Citation Rankings
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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 is still much work to be done in this area. See also for more specific citation analyses: "last 6 years citation index" Universities Rankings 2024 (Sort by: Total Citations) and Universities Rankings 2024 (Sort by : Last 6 Years Citations)
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :1
Decision Sciences
Business Analytics
Multivariate Analysis Methods
Machine Learning
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
257,999
207,684
0.805
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :2
Marketing
Structural Equation Modeling
Consumer Behavior
PLS
Research Methods
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
241,247
204,535
0.848
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :3
Business Process Management
Data Science
Process Mining
Petri nets
Information Systems
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
150,278
49,639
0.330
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :4
Decision Making
Heuristics
Bounded Rationality
Risk Communication
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
107,808
34,740
0.322
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :5
entrepreneurship
management
organizational behavior
organizational psychology
work psychology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
81,951
31,948
0.390
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :6
Management
Umwelt
Nachhaltigkeit
Unternehmertum
Accounting
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
45,279
24,893
0.550
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :7
Marketing
social media
digitalization
entertainment industries
metaverse
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
39,392
16,603
0.421
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :8
business process management
process mining
information systems
software engineering
process science
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
38,479
17,427
0.453
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :9
Media Psychology
Psychology of Technology
Communication Science
Sex Research
Research Methods
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
37,963
14,476
0.381
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :10
Supply Chain Management
Supply Chain
Sustainability Management
Sustainable Supply Chains
Sustainable Supply Chain Management
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
36,595
21,061
0.576
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :11
Organization of the cytoplasm - Protein aggregation - Proteostasis
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
36,349
26,262
0.722
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :12
Decision Making
Heuristics
Bounded Rationality
Decisions from Experience
Risk Preference
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
34,384
17,562
0.511
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :13
Management and organisation theory
strategic alliances and networks
project-based organizing
creativity and entrepreneurship
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
34,136
9,789
0.287
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :14
political economy of communication
media and communications
digital media and society
media economics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
33,137
17,812
0.538
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :15
Digital Marketing
Negotiation
Marketing Management
Strategic Marketing
Social Media Marketing
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
31,055
16,664
0.537
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :16
Information Systems
Digital Transformation
Digital Media
Digital Business
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
29,211
18,848
0.645
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :17
Marketing strategy
CRM
digital transformation
retailing
advertising effectiveness
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
27,832
11,835
0.425
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :18
Entrepreneurship
Innovation
Economic Geography
History
Culture
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
27,211
8,765
0.322
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :19
Organizational Theory
Institutional Theory
Social Entrepreneurship
Social Innovation
Inequality
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
25,951
14,545
0.560
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :20
Technologie- und Innovationsmanagement
Strategisches Projektmanagement
Entrepreneurship
Unternehmensführung
Marketing
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
25,687
8,003
0.312
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :21
communication theory
information theory
MIMO
coding theory
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
25,646
7,461
0.291
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :22
Innovation Management
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
25,549
8,001
0.313
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :23
Open Innovation
Mass Customization
Business Model Innovation
User Innovation
Hybrid Intelligence
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
25,213
10,095
0.400
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :24
Entrepreneurship
SME
policies
context
entrepreneurial behaviour
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
25,086
13,545
0.540
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :25
Management
Organization
Leadership
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
23,873
5,278
0.221
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
361
13
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 1
Christian M Ringle
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
257,999
207,684
0.805
Decision Sciences
Business Analytics
Multivariate Analysis Methods
Machine Learning
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
467
15
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
Marko Sarstedt
Otto Von Guericke Universität Magdeburg
Magdeburg, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
241,247
204,535
0.848
Marketing
Structural Equation Modeling
Consumer Behavior
PLS
Research Methods
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,358
32
2
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Wil van der Aalst
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
150,278
49,639
0.330
Business Process Management
Data Science
Process Mining
Petri nets
Information Systems
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
2,555
73
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Gerd Gigerenzer
