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
discourse analysis
pragmatics
linguistics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
54,937
14,323
0.261
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
Prehistory
human evolution
archeology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
36,034
12,564
0.349
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
NLP
IA
LLM
Predictive Linguistics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
19,686
9,182
0.466
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Biodiversity
ecology
evolution
dispersal
life history
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
16,599
7,046
0.424
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
Music
Language
brain
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
16,504
4,307
0.261
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
circuit design
programming languages
formal semantics
formal verification
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
13,988
1,131
0.081
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
interpretable machine learning
IML
explainable AI
open content
literature reviews
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
13,718
7,581
0.553
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
information systems
organizational transformation
literature review
DevOps
PLM
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
11,542
7,153
0.620
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
NLP
Language Modelling
Low-resource Languages
Machine Translation
Computational Linguistics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
11,304
8,386
0.742
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
philosophie des sciences cognitives
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
10,363
4,671
0.451
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
beads
archaeology
ethnoarchaeology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
10,209
2,914
0.285
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
Wittgenstein
Cavell
Ordinary Language Philosophy
Care ethics
TV series
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
9,023
3,927
0.435
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
linguistique
didactique des langues
français langue étrangère
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
8,225
2,658
0.323
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
Globalization
Governance
Business History
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
7,988
2,191
0.274
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
Sociolinguistique (politiques linguistiques éducatives
francophonie
plurilinguisme) et didactique des langues (curriculum...)
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
7,684
4,576
0.596
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
computational linguistics
graph theory
industrial organization
economic development
physiology and economics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
7,503
1,084
0.144
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
Formal Semantics
Dialogue
Cognitive Science
Language Acquisition
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
7,396
1,993
0.269
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
dispersal
life history
adaptation
climate change
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
7,293
2,556
0.350
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
7,012
2,500
0.357
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
history of science
history of medicine
gender
women's health
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6,910
2,081
0.301
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 21
Mountain Soils
Soil erosion
Soil and Ecosystem history
Soil Organic Matter
Lake sediments
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6,418
3,291
0.513
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 22
Enonciation
analyse de discours
linguistique textuelle
interactions
narratologie
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6,288
1,946
0.309
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 23
Philosophie de l'esprit
épistémologie
philosophie des sciences cognitives
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6,161
1,723
0.280
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 24
Archéologie
ethnoarchéologie
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6,095
2,516
0.413
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 25
Histoire de la pensée chinoise
confucianisme
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
5,748
1,697
0.295
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
8,871
156
12
Ranking Based On Selection: 1
Dominique Maingueneau
Sorbonne Université
Paris, France
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
54,937
14,323
0.261
discourse analysis
pragmatics
linguistics
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
17,342
318
6
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
Francesco D Errico
Université de Bordeaux
Bordeaux, France
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
36,034
12,564
0.349
Prehistory
human evolution
archeology
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
42,482
890
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Guidere Mathieu
Université de Paris VIII
Saint-Denis, France
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
19,686
9,182
0.466
NLP
IA
LLM
Predictive Linguistics
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
53,529
1,192
8
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Michel Baguette
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
16,599
7,046
0.424
Biodiversity
ecology
evolution
dispersal
life history
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
53,995
1,204
30
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
Mireille Besson
Université D'Aix Marseille
Marseille, France
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
16,504
4,307
0.261
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
67,121
1,574
9
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
Gérard Berry
Université PSL Paris
Paris, France
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
13,988
1,131
0.081
circuit design
programming languages
formal semantics
formal verification
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
68,805
1,620
3
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
Chitu Okoli
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
13,718
7,581
0.553
interpretable machine learning
IML
explainable AI
open content
literature reviews
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
85,124
2,085
28
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
Frantz Rowe
Université de Nantes
Nantes, France
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
11,542
7,153
0.620
information systems
organizational transformation
literature review
DevOps
PLM
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
87,338
2,151
64
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
Benoît Sagot
Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique
Le Chesnay-Rocquencourt, France
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
11,304
8,386
0.742
NLP
Language Modelling
Low-resource Languages
Machine Translation
Computational Linguistics
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
96,712
2,441
6
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
Pierre Jacob
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
10,363
4,671
0.451
philosophie des sciences cognitives
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
98,404
2,496
53
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
Vanhaeren
Université de Bordeaux
Bordeaux, France
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
10,209
2,914
0.285
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
113,289
2,988
5
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
Sandra Laugier
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
9,023
3,927
0.435
Wittgenstein
Cavell
Ordinary Language Philosophy
Care ethics
TV series
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
125,612
3,365
2
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
Jean Claude Beacco
Université de Paris III
Paris, France
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
8,225
2,658
0.323
linguistique
didactique des langues
français langue étrangère
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
129,744
3,499
28
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
Marie Laure Salles Djelic
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
7,988
2,191
0.274
Globalization
Governance
Business History
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
135,392
3,680
7
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
Pierre Martinez
Université de Paris VIII
Saint-Denis, France
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
7,684
4,576
0.596
Sociolinguistique (politiques linguistiques éducatives
francophonie
plurilinguisme) et didactique des langues (curriculum...)
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
138,923
3,804
38
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
Philip M. Parker
INSEAD Business School
Fontainebleau, France
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
7,503
1,084
0.144
computational linguistics
graph theory
industrial organization
economic development
physiology and economics
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
141,096
3,876
36
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
Jonathan Ginzburg
Université Paris Cité
Paris, France
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
7,396
1,993
0.269
Formal Semantics
Dialogue
Cognitive Science
Language Acquisition
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
143,193
3,948
40
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
Ophélie Ronce
Géosciences Montpellier
Montpellier, France
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
7,293
2,556
0.350
dispersal
life history
adaptation
climate change
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
149,213
4,154
47
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
Keith Philippe
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
7,012
2,500
0.357
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
151,533
4,238
152
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
Ilana Löwy
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6,910
2,081
0.301
history of science
history of medicine
gender
women's health
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
163,588
4,652
12
Ranking Based On Selection: 21
Jérôme Poulenard
Université de Savoie Mont Blanc
Chambéry, France
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6,418
3,291
0.513
Mountain Soils
Soil erosion
Soil and Ecosystem history
Soil Organic Matter
Lake sediments
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
167,041
4,771
110
Ranking Based On Selection: 22
Alain Rabatel
Université de Lyon I
Villeurbanne, France
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6,288
1,946
0.309
Enonciation
analyse de discours
linguistique textuelle
interactions
narratologie
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
170,440
4,862
9
Ranking Based On Selection: 23
Joelle Proust
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6,161
1,723
0.280
Philosophie de l'esprit
épistémologie
philosophie des sciences cognitives
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
172,290
4,922
167
Ranking Based On Selection: 24
Roux Valentine
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6,095
2,516
0.413
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
182,757
5,253
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 25
Wang Frédéric
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
5,748
1,697
0.295
Histoire de la pensée chinoise
confucianisme