Citation Rankings
Highly Cited Researchers
History, Philosophy, Theology / History Highly Cited Researchers 18.183 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
bumblebees
systematics
biogeography
ecology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
28,862
6,094
0.211
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 27
Star Formation
Planet Formation
Interstellar Medium Structure
Galaxy Evolution
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
28,430
7,591
0.267
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 28
French Revolution
cultural history
gender history
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
28,420
5,575
0.196
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 29
Astrophysics
History of Cosmology
Ancient Science
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
27,727
8,899
0.321
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 30
Lithic technology
Prehistory
Human Evolution
Paleoecology
Paleolithic
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
26,442
8,283
0.313
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 31
Palynology
Palaeoecology
Pollen analysis
Vegetation history
Quaternary geology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
26,061
6,801
0.261
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 32
Natural history of trace metals
Marine biology of trace metals
Barnacle biology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
25,524
4,748
0.186
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 33
Inequality
Public economics
International macro
Economic history
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
25,491
17,647
0.692
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 34
paleontology
systematics
geology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
25,201
7,493
0.297
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 35
Historical Demography
Family Demography
History of the Family
Demography
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
25,040
10,752
0.429
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 36
historical thinking
web credibility
digital literacy
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
24,936
8,460
0.339
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 37
Systematics
Evolution
Behavior
Biodiversity
Arachnology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
24,523
6,625
0.270
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 38
ethics
history of ethics
practical reason
action
animal ethics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
24,101
7,292
0.303
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 39
Systematic Biology
Evolutionary Biology
Vertebrate Biology
Herpetology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
24,097
6,080
0.252
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 40
Coleoptera Systematics
Biodiversity
Conservation Biology
Biogeography
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
23,749
7,435
0.313
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 41
Mycology
Phylogenetics
Systematics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
23,713
11,735
0.495
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 42
gendered innovations
gender methodology
intersectional analysis
colonialism
Atlantic World
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
23,308
10,321
0.443
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 43
climate change
species interactions
fragmentation
natural history
ecology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
23,063
9,716
0.421
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 44
Quaternary Geology
Glacial history
Paleoclimate
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
22,796
4,520
0.198
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 45
Hereditary eye disease
hereditary cancer
natural history of hereditary diseases
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
22,158
3,279
0.148
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 46
historiography
memory studies
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
21,883
4,975
0.227
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 47
Afrocentricity
African American studies
intercultural communication
rhetoric. african history
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
21,590
5,284
0.245
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 48
Systematics
arthropod evolution
palaeontology
Chilopoda
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
21,421
7,027
0.328
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 49
soil ecology
termites
ecosystem engineers
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
21,336
6,735
0.316
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 50
Technological Change
Economic Growth
Labour Markets
Economic History
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
21,327
13,595
0.637
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
24,460
2,138
5
Ranking Based On Selection: 26
Paul Williams
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
28,862
6,094
0.211
bumblebees
systematics
biogeography
ecology
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
25,012
11,486
5
Ranking Based On Selection: 27
Mordecai-Mark Mac Low
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
28,430
7,591
0.267
Star Formation
Planet Formation
Interstellar Medium Structure
Galaxy Evolution
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
25,026
11,493
233
Ranking Based On Selection: 28
Lynn Hunt
University of California Los Angeles
Los Angeles, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
28,420
5,575
0.196
French Revolution
cultural history
gender history
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
25,931
1,017
53
Ranking Based On Selection: 29
Alberto Cappi
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
27,727
8,899
0.321
Astrophysics
