Citation Rankings
Highly Cited Researchers
World Highly Cited Researchers CitationSocial Sciences / International Relations 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 :3,776
seguridad internacional
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,451
579
0.399
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :3,777
Political economy
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,450
1,316
0.908
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :3,778
Natural Resource Foresight
Energy Economics
Energy Geopolitics
China and India
Geopolitical Foresight
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,450
1,269
0.875
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :3,779
experimental economics
economics of institutions
political economy
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,450
1,212
0.836
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :3,780
Peace and security in South Asia
Domestic politics of Pakistan
Terrorism & Extremism in Pakistan
Strategic Studies
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,450
1,049
0.723
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :3,781
Political science
Africa
development co-operation
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,450
455
0.314
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :3,782
Political theory
socialism
anarchism
history of ideas
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,449
830
0.573
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :3,783
Political
Governance
Social
Public Administration
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,448
1,431
0.988
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :3,784
International Relations
Political Science
Japan
China
East Asia
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,448
1,144
0.790
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :3,785
соціологія управління
соціологія організацій / sociology of managment
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,447
1,251
0.865
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :3,786
Comparative Politics
European Politics
German Politics
Coalition Government
Political Parties
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,447
660
0.456
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :3,787
Public health
Politics and programs
Evaluation
Knowledge transfer
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,446
520
0.360
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :3,788
Foreign Policy Analysis
Diplomacy
Security and Strategic Studies
South Asia
Middle East
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,444
1,182
0.819
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :3,789
Comparative politics
Latin American politics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,444
1,041
0.721
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :3,790
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,443
803
0.556
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :3,791
youth and children in conflict and peacebuilding
politics
art and pop culture
memory and reconciliation
spatial peacebuildin
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,443
741
0.514
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :3,792
polityka społeczna
polityka publiczna
welfare state
państwo dobrobytu
ubóstwo
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,442
530
0.368
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :3,793
political science
politics
business
policy
public policy
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,442
354
0.245
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :3,794
Políticas Públicas
Gestão Pública
Gestão Municipal
instituições
mudança institucional
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,441
745
0.517
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :3,795
Political Economy
Nonmarket Strategy
Global Governance
Business-Government Relations
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,441
564
0.391
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :3,796
Occupational Therapist
Higher Education Researcher
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,439
1,004
0.698
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :3,797
Política
Filosofia Política
Historia de las Ideas
Medio Ambiente
Ecologia política
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,439
992
0.689
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :3,798
political science
contemporary Russian politics and society
area studies
legitimacy
authoritarianism
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,439
475
0.330
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :3,799
pensamento político brasileiro
pensamento político latino-americano
marxismo
nacionalismo
romantismo
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,438
599
0.417
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :3,800
Diplomacy
international national relations
security
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,437
541
0.376
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
545,663
2,250
25
Ranking Based On Selection: 3,776
Rut Diamint
Universidad Torcuato di Tella
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,451
579
0.399
seguridad internacional
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
545,727
20,102
716
Ranking Based On Selection: 3,777
Vincent Arel Bundock
Université de Montréal
Montréal, Canada
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,450
1,316
0.908
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
545,733
16,932
28
Ranking Based On Selection: 3,778
Hache Emmanuel
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,450
1,269
0.875
Natural Resource Foresight
Energy Economics
Energy Geopolitics
China and India
Geopolitical Foresight
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
545,742
21,851
1,450
Ranking Based On Selection: 3,779
Y Jane Zhang
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,450
1,212
0.836
experimental economics
economics of institutions
political economy
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
545,782
2,226
88
Ranking Based On Selection: 3,780
Umbreen Javaid
