Discover the world’s highly cited researchers through the AD Scientific Index 2025 Citation Rankings.
These rankings evaluate scientists based on their total and recent citation counts, capturing the breadth and real-time currency of academic recognition. Citation data reveals how widely a scholar’s work is referenced, applied, and extended across diverse disciplines. The rankings are routinely updated to reflect ongoing citation growth, while eliminating distortions from excessive co-authorship and institutional inflation. Premium tools provide access to detailed citation dynamics, unethical citation behavior detection, and field-normalized benchmarking.
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 1

Adaptación y mitigación al cambio climático
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
7,110
5,303
0.746
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 2

Tropical medicine
neglected disease
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2,247
559
0.249
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 3

ingenieria
educacio
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,673
271
0.162
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 4

Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
966
459
0.475
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 5

VIH
epidemiologí
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
811
479
0.591
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 6

Caña de azúcar
investigación
agricultura
transgénicos
plaga
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
784
180
0.230
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 7

Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
572
476
0.832
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 8

Bioinformática
Genética de poblaciones
Mejoramiento genético de planta
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
388
63
0.162
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 9

Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
375
119
0.317
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* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 10

Zoonosis
Epidemiologí
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
335
118
0.352
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 11

Early Modern Spain
Golden Age Spain
Cervante
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
306
95
0.310
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 12

Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
298
0
0.000
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 13

Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
297
0
0.000
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 14

Endodontics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
296
0
0.000
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 15

Nutrition
maternal and child health
sanitation
enteric diseases
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
296
0
0.000
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 16

Mechanical Engineering
Energy
Water Technologies
Complejidad
Materials
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
295
0
0.000
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 17

Adhesión
Restaurativa
Materiales Dentales
Odontología mínimamente invasiv
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
293
286
0.976
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 18

Food microbiology
food safety
antioxidants in food
food preservation.
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Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
293
0
0.000
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 19

Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
286
206
0.720
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 20

Historia
Antropologia
Etnomusicología: estudios del caribe
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
284
0
0.000
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 21

Quantum Physics
Condensed Matter Physics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
272
0
0.000
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 22

Formulación
evaluación y gestión de proyecto
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
271
227
0.838
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 23

Green innovation
Open innovation
Consumer behavio
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
268
267
0.996
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 24

Cardiac surgery
Pediatric cardiovascular surgery
Clinical trials
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
268
0
0.000
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 25

Biogeography
Evolution
Systematics
Ornithology
Central Americ
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
267
248
0.929
Edwin J Castellanos
Universidad del Valle de Guatemala
Guatemala City, Guatemala
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
7,110
5,303
0.746
Nidia Rizzo
Universidad del Valle de Guatemala
Guatemala City, Guatemala
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2,247
559
0.249
Fernando Cajas
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,673
271
0.162
Norma Padilla
Universidad del Valle de Guatemala
Guatemala City, Guatemala
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
966
459
0.475
Sonia Morales Miranda
Universidad del Valle de Guatemala
Guatemala City, Guatemala
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
811
479
0.591
Cengicaña
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
784
180
0.230
Huong Thi Pham
Universidad Francisco Marroquín
Guatemala City, Guatemala
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
572
476
0.832
Sergio Melgar
Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala
Guatemala City, Guatemala
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
388
63
0.162
Bioinformática
Genética de poblaciones
Mejoramiento genético de planta
Christofer Macario
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
375
119
0.317
Silvia Sosa
Universidad del Valle de Guatemala
Guatemala City, Guatemala
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
335
118
0.352
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Graf Eric Clifford
Universidad Francisco Marroquín
Guatemala City, Guatemala
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Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
306
95
0.310
Carolina Marisol López Y López
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Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
298
0
0.000
Susana Arrechea
Universidad del Valle de Guatemala
Guatemala City, Guatemala
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
297
0
0.000
Sandra R Hernández
Universidad Francisco Marroquín
Guatemala City, Guatemala
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
296
0
0.000
Claudia Jarquin
Universidad del Valle de Guatemala
Guatemala City, Guatemala
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
296
0
0.000
Nutrition
maternal and child health
sanitation
enteric diseases
Jorge Ivan Cifuentes Castillo
Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala
Guatemala City, Guatemala
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
295
0
0.000
Mechanical Engineering
Energy
Water Technologies
Complejidad
Materials
María Luján Méndez Bauer
Universidad Francisco Marroquín
Guatemala City, Guatemala
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
293
286
0.976
Adhesión
Restaurativa
Materiales Dentales
Odontología mínimamente invasiv
Igor Trujillo-Mayol
Universidad del Valle de Guatemala
Guatemala City, Guatemala
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
293
0
0.000
Food microbiology
food safety
antioxidants in food
food preservation.
Juan Carlos Ruben Ruiz Diaz
Universidad Francisco Marroquín
Guatemala City, Guatemala
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
286
206
0.720
Alfonso Arrivillaga Cortés
Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala
Guatemala City, Guatemala
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
284
0
0.000
Giovanni Ramirez Garcia
Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala
Guatemala City, Guatemala
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
272
0
0.000
José Fernando Díaz Echeverría
Universidad Rafael Landívar
Guatemala City, Guatemala
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
271
227
0.838
Hoàng Thu Thảo
Universidad Francisco Marroquín
Guatemala City, Guatemala
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
268
267
0.996
Mariana Chavez R
Universidad Francisco Marroquín
Guatemala City, Guatemala
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
268
0
0.000
Cardiac surgery
Pediatric cardiovascular surgery
Clinical trials
Rosa Alicia Jiménez
Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala
Guatemala City, Guatemala
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
267
248
0.929
Biogeography
Evolution
Systematics
Ornithology
Central Americ