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
linguistics
statistics
morphology
cognitive models of language processing
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
62,779
24,994
0.398
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :2
semantics
pragmatics
syntax
Oceanic languages
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
24,641
7,415
0.301
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :3
Linguistics
Syntax
Morphology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
18,125
6,263
0.346
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :4
Paralinguistics
Prosody
Affective Computing
Phonetics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
16,054
6,029
0.376
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :5
Sociolinguistics
Media linguistics
Discourse analysis
Computer-mediated communication
German
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
13,188
5,500
0.417
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :6
Language Technology
Applied Ontology
Multimodality
Semiotics
Spatial Language
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
12,874
5,623
0.437
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :7
computational linguistics
natural language processing
language technology
information retrieval
ontology engineering
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
11,697
3,091
0.264
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :8
English language
Linguistics
English Linguistics
Cognitive Linguistics
Linguistic theory
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
11,194
3,707
0.331
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :9
Natural Language Processing
Computational Linguistics
Artificial Intelligence
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
11,121
4,108
0.369
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :10
language technology
natural language processing
computational linguistics
information retrieval
cognitive computing
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
11,055
7,068
0.639
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :11
Lingüística
Dialectology
Dialectología
Sociolinguistics
Sociolingüística
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
10,425
4,208
0.404
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :12
Phonetics
Phonology
Morphology
Syntax
Creole languages
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
9,891
3,997
0.404
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :13
cognitive linguistics
usage-based linguistics
linguistic typology
grammaticalization
construction grammar
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
9,729
4,315
0.444
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :14
Linguistics
Corpus Linguistics
Cognitive Linguistics
Construction Grammar
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
9,464
3,982
0.421
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :15
Teoria literaria
Walter Benjamin
F. Schlegel
representações da violência nas artes visuais e performance
teor testemunhal
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
8,981
3,582
0.399
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :16
Linguistics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
8,952
3,275
0.366
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :17
Linguistics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
8,340
5,171
0.620
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :18
linguistics
syntax
morphology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
8,292
2,088
0.252
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :19
Cognitive Science
Linguistics
Psychology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
7,806
3,440
0.441
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :20
Computational Linguistics
Corpus Linguistics
Statistics
Digital Hermeneutics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
7,439
2,653
0.357
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :21
Prosody
Laboratory Phonology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
7,324
2,607
0.356
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :22
linguistics
English language
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
7,275
2,370
0.326
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :23
linguistics
English language
English linguistics
corpus linguistics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
7,144
2,454
0.344
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :24
Sociolinguistics
Language Typology
Language Contact
Varieties of English
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6,673
2,882
0.432
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :25
language/communication in education
health & technology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6,605
2,613
0.396
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
6,670
260
10
Ranking Based On Selection: 1
Harald Baayen
Universität Tubingen
Tübingen, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
62,779
24,994
0.398
linguistics
statistics
morphology
cognitive models of language processing
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
29,198
1,265
25
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
Manfred Krifka
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
24,641
7,415
0.301
semantics
pragmatics
syntax
Oceanic languages
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
44,951
1,942
38
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Artemis Alexiadou
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
18,125
6,263
0.346
Linguistics
Syntax
Morphology
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
52,974
2,312
42
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Anton Batliner
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
16,054
6,029
0.376
Paralinguistics
Prosody
Affective Computing
Phonetics
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
68,582
3,009
57
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
Jannis Androutsopoulos
Universität Hamburg
Hamburg, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
13,188
5,500
0.417
Sociolinguistics
Media linguistics
Discourse analysis
Computer-mediated communication
German
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
70,691
3,110
24
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
John Bateman
Universität Bremen
Bremen, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
12,874
5,623
0.437
Language Technology
Applied Ontology
Multimodality
Semiotics
Spatial Language
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
79,515
3,494
34
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
Udo Hahn
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
11,697
3,091
0.264
computational linguistics
natural language processing
language technology
information retrieval
ontology engineering
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
83,815
3,675
173
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
Hans-Jörg Schmid
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
11,194
3,707
0.331
English language
Linguistics
English Linguistics
Cognitive Linguistics
Linguistic theory
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
84,493
3,703
4
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
Michael Strube
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
11,121
4,108
0.369
Natural Language Processing
Computational Linguistics
Artificial Intelligence
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
85,063
3,739
78
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
Chris Biemann
Universität Hamburg
Hamburg, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
11,055
7,068
0.639
language technology
natural language processing
computational linguistics
information retrieval
cognitive computing
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
91,250
4,000
142
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
Francisco Moreno Fernández
Ruprecht Karls Universität Heidelberg
Heidelberg, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
10,425
4,208
0.404
Lingüística
Dialectology
Dialectología
Sociolinguistics
Sociolingüística
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
97,021
4,243
56
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
Ingo Plag
Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
9,891
3,997
0.404
Phonetics
Phonology
Morphology
Syntax
Creole languages
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
98,836
4,322
42
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
Holger Diessel
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
9,729
4,315
0.444
cognitive linguistics
usage-based linguistics
linguistic typology
grammaticalization
construction grammar
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
101,929
4,452
61
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
Anatol Stefanowitsch
Freie Universität Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
9,464
3,982
0.421
Linguistics
Corpus Linguistics
Cognitive Linguistics
Construction Grammar
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
108,190
4,715
64
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
Márcio Seligmann-Silva
Freie Universität Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
8,981
3,582
0.399
Teoria literaria
Walter Benjamin
F. Schlegel
representações da violência nas artes visuais e performance
teor testemunhal
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
108,607
4,729
94
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
Nikolaus P Himmelmann
Universität zu Köln
Köln, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
8,952
3,275
0.366
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
117,654
5,079
46
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
Thuan Tran
Universität Potsdam
Potsdam, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
8,340
5,171
0.620
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
118,437
5,112
61
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
Gereon Müller
Universität Leipzig
Leipzig, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
8,292
2,088
0.252
linguistics
syntax
morphology
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
126,633
5,426
155
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
Michael Ramscar
Universität Tubingen
Tübingen, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
7,806
3,440
0.441
Cognitive Science
Linguistics
Psychology
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
133,484
5,680
99
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
Stefan Evert|Stefan Evert
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
7,439
2,653
0.357
Computational Linguistics
Corpus Linguistics
Statistics
Digital Hermeneutics
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
135,684
5,772
105
Ranking Based On Selection: 21
Martine Grice
Universität zu Köln
Köln, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
7,324
2,607
0.356
Prosody
Laboratory Phonology
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
136,687
5,808
103
Ranking Based On Selection: 22
Bernd Kortmann
Universität Freiburg
Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
7,275
2,370
0.326
linguistics
English language
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
139,367
5,919
105
Ranking Based On Selection: 23
Christian Mair
Universität Freiburg
Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
7,144
2,454
0.344
linguistics
English language
English linguistics
corpus linguistics
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
149,740
6,336
68
Ranking Based On Selection: 24
Raymond Hickey
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6,673
2,882
0.432
Sociolinguistics
Language Typology
Language Contact
Varieties of English
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
151,340
6,392
30
Ranking Based On Selection: 25
Ute Ritterfeld
Technische Universität Dortmund
Dortmund, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6,605
2,613
0.396
language/communication in education
health & technology