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Highly Cited Researchers
Highly Cited Researchers 302 Scientists Citation Rankings (Sort by last 6 years Citation Index) - 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.
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 1
Nonprofit Management
Civil Society
Discourse Analysis
Organization Theory
Career
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
31,166
12,267
0.394
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* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
Applied econometrics
macroeconomic
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
16,616
10,445
0.629
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Global resource flows
International supply chains
Resource extraction impacts
Industrial Ecology
Ecological Economic
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
16,628
8,402
0.505
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Marketing Strategy
International Marketing
Business Ethics
CS
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
23,528
8,221
0.349
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
Economic Growth
Inequality
Economic Development
Population Economics
Health Economic
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
11,633
7,453
0.641
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
11,798
7,011
0.594
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
Data & Knowledge Management
Artificial Intelligence
Logic Programming
Semantic Web
Knowledge Graph
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
18,337
6,134
0.335
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
Marketing
Innovation
Consumer Behavio
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
13,100
5,761
0.440
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
Innovation
entrepreneurship
user innovation
toolkits
crowdsourcin
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
17,672
5,546
0.314
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* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
Climate finance
climate stress test
investors' climate sentiments
SFC macroeconomic model
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
5,868
5,229
0.891
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
Financ
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
14,845
4,957
0.334
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
International HRM
Sustainable HRM
Green HRM
Common Good HRM
Human Resource Managemen
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
7,647
4,292
0.561
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
10,448
4,196
0.402
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
Land use
bioeconomy
input-output analysis
environmental footprints
industrial ecolog
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
5,886
4,146
0.704
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
Policies
Trust & Transparency
Decentralisation
Agents
Knowledge Graph
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4,406
4,113
0.933
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
Regional Science
Spatial Economics
Spatial Econometrics
Spatial Data Analysis
Urban and Regional Economic
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
15,752
4,059
0.258
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
Social Science Methodology
Political Science
Political Econom
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
11,338
3,996
0.352
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
Regional economics
regional development
innovation systems
industrial cluster
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
15,790
3,787
0.240
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
Privacy
Ethical Computing
E-Marketin
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
9,190
3,775
0.411
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
Project Society
Stakeholders
Sustainable Futures
Human Resource Management
Project Managemen
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
7,236
3,749
0.518
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 21
Financial Mathematics
Stochastics
Financ
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
14,535
3,721
0.256
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 22
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6,361
3,595
0.565
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 23
Experimental Economics
Market Desig
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
8,231
3,012
0.366
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 24
Operations Management
Supply Chain Managemen
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4,995
2,976
0.596
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 25
Ecological economics
socio-economic theories of behaviour
ecological macroeconomics
sustainable wor
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
9,229
2,754
0.298
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
26,290
148
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 1
Michael Meyer
Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien
Vienna, Austria
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
31,166
12,267
0.394
Nonprofit Management
Civil Society
Discourse Analysis
Organization Theory
Career
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
33,401
192
2
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
Jesus Crespo Cuaresma
Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien
Vienna, Austria
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
16,616
10,445
0.629
Applied econometrics
macroeconomic
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
45,798
272
3
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Stefan Giljum
Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien
Vienna, Austria
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
16,628
8,402
0.505
Global resource flows
International supply chains
Resource extraction impacts
Industrial Ecology
Ecological Economic
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
47,247
282
4
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Bodo B Schlegelmilch
Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien
Vienna, Austria
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
23,528
8,221
0.349
Marketing Strategy
International Marketing
Business Ethics
CS
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
54,269
324
5
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
Klaus Prettner
Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien
Vienna, Austria
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
11,633
7,453
0.641
Economic Growth
Inequality
Economic Development
Population Economics
Health Economic
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
59,153
354
6
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
Bettina Grün
Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien
Vienna, Austria
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
11,798
7,011
0.594
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
71,006
429
7
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
Axel Polleres
Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien
Vienna, Austria
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
18,337
6,134
0.335
Data & Knowledge Management
Artificial Intelligence
Logic Programming
Semantic Web
Knowledge Graph
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
77,283
466
8
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
Martin Schreier
Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien
Vienna, Austria
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
13,100
5,761
0.440
Marketing
Innovation
Consumer Behavio
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
81,171
490
9
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
Nikolaus Franke
Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien
Vienna, Austria
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
17,672
5,546
0.314
Innovation
entrepreneurship
user innovation
toolkits
crowdsourcin
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
87,665
530
10
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
Irene Monasterolo
Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien
Vienna, Austria
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
5,868
5,229
0.891
Climate finance
climate stress test
investors' climate sentiments
SFC macroeconomic model
Smart Institutional Plan
Powerful Insights + Smart Membership = Institutional Success
Unlock 360° Real-Time Institutional Analysis to identify your institution’s strengths and areas for improvement.
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
93,764
572
11
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
Josef Zechner
Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien
Vienna, Austria
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
14,845
4,957
0.334
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
112,228
669
12
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
Michael Muller Camen
Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien
Vienna, Austria
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
7,647
4,292
0.561
International HRM
Sustainable HRM
Green HRM
Common Good HRM
Human Resource Managemen
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
115,317
686
13
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
Sylvia Frühwirth Schnatter
Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien
Vienna, Austria
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
10,448
4,196
0.402
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
116,987
693
14
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
Martin Bruckner
Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien
Vienna, Austria
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
5,886
4,146
0.704
Land use
bioeconomy
input-output analysis
environmental footprints
industrial ecolog
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
118,081
697
15
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
Sabrina Kirrane
Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien
Vienna, Austria
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4,406
4,113
0.933
Policies
Trust & Transparency
Decentralisation
Agents
Knowledge Graph
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
119,945
710
16
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
Manfred M Fischer
Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien
Vienna, Austria
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
15,752
4,059
0.258
Regional Science
Spatial Economics
Spatial Econometrics
Spatial Data Analysis
Urban and Regional Economic
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
122,214
724
17
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
Thomas Plümper
Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien
Vienna, Austria
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
11,338
3,996
0.352
Social Science Methodology
Political Science
Political Econom
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
130,357
771
18
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
Franz Tödtling
Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien
Vienna, Austria
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
15,790
3,787
0.240
Regional economics
regional development
innovation systems
industrial cluster
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
130,839
774
19
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
Sarah Spiekermann
Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien
Vienna, Austria
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
9,190
3,775
0.411
Privacy
Ethical Computing
E-Marketin
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
131,932
783
20
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
Martina Huemann
Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien
Vienna, Austria
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
7,236
3,749
0.518
Project Society
Stakeholders
Sustainable Futures
Human Resource Management
Project Managemen
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
133,120
791
21
Ranking Based On Selection: 21
Rüdiger Frey
Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien
Vienna, Austria
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
14,535
3,721
0.256
Financial Mathematics
Stochastics
Financ
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
138,571
822
22
Ranking Based On Selection: 22
Mia Raynard
Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien
Vienna, Austria
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6,361
3,595
0.565
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
169,652
1,000
23
Ranking Based On Selection: 23
Ben Greiner
Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien
Vienna, Austria
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
8,231
3,012
0.366
Experimental Economics
Market Desig
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
172,070
1,015
24
Ranking Based On Selection: 24
Gerald Reiner
Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien
Vienna, Austria
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4,995
2,976
0.596
Operations Management
Supply Chain Managemen
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
187,256
1,089
25
Ranking Based On Selection: 25
Sigrid Stagl
Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien
Vienna, Austria
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
9,229
2,754
0.298
Ecological economics
socio-economic theories of behaviour
ecological macroeconomics
sustainable wor