Citation Rankings
Highly Cited Researchers

Highly Cited Researchers 12 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: 1
India
Muniappan Ayyanar
Ethnobiology
Ethnopharmacolog
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
8,369
4,154
0.496
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
India
K Ravichandran
Materials Science - TCO
Photocatalytic
Antibacterial
Magnetic material
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6,407
3,696
0.577
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
India
Panneerselvam Annamalai
mycolog
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
5,631
2,639
0.469
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
India
Vijayakumar Subramaniyan
Environmental Botan
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
5,051
3,961
0.784
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
India
A. Venkatesh
Mathematical modeling
Fractional Differential Equatio
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
167
124
0.743
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
India
G Balu Mahendran
Graphene
sensor
Green synthesis
Supercapacitor
Photocatalyst and Environmental chemistr
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
161
161
1.000

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* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
India
D.Suresh
Teachin
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
43
43
1.000
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
India
P.Jegan
Women Empowermen
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
43
21
0.488
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
India
Radhakrishnan V
Indian writing in Englis
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
12
12
1.000
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
128,112
India
1,875
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 1
Muniappan Ayyanar
       Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
8,369
4,154
0.496
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
170,159
India
2,807
2
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
K Ravichandran
       Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6,407
3,696
0.577
Materials Science - TCO
Photocatalytic
Antibacterial
Magnetic material
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
193,564
India
3,380
3
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Panneerselvam Annamalai
       Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
5,631
2,639
0.469
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
215,182
India
3,987
4
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Vijayakumar Subramaniyan
       Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
5,051
3,961
0.784
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
440,824
India
11,619
5
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
Sakthivel B
       Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2,142
954
0.445
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
824,800
India
28,838
6
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
PV Rajkumar
       Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
712
513
0.721
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
991,162
India
36,995
7
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
C Chandran|Dr.Chandran Chidambaram
       Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
461
259
0.562
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,460,392
India
61,782
8
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
A. Venkatesh
       Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
167
124
0.743
Mathematical modeling
Fractional Differential Equatio
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,477,892
India
62,987
9
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
G Balu Mahendran
       Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
161
161
1.000
Graphene
sensor
Green synthesis
Supercapacitor
Photocatalyst and Environmental chemistr
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
2,071,843
India
113,545
10
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
D.Suresh
       Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
43
43
1.000

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* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
2,078,791
India
114,285
11
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
P.Jegan
       Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
43
21
0.488
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
2,402,055
India
145,384
12
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
Radhakrishnan V
       Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
12
12
1.000