Citation Rankings
Highly Cited Researchers
Business & Management / Communications and Media Studies Highly Cited Researchers Citation Rankings 2025
The Citation Rankings (Highly Cited Researchers) 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
Media Psychology
Psychology of Technology
Communication Science
Sex Research
Research Methods
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
38,974
15,383
0.395
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :27
Social Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
Human-Computer Interaction
AI Literacy
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
38,352
18,175
0.474
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :28
Web ecosystems
Computational advertising
Web search
User understanding
Randomized algorithms
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
37,722
7,737
0.205
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :29
Digital media
Network Society
Digital Divide
Internet democracy
eGovernment
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
37,600
23,121
0.615
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :30
Communications
coding theory
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
36,458
4,914
0.135
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :31
cultura digital
metodologia da ciência
semiótica cognitiva
estética
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
35,392
11,727
0.331
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :32
Urban Studies
Cities
Urban Infrastructure
Urban Security
Digital Media
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
35,325
11,500
0.326
* 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
35,175
6,357
0.181
* 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
34,159
18,707
0.548
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :35
Internet studies
social media
journalism
gatewatching
produsage
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
33,250
14,656
0.441
* 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
33,231
15,629
0.470
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :37
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
33,227
13,308
0.401
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :38
Natural Language Processing
Machine Learning
Machine Translation
Computational Advertising
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
32,836
20,938
0.638
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :39
Child Language
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
32,638
11,453
0.351
* 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
32,349
8,926
0.276
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :41
Communication Networks
Applied Probability
Stochastic Networks
Machine Learning
Cloud Computing
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
32,059
8,600
0.268
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :42
Communication Theory
Wireless Communications
5G
6G
Internet of Things
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
31,815
20,097
0.632
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :43
Augmented Reality
head-worn display systems
new media experiences
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
31,797
13,229
0.416
* 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
31,629
13,767
0.435
* 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
30,489
19,568
0.642
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :46
Media Effects
Agenda-setting
Agendamelding
Journalism
History
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
30,049
9,941
0.331
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :47
multimeida
compression
communication
computer vision
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
29,815
17,015
0.571
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :48
health communication
medicine
social science
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
29,760
12,000
0.403
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :49
mass media
propaganda
qualitative research methods
social control
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
29,276
8,261
0.282
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :50
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
29,275
16,051
0.548
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
14,898
644
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 26
Nicola Döring
Technische Universität Ilmenau
Ilmenau, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
38,974
15,383
0.395
Media Psychology
Psychology of Technology
Communication Science
Sex Research
Research Methods
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
15,271
7,209
189
Ranking Based On Selection: 27
Cynthia Breazeal
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
38,352
18,175
0.474
Social Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
Human-Computer Interaction
AI Literacy
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
15,664
7,381
135
Ranking Based On Selection: 28
Andrei Broder
Google Inc.
California, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
37,722
7,737
0.205
Web ecosystems
Computational advertising
Web search
User understanding
Randomized algorithms
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
15,743
391
10
Ranking Based On Selection: 29
Van Dijk J
University of Twente
Enschede, Netherlands
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
37,600
23,121
0.615
Digital media
Network Society
Digital Divide
Internet democracy
eGovernment
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
16,547
7,789
207
Ranking Based On Selection: 30
G David Forney
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
36,458
4,914
0.135
Communications
coding theory
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
17,323
133
2
Ranking Based On Selection: 31
Lucia Santaella
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
35,392
11,727
0.331
cultura digital
metodologia da ciência
semiótica cognitiva
estética
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
17,374
1,531
17
Ranking Based On Selection: 32
Stephen Graham
Newcastle University
Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
35,325
11,500
0.326
Urban Studies
Cities
Urban Infrastructure
Urban Security
Digital Media
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
17,490
317
51
Ranking Based On Selection: 33
Jean Yves Le Boudec
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
35,175
6,357
0.181
Performance Evaluation
Networking
Smart Grid
Network Calculus
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
18,277
799
2
Ranking Based On Selection: 34
Christian Fuchs
Universität Paderborn
Paderborn, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
34,159
18,707
0.548
political economy of communication
media and communications
digital media and society
media economics
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
19,050
800
20
Ranking Based On Selection: 35
Axel Bruns
Queensland University of Technology
Brisbane, Australia
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
33,250
14,656
0.441
Internet studies
social media
journalism
gatewatching
produsage
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
19,066
8,906
12
Ranking Based On Selection: 36
Douglas A Gentile
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
33,231
15,629
0.470
Media Effects
Gaming Disorder
Video Games
Media Psychology
Aggression
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
19,070
8,908
152
Ranking Based On Selection: 37
Kathleen Hall Jamieson
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
33,227
13,308
0.401
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
19,426
9,054
154
Ranking Based On Selection: 38
Kishore Papineni
Google Inc.
California, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
32,836
20,938
0.638
Natural Language Processing
Machine Learning
Machine Translation
Computational Advertising
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
19,615
9,144
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
32,638
11,453
0.351
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
19,916
9,258
62
Ranking Based On Selection: 40
Jay Bolter
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
32,349
8,926
0.276
Media Studies
Digital Media
Augmented Reality
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
20,204
9,381
82
Ranking Based On Selection: 41
R Srikant|Rayadurgam Srikant
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
32,059
8,600
0.268
Communication Networks
Applied Probability
Stochastic Networks
Machine Learning
Cloud Computing
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
20,439
167
14
Ranking Based On Selection: 42
Petar Popovski
Aalborg University
Aalborg, Denmark
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
31,815
20,097
0.632
Communication Theory
Wireless Communications
5G
6G
Internet of Things
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
20,465
9,499
3
Ranking Based On Selection: 43
Ronald Azuma
Intel Corporation
California, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
31,797
13,229
0.416
Augmented Reality
head-worn display systems
new media experiences
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
20,655
838
131
Ranking Based On Selection: 44
Wei Yu
University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
31,629
13,767
0.435
Communication Theory
Information Theory
Wireless Communications
DSL
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
21,800
10,082
78
Ranking Based On Selection: 45
Sarah J Tracy
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
30,489
19,568
0.642
organizational communication
qualitative research methods
emotion
identity
compassion
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
22,324
10,322
108
Ranking Based On Selection: 46
Donald L Shaw
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
30,049
9,941
0.331
Media Effects
Agenda-setting
Agendamelding
Journalism
History
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
22,641
784
17
Ranking Based On Selection: 47
Feng Wu 吴枫
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
29,815
17,015
0.571
multimeida
compression
communication
computer vision
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
22,706
10,495
60
Ranking Based On Selection: 48
Richard Street
Texas A&M University
College Station, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
29,760
12,000
0.403
health communication
medicine
social science
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
23,302
10,771
85
Ranking Based On Selection: 49
David Altheide
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
29,276
8,261
0.282
mass media
propaganda
qualitative research methods
social control
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
23,303
10,772
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 50
Christopher Ferguson
Stetson University
DeLand, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
29,275
16,051
0.548
media violence
video games
thin ideal media
sex in media
race policing and violent crime