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
107,808
34,740
0.322
Decision Making
Heuristics
Bounded Rationality
Risk Communication
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
4,267
150
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
Michael Frese
Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
Lüneburg, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
81,951
31,948
0.390
entrepreneurship
management
organizational behavior
organizational psychology
work psychology
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
11,262
474
2
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
Stefan Schaltegger
Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
Lüneburg, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
45,279
24,893
0.550
Management
Umwelt
Nachhaltigkeit
Unternehmertum
Accounting
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
14,129
609
5
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
Thorsten Hennig Thurau
Universität Münster
Münster, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
39,392
16,603
0.421
Marketing
social media
digitalization
entertainment industries
metaverse
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
14,678
633
8
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
Jan Mendling
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
38,479
17,427
0.453
business process management
process mining
information systems
software engineering
process science
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
15,005
648
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
Nicola Döring
Technische Universität Ilmenau
Ilmenau, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
37,963
14,476
0.381
Media Psychology
Psychology of Technology
Communication Science
Sex Research
Research Methods
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
15,876
688
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
Stefan Seuring
Universität Kassel
Kassel, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
36,595
21,061
0.576
Supply Chain Management
Supply Chain
Sustainability Management
Sustainable Supply Chains
Sustainable Supply Chain Management
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
16,052
698
14
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
Simon Alberti
Technische Universität Dresden
Dresden, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
36,349
26,262
0.722
Organization of the cytoplasm - Protein aggregation - Proteostasis
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
17,522
761
5
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
Ralph Hertwig
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
34,384
17,562
0.511
Decision Making
Heuristics
Bounded Rationality
Decisions from Experience
Risk Preference
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
17,736
775
11
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
Jörg Sydow
Freie Universität Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
34,136
9,789
0.287
Management and organisation theory
strategic alliances and networks
project-based organizing
creativity and entrepreneurship
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
18,523
817
2
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
Christian Fuchs
Universität Paderborn
Paderborn, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
33,137
17,812
0.538
political economy of communication
media and communications
digital media and society
media economics
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
20,530
914
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
Marc Oliver Opresnik
Technische Hochschule Lübeck
Lübeck, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
31,055
16,664
0.537
Digital Marketing
Negotiation
Marketing Management
Strategic Marketing
Social Media Marketing
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
22,587
995
55
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
Thomas Hess
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
29,211
18,848
0.645
Information Systems
Digital Transformation
Digital Media
Digital Business
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
24,358
1,077
19
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
Werner J Reinartz
Universität zu Köln
Köln, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
27,832
11,835
0.425
Marketing strategy
CRM
digital transformation
retailing
advertising effectiveness
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
25,158
1,108
6
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
Michael Fritsch
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
27,211
8,765
0.322
Entrepreneurship
Innovation
Economic Geography
History
Culture
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
27,010
1,167
2
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
Johanna Mair
Hertie School of Governance
Berlin, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
25,951
14,545
0.560
Organizational Theory
Institutional Theory
Social Entrepreneurship
Social Innovation
Inequality
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
27,414
1,189
18
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
Hans Georg Gemünden
Technische Universität Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
25,687
8,003
0.312
Technologie- und Innovationsmanagement
Strategisches Projektmanagement
Entrepreneurship
Unternehmensführung
Marketing
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
27,486
1,190
11
Ranking Based On Selection: 21
Stephan ten Brink
Universität Stuttgart
Stuttgart, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
25,646
7,461
0.291
communication theory
information theory
MIMO
coding theory
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
27,647
1,199
19
Ranking Based On Selection: 22
Hans Georg Gemünden
Technische Universität Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
25,549
8,001
0.313
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
28,223
1,218
23
Ranking Based On Selection: 23
Frank Piller|Frank T. Piller
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
25,213
10,095
0.400
Open Innovation
Mass Customization
Business Model Innovation
User Innovation
Hybrid Intelligence
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
28,420
1,230
3
Ranking Based On Selection: 24
Friederike Welter
Universität Siegen
Siegen, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
25,086
13,545
0.540
Entrepreneurship
SME
policies
context
entrepreneurial behaviour
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
30,614
1,314
21
Ranking Based On Selection: 25
Georg Schreyögg
Freie Universität Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
23,873
5,278
0.221
Management
Organization
Leadership