Citation Rankings
Highly Cited Researchers
Highly Cited Researchers 2.880 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
Nuclear Physics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
55,340
11,426
0.206
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 27
Experimental Evolution
Evolutionary Dynamics
Microbial Evolution
Microbial Genomics
Digital Evolution
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
52,409
14,247
0.272
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 28
agricultural economics
food policy
food systems
food economics
value chains
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
50,318
14,882
0.296
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 29
chemical engineering
sustainability
biofuels
life cycle assessment
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
50,316
12,568
0.250
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 30
Personality Assessment
Personality Development
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
49,928
23,745
0.476
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 31
Ecology
Landscape
Global Change
Land Use
Urban
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
49,256
22,021
0.447
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 32
Wireless Communication
Signal Processing
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
47,791
28,907
0.605
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 33
Environmental Science
Agriculture
Ecology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
46,884
16,680
0.356
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 34
Biometrics
Computer Vision
Pattern Recognition
Iris Recognition
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
46,143
13,645
0.296
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 35
nuclear physics
nuclear theory
open quantum systems
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
46,132
12,848
0.279
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 36
Plant Biochemistry
Plant Biology
Plant Physiology
Photosynthesis
Isoprene
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
45,308
11,449
0.253
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 37
epidemiology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
44,318
15,298
0.345
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 38
Nanotechnology
Nanoscience
Computational Materials Science
2D Materials
Computational Nanoscience
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
44,239
9,422
0.213
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 39
Land use and land cover change
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
43,817
12,921
0.295
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 40
Molecular Responses to Plant Stress
Regulation of Gene Expression in Response to Low Temperature
Freezing Tolerance
Regulatio
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
43,402
8,743
0.201
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 41
High Energy Physics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
42,729
9,577
0.224
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 42
Trustworthy AI
Graph Neural Networks
Feature Selection
Recommendations
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
42,095
32,004
0.760
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 43
Psychology
Cognitive neuroscience
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
41,743
17,701
0.424
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 44
Plant Genomics
Plant Genetics
Cytogenetics
Plant Breeding
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
41,122
12,161
0.296
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 45
microbial ecology
bioinformatics
probiotics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
40,761
16,118
0.395
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 46
Biophysics
Biochemistry
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
37,557
16,361
0.436
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 47
organizational psychology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
37,551
9,325
0.248
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 48
Remote Sensing
fire
land use and land cover change
geography
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
37,310
17,365
0.465
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 49
Plant lipid biosynthesis
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
36,935
8,696
0.235
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 50
initial trust
defining trust
trust in technology
trust in sharing economy
trust repair
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
35,982
12,331
0.343
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
8,770
4,179
26
Ranking Based On Selection: 26
B Alex Brown
Michigan State University
East Lansing, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
55,340
11,426
0.206
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
9,571
4,545
27
Ranking Based On Selection: 27
Richard Lenski
Michigan State University
East Lansing, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
52,409
14,247
0.272
Experimental Evolution
Evolutionary Dynamics
Microbial Evolution
Microbial Genomics
Digital Evolution
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
10,206
4,846
28
Ranking Based On Selection: 28
Thomas Reardon
Michigan State University
East Lansing, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
50,318
14,882
0.296
agricultural economics
food policy
food systems
food economics
value chains
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
10,207
4,847
29
Ranking Based On Selection: 29
Bruce E Dale
Michigan State University
East Lansing, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
50,316
12,568
0.250
chemical engineering
sustainability
biofuels
life cycle assessment
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
10,316
4,902
30
Ranking Based On Selection: 30
Brent Donnellan
Michigan State University
East Lansing, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
49,928
23,745
0.476
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
10,531
5,004
31
Ranking Based On Selection: 31
Jiquan Chen
Michigan State University
East Lansing, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
49,256
22,021
0.447
Ecology
Landscape
Global Change
Land Use
Urban
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
11,034
5,221
32
Ranking Based On Selection: 32
Lei Zhang
Michigan State University
East Lansing, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
47,791
28,907
0.605
Wireless Communication
Signal Processing
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
11,368
5,380
33
Ranking Based On Selection: 33
G Philip Robertson
Michigan State University
East Lansing, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
46,884
16,680
0.356
Environmental Science
Agriculture
Ecology
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
11,659
5,528
34
Ranking Based On Selection: 34
Arun Ross
Michigan State University
East Lansing, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
46,143
13,645
0.296
Biometrics
Computer Vision
Pattern Recognition
Iris Recognition
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
11,669
5,535
35
Ranking Based On Selection: 35
Witold Nazarewicz|Witek Nazarewicz
Michigan State University
East Lansing, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
46,132
12,848
0.279
nuclear physics
nuclear theory
open quantum systems
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
11,996
5,692
36
Ranking Based On Selection: 36
Thomas D Sharkey
Michigan State University
East Lansing, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
45,308
11,449
0.253
Plant Biochemistry
Plant Biology
Plant Physiology
Photosynthesis
Isoprene
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
12,461
5,894
37
Ranking Based On Selection: 37
Nigel Paneth
Michigan State University
East Lansing, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
44,318
15,298
0.345
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
12,491
5,907
38
Ranking Based On Selection: 38
David Tomanek
Michigan State University
East Lansing, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
44,239
9,422
0.213
Nanotechnology
Nanoscience
Computational Materials Science
2D Materials
Computational Nanoscience
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
12,705
6,013
39
Ranking Based On Selection: 39
Emilio Moran
Michigan State University
East Lansing, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
43,817
12,921
0.295
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
12,901
6,105
40
Ranking Based On Selection: 40
Michael F Thomashow
Michigan State University
East Lansing, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
43,402
8,743
0.201
Molecular Responses to Plant Stress
Regulation of Gene Expression in Response to Low Temperature
Freezing Tolerance
Regulatio
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
13,218
6,254
41
Ranking Based On Selection: 41
C P Yuan
Michigan State University
East Lansing, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
42,729
9,577
0.224
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
13,530
6,387
42
Ranking Based On Selection: 42
Jiliang Tang
Michigan State University
East Lansing, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
42,095
32,004
0.760
Trustworthy AI
Graph Neural Networks
Feature Selection
Recommendations
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
13,719
6,477
43
Ranking Based On Selection: 43
Jeremy R Gray
Michigan State University
East Lansing, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
41,743
17,701
0.424
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
14,065
6,626
44
Ranking Based On Selection: 44
Jiming Jiang
Michigan State University
East Lansing, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
41,122
12,161
0.296
Plant Genomics
Plant Genetics
Cytogenetics
Plant Breeding
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
14,274
6,726
45
Ranking Based On Selection: 45
Qiong Wang
Michigan State University
East Lansing, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
40,761
16,118
0.395
microbial ecology
bioinformatics
probiotics
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
16,267
7,627
46
Ranking Based On Selection: 46
Michael Feig
Michigan State University
East Lansing, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
37,557
16,361
0.436
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
16,272
7,629
47
Ranking Based On Selection: 47
Kevin Ford
Michigan State University
East Lansing, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
37,551
9,325
0.248
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
16,420
7,696
48
Ranking Based On Selection: 48
David P Roy
Michigan State University
East Lansing, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
37,310
17,365
0.465
Remote Sensing
fire
land use and land cover change
geography
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
16,671
7,820
49
Ranking Based On Selection: 49
John Ohlrogge
Michigan State University
East Lansing, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
36,935
8,696
0.235
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
17,377
8,141
50
Ranking Based On Selection: 50
D Harrison Mcknight
Michigan State University
East Lansing, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
35,982
12,331
0.343
initial trust
defining trust
trust in technology
trust in sharing economy
trust repair