University of the Punjab
Lahore, Pakistan
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,450
1,049
0.723
Peace and security in South Asia
Domestic politics of Pakistan
Terrorism & Extremism in Pakistan
Strategic Studies
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
545,908
8,208
827
Ranking Based On Selection: 3,781
Liisa Laakso
Uppsala University
Uppsala, Sweden
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,450
455
0.314
Political science
Africa
development co-operation
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
546,064
34,715
400
Ranking Based On Selection: 3,782
Ruth Kinna
Loughborough University
Loughborough, United Kingdom
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,449
830
0.573
Political theory
socialism
anarchism
history of ideas
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
546,160
4,345
13
Ranking Based On Selection: 3,783
Beby Masitho Batubara
Universitas Medan Area
Medan, Indonesia
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,448
1,431
0.988
Political
Governance
Social
Public Administration
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
546,213
8,213
583
Ranking Based On Selection: 3,784
Karl Gustafsson
Stockholm University
Stockholm, Sweden
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,448
1,144
0.790
International Relations
Political Science
Japan
China
East Asia
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
546,419
1,203
10
Ranking Based On Selection: 3,785
Токар Маріан Юрійович / Marian Tokar|Tokar Marian
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,447
1,251
0.865
соціологія управління
соціологія організацій / sociology of managment
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
546,558
21,880
372
Ranking Based On Selection: 3,786
Charles Lees
Flinders University
Adelaide, Australia
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,447
660
0.456
Comparative Politics
European Politics
German Politics
Coalition Government
Political Parties
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
546,808
20,131
718
Ranking Based On Selection: 3,787
Marc Lemire
Université de Montréal
Montréal, Canada
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,446
520
0.360
Public health
Politics and programs
Evaluation
Knowledge transfer
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
547,124
21,900
665
Ranking Based On Selection: 3,788
Zahid Shahab Ahmed
Deakin University
Geelong, Australia
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,444
1,182
0.819
Foreign Policy Analysis
Diplomacy
Security and Strategic Studies
South Asia
Middle East
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
547,157
21,903
1,443
Ranking Based On Selection: 3,789
James Loxton
University of Sydney
Sydney, Australia
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,444
1,041
0.721
Comparative politics
Latin American politics
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
547,446
4,306
2
Ranking Based On Selection: 3,790
Mikkel Barslund
Centre for European Policy Studies
Brussels, Belgium
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,443
803
0.556
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
547,468
167,862
17
Ranking Based On Selection: 3,791
Siobhan Mcevoy Levy
Butler University
Indianapolis, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,443
741
0.514
youth and children in conflict and peacebuilding
politics
art and pop culture
memory and reconciliation
spatial peacebuildin
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
547,760
3,386
290
Ranking Based On Selection: 3,792
Ryszard Szarfenberg
University of Warsaw
Warszawa, Poland
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,442
530
0.368
polityka społeczna
polityka publiczna
welfare state
państwo dobrobytu
ubóstwo
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
547,790
167,931
504
Ranking Based On Selection: 3,793
Sandra L Suarez
Temple University
Philadelphia, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,442
354
0.245
political science
politics
business
policy
public policy
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
547,978
17,274
215
Ranking Based On Selection: 3,794
Antonio Sergio Araujo Fernandes
Universidade Federal da Bahia
Rosario, Brazil
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,441
745
0.517
Políticas Públicas
Gestão Pública
Gestão Municipal
instituições
mudança institucional
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
548,027
6,780
22
Ranking Based On Selection: 3,795
David Bach
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,441
564
0.391
Political Economy
Nonmarket Strategy
Global Governance
Business-Government Relations
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
548,428
21,944
422
Ranking Based On Selection: 3,796
Tracy Fortune
La Trobe University
Melbourne, Australia
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,439
1,004
0.698
Occupational Therapist
Higher Education Researcher
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
548,437
1,685
93
Ranking Based On Selection: 3,797
Fernando Estenssoro
Universidad de Santiago de Chile
Santiago, Chile
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,439
992
0.689
Política
Filosofia Política
Historia de las Ideas
Medio Ambiente
Ecologia política
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
548,557
8,236
59
Ranking Based On Selection: 3,798
Bo Petersson
Malmo University
Malmö, Sweden
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,439
475
0.330
political science
contemporary Russian politics and society
area studies
legitimacy
authoritarianism
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
548,775
17,308
3,637
Ranking Based On Selection: 3,799
Bernardo Ricupero
Universidade de São Paulo USP
São Paulo, Brazil
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,438
599
0.417
pensamento político brasileiro
pensamento político latino-americano
marxismo
nacionalismo
romantismo
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
549,029
21,961
942
Ranking Based On Selection: 3,800
Pauline Kerr
Australian National University
Canberra, Australia
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,437
541
0.376
Diplomacy
international national relations
security