, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,043
504
0.483
Scientific Communication
Science Communication
Scientometrics
Data Analytics
Science Indicators
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
711,307
24,363
7
Ranking Based On Selection: 21
Hans Christoph Hobohm
Fachhochschule Potsdam
Potsdam, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
934
363
0.389
Bibliothek in der Digitalen Gesellschaft
Informationsverhalten
Wissensmanagement
Strategisches Management von Informationseinrichtungen
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
732,997
24,974
20
Ranking Based On Selection: 22
Philipp Schaer
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
879
486
0.553
Information Retrieval
Information Science
Digital Libraries
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
734,094
25,007
212
Ranking Based On Selection: 23
Franziska Zimmer
Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
876
707
0.807
Information Science
Social Media Research
Gamification
Information Behavior
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
750,817
25,521
249
Ranking Based On Selection: 24
Wolfram Horstmann
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Göttingen, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
836
296
0.354
Information Science
Computational Neuroscience
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
777,367
26,349
223
Ranking Based On Selection: 25
Nicolas Christ
Universität Potsdam
Potsdam, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
775
293
0.378
Carbonate Sedimentology
Diagenesis
Isotope Geochemistry
Paleoclimatology
Paleoenvironmental Archives