Citation Rankings
Highly Cited Researchers
Highly Cited Researchers 333 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
Decision making
information fusion
consensus
social network decision analysis
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
28,139
14,019
0.498
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
Computational Intelligence
Evolutionary Computation
Swarm Intelligence
Dynamic Optimization
Multiobjective Optimization
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
22,242
12,013
0.540
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
NAS
Perinatal Addiction
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
16,587
7,163
0.432
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
critical theory
information systems
computer ethics
digital ethics
responsible innovation
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
14,034
10,068
0.717
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
Critical Infrastructure Protection
Intrusion Detection Systems
Incident Response
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
12,736
10,788
0.847
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
Metabolomics
NMR analysis
Chemical Pathology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
10,940
2,985
0.273
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
Biomedical Spectroscopy
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
10,087
2,194
0.218
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
Industrial Control Systems
Incident Response
Risk Management
altimetry
digital elevation models
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
8,979
2,154
0.240
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
Engineering Materials
Surface Engineering
Tribology
Corrosion
Tribocorrosion
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
8,971
2,283
0.254
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
Energy Economics
Policy
Rural energy
environment
pricing
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
8,811
3,722
0.422
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
Media studies and gender
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
8,706
6,834
0.785
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
Entrepreneurship
enterprise
innovation
education
learning
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
8,462
2,784
0.329
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
Transportation Engineering
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
7,218
2,256
0.313
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
Thermal Energy Storage (TES)
Phase Change Materials (PCM's)
Solar Energy
Heat and Mass Transfer
Metal Foam
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
7,051
3,783
0.537
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
politics
public policy
governance
urban studies
sociology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6,933
2,045
0.295
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
Drug Delivery / Pharmaceutics
Biomaterials / Biomedical Engineering
Technology / Manufacturing
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6,632
3,813
0.575
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
Social theory
language
health
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6,466
2,591
0.401
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
Industrial sustainability
renewable energy technologies
energy systems
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6,339
2,498
0.394
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
Finance
mergers and acquisitions
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6,249
3,856
0.617
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
Information Systems
social media
egovernment
ICT4D
social responsibility
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
5,775
4,143
0.717
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 21
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
5,485
1,718
0.313
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 22
Operations Management
Decision Support Systems
Performance Evaluation of Supply Chain Management
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4,823
2,368
0.491
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 23
Marketing Communications
Integrated Marketing Communications
IMC
Competitive Intelligence
Marketing Management
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4,219
1,162
0.275
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 24
Corporate finance
Corporate governance
Credit market performance
Corporate sustainability & stakeholder engagement
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4,202
3,726
0.887
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 25
chemoinformatics
distributed systems
software engineering
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4,028
1,942
0.482
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
25,308
2,203
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 1
Francisco Chiclana
De Montfort University
Leicester, United Kingdom
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
28,139
14,019
0.498
Decision making
information fusion
consensus
social network decision analysis
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
35,731
3,133
2
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
Shengxiang Yang
De Montfort University
Leicester, United Kingdom
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
22,242
12,013
0.540
Computational Intelligence
Evolutionary Computation
Swarm Intelligence
Dynamic Optimization
Multiobjective Optimization
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
53,466
4,606
3
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Sophy Smith
De Montfort University
Leicester, United Kingdom
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
16,587
7,163
0.432
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
66,719
5,714
4
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Bernd Carsten Stahl
De Montfort University
Leicester, United Kingdom
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
14,034
10,068
0.717
critical theory
information systems
computer ethics
digital ethics
responsible innovation
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
75,430
6,429
5
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
Leandros Maglaras
De Montfort University
Leicester, United Kingdom
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
