Citation Rankings
Highly Cited Researchers

Highly Cited Researchers 404 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
Iran
Soraya Siabani
Epidemiology
Clinical Studies
Publics Health
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
85,537
79,322
0.927
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
Iran
Farid Najafi
Public health
Epidemiology
Cancer
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
72,604
63,693
0.877
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Iran
Moslem Soofi
Health Economics
Behavioral Economics
Health Services Research
Health Inequalities
Burden of Diseases
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
61,653
55,198
0.895
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Iran
Meghdad Pirsaheb
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
58,100
53,331
0.918
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
Iran
Kiomars Sharafi
Environmental Health
Environmental Epidemiology
Environmental Toxicology
Environmental Education
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
49,926
46,227
0.926
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
Iran
Fatemeh Heydarpour
epidemiology
public health
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
44,636
41,602
0.932
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
Iran
Keyghobad Ghadiri
pediatric infectious disease subspecialist
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
43,977
41,126
0.935
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
Iran
Yahya Salimi
Clinical and Public health research
Causal Inference
Social Epidemiology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
42,594
38,636
0.907
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
Iran
Arash Ziapour
COVID 19
Sociology of Health/Mental Health
Health Education and Health Promotion
Health Literacy
Social Health
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
41,154
36,856
0.896
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
Iran
Ali Kazemi Karyani
Preferences in health
Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE)
Inequality in health
Public health
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
41,150
37,697
0.916
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
Iran
Fatemeh Rajati
Psychometrics
Health-related Quality of Life
Non-communicable diseasse
Stractural Equation Model
Meta-analysis
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
40,612
35,217
0.867
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
Iran
Satar Rezaei
Health Economics
Burden of Diseases
Health Inequalities
Systematic Review and meta-analysis
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
38,972
29,823
0.765
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
Iran
Mohammad Hosein Farzaei
Phytotherapy
Traditional medicine
Complementary and alternative medicine
Gastrointestinal
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
35,104
30,766
0.876
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
Iran
Mohammadbagher Shamsi
Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy
Mechanical Low Back Pain
Sport Injuries
Kinesiologic Electeromyography
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
34,060
30,729
0.902
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
Iran
Yahya Safari
Curriculum Planning
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
33,941
30,918
0.911
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
Iran
Ehsan Sadeghi
CVD prevention
Rehabilitation
Epidemiology of chronic disease
Life style
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
32,821
27,292
0.832
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
Iran
Behzad Karamimatin
Statistics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
28,835
25,840
0.896
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
Iran
Borhan Mansouri
Environmental Medicine
Environmental Exposures
Environmental Health
Mixture Toxicity
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
27,393
26,567
0.970
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
Iran
Sousan Heydarpour
reproductive health
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
25,992
23,574
0.907
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 21
Iran
Amir Jalali
Systems biology
Proteomics
Bioinformatics
Molecular docking and dynamics
Machine learning
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
24,673
24,465
0.992
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 22
Iran
Habibolah Khazaie
Sleep Psychiatry Insomnia
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
23,496
20,616
0.877
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 23
Iran
Nazir Fattahi
Analytical Chemistry
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
23,458
21,738
0.927
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 24
Iran
Mehdi Mirzaei Alavijeh
Behaviour Change
Health psycholog
Intervention Mapping
Health promotion
Applied Social
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
22,277
21,021
0.944
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 25
Iran
Alireza Zangeneh
Health geography
Social determinants of health
population health
poverty
Inequality
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
21,482
18,931
0.881
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
4,257
Iran
37
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 1
Soraya Siabani
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
85,537
79,322
0.927
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
5,622
Iran
45
2
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
Farid Najafi
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
72,604
63,693
0.877
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
7,331
Iran
53
3
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Moslem Soofi
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
61,653
55,198
0.895
Health Economics
Behavioral Economics
Health Services Research
Health Inequalities
Burden of Diseases
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
8,072
Iran
62
4
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Meghdad Pirsaheb
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
58,100
53,331
0.918
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
10,291
Iran
75
5
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
Kiomars Sharafi
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
49,926
46,227
0.926
Environmental Health
Environmental Epidemiology
Environmental Toxicology
Environmental Education
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
12,269
Iran
82
6
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
Fatemeh Heydarpour
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
44,636
41,602
0.932
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
12,593
Iran
84
7
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
Keyghobad Ghadiri
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
43,977
41,126
0.935
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
12,844
Iran
88
8
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
Roya Safari Faramani
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
43,445
39,731
0.915
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
13,266
Iran
91
9
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
Yahya Salimi
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
42,594
38,636
0.907
Clinical and Public health research
Causal Inference
Social Epidemiology
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
14,010
Iran
95
10
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
Arash Ziapour
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
41,154
36,856
0.896
COVID 19
Sociology of Health/Mental Health
Health Education and Health Promotion
Health Literacy
Social Health
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
14,012
Iran
96
11
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
Ali Kazemi Karyani
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
41,150
37,697
0.916
Preferences in health
Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE)
Inequality in health
Public health
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
14,323
Iran
100
12
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
Fatemeh Rajati
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
40,612
35,217
0.867
Psychometrics
Health-related Quality of Life
Non-communicable diseasse
Stractural Equation Model
Meta-analysis
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
15,297
Iran
108
13
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
Satar Rezaei
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
38,972
29,823
0.765
Health Economics
Burden of Diseases
Health Inequalities
Systematic Review and meta-analysis
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
18,013
Iran
124
14
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
Mohammad Hosein Farzaei
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
35,104
30,766
0.876
Phytotherapy
Traditional medicine
Complementary and alternative medicine
Gastrointestinal
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
18,866
Iran
129
15
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
Mohammadbagher Shamsi
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
34,060
30,729
0.902
Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy
Mechanical Low Back Pain
Sport Injuries
Kinesiologic Electeromyography
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
18,954
Iran
130
16
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
Yahya Safari
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
33,941
30,918
0.911
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
19,974
Iran
136
17
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
Ehsan Sadeghi
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
32,821
27,292
0.832
CVD prevention
Rehabilitation
Epidemiology of chronic disease
Life style
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
24,425
Iran
163
18
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
Behzad Karamimatin
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
28,835
25,840
0.896
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
26,346
Iran
171
19
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
Borhan Mansouri
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
27,393
26,567
0.970
Environmental Medicine
Environmental Exposures
Environmental Health
Mixture Toxicity
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
28,539
Iran
186
20
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
Sousan Heydarpour
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
25,992
23,574
0.907
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
30,858
Iran
201
21
Ranking Based On Selection: 21
Amir Jalali
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
24,673
24,465
0.992
Systems biology
Proteomics
Bioinformatics
Molecular docking and dynamics
Machine learning
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
33,101
Iran
217
22
Ranking Based On Selection: 22
Habibolah Khazaie
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
23,496
20,616
0.877
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
33,169
Iran
218
23
Ranking Based On Selection: 23
Nazir Fattahi
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
23,458
21,738
0.927
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
35,660
Iran
229
24
Ranking Based On Selection: 24
Mehdi Mirzaei Alavijeh
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
22,277
21,021
0.944
Behaviour Change
Health psycholog
Intervention Mapping
Health promotion
Applied Social
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
37,549
Iran
242
25
Ranking Based On Selection: 25
Alireza Zangeneh
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
21,482
18,931
0.881
Health geography
Social determinants of health
population health
poverty
Inequality