Citation Rankings
Highly Cited Researchers
Highly Cited Researchers 1.015 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
microelectronics
sensors
ASIC
biomedical electronics
particle detector
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
82,725
36,534
0.442
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* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
Information retrieval
Web search
Web mining
data mining
algorithms and data structure
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
58,262
9,365
0.161
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Computational Neuroscienc
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
42,006
22,664
0.540
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Decision making
judgment
forecastin
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
41,959
6,732
0.160
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
Population genomics
human evolution
biodiversity
gene regulation
conservation genomic
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
41,714
24,897
0.597
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
Farmacología
Toxicología y Neurociencia
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
38,213
15,096
0.395
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
Neuropharmacolog
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
36,735
11,093
0.302
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
literacy
applied linguistics
discourse
writing
language teachin
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
34,918
14,082
0.403
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
Cross-Cultural psychology
Personality Psychology
Social Psychology
Acculturation
Cultura
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
34,624
12,739
0.368
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* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
33,303
14,277
0.429
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
Complex systems
Synthetic Biology
Systems Biology
Artificial Life
evolutionary ecolog
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
32,581
8,764
0.269
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
Social Computing
Social Media
Crisis Informatics
Algorithmic Fairnes
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
30,055
13,139
0.437
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
Evolution
Microbial Ecolog
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
30,029
7,176
0.239
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
psycholinguistics
bilingualism
psychology
cognitive neuroscience
language processin
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
28,364
12,031
0.424
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
COPD
lung cancer
muscle dysfunction and wasting
oxidative stress
epigenetic
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
28,126
13,585
0.483
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
Multivariate Analysis
Structural Equation Models
Small Area Estimation
Applied Statistics
Psychometric
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
27,327
9,027
0.330
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
Wireless
MIMO
Wireless Communications
Communication Theor
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
27,111
9,781
0.361
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
27,002
8,151
0.302
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
Computational Biology
Statistics
Machine Learning
Graphical Model
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
26,639
13,775
0.517
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
Human population genetics
human evolutionary genomics
natural selectio
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
25,611
4,981
0.194
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 21
Multivariate statistics
correspondence analysis
compositional data analysis
ecological dat
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
25,340
8,342
0.329
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 22
Public Health
Social Determinants
Health Inequalities
Precarious Employment
Health Polic
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
25,176
9,255
0.368
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 23
Immunolog
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
22,546
6,379
0.283
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 24
Cardiovascular pathophysiology
Cardiac Imaging
Computational Physiolog
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
22,289
6,692
0.300
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 25
Psychology
Cognitive Neuroscience
Developmental Psycholog
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
22,056
6,873
0.312
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
4,771
98
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 1
Albert Comerma Montells
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Barcelona, Spain
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
82,725
36,534
0.442
microelectronics
sensors
ASIC
biomedical electronics
particle detector
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
8,481
155
2
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
Ricardo Baeza Yates
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Barcelona, Spain
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
58,262
9,365
0.161
Information retrieval
Web search
Web mining
data mining
algorithms and data structure
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
14,307
230
3
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Gustavo Deco
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Barcelona, Spain
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
42,006
22,664
0.540
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
14,338
232
4
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Robin Miles Hogarth
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Barcelona, Spain
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
41,959
6,732
0.160
Decision making
judgment
forecastin
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
14,486
235
5
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
Tomas Marques Bonet
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Barcelona, Spain
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
41,714
24,897
0.597
Population genomics
human evolution
biodiversity
gene regulation
conservation genomic
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
16,639
270
6
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
Rafael De La Torre Fornell
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Barcelona, Spain
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
38,213
15,096
0.395
Farmacología
Toxicología y Neurociencia
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
17,730
296
7
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
Rafael Maldonado
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Barcelona, Spain
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
36,735
11,093
0.302
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
19,146
322
8
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
Daniel Cassany
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Barcelona, Spain
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
34,918
14,082
0.403
literacy
applied linguistics
discourse
writing
language teachin
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
19,405
329
9
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
Veronica Benet Martinez
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Barcelona, Spain
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
34,624
12,739
0.368
Cross-Cultural psychology
Personality Psychology
Social Psychology
Acculturation
Cultura
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
20,570
353
10
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
Gabor Lugosi
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Barcelona, Spain
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
33,303
14,277
0.429
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* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
21,304
374
11
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
Ricard Solé
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Barcelona, Spain
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
32,581
8,764
0.269
Complex systems
Synthetic Biology
Systems Biology
Artificial Life
evolutionary ecolog
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
24,167
422
12
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
Carlos Castillo
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Barcelona, Spain
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
30,055
13,139
0.437
Social Computing
Social Media
Crisis Informatics
Algorithmic Fairnes
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
24,214
424
13
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
Daniel J. Richter
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Barcelona, Spain
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
30,029
7,176
0.239
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
26,309
458
14
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
Albert Costa
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Barcelona, Spain
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
28,364
12,031
0.424
psycholinguistics
bilingualism
psychology
cognitive neuroscience
language processin
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
26,677
467
15
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
Barreiro E
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Barcelona, Spain
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
28,126
13,585
0.483
COPD
lung cancer
muscle dysfunction and wasting
oxidative stress
epigenetic
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
27,872
496
16
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
Albert Satorra
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Barcelona, Spain
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
27,327
9,027
0.330
Multivariate Analysis
Structural Equation Models
Small Area Estimation
Applied Statistics
Psