Citation Rankings
Highly Cited Researchers
History, Philosophy, Theology / History Highly Cited Researchers 18.139 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: 1
Phylogenetics
Computational Biology
Evolutionary Biology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
96,931
8,857
0.091
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
African politics
history
colonialism
race
enlightenment
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
68,083
37,325
0.548
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
history of technology
economic history
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
61,828
8,620
0.139
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
ancient DNA
pathogen evolution
human history
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
54,706
28,979
0.530
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
aging
skeletal muscle
experimental design
reproducibility
history of science
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
44,793
12,729
0.284
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
energy environment food population technical innovation history
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
44,329
12,719
0.287
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
Crustal evolution
geochronology
microanalysis
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
42,321
18,804
0.444
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
Poverty
Growth
Health
Economic History
Development
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
41,440
38,199
0.922
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
Former Yugoslavia
Nationalism
Refugees
Population Movements
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
41,141
7,037
0.171
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
Health services research
health care policy
health care history
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
40,469
12,352
0.305
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
palaeontology anthropology archaeology quaternary pleistocene
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
39,439
9,970
0.253
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
Deep Transitions
History of Technology
Sustainability Transitions
Strategic Niche Management
Multi-Level Perspective
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
39,285
18,179
0.463
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
Palaeoclimate
Palaeoceanography
Human Evolution
Climate Change
Earth History
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
37,663
20,446
0.543
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
Science
Art
History
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
37,427
6,301
0.168
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
history of science
climate change
women in science
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
37,093
16,496
0.445
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
Prehistory
human evolution
archeology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
36,034
12,564
0.349
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
invasion ecology
global change ecology
life-history evolution
pollination
phenotypic plasticity
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
33,099
21,611
0.653
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
evolutionary medicine
hunter-gatherers & horticulturalists
life history evolution
cooperation
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
32,676
13,454
0.412
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
Human behavioural ecology
Life history
Social behaviour
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
32,272
11,791
0.365
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
History and philosophy of science
philosophy of social technology
causal inference
objectivity in science
evidence
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
30,489
8,994
0.295
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 21
Mycology
systematics
molecular identification
conservation
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
30,395
15,676
0.516
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 22
Early Modern European Economic History
Global History
Consumer Behavior
Urban History
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
30,054
12,650
0.421
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 23
Palynology
Holocene
Climate change
Cultural change
Neolithic
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
29,870
9,743
0.326
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 24
Systematic Zoology
Mammalogy
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
29,628
7,339
0.248
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 25
heart failure
hypertension
history of medicine
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
29,191
7,392
0.253
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
3,434
1,629
27
Ranking Based On Selection: 1
David Swofford
Duke University
Durham, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
96,931
8,857
0.091
Phylogenetics
Computational Biology
Evolutionary Biology
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
6,273
19
5
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
Achille Mbembe
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, South Africa
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
68,083
37,325
0.548
African politics
history
colonialism
race
enlightenment
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
7,297
3,453
4
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Nathan Rosenberg
University of Delaware
Newark, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
61,828
8,620
0.139
history of technology
economic history
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
8,914
358
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Johannes Krause
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
54,706
28,979
0.530
ancient DNA
pathogen evolution
human history
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
12,207
5,776
7
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
David Glass
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
44,793
12,729
0.284
aging
skeletal muscle
experimental design
reproducibility
history of science
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
12,422
484
6
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
Vaclav Smil
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, Canada
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
44,329
12,719
0.287
energy environment food population technical innovation history
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
13,397
156
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
Martin John Whitehouse
Swedish Museum of Natural History
Stockholm, Sweden
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
42,321
18,804
0.444
Crustal evolution
geochronology
microanalysis
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
13,842
1,223
170
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
Max Roser
University of Oxford
Oxford, United Kingdom
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
41,440
38,199
0.922
Poverty
Growth
Health
Economic History
Development
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
14,017
6,599
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
Nick Miller
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
41,141
7,037
0.171
Former Yugoslavia
Nationalism
Refugees
Population Movements
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
14,401
1,256
26
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
Nick Black
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
40,469
12,352
0.305
Health services research
health care policy
health care history
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
15,022
1,309
3
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
Stringer C
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
39,439
9,970
0.253
palaeontology anthropology archaeology quaternary pleistocene
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
15,107
374
42
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
Johan Schot
Utrecht University
Utrecht, Netherlands
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
39,285
18,179
0.463
Deep Transitions
History of Technology
Sustainability Transitions
Strategic Niche Management
Multi-Level Perspective
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
16,158
1,405
137
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
Mark Maslin
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
37,663
20,446
0.543
Palaeoclimate
Palaeoceanography
Human Evolution
Climate Change
Earth History
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
16,311
7,647
11
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
Miral Dizdaroglu
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
37,427
6,301
0.168
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
16,520
7,746
463
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
Naomi Oreskes
Harvard University
Cambridge, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
37,093
16,496
0.445
history of science
climate change
women in science
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
17,299
318
6
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
Francesco D Errico
Université de Bordeaux
Bordeaux, France
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
36,034
12,564
0.349
Prehistory
human evolution
archeology
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
19,713
879
7
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
Mark van Kleunen
Universität Konstanz
Konstanz, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
33,099
21,611
0.653
invasion ecology
global change ecology
life-history evolution
pollination
phenotypic plasticity
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
20,111
9,321
70
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
Michael Gurven
University of California Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
32,676
13,454
0.412
evolutionary medicine
hunter-gatherers & horticulturalists
life history evolution
cooperation
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
20,519
1,836
26
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
Daniel Nettle
Newcastle University
Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
32,272
11,791
0.365
Human behavioural ecology
Life history
Social behaviour
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
22,409
1,984
24
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
Nancy Cartwright
Durham University
Durham, United Kingdom
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
30,489
8,994
0.295
History and philosophy of science
philosophy of social technology
causal inference
objectivity in science
evidence
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
22,530
96
42
Ranking Based On Selection: 21
Karl Henrik Larsson
University of Oslo
Oslo, Norway
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
30,395
15,676
0.516
Mycology
systematics
molecular identification
conservation
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
22,960
10,584
257
Ranking Based On Selection: 22
Jan De Vries
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
30,054
12,650
0.421
Early Modern European Economic History
Global History
Consumer Behavior
Urban History
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
23,177
409
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 23
José Antonio López Sáez
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
29,870
9,743
0.326
Palynology
Holocene
Climate change
Cultural change
Neolithic
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
23,499
10,834
7
Ranking Based On Selection: 24
Don E Wilson
Smithsonian Institution
Washington, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
29,628
7,339
0.248
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
24,010
11,043
3
Ranking Based On Selection: 25
Hector Ventura
Ochsner Health System
New Orleans, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
29,191
7,392
0.253
heart failure
hypertension
history of medicine