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Highly Cited Researchers

University of Exeter Highly Cited Researchers Citation Rankings 2025

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 should be new regulations for multi-author and CERN papers. Citation lists also reveal many rule violations and unethical practices. See also for more specific citation analyses: Scientists Last 6 years Citation IndexUniversities Total Citations Rankings 2025 and Universities Last 6 Years Citations Rankings 2025

* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :1,301
United Kingdom
Nicholas Kirsop-Taylor
Environmental Public Policy & Administration
Environmental Governance
Environmental Voluntary
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
116
115
0.991
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :1,302
United Kingdom
James D Galbraith
transposons
evolution
genetics
bioinformatics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
116
115
0.991
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :1,303
United Kingdom
Xiaocheng Hu
Empirical economics
Life cycle assessment
Circular economy
Sustainability
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
115
115
1.000
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :1,304
United Kingdom
Wang Miaomin
Computer Vision
Wireless sensors
Structural health monitoring
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
114
113
0.991
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :1,305
United Kingdom
Kris Deering
Mental health acute care and risk assessment/management
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
114
109
0.956
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :1,306
United Kingdom
Gareth Hawkes
genetics
bioinformatics
statistical genetics
GWAS
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
113
112
0.991
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :1,307
United Kingdom
Nesreen Tantawy
Second Language Acquisition
English Medium of Instruction
Second Language Teaching and Learning
Teachers' Professional Develo
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
113
111
0.982
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :1,308
United Kingdom
Jca Rocha|José Carlos do Amaral Rocha, ROCHA. J. C. A.
Structured Light
Wavefront Shaping
Nonlinear Wave Mixing
Computational Optics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
112
111
0.991
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :1,309
United Kingdom
Nicko Kassotakis
Structural health monitoring
high-fidelity numerical modelling
discrete element method
machine learning models
structural su
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
112
110
0.982
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :1,310
United Kingdom
Patrizia Onnis
Geochemistry - Hydrology - Mineralogy - Metals - Mine - Environmental Pollution
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
112
102
0.911
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :1,311
United Kingdom
Pedro Perfeito Da Silva
Political Science
Political Economy
Latin America
Creative Economy
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
112
100
0.893
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :1,312
United Kingdom
Qiang Li
Raman spectroscopy
cellulose
supercapacitors
carbon nanotubes
carbon fiber
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
111
107
0.964
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :1,313
United Kingdom
Chris Yeomans
Geoscience
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
110
104
0.945
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :1,314
United Kingdom
Daniela Fernández
gender
social class
self and identity
inequality
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
110
90
0.818
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :1,315
United Kingdom
Luciano Parisi
italian literature
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
110
37
0.336
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :1,316
United Kingdom
Michelle Bailey
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
109
109
1.000
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :1,317
United Kingdom
Tiago De Melo Cartaxo
Environmental Law
Climate Change
Environmental Justice
Sustainable Cities
Environmental Policy
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
109
92
0.844
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :1,318
United Kingdom
Angela Stockton
public health
biomedical sciences
pomegranate
healthy ageing
preventative health
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
109
91
0.835
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :1,319
United Kingdom
Nikol Voutsina
genomics
genome editing
transcriptomics
rare diseases
neurodegeneration
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
108
97
0.898
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :1,320
United Kingdom
Shuang Dai
Smart energy
Time-series analysis
Distributed machine learning
Transfer learning
Online learning
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
107
107
1.000
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :1,321
United Kingdom
Sanjit Chandra Debnath
Aquatic microbiology
Bacterial taxonomy
Fish Microbiome
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
106
105
0.991
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :1,322
United Kingdom
Chaitanya K Mididoddi
Biomedical Optics
Ultrafast Imaging
optical signal processing
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
106
85
0.802
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :1,323
United Kingdom
Fu Wang
Robust Machine Learning
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
105
105
1.000
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :1,324
United Kingdom
Kong You Liow
Star clusters
ISM
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
105
105
1.000
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :1,325
United Kingdom
Fabrice Ntimugura
Building Science
Sustainability
Construction materials
Circular economy
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
105
105
1.000
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,499,367
United Kingdom
76,573
1,301
Ranking Based On Selection: 1,301
Nicholas Kirsop-Taylor
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
116
115
0.991
Environmental Public Policy & Administration
Environmental Governance
Environmental Voluntary
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,499,367
United Kingdom
76,573
1,301
Ranking Based On Selection: 1,302
James D Galbraith
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
116
115
0.991
transposons
evolution
genetics
bioinformatics
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,502,782
United Kingdom
76,676
1,303
Ranking Based On Selection: 1,303
Xiaocheng Hu
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
115
115
1.000
Empirical economics
Life cycle assessment
Circular economy
Sustainability
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,506,482
United Kingdom
76,795
1,304
Ranking Based On Selection: 1,304
Wang Miaomin
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
114
113
0.991
Computer Vision
Wireless sensors
Structural health monitoring
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,507,101
United Kingdom
76,813
1,305
Ranking Based On Selection: 1,305
Kris Deering
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
114
109
0.956
Mental health acute care and risk assessment/management
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,510,154
United Kingdom
76,905
1,306
Ranking Based On Selection: 1,306
Gareth Hawkes
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
113
112
0.991
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,510,387
United Kingdom
76,913
1,307
Ranking Based On Selection: 1,307
Nesreen Tantawy
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
113
111
0.982
Second Language Acquisition
English Medium of Instruction
Second Language Teaching and Learning
Teachers' Professional Develo
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,513,761
United Kingdom
77,018
1,308
Ranking Based On Selection: 1,308
Jca Rocha|José Carlos do Amaral Rocha, ROCHA. J. C. A.
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
112
111
0.991
Structured Light
Wavefront Shaping
Nonlinear Wave Mixing
Computational Optics
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,513,959
United Kingdom
77,029
1,309
Ranking Based On Selection: 1,309
Nicko Kassotakis
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
112
110
0.982
Structural health monitoring
high-fidelity numerical modelling
discrete element method
machine learning models
structural su
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,514,567
United Kingdom
77,066
1,310
Ranking Based On Selection: 1,310
Patrizia Onnis
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
112
102
0.911
Geochemistry - Hydrology - Mineralogy - Metals - Mine - Environmental Pollution
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,514,695
United Kingdom
77,073
1,311
Ranking Based On Selection: 1,311
Pedro Perfeito Da Silva
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
112
100
0.893
Political Science
Political Economy
Latin America
Creative Economy
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,517,749
United Kingdom
77,195
1,312
Ranking Based On Selection: 1,312
Qiang Li
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
111
107
0.964
Raman spectroscopy
cellulose
supercapacitors
carbon nanotubes
carbon fiber
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,521,492
United Kingdom
77,341
1,313
Ranking Based On Selection: 1,313
Chris Yeomans
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
110
104
0.945
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,522,188
United Kingdom
77,362
1,314
Ranking Based On Selection: 1,314
Daniela Fernández
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
110
90
0.818
gender
social class
self and identity
inequality
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,523,568
United Kingdom
77,402
1,315
Ranking Based On Selection: 1,315
Luciano Parisi
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
110
37
0.336
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,524,356
United Kingdom
77,430
1,316
Ranking Based On Selection: 1,316
Michelle Bailey
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
109
109
1.000
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,525,701
United Kingdom
77,480
1,317
Ranking Based On Selection: 1,317
Tiago De Melo Cartaxo
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
109
92
0.844
Environmental Law
Climate Change
Environmental Justice
Sustainable Cities
Environmental Policy
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,525,771
United Kingdom
77,484
1,318
Ranking Based On Selection: 1,318
Angela Stockton
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
109
91
0.835
public health
biomedical sciences
pomegranate
healthy ageing
preventative health
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,529,051
United Kingdom
77,601
1,319
Ranking Based On Selection: 1,319
Nikol Voutsina
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
108
97
0.898
genomics
genome editing
transcriptomics
rare diseases
neurodegeneration
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,531,484
United Kingdom
77,678
1,320
Ranking Based On Selection: 1,320
Shuang Dai
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
107
107
1.000
Smart energy
Time-series analysis
Distributed machine learning
Transfer learning
Online learning
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,535,717
United Kingdom
77,785
1,321
Ranking Based On Selection: 1,321
Sanjit Chandra Debnath
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
106
105
0.991
Aquatic microbiology
Bacterial taxonomy
Fish Microbiome
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,537,171
United Kingdom
77,836
1,322
Ranking Based On Selection: 1,322
Chaitanya K Mididoddi
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
106
85
0.802
Biomedical Optics
Ultrafast Imaging
optical signal processing
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,538,856
United Kingdom
77,878
1,323
Ranking Based On Selection: 1,323
Fu Wang
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
105
105
1.000
Robust Machine Learning
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,538,995
United Kingdom
77,889
1,324
Ranking Based On Selection: 1,324
Kong You Liow
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
105
105
1.000
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,539,078
United Kingdom
77,892
1,325
Ranking Based On Selection: 1,325
Fabrice Ntimugura
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
105
105
1.000
Building Science
Sustainability
Construction materials
Circular economy