Citation Rankings
Highly Cited Researchers
Natural Sciences / Physics Highly Cited Researchers 88 Scientists Citation in New Zealand Rankings - 2025
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: 51
physics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,989
1,033
0.519
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 52
Theoretical Physics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,881
437
0.232
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 53
Physics
Atomic Physics
Laser cooling and Trapping
Bose-Einstein Condensation
BEC
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,837
543
0.296
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 54
Laser
Fiber Laser
Nonlinear Optics
Laser micro-machining
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,768
622
0.352
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 55
Physics - ultra-cold gases
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,671
1,076
0.644
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 56
Cosmogenic Isotopes
Geomorphology
Geo-neutrinos
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,518
422
0.278
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 57
Applied physics
Materials Science
Nanotechnology
Ion Implantation
Nuclear Sciences
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,512
793
0.524
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 58
Photonics
Nonlinear Optics
Ultrafast spectroscopy
Adaptive optics
Vibrational spectroscopy
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,308
369
0.282
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 59
ensemble flow forecasting
flood and hazards
general relativity
cosmology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,261
528
0.419
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 60
Superconductivity
Skyrmions
Ionic Liquid Gating
Condensed Matter
Metrology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,216
527
0.433
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 61
Adaptive optics
Phase retrieval
Ptychography
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Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,194
435
0.364
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 62
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,186
284
0.239
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 63
Theoretical Psychology
Gender based violence
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,125
322
0.286
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 64
virtual reality
eyetracking
optometry
emmetropisation
psychophysics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,057
769
0.728
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 65
Nonlinear physics
ultrafast optics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,029
796
0.774
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 66
Neuron modelling
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
Theoretical Physics
Physics Teaching
Batteries
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,004
351
0.350
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 67
ultrafast lasers
material processing
photoinjectors
surface micro/nano patterning
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Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
937
751
0.801
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 68
Cosmology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
937
285
0.304
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 69
Radiation belt plasma physics
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Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
916
637
0.695
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 70
Quantum technologies
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
828
570
0.688
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 71
Tidal energy arrays
physical oceanography
numerical modelling
fluid mechanics
Geomagnetically induced currents
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
787
489
0.621
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 72
physical volcanology
volcaniclastic sedimentology
volcanic mass flows
explosive volcanism
tephrochronology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
762
434
0.570
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 73
Atomic Physics
Ultracold Quantum Matter
Quantum Information
Laser Physics
Light-atom Interaction
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
744
369
0.496
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 74
Quantum fluids
Spinor Bose gases
Vortex dynamics
Disordered quantum systems
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
703
544
0.774
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 75
Bose-Einstein Condensates
Vortices
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
655
229
0.350
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
450,556
2,484
603
Ranking Based On Selection: 51
Frédérique Vanholsbeeck
University of Auckland
Auckland, New Zealand
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,989
1,033
0.519
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
468,593
2,569
476
Ranking Based On Selection: 52
David AW Hutchinson
University of Otago
North Dunedin, New Zealand
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,881
437
0.232
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
476,273
2,614
634
Ranking Based On Selection: 53
Maarten Hoogerland
University of Auckland
Auckland, New Zealand
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,837
543
0.296
Physics
Atomic Physics
Laser cooling and Trapping
Bose-Einstein Condensation
BEC
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
488,985
2,687
648
Ranking Based On Selection: 54
Claude Aguergaray
University of Auckland
Auckland, New Zealand
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,768
622
0.352
Laser
Fiber Laser
Nonlinear Optics
Laser micro-machining
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
507,796
2,781
506
Ranking Based On Selection: 55
Danny Baillie
University of Otago
North Dunedin, New Zealand
Citation Metrics