12,736
10,788
0.847
Critical Infrastructure Protection
Intrusion Detection Systems
Incident Response
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
90,615
7,600
6
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
Martin Grootveld
De Montfort University
Leicester, United Kingdom
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
10,940
2,985
0.273
Metabolomics
NMR analysis
Chemical Pathology
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
99,567
8,281
7
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
Parvez I Haris
De Montfort University
Leicester, United Kingdom
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
10,087
2,194
0.218
Biomedical Spectroscopy
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
113,658
9,299
8
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
Richard G. Smith
De Montfort University
Leicester, United Kingdom
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
8,979
2,154
0.240
Industrial Control Systems
Incident Response
Risk Management
altimetry
digital elevation models
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
113,780
9,309
9
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
Yong Sun
De Montfort University
Leicester, United Kingdom
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
8,971
2,283
0.254
Engineering Materials
Surface Engineering
Tribology
Corrosion
Tribocorrosion
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
116,113
9,484
10
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
Subhes Bhattacharyya
De Montfort University
Leicester, United Kingdom
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
8,811
3,722
0.422
Energy Economics
Policy
Rural energy
environment
pricing
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
117,693
9,618
11
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
Ahmed Bahiya
De Montfort University
Leicester, United Kingdom
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
8,706
6,834
0.785
Media studies and gender
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
121,519
9,926
12
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
David Rae
De Montfort University
Leicester, United Kingdom
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
8,462
2,784
0.329
Entrepreneurship
enterprise
innovation
education
learning
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
144,474
11,526
13
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
Andy Collop
De Montfort University
Leicester, United Kingdom
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
7,218
2,256
0.313
Transportation Engineering
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
148,045
11,763
14
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
Yuan Tian
De Montfort University
Leicester, United Kingdom
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
7,051
3,783
0.537
Thermal Energy Storage (TES)
Phase Change Materials (PCM's)
Solar Energy
Heat and Mass Transfer
Metal Foam
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
150,680
11,955
15
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
Jonathan S Davies
De Montfort University
Leicester, United Kingdom
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6,933
2,045
0.295
politics
public policy
governance
urban studies
sociology
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
157,785
12,430
16
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
Zeeshan Ahmad
De Montfort University
Leicester, United Kingdom
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6,632
3,813
0.575
Drug Delivery / Pharmaceutics
Biomaterials / Biomedical Engineering
Technology / Manufacturing
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
161,961
12,701
17
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
B Brown
De Montfort University
Leicester, United Kingdom
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6,466
2,591
0.401
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
165,358
12,923
18
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
Rick Greenough
De Montfort University
Leicester, United Kingdom
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6,339
2,498
0.394
Industrial sustainability
renewable energy technologies
energy systems
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
167,720
13,066
19
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
Agyenim Boateng
De Montfort University
Leicester, United Kingdom
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
6,249
3,856
0.617
Finance
mergers and acquisitions
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
181,574
14,027
20
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
Laurence Brooks
De Montfort University
Leicester, United Kingdom
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
5,775
4,143
0.717
Information Systems
social media
egovernment
ICT4D
social responsibility
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
190,841
14,669
21
Ranking Based On Selection: 21
Eva Masiero
De Montfort University
Leicester, United Kingdom
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
5,485
1,718
0.313
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
216,282
16,394
22
Ranking Based On Selection: 22
Adel Hatami-Marbini
De Montfort University
Leicester, United Kingdom
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4,823
2,368
0.491
Operations Management
Decision Support Systems
Performance Evaluation of Supply Chain Management
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
244,883
18,231
23
Ranking Based On Selection: 23
David Pickton
De Montfort University
Leicester, United Kingdom
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4,219
1,162
0.275
Marketing Communications
Integrated Marketing Communications
IMC
Competitive Intelligence
Marketing Management
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
245,758
18,280
24
Ranking Based On Selection: 24
Albert Danso
De Montfort University
Leicester, United Kingdom
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4,202
3,726
0.887
Corporate finance
Corporate governance
Credit market performance
Corporate sustainability & stakeholder engagement
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
255,564
18,903
25
Ranking Based On Selection: 25
Stefan Kuhn
De Montfort University
Leicester, United Kingdom
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4,028
1,942
0.482
chemoinformatics
distributed systems
software engineering