Citation Rankings
Highly Cited Researchers
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
Performance Science
Music Psychology
Musical Acoustics
Music Acoustics
Digital Musicology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3,571
1,320
0.370
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
Voice
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2,502
1,598
0.639
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,531
635
0.415
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
electroacoustic music
experimental music
machine listening
sound art
music informatics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,497
936
0.625
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
930
424
0.456
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
Music Acoustics
Mathematical Modelling
Numerical Analysis
Inverse Modelling
Virtual Reality
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
773
441
0.571
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
Music Sociology
Popular Music Studies
Music and Gender
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
612
322
0.526
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
Digital Musicology
Linked Data
Music Informatics
Music Encoding
Information-seeking Behaviour
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
500
351
0.702
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
acoustics of musical instruments
signal processing
applied optics
optimization
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
474
140
0.295
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
Music Acoustics
Performance Science
Signal Processing
Sound-Synthesis
Saxophone
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
369
255
0.691
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
Musiktherapie
Musik im Gesundheitswesen
evidence-based medicine
public health
health economics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
261
261
1.000
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
music acoustic
music physiology
musicology
music psychology
performing science
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
236
82
0.347
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
Machine Learning
Machine Listening
Signal Processing
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
187
187
1.000
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
Stochastic Processes on Networks and Dimensional Reduction
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
172
156
0.907
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
Music Acoustics
Musik Instrument making
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
155
91
0.587
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
music acoustics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
131
114
0.870
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
European Folk music (scholarship)
Multipart instrumental music
Folk music research and political ideologies
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
106
61
0.575
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
Ethnomusicology
Music and (Forced) Migration
Music and Minorities
(African) Popular Music
Decolonizing Music Studies
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
62
44
0.710
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
56
25
0.446
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
Musikvermittlung
Music Mediation
Community Music
Community Engagement
Cultural Participation
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
47
43
0.915
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 21
Ethnomusicology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
35
35
1.000
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 22
Voice
Singing
Voice Pedagogy
Music Acoustics
Gender Studies
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
24
24
1.000
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 23
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
21
16
0.762
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 24
Music and media
inter-and transmediality
popular music
aesthetics
postcolonialism
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
20
16
0.800
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 25
Music theory
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
16
15
0.938
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
278,628
1,566
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 1
Werner Goebl
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3,571
1,320
0.370
Performance Science
Music Psychology
Musical Acoustics
Music Acoustics
Digital Musicology
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
373,160
2,064
2
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
Christian Herbst
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
2,502
1,598
0.639
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
528,686
2,762
3
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Dagmar Abfalter
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,531
635
0.415
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
536,177
2,810
4
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Thomas Grill
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
1,497
936
0.625
electroacoustic music
experimental music
machine listening
sound art
music informatics
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
704,600
3,559
5
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
Tasos Zembylas
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
930
424
0.456
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
770,239
3,867
6
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
Vasileios Chatziioannou
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
773
441
0.571
Music Acoustics
Mathematical Modelling
Numerical Analysis
Inverse Modelling
Virtual Reality
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
849,495
4,210
7
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
Rosa Reitsamer
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
612
322
0.526
Music Sociology
Popular Music Studies
Music and Gender
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
917,956
4,522
8
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
David M. Weigl
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
500
351
0.702
Digital Musicology
Linked Data
Music Informatics
Music Encoding
Information-seeking Behaviour
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
940,241
4,637
9
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
Wilfried Kausel
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
474
140
0.295
acoustics of musical instruments
signal processing
applied optics
optimization
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,040,819
5,153
10
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
Hofmann, Alex
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
369
255
0.691
Music Acoustics
Performance Science
Signal Processing
Sound-Synthesis
Saxophone
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,181,991
5,777
11
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
Hannah Riedl
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
261
261
1.000
Musiktherapie
Musik im Gesundheitswesen
evidence-based medicine
public health
health economics
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,225,928
5,965
12
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
Matthias A. Bertsch
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
236
82
0.347
music acoustic
music physiology
musicology
music psychology
performing science
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,322,855
6,354
13
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
Francesc Lluís
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
187
187
1.000
Machine Learning
Machine Listening
Signal Processing
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,359,405
6,515
14
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
Leonhard Horstmeyer
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
172
156
0.907
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,405,187
6,668
15
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
Mayer Alexander
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
155
91
0.587
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,475,878
6,935
16
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
Montserrat Pàmies-Vilà
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
131
114
0.870
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,563,862
7,252
17
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
Ulrich Morgenstern
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
106
61
0.575
European Folk music (scholarship)
Multipart instrumental music
Folk music research and political ideologies
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,763,272
7,903
18
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
Anja Brunner
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
62
44
0.710
Ethnomusicology
Music and (Forced) Migration
Music and Minorities
(African) Popular Music
Decolonizing Music Studies
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,798,001
7,979
19
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
Tatiana Statsenko
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
56
25
0.446
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,851,061
8,120
20
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
Axel Petri-Preis
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
47
43
0.915
Musikvermittlung
Music Mediation
Community Music
Community Engagement
Cultural Participation
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,935,242
8,351
21
Ranking Based On Selection: 21
Kai Tang
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
35
35
1.000
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
2,029,701
8,548
22
Ranking Based On Selection: 22
Kristen Murdaugh
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
24
24
1.000
Voice
Singing
Voice Pedagogy
Music Acoustics
Gender Studies
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
2,066,399
8,642
23
Ranking Based On Selection: 23
Malik Sharif
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
21
16
0.762
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
2,076,755
8,670
24
Ranking Based On Selection: 24
Maria Fuchs
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
20
16
0.800
Music and media
inter-and transmediality
popular music
aesthetics
postcolonialism
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
2,121,353
8,757
25
Ranking Based On Selection: 25
Nikola Komatović
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
16
15
0.938