Citation Rankings
Highly Cited Researchers
Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History Highly Cited Researchers Citation Rankings 2025
The Citation Rankings (Highly Cited Researchers) 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
ancient DNA
pathogen evolution
human history
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
53,553
32,326
0.604
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :2
Archaeology
Human evolution
Human impacts
Biodiversity change
Material culture
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
15,300
10,764
0.704
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :3
Phylodynamics
Phylogenetics
Molecular epidemiology
Stochastic processes
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
13,786
10,971
0.796
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :4
Population Genetics
Molecular Evolution
Bioinformatics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
10,336
8,030
0.777
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :5
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
8,004
5,995
0.749
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :6
Palaeoecology
Archaeology
Land Use
Anthropocene
Historical Ecology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
5,246
4,878
0.930
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :7
Archaeology
Botany
Archaeobotany
Paleoethnobotany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4,558
3,732
0.819
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :8
Linguistic Typology
Computational Linguistics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4,329
2,867
0.662
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :9
Evolutionary Archaeologist
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3,691
3,000
0.813
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :10
Complex systems
Big Historical Data
Causal and Bayesian modelling
Classical Archaeology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3,442
2,759
0.802
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :11
Anthropogenic ecology
isotope ecology
amino acids
compound-specific isotope analysis
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3,050
2,086
0.684
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :12
Archaeology
Japanese studies
Environmental humanities
Archaeolinguistics
Alpine history
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2,948
1,575
0.534
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :13
Palaeolithic Archaeology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2,490
1,936
0.778
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :14
quantitative cultural history
cultural evolution
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,907
1,396
0.732
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :15
population genetics
archaeogenetics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,818
993
0.546
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :16
Archaeology
East African prehistory
lithics
food production
climate change
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,531
1,464
0.956
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :17
Archaeology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,436
1,418
0.987
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :18
Past human-animal interactions
paleoenvironment
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,423
1,152
0.810
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :19
Proteomics
archaeology
bioarchaeology
ancient genetics/genomics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,086
1,077
0.992
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :20
archaeology
human-environment interaction
Sub-Saharan Africa
land cover change
environmental
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,028
980
0.953
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :21
genomics
population genomics
molecular biology
computational biology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
993
943
0.950
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :22
Zooarchaeology
ZooMS
Taphonomy
Arid Environments
Arabia
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
928
858
0.925
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :23
Compound specific isotopes
Paleoclimate & paleoecology
Biogeochemical cycling
Food web ecology
Climate-Environment-Human int
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
854
557
0.652
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :24
Disease ecology
Pathogen evolution
DNA metabarcoding
Ancient DNA
Bayesian inference
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
852
745
0.874
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :25
bioinformatics
historical linguistics
computational linguistics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
846
525
0.621
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
8,984
362
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 1
Johannes Krause
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
53,553
32,326
0.604
ancient DNA
pathogen evolution
human history
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
58,205
2,542
2
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
Nicole Boivin
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
15,300
10,764
0.704
Archaeology
Human evolution
Human impacts
Biodiversity change
Material culture
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
66,769
2,946
3
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Denise Kühnert
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
13,786
10,971
0.796
Phylodynamics
Phylogenetics
Molecular epidemiology
Stochastic processes
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
94,850
4,148
4
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Stephan Schiffels
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
10,336
8,030
0.777
Population Genetics
Molecular Evolution
Bioinformatics
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
126,591
5,426
5
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
Alexander Herbig
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
8,004
5,995
0.749
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
195,546
8,052
6
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
Patrick Roberts
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
5,246
4,878
0.930
Palaeoecology
Archaeology
Land Use
Anthropocene
Historical Ecology
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
223,637
9,021
7
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
Robert Spengler
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4,558
3,732
0.819
Archaeology
Botany
Archaeobotany
Paleoethnobotany
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
234,650
9,421
8
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
Harald Hammarström
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4,329
2,867
0.662
Linguistic Typology
Computational Linguistics
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
270,781
10,690
9
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
Eleanor Ml Scerri
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3,691
3,000
0.813
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
287,549
11,271
10
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
Ricardo Fernandes
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3,442
2,759
0.802
Complex systems
Big Historical Data
Causal and Bayesian modelling
Classical Archaeology
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
318,365
12,267
11
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
Thomas Larsen
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3,050
2,086
0.684
Anthropogenic ecology
isotope ecology
amino acids
compound-specific isotope analysis
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
327,471
12,601
12
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
Mark James Hudson
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2,948
1,575
0.534
Archaeology
Japanese studies
Environmental humanities
Archaeolinguistics
Alpine history
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
374,457
14,099
13
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
James Blinkhorn
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2,490
1,936
0.778
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
455,744
16,648
14
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
Olivier Morin
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,907
1,396
0.732
quantitative cultural history
cultural evolution
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
471,178
17,120
15
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
Elina Salmela
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,818
993
0.546
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
528,506
18,847
16
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
Steven T. Goldstein
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,531
1,464
0.956
Archaeology
East African prehistory
lithics
food production
climate change
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
550,214
19,534
17
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
Ayushi Nayak
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,436
1,418
0.987
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
553,394
19,619
18
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
Noel Amano
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,423
1,152
0.810
Past human-animal interactions
paleoenvironment
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
648,613
22,422
19
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
Shevan Wilkin
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,086
1,077
0.992
Proteomics
archaeology
bioarchaeology
ancient genetics/genomics
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
668,264
23,040
20
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
Andrea U. Kay
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,028
980
0.953
archaeology
human-environment interaction
Sub-Saharan Africa
land cover change
environmental
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
680,900
23,401
21
Ranking Based On Selection: 21
Susanna Sabin
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
993
943
0.950
genomics
population genomics
molecular biology
computational biology
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
705,084
24,134
22
Ranking Based On Selection: 22
Mathew Stewart
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
928
858
0.925
Zooarchaeology
ZooMS
Taphonomy
Arid Environments
Arabia
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
735,131
25,000
23
Ranking Based On Selection: 23
Yiming V. Wang
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
854
557
0.652
Compound specific isotopes
Paleoclimate & paleoecology
Biogeochemical cycling
Food web ecology
Climate-Environment-Human int
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
735,827
25,023
24
Ranking Based On Selection: 24
Arthur Kocher
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
852
745
0.874
Disease ecology
Pathogen evolution
DNA metabarcoding
Ancient DNA
Bayesian inference
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
738,536
25,119
25
Ranking Based On Selection: 25
Mei-Shin Wu|Mei-Shin Wu-Urbanek
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
846
525
0.621
bioinformatics
historical linguistics
computational linguistics