History of Cosmology
Ancient Science
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
27,922
509
5
Ranking Based On Selection: 30
Eudald Carbonell
Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Tarragona, Spain
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
26,442
8,283
0.313
Lithic technology
Prehistory
Human Evolution
Paleoecology
Paleolithic
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
28,510
746
68
Ranking Based On Selection: 31
Bas Van Geel
University of Amsterdam
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
26,061
6,801
0.261
Palynology
Palaeoecology
Pollen analysis
Vegetation history
Quaternary geology
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
29,384
2,558
6
Ranking Based On Selection: 32
Rainbow PS
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
25,524
4,748
0.186
Natural history of trace metals
Marine biology of trace metals
Barnacle biology
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
29,428
13,352
310
Ranking Based On Selection: 33
Gabriel Zucman
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
25,491
17,647
0.692
Inequality
Public economics
International macro
Economic history
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
29,985
13,604
8
Ranking Based On Selection: 34
Mark Norell
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
25,201
7,493
0.297
paleontology
systematics
geology
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
30,268
13,726
176
Ranking Based On Selection: 35
Steven Ruggles
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Minneapolis, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
25,040
10,752
0.429
Historical Demography
Family Demography
History of the Family
Demography
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
30,463
13,817
530
Ranking Based On Selection: 36
Sam Wineburg
Stanford University
Stanford, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
24,936
8,460
0.339
historical thinking
web credibility
digital literacy
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
31,215
14,122
13
Ranking Based On Selection: 37
Jonathan A Coddington
Smithsonian Institution
Washington, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
24,523
6,625
0.270
Systematics
Evolution
Behavior
Biodiversity
Arachnology
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
31,977
14,427
770
Ranking Based On Selection: 38
Christine M Korsgaard
Harvard University
Cambridge, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
24,101
7,292
0.303
ethics
history of ethics
practical reason
action
animal ethics
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
31,982
14,430
14
Ranking Based On Selection: 39
Kevin de Queiroz
Smithsonian Institution
Washington, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
24,097
6,080
0.252
Systematic Biology
Evolutionary Biology
Vertebrate Biology
Herpetology
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
32,658
14,710
16
Ranking Based On Selection: 40
Terry L Erwin
Smithsonian Institution
Washington, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
23,749
7,435
0.313
Coleoptera Systematics
Biodiversity
Conservation Biology
Biogeography
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
32,728
14,734
133
Ranking Based On Selection: 41
Andrew N Miller
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
23,713
11,735
0.495
Mycology
Phylogenetics
Systematics
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
33,539
15,063
569
Ranking Based On Selection: 42
Londa Schiebinger
Stanford University
Stanford, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
23,308
10,321
0.443
gendered innovations
gender methodology
intersectional analysis
colonialism
Atlantic World
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
34,030
15,281
17
Ranking Based On Selection: 43
Joshua Tewksbury
Smithsonian Institution
Washington, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
23,063
9,716
0.421
climate change
species interactions
fragmentation
natural history
ecology
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
34,580
170
24
Ranking Based On Selection: 44
Jan Mangerud
University of Bergen
Bergen, Norway
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
22,796
4,520
0.198
Quaternary Geology
Glacial history
Paleoclimate
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
36,006
1,543
8
Ranking Based On Selection: 45
Jane S Green
Memorial University of Newfoundland
St John’s, Canada
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
22,158
3,279
0.148
Hereditary eye disease
hereditary cancer
natural history of hereditary diseases
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
36,675
16,374
23
Ranking Based On Selection: 46
Patrick Hutton
University of Vermont
Burlington, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
21,883
4,975
0.227
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
37,342
16,654
45
Ranking Based On Selection: 47
Molefi K Asante
Temple University
Philadelphia, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
21,590
5,284
0.245
Afrocentricity
African American studies
intercultural communication
rhetoric. african history
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
37,783
3,298
8
Ranking Based On Selection: 48
Gregory D. Edgecombe
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
21,421
7,027
0.328
Systematics
arthropod evolution
palaeontology
Chilopoda
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
37,980
3,312
9
Ranking Based On Selection: 49
Paul Eggleton
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
21,336
6,735
0.316
soil ecology
termites
ecosystem engineers
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
38,004
3,314
388
Ranking Based On Selection: 50
Carl Benedikt Frey
University of Oxford
Oxford, United Kingdom
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
21,327
13,595
0.637
Technological Change
Economic Growth
Labour Markets
Economic History