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

Tectonic
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
72,408
19,299
0.267
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 2

active tectonics
geomorpholog
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
8,785
5,772
0.657
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 3

active tectonics
tectonic geomorphology
earthquake geology, paleoseismolog
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6,345
1,780
0.281
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 4

Seismolog
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6,269
4,183
0.667
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 5

Seismology
Tectonophysic
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4,066
1,287
0.317
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 6

Sedimentoloty
Tectonics
Thermochronolog
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
466
451
0.968
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 7

Active tectonics. Tectonic geomorpholog
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
394
369
0.937
Paul Tapponnier
China Earthquake Administration
Beijing, China
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
72,408
19,299
0.267
Huiping Zhang
China Earthquake Administration
Beijing, China
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
8,785
5,772
0.657
active tectonics
geomorpholog
Guihua Chen(陈桂华)
China Earthquake Administration
Beijing, China
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6,345
1,780
0.281
active tectonics
tectonic geomorphology
earthquake geology, paleoseismolog
Lihua Fang
China Earthquake Administration
Beijing, China
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6,269
4,183
0.667
Jiuhui Chen
China Earthquake Administration
Beijing, China
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4,066
1,287
0.317
Jiawei Zhang
China Earthquake Administration
Beijing, China
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
466
451
0.968
Sedimentoloty
Tectonics
Thermochronolog
Jinrui Liu
China Earthquake Administration
Beijing, China
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
394
369
0.937
Active tectonics. Tectonic geomorpholog