Citation Rankings
Highly Cited Researchers
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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
Linked Data
Knowledge Graphs
Web Science
Digital Libraries
Industry 4.0
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
33,424
16,054
0.480
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :2
Cartography
Geographical Information Science
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
13,470
4,151
0.308
* 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
7,143
2,851
0.399
* 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
5,962
2,613
0.438
* 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
5,182
2,753
0.531
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :6
Knowledge Management
Information science
Socio-Technical Systems
Intellectual Capital
Process Design
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4,598
1,604
0.349
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :7
carbonate sediments and rocks as archives of environmental and climate variation
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4,396
1,661
0.378
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :8
Bibliometrics
Scientometrics
Altmetrics
Chemistry
Physics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4,371
3,213
0.735
* 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
3,736
767
0.205
* 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
2,962
1,161
0.392
* 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
2,732
1,406
0.515
* 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
2,390
1,413
0.591
* 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
1,805
466
0.258
* 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
1,660
333
0.201
* 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
1,567
1,103
0.704
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :16
Recommender Systems
Information Science
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,310
931
0.711
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :17
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,203
212
0.176
* 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
1,156
660
0.571
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :19
bibliometrics
network analysis
open access
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
994
470
0.473
* 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
990
511
0.516
* 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
886
364
0.411
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :22
Information Science
Social Media Research
Gamification
Information Behavior
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
821
701
0.854
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :23
Information Science
Computational Neuroscience
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
807
367
0.455
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :24
Information Retrieval
Information Science
Digital Libraries
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
801
450
0.562
* 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
751
332
0.442
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
18,273
801
7
Ranking Based On Selection: 1
Sören Auer
Universität Hannover
Hannover, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
33,424
16,054
0.480
Linked Data
Knowledge Graphs
Web Science
Digital Libraries
Industry 4.0
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
66,770
2,941
54
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
Li Zhilin
Technische Universität Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
13,470
4,151
0.308
Cartography
Geographical Information Science
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
139,385
5,920
98
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Andreas Lücke
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
7,143
2,851
0.399
palaeoclimate
palaeolimnology
paleohydrology
terrestrial archives
stable isotopes
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
167,991
7,065
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
5,962
2,613
0.438
Information Science
Scientometrics
Social Media
Smart Cities
Information Markets
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
192,662
7,950
35
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
Werner Marx
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
5,182
2,753
0.531
Bibliometrics
Information Retrieval
History of Science
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
216,159
8,785
2
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
Peter Heisig
Fachhochschule Potsdam
Potsdam, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4,598
1,604
0.349
Knowledge Management
Information science
Socio-Technical Systems
Intellectual Capital
Process Design
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
225,430
9,082
160
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
Eberhard Gischler
Goethe University Frankfurt
Frankfurt, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4,396
1,661
0.378
carbonate sediments and rocks as archives of environmental and climate variation
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
226,568
9,110
37
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
Robin Haunschild
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4,371
3,213
0.735
Bibliometrics
Scientometrics
Altmetrics
Chemistry
Physics
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
261,422
10,341
180
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
Thomas Risse
Goethe University Frankfurt
Frankfurt, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3,736
767
0.205
Semantic Evolution
Digital Libraries
Web Archiving
Data Management in Distributed Systems
Self-organizing Systems
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
318,262
12,257
220
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
Dirk Burghardt
Technische Universität Dresden
Dresden, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2,962
1,161
0.392
Cartography
Geovisualisation
Geographic Information Science
Generalisation
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
339,817
12,994
13
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
Frank Hopfgartner
Universität Koblenz Landau
Koblenz, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2,732
1,406
0.515
Information Retrieval
Recommender Systems
Data Science
Information Science
Lifelogging
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
377,323
14,169
159
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
Ralph Ewerth
Universität Hannover
Hannover, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2,390
1,413
0.591
Multimedia Information Retrieval
Vision and Language
Digital Libraries
Multimodal Machine Learning
Visual Analytics
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
463,182
16,842
53
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
Michael Ley
Universität Trier
Trier, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,805
466
0.258
Digital Librariess
Information Retrieval
Database Systems
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
490,355
17,697
398
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
Andreas Bohne Lang
Ruprecht Karls Universität Heidelberg
Heidelberg, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,660
333
0.201
Today: Information techniques in libraries / Former: Glycosciences
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
509,578
18,273
182
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
Birgit Schmidt
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Göttingen, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,567
1,103
0.704
Publishing
Open Science
Open Access
Library and Information Science
LIS
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
570,501
20,096
118
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
Lukas Lerche
Technische Universität Dortmund
Dortmund, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,310
931
0.711
Recommender Systems
Information Science
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
600,417
20,931
204
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
Jan Brase
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Göttingen, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,203
212
0.176
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
614,318
21,368
188
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
Agnes Mainka
Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,156
660
0.571
Information science - informational city - digital city - knowledge city - social media - digital education
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
668,530
23,015
327
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
Frank Havemann
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
994
470
0.473
bibliometrics
network analysis
open access
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
669,937
23,056
426
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
Dirk Tunger
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
990
511
0.516
Scientific Communication
Science Communication
Scientometrics
Data Analytics
Science Indicators
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
709,950
24,227
7
Ranking Based On Selection: 21
Hans Christoph Hobohm
Fachhochschule Potsdam
Potsdam, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
886
364
0.411
Bibliothek in der Digitalen Gesellschaft
Informationsverhalten
Wissensmanagement
Strategisches Management von Informationseinrichtungen
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
736,862
25,031
212
Ranking Based On Selection: 22
Franziska Zimmer
Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
821
701
0.854
Information Science
Social Media Research
Gamification
Information Behavior
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
743,198
25,202
248
Ranking Based On Selection: 23
Wolfram Horstmann
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Göttingen, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
807
367
0.455
Information Science
Computational Neuroscience
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
745,816
25,285
20
Ranking Based On Selection: 24
Philipp Schaer
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
801
450
0.562
Information Retrieval
Information Science
Digital Libraries
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
768,441
25,957
215
Ranking Based On Selection: 25
Nicolas Christ
Universität Potsdam
Potsdam, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
751
332
0.442
Carbonate Sedimentology
Diagenesis
Isotope Geochemistry
Paleoclimatology
Paleoenvironmental Archives