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Highly Cited Researchers
Highly Cited Researchers 215 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
Immunotherapy
Target Therapy
Cross talk and Drug Resistance
Breast and GI Cancer
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
115,487
39,448
0.342
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* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
臨床微生�
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
73,301
37,428
0.511
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
researc
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
49,829
16,390
0.329
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Epidemiolog
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
46,487
43,704
0.940
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
evolutionary computation
multiobjective optimization
computational intelligenc
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
45,018
25,512
0.567
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
Clinical Genetic
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
41,393
14,797
0.357
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
32,889
4,006
0.122
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
32,009
13,768
0.430
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
28,853
10,186
0.353
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* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
27,955
27,317
0.977
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
Cancer Biology
Cancer Metabolism
Cell Death
Signal Transduction
microRN
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
27,918
10,476
0.375
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
Nonlinear Analysis
Optimization
Operations Research
Academy of Romanian Scientist
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
25,375
8,891
0.350
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
Bone
Arthritis
Metastasis
Drug developmen
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
22,788
10,919
0.479
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
22,393
7,961
0.356
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
Environmental Epidemiology
Nutritional Epidemiology
Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Health Policy
Health La
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
21,889
21,611
0.987
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
Biostatistic
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Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
21,548
13,702
0.636
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
21,525
7,800
0.362
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
20,094
5,239
0.261
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
19,542
7,260
0.372
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
18,238
7,058
0.387
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 21
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
16,786
5,478
0.326
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 22
Immunopsychiatry
Nutritional & Translational Medicine
Mind-Body
Social Scienc
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
16,664
10,103
0.606
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 23
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
16,056
6,389
0.398
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 24
neuroscience
neurodegenerative diseases
protein aggregation
stem cells
axonal transpor
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
15,467
5,809
0.376
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 25
Cancer
drug resistance
Signal transductio
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
14,139
6,945
0.491
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
2,588
9
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 1
Mien Chie Hung
China Medical University Taiwan
Taichung, Taiwan
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
115,487
39,448
0.342
Immunotherapy
Target Therapy
Cross talk and Drug Resistance
Breast and GI Cancer
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
5,845
19
2
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
Po-Ren Hsueh
China Medical University Taiwan
Taichung, Taiwan
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
73,301
37,428
0.511
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
10,838
37
3
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Andrew Ta Cheng
China Medical University Taiwan
Taichung, Taiwan
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
49,829
16,390
0.329
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
12,099
44
4
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Bing Fang Hwang
China Medical University Taiwan
Taichung, Taiwan
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
46,487
43,704
0.940
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
12,781
431
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
Qingfu Zhang
China Medical University
Shenyang, China
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
45,018
25,512
0.567
evolutionary computation
multiobjective optimization
computational intelligenc
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
14,644
53
5
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
Fuu-Jen Tsai|Fu-Jen Tsai
China Medical University Taiwan
Taichung, Taiwan
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
41,393
14,797
0.357
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
20,959
75
6
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
Alexandra Aicher
China Medical University Taiwan
Taichung, Taiwan
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
32,889
4,006
0.122
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
21,900
78
7
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
Chia-Hung Kao
China Medical University Taiwan
Taichung, Taiwan
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
32,009
13,768
0.430
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
25,617
87
8
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
Yang-Chang Wu
China Medical University Taiwan
Taichung, Taiwan
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
28,853
10,186
0.353
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
26,897
94
9
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
Ro Ting Lin
China Medical University Taiwan
Taichung, Taiwan
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
27,955
27,317
0.977
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* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
26,953
95
10
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
Ming Tan
China Medical University Taiwan
Taichung, Taiwan
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
27,918
10,476
0.375
Cancer Biology
Cancer Metabolism
Cell Death
Signal Transduction
microRN
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
31,094
117
11
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
Jen-Chih Yao
China Medical University Taiwan
Taichung, Taiwan
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
25,375
8,891
0.350
Nonlinear Analysis
Optimization
Operations Research
Academy of Romanian Scientist
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
36,226
136
12
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
Chih-Hsin Tang
China Medical University Taiwan
Taichung, Taiwan
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
22,788
10,919
0.479
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
37,126
139
13
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
Yueh-Hsiung Kuo
China Medical University Taiwan
Taichung, Taiwan
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
22,393
7,961
0.356
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
38,376
148
14
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
Ming-Chieh Li (李銘杰)
China Medical University Taiwan
Taichung, Taiwan
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
21,889
21,611
0.987
Environmental Epidemiology
Nutritional Epidemiology
Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Health Policy
Health La
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
39,225
158
15
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
Cheng-Li Lin
China Medical University Taiwan
Taichung, Taiwan
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
21,548
13,702
0.636
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
39,288
161
16
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
Hung-Chi Chen
China Medical University Taiwan
Taichung, Taiwan
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
21,525
7,800
0.362
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
43,239
181
17
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
Ks Clifford Chao
China Medical University Taiwan
Taichung, Taiwan
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
20,094
5,239
0.261
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
44,890
187
18
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
Jai-Sing Yang
China Medical University Taiwan
Taichung, Taiwan
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
19,542
7,260
0.372
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
49,383
204
19
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
Cheng-Chieh Lin
China Medical University Taiwan
Taichung, Taiwan
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
18,238
7,058
0.387
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
55,207
234
20
Ranking Based On Selection: 21
Shih-Chieh Hung
China Medical University Taiwan
Taichung, Taiwan
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
16,786
5,478
0.326
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
55,757
242
21
Ranking Based On Selection: 22
Kuan Pin Su (蘇冠賓)
China Medical University Taiwan
Taichung, Taiwan
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
16,664
10,103
0.606
Immunopsychiatry
Nutritional & Translational Medicine
Mind-Body
Social Scienc
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
58,512
256
22
Ranking Based On Selection: 23
Oscar Lee
China Medical University Taiwan
Taichung, Taiwan
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
16,056
6,389
0.398
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
61,592
2,605
2
Ranking Based On Selection: 24
Jia-Yi Li
China Medical University
Shenyang, China
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
15,467
5,809
0.376
neuroscience
neurodegenerative diseases
protein aggregation
stem cells
axonal transpor
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
69,186
308
23
Ranking Based On Selection: 25
Hirohito Yamaguchi
China Medical University Taiwan
Taichung, Taiwan
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
14,139
6,945
0.491
Cancer
drug resistance
Signal transductio