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Highly Cited Researchers
Highly Cited Researchers 4.362 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: 4,351
children's literature
literac
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* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 4,352
Structural Biology
Ribosom
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Ranking Based On Selection: 4,353
Suicidology
Suicide Prevention
Health Communicatio
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Ranking Based On Selection: 4,354
Middle Eastern Studies
Turkey
Ethics
Legal Anthropology
Histor
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* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 4,355
computer vision
deep learnin
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Ranking Based On Selection: 4,356
Computational Therapeutics
Genetics
Transcriptome
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Ranking Based On Selection: 4,357
Asset Pricing
Behavioral Finance
Macro-Financ
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Ranking Based On Selection: 4,358
Linguistics
Russian Czech
Bulgaria
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Ranking Based On Selection: 4,359
Condensed Matter Theory
Statistical Mechanics
Computational Physic
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* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 4,360
Quantitative Financ
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Ranking Based On Selection: 4,361
Periodontic
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Ranking Based On Selection: 4,362
Language documentation
Morphosyntax
Manchu-Tungusic languages
Language contact
Korean dialects
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2,597,586
456,999
1,749
Ranking Based On Selection: 4,351
Sunah Chung
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children's literature
literac
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2,597,586
456,999
1,749
Ranking Based On Selection: 4,352
Clifford Yerby
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2,597,586
456,999
1,749
Ranking Based On Selection: 4,353
Rachel Kinnard
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2,597,586
456,999
2,412
Ranking Based On Selection: 4,354
Benjamin P Beames
University of Chicago
Chicago, United States
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1.000
Middle Eastern Studies
Turkey
Ethics
Legal Anthropology
Histor
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
2,597,586
456,999
2,412
Ranking Based On Selection: 4,355
Shubhaankar Gupta
University of Chicago
Chicago, United States
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computer vision
deep learnin
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
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2,597,586
456,999
2,412
Ranking Based On Selection: 4,356
Chi Sum Leung|Sam Leung
University of Chicago
Chicago, United States
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2,597,586
456,999
188
Ranking Based On Selection: 4,357
Xindi He
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Asset Pricing
Behavioral Finance
Macro-Financ
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
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2,614,959
457,931
2,417
Ranking Based On Selection: 4,358
David Kaiser
University of Chicago
Chicago, United States
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Linguistics
Russian Czech
Bulgaria
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
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2,614,959
457,931
2,417
Ranking Based On Selection: 4,359
Syrian Truong
University of Chicago
Chicago, United States
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Condensed Matter Theory
Statistical Mechanics
Computational Physic
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
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2,614,959
457,931
2,417
Ranking Based On Selection: 4,360
Sam Berglin
University of Chicago
Chicago, United States
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* Total Citation Counts Rankings
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2,614,959
457,931
1,754
Ranking Based On Selection: 4,361
Jennifer Shango
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* Total Citation Counts Rankings
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2,620,987
458,548
2,420
Ranking Based On Selection: 4,362
Jaehong Shim|심 재홍
University of Chicago
Chicago, United States
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Language documentation
Morphosyntax
Manchu-Tungusic languages
Language contact
Korean dialects