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Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,671
1,076
0.644
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
540,469
2,979
62
Ranking Based On Selection: 56
Albert Zondervan
GNS Science
Lower Hutt, New Zealand
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,518
422
0.278
Cosmogenic Isotopes
Geomorphology
Geo-neutrinos
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
541,809
2,987
63
Ranking Based On Selection: 57
Jerome Leveneur|Jérôme Leveneur, J Leveneur
GNS Science
Lower Hutt, New Zealand
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,512
793
0.524
Applied physics
Materials Science
Nanotechnology
Ion Implantation
Nuclear Sciences
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
592,190
3,216
323
Ranking Based On Selection: 58
Karen E Thorn
Victoria University of Wellington
Wellington, New Zealand
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,308
369
0.282
Photonics
Nonlinear Optics
Ultrafast spectroscopy
Adaptive optics
Vibrational spectroscopy
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
604,994
3,276
72
Ranking Based On Selection: 59
Celine Cattoen
Citation Metrics
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Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,261
528
0.419
ensemble flow forecasting
flood and hazards
general relativity
cosmology
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
617,932
3,330
335
Ranking Based On Selection: 60
Guy Dubuis
Victoria University of Wellington
Wellington, New Zealand
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,216
527
0.433
Superconductivity
Skyrmions
Ionic Liquid Gating
Condensed Matter
Metrology
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
624,492
3,361
249
Ranking Based On Selection: 61
Richard Clare
University of Canterbury
Christchurch, New Zealand
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,194
435
0.364
Adaptive optics
Phase retrieval
Ptychography
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
626,917
3,375
604
Ranking Based On Selection: 62
Timothy CA Molteno
University of Otago
North Dunedin, New Zealand
Citation Metrics
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Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,186
284
0.239
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
646,052
3,458
355
Ranking Based On Selection: 63
Mandy Morgan
Massey University
Palmerston North, New Zealand
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,125
322
0.286
Theoretical Psychology
Gender based violence
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
668,120
3,554
811
Ranking Based On Selection: 64
Philip Turnbull
University of Auckland
Auckland, New Zealand
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,057
769
0.728
virtual reality
eyetracking
optometry
emmetropisation
psychophysics
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
677,820
3,593
816
Ranking Based On Selection: 65
Gang Xu
University of Auckland
Auckland, New Zealand
Citation Metrics
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Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,029
796
0.774
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
686,920
3,633
195
Ranking Based On Selection: 66
Marcus Wilson
University of Waikato
Hamilton, New Zealand
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,004
351
0.350
Neuron modelling
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
Theoretical Physics
Physics Teaching
Batteries
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
711,421
3,737
847
Ranking Based On Selection: 67
M Martinez Calderon
University of Auckland
Auckland, New Zealand
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
937
751
0.801
ultrafast lasers
material processing
photoinjectors
surface micro/nano patterning
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
711,703
3,741
204
Ranking Based On Selection: 68
Woei Chet Lim
University of Waikato
Hamilton, New Zealand
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Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
937
285
0.304
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
719,703
3,769
658
Ranking Based On Selection: 69
Aaron T Hendry
University of Otago
North Dunedin, New Zealand
Citation Metrics
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Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
916
637
0.695
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
755,725
3,914
679
Ranking Based On Selection: 70
Nicholas J Lambert
University of Otago
North Dunedin, New Zealand
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
828
570
0.688
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
773,502
3,984
695
Ranking Based On Selection: 71
Tim Divett
University of Otago
North Dunedin, New Zealand
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
787
489
0.621
Tidal energy arrays
physical oceanography
numerical modelling
fluid mechanics
Geomagnetically induced currents
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
784,847
4,025
410
Ranking Based On Selection: 72
Anke Verena Zernack
Massey University
Palmerston North, New Zealand
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
762
434
0.570
physical volcanology
volcaniclastic sedimentology
volcanic mass flows
explosive volcanism
tephrochronology
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
793,058
4,056
705
Ranking Based On Selection: 73
Amita Deb
University of Otago
North Dunedin, New Zealand
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
744
369
0.496
Atomic Physics
Ultracold Quantum Matter
Quantum Information
Laser Physics
Light-atom Interaction
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
812,364
4,125
715
Ranking Based On Selection: 74
Xiaoquan Yu
University of Otago
North Dunedin, New Zealand
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
703
544
0.774
Quantum fluids
Spinor Bose gases
Vortex dynamics
Disordered quantum systems
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
836,434
4,228
732
Ranking Based On Selection: 75
Sam Rooney
University of Otago
North Dunedin, New Zealand
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
655
229
0.350