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Highly Cited Researchers
Highly Cited Researchers 1.092 Scientists Citation Rankings - 2025
Discover the world’s highly cited researchers through the AD Scientific Index 2025 Citation Rankings.
These rankings evaluate scientists based on their total and recent citation counts, capturing the breadth and real-time currency of academic recognition. Citation data reveals how widely a scholar’s work is referenced, applied, and extended across diverse disciplines. The rankings are routinely updated to reflect ongoing citation growth, while eliminating distortions from excessive co-authorship and institutional inflation. Premium tools provide access to detailed citation dynamics, unethical citation behavior detection, and field-normalized benchmarking.
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 26
functional ceramics
materials for emerging electronic
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
40,407
8,364
0.207
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* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 27
Molecular and Translational Neuroscience/Neurochemistry
Neuropeptides
Autism
Alzheimer's disease
Schizophreni
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
38,589
11,490
0.298
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 28
Computational Geometry
Combinatorial Geometr
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
36,854
5,109
0.139
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 29
Suicide
Depression
Tourtetts syndrome and Tics
Minimal brain trauma and concussio
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
35,758
12,234
0.342
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 30
PTSD
CSR
secondary traum
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
34,016
9,363
0.275
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 31
Biochemistry
Molecular Biology
Structural Biology
Bioenergetics
Photosynthesi
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
33,514
4,723
0.141
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 32
Bioinformatics
computational biology
algorithms
digital medicin
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
32,541
7,959
0.245
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 33
sleep
development
psychopathology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
32,286
11,435
0.354
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 34
Continuous Optimization
Convex Analysis
Convex Optimization
Variational Inequalities
Engineering Application
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
32,197
14,376
0.447
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* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 35
Computational Structural Biology
Structural Bioinformatics
Computer Vision
Geometric Computing
Spatial Pattern Discover
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
30,476
6,429
0.211
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 36
Continuous Optimization
Convex Optimization
Engineering Applications
Mathematical Optimizatio
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
29,665
14,720
0.496
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 37
Control Theory
Sliding-Mode Control and Observatio
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
28,679
10,424
0.363
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 38
Astrophysic
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
28,635
13,234
0.462
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 39
Ecology and evolution
Corals' life-history & biodiversity
Conservation biology
Sex change
Mesophotic reef environment
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
28,262
8,118
0.287
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 40
Core collapse supernovae and their massive-star progenitors
tidal disruptions of stars by super-massive black holes
electromagentic counterparts of gravitational wave sources
robotic observations and real-time rapid telescope triggering
astronomical big-data managemen
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
27,889
17,121
0.614
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 41
RNA Therapeutics
RNA Vaccines
circular RNA
Delivery scienc
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
27,727
14,317
0.516
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 42
Networked Control Systems
Time-Delay systems
Distributed parameter systems
Control theor
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
27,546
10,399
0.378
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 43
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
27,105
7,607
0.281
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 44
Anxiety Disorders
PTSD
Traumatic Stress
Social Anxiet
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
25,614
10,741
0.419
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 45
Astronomy
Scientific Computing
Data Science
Machine Learnin
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
25,493
10,805
0.424
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 46
Organizational psycholog
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
25,358
7,367
0.291
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 47
Computational Biolog
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
24,947
9,317
0.373
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 48
Mechanobiology
Cell and Tissue Biomechanics
Chronic and Acute Wound
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
24,657
10,414
0.422
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 49
Materials Science
Electrochemistry
Sensors
Nanotechnology
Bionanotechnolog
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
24,232
4,651
0.192
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 50
Cell Biophysic
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
23,944
7,638
0.319
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
15,264
75
26
Ranking Based On Selection: 26
Nava Setter
Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv, Israel
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
40,407
8,364
0.207
functional ceramics
materials for emerging electronic
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
16,394
84
27
Ranking Based On Selection: 27
Illana Gozes
Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv, Israel
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
38,589
11,490
0.298
Molecular and Translational Neuroscience/Neurochemistry
Neuropeptides
Autism
Alzheimer's disease
Schizophreni
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
17,636
92
28
Ranking Based On Selection: 28
Micha Sharir
Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv, Israel
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
36,854
5,109
0.139
Computational Geometry
Combinatorial Geometr
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
18,478
100
29
Ranking Based On Selection: 29
Alan Apter
Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv, Israel
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
35,758
12,234
0.342
Suicide
Depression
Tourtetts syndrome and Tics
Minimal brain trauma and concussio
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
19,908
107
30
Ranking Based On Selection: 30
Zahava Solomon
Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv, Israel
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
34,016
9,363
0.275
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
20,361
111
31
Ranking Based On Selection: 31
Nathan Nelson
Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv, Israel
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
33,514
4,723
0.141
Biochemistry
Molecular Biology
Structural Biology
Bioenergetics
Photosynthesi
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
21,345
120
32
Ranking Based On Selection: 32
Ron Shamir
Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv, Israel
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
32,541
7,959
0.245
Bioinformatics
computational biology
algorithms
digital medicin
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
21,630
122
33
Ranking Based On Selection: 33
Avi Sadeh
Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv, Israel
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
32,286
11,435
0.354
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
21,718
123
34
Ranking Based On Selection: 34
Marc Teboulle
Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv, Israel
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
32,197
14,376
0.447
Continuous Optimization
Convex Analysis
Convex Optimization
Variational Inequalities
Engineering Application
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
23,669
137
35
Ranking Based On Selection: 35
Haim J Wolfson
Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv, Israel
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
30,476
6,429
0.211
Computational Structural Biology
Structural Bioinformatics
Computer Vision
Geometric Computing
Spatial Pattern Discover
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* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
24,653
142
36
Ranking Based On Selection: 36
Amir Beck
Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv, Israel
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
29,665
14,720
0.496
Continuous Optimization
Convex Optimization
Engineering Applications
Mathematical Optimizatio
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
25,867
146
37
Ranking Based On Selection: 37
Arie Levant
Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv, Israel
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
28,679
10,424
0.363
Control Theory
Sliding-Mode Control and Observatio
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
25,926
147
38
Ranking Based On Selection: 38
Ehud Nakar
Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv, Israel
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
28,635
13,234
0.462
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
26,467
149
39
Ranking Based On Selection: 39
Yossi Loya
Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv, Israel
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
28,262
8,118
0.287
Ecology and evolution
Corals' life-history & biodiversity
Conservation biology
Sex change
Mesophotic reef environment
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
27,016
152
40
Ranking Based On Selection: 40
Iair Arcavi
Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv, Israel
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
27,889
17,121
0.614
Core collapse supernovae and their massive-star progenitors
tidal disruptions of stars by super-massive black holes
electromagentic counterparts of gravitational wave sources
robotic observations and real-time rapid telescope triggering
astronomical big-data managemen
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
27,264
156
41
Ranking Based On Selection: 41
Dan Peer
Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv, Israel
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
27,727
14,317
0.516
RNA Therapeutics
RNA Vaccines
circular RNA
Delivery scienc
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
27,553
159
42
Ranking Based On Selection: 42
Emilia Fridman
Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv, Israel
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
27,546
10,399
0.378
Networked Control Systems
Time-Delay systems
Distributed parameter systems
Control theor
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
28,230
166
43
Ranking Based On Selection: 43
Roded Sharan
Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv, Israel
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
27,105
7,607
0.281
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
30,685
177
44
Ranking Based On Selection: 44
Yair Bar Haim
Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv, Israel
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
25,614
10,741
0.419
Anxiety Disorders
PTSD
Traumatic Stress
Social Anxiet
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
30,918
182
45
Ranking Based On Selection: 45
Dovi Poznanski
Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv, Israel
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
25,493
10,805
0.424
Astronomy
Scientific Computing
Data Science
Machine Learnin
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
31,142
183
46
Ranking Based On Selection: 46
Dov Eden
Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv, Israel
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
25,358
7,367
0.291
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
31,867
189
47
Ranking Based On Selection: 47
Nir Ben Tal
Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv, Israel
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
24,947
9,317
0.373
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
32,410
195
48
Ranking Based On Selection: 48
Amit Gefen
Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv, Israel
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
24,657
10,414
0.422
Mechanobiology
Cell and Tissue Biomechanics
Chronic and Acute Wound
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
33,283
201
49
Ranking Based On Selection: 49
Fernando Patolsky
Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv, Israel
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
24,232
4,651
0.192
Materials Science
Electrochemistry
Sensors
Nanotechnology
Bionanotechnolog
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
33,872
202
50
Ranking Based On Selection: 50
Michael M Kozlov
Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv, Israel
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
23,944
7,638
0.319