Citation Rankings
Highly Cited Researchers
World Highly Cited Researchers Citation History, Philosophy, Theology / History 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 :1
Phylogenetics
Computational Biology
Evolutionary Biology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
96,510
10,800
0.112
* 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
66,006
40,446
0.613
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :3
history of technology
economic history
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
61,410
10,496
0.171
* 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
53,553
32,326
0.604
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :5
Mycology
Phylogenetics
Systematics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
45,137
29,874
0.662
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :6
aging
skeletal muscle
experimental design
reproducibility
history of science
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
44,308
14,806
0.334
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :7
energy environment food population technical innovation history
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
43,786
14,750
0.337
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :8
Crustal evolution
geochronology
microanalysis
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
41,516
21,141
0.509
* 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
40,740
8,713
0.214
* 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
39,957
14,308
0.358
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :11
Poverty
Growth
Health
Economic History
Development
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
39,344
37,598
0.956
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :12
palaeontology anthropology archaeology quaternary pleistocene
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
39,082
11,604
0.297
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :13
Deep Transitions
History of Technology
Sustainability Transitions
Strategic Niche Management
Multi-Level Perspective
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
38,507
20,170
0.524
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :14
Science
Art
History
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
37,098
7,297
0.197
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :15
Palaeoclimate
Palaeoceanography
Human Evolution
Climate Change
Earth History
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
36,475
21,799
0.598
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :16
history of science
climate change
women in science
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
36,299
18,486
0.509
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :17
Prehistory
human evolution
archeology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
35,468
14,487
0.408
* 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
32,079
15,157
0.472
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :19
invasion ecology
global change ecology
life-history evolution
pollination
phenotypic plasticity
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
32,030
22,876
0.714
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :20
Human behavioural ecology
Life history
Social behaviour
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
31,840
13,597
0.427
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :21
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
30,132
10,396
0.345
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :22
Mycology
systematics
molecular identification
conservation
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
29,625
17,192
0.580
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :23
Early Modern European Economic History
Global History
Consumer Behavior
Urban History
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
29,524
13,993
0.474
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :24
Palynology
Holocene
Climate change
Cultural change
Neolithic
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
29,176
11,099
0.380
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :25
Systematic Zoology
Mammalogy
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
29,175
8,492
0.291
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
3,344
1,599
27
Ranking Based On Selection: 1
David Swofford
Duke University
Durham, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
96,510
10,800
0.112
Phylogenetics
Computational Biology
Evolutionary Biology
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
6,396
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
66,006
40,446
0.613
African politics
history
colonialism
race
enlightenment
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
7,200
3,418
4
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Nathan Rosenberg
University of Delaware
Newark, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
61,410
10,496
0.171
history of technology
economic history
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
8,984
362
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Johannes Krause
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
53,553
32,326
0.604
ancient DNA
pathogen evolution
human history
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
11,739
5,567
42
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
Andrew N Miller
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
45,137
29,874
0.662
Mycology
Phylogenetics
Systematics
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
12,109
5,748
7
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
David Glass
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
44,308
14,806
0.334
aging
skeletal muscle
experimental design
reproducibility
history of science
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
12,334
481
6
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
Vaclav Smil
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, Canada
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
43,786
14,750
0.337
energy environment food population technical innovation history
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
13,447
156
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
Martin John Whitehouse
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
41,516
21,141
0.509
Crustal evolution
geochronology
microanalysis
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
13,864
6,552
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
Nick Miller
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
40,740
8,713
0.214
Former Yugoslavia
Nationalism
Refugees
Population Movements
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
14,315
1,253
26
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
Nick Black
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
39,957
14,308
0.358
Health services research
health care policy
health care history
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
14,670
1,277
176
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
Max Roser
University of Oxford
Oxford, United Kingdom
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
39,344
37,598
0.956
Poverty
Growth
Health
Economic History
Development
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
14,840
1,299
3
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
Stringer C
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
39,082
11,604
0.297
palaeontology anthropology archaeology quaternary pleistocene
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
15,173
377
42
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
Johan Schot
Utrecht University
Utrecht, Netherlands
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
38,507
20,170
0.524
Deep Transitions
History of Technology
Sustainability Transitions
Strategic Niche Management
Multi-Level Perspective
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
16,110
7,583
10
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
Miral Dizdaroglu
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
37,098
7,297
0.197
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
16,532
1,445
139
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
Mark Maslin
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
36,475
21,799
0.598
Palaeoclimate
Palaeoceanography
Human Evolution
Climate Change
Earth History
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
16,651
7,835
465
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
Naomi Oreskes
Harvard University
Cambridge, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
36,299
18,486
0.509
history of science
climate change
women in science
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
17,255
313
7
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
Francesco D Errico
Université de Bordeaux
Bordeaux, France
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
35,468
14,487
0.408
Prehistory
human evolution
archeology
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
20,181
9,376
73
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
32,079
15,157
0.472
evolutionary medicine
hunter-gatherers & horticulturalists
life history evolution
cooperation
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
20,234
905
8
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
Mark van Kleunen
Universität Konstanz
Konstanz, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
32,030
22,876
0.714
invasion ecology
global change ecology
life-history evolution
pollination
phenotypic plasticity
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
20,413
1,818
25
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
Daniel Nettle
Newcastle University
Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
31,840
13,597
0.427
Human behavioural ecology
Life history
Social behaviour
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
22,223
1,980
25
Ranking Based On Selection: 21
Nancy Cartwright
Durham University
Durham, United Kingdom
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
30,132
10,396
0.345
History and philosophy of science
philosophy of social technology
causal inference
objectivity in science
evidence
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
22,886
96
43
Ranking Based On Selection: 22
Karl Henrik Larsson
University of Oslo
Oslo, Norway
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
29,625
17,192
0.580
Mycology
systematics
molecular identification
conservation
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
23,007
10,634
259
Ranking Based On Selection: 23
Jan De Vries
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
29,524
13,993
0.474
Early Modern European Economic History
Global History
Consumer Behavior
Urban History
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
23,426
413
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 24
José Antonio López Sáez
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
29,176
11,099
0.380
Palynology
Holocene
Climate change
Cultural change
Neolithic
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
23,429
10,831
7
Ranking Based On Selection: 25
Don E Wilson
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
29,175
8,492
0.291