Citation Rankings
Highly Cited Researchers
Business & Management Highly Cited Researchers 15.871 Scientists Citation 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: 26
Social Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
Human-Computer Interaction
AI Literacy
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
39,312
16,742
0.426
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 27
climate change
public health
communication
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
39,021
18,487
0.474
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 28
Digital media
Network Society
Digital Divide
Internet democracy
eGovernment
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
38,930
21,797
0.560
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 29
Web ecosystems
Computational advertising
Web search
User understanding
Randomized algorithms
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
38,004
6,443
0.170
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 30
Communications
coding theory
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
36,639
4,048
0.110
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 31
Urban Studies
Cities
Urban Infrastructure
Urban Security
Digital Media
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
35,736
9,707
0.272
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 32
cultura digital
metodologia da ciência
semiótica cognitiva
estética
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
35,598
9,760
0.274
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 33
Performance Evaluation
Networking
Smart Grid
Network Calculus
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
35,357
5,259
0.149
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 34
political economy of communication
media and communications
digital media and society
media economics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
35,174
16,446
0.468
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 35
Natural Language Processing
Machine Learning
Machine Translation
Computational Advertising
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
34,101
19,904
0.584
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 36
Media Effects
Gaming Disorder
Video Games
Media Psychology
Aggression
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
33,889
13,638
0.402
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 37
Internet studies
social media
journalism
gatewatching
produsage
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
33,870
12,647
0.373
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 38
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
33,790
12,135
0.359
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 39
Child Language
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
33,061
9,875
0.299
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 40
Media Studies
Digital Media
Augmented Reality
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
32,805
7,548
0.230
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 41
Communication Theory
Wireless Communications
5G
6G
Internet of Things
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
32,769
18,422
0.562
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 42
Augmented Reality
head-worn display systems
new media experiences
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
32,416
11,439
0.353
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 43
Communication Networks
Applied Probability
Stochastic Networks
Machine Learning
Cloud Computing
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
32,398
7,693
0.237
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 44
Communication Theory
Information Theory
Wireless Communications
DSL
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
32,222
12,470
0.387
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 45
organizational communication
qualitative research methods
emotion
identity
compassion
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
31,341
17,879
0.570
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 46
multimeida
compression
communication
computer vision
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
30,824
15,990
0.519
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 47
Media Effects
Agenda-setting
Agendamelding
Journalism
History
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
30,621
8,626
0.282
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 48
media violence
video games
thin ideal media
sex in media
race policing and violent crime
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
30,381
14,458
0.476
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 49
health communication
medicine
social science
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
30,208
10,537
0.349
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 50
Human-Centered AI
Social Computing
Computational Social Science
Social Media
Data Science
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
30,119
21,897
0.727
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
15,129
7,131
187
Ranking Based On Selection: 26
Cynthia Breazeal
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
39,312
16,742
0.426
Social Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
Human-Computer Interaction
AI Literacy
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
15,300
7,206
14
Ranking Based On Selection: 27
Edward Maibach
George Mason University
Fairfax, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
39,021
18,487
0.474
climate change
public health
communication
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
15,320
379
9
Ranking Based On Selection: 28
Van Dijk J
University of Twente
Enschede, Netherlands
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
38,930
21,797
0.560
Digital media
Network Society
Digital Divide
Internet democracy
eGovernment
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
15,934
7,475
143
Ranking Based On Selection: 29
Andrei Broder
Google Inc.
California, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
38,004
6,443
0.170
Web ecosystems
Computational advertising
Web search
User understanding
Randomized algorithms
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
16,821
7,889
210
Ranking Based On Selection: 30
G David Forney
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
36,639
4,048
0.110
Communications
coding theory
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
17,518
1,539
18
Ranking Based On Selection: 31
Stephen Graham
Newcastle University
Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
35,736
9,707
0.272
Urban Studies
Cities
Urban Infrastructure
Urban Security
Digital Media
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
17,674
137
2
Ranking Based On Selection: 32
Lucia Santaella
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
35,598
9,760
0.274
cultura digital
metodologia da ciência
semiótica cognitiva
estética
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
17,876
322
51
Ranking Based On Selection: 33
Jean Yves Le Boudec
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
35,357
5,259
0.149
Performance Evaluation
Networking
Smart Grid
Network Calculus
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
18,001
788
2
Ranking Based On Selection: 34
Christian Fuchs
Universität Paderborn
Paderborn, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
35,174
16,446
0.468
political economy of communication
media and communications
digital media and society
media economics
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
18,831
8,754
157
Ranking Based On Selection: 35
Kishore Papineni
Google Inc.
California, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
34,101
19,904
0.584
Natural Language Processing
Machine Learning
Machine Translation
Computational Advertising
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
19,044
8,857
12
Ranking Based On Selection: 36
Douglas A Gentile
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
33,889
13,638
0.402
Media Effects
Gaming Disorder
Video Games
Media Psychology
Aggression
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
19,008
802
21
Ranking Based On Selection: 37
Axel Bruns
Queensland University of Technology
Brisbane, Australia
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
33,870
12,647
0.373
Internet studies
social media
journalism
gatewatching
produsage
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
19,137
8,900
151
Ranking Based On Selection: 38
Kathleen Hall Jamieson
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
33,790
12,135
0.359
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
19,796
9,189
44
Ranking Based On Selection: 39
Bruce Tomblin
University of Iowa
Iowa City, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
33,061
9,875
0.299
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
19,991
9,271
62
Ranking Based On Selection: 40
Jay Bolter
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
32,805
7,548
0.230
Media Studies
Digital Media
Augmented Reality
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
20,078
160
13
Ranking Based On Selection: 41
Petar Popovski
Aalborg University
Aalborg, Denmark
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
32,769
18,422
0.562
Communication Theory
Wireless Communications
5G
6G
Internet of Things
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
20,371
9,426
3
Ranking Based On Selection: 42
Ronald Azuma
Intel Corporation
California, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
32,416
11,439
0.353
Augmented Reality
head-worn display systems
new media experiences
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
20,444
9,458
81
Ranking Based On Selection: 43
R Srikant|Rayadurgam Srikant
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
32,398
7,693
0.237
Communication Networks
Applied Probability
Stochastic Networks
Machine Learning
Cloud Computing
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
20,572
834
132
Ranking Based On Selection: 44
Wei Yu
University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
32,222
12,470
0.387
Communication Theory
Information Theory
Wireless Communications
DSL
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
21,483
9,921
77
Ranking Based On Selection: 45
Sarah J Tracy
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
31,341
17,879
0.570
organizational communication
qualitative research methods
emotion
identity
compassion
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
22,059
782
18
Ranking Based On Selection: 46
Feng Wu 吴枫
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
30,824
15,990
0.519
multimeida
compression
communication
computer vision
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
22,311
10,270
107
Ranking Based On Selection: 47
Donald L Shaw
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
30,621
8,626
0.282
Media Effects
Agenda-setting
Agendamelding
Journalism
History
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
22,609
10,411
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 48
Christopher Ferguson
Stetson University
DeLand, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
30,381
14,458
0.476
media violence
video games
thin ideal media
sex in media
race policing and violent crime
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
22,805
10,506
62
Ranking Based On Selection: 49
Richard Street
Texas A&M University
College Station, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
30,208
10,537
0.349
health communication
medicine
social science
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
22,930
10,564
133
Ranking Based On Selection: 50
Emilio Ferrara
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
30,119
21,897
0.727
Human-Centered AI
Social Computing
Computational Social Science
Social Media
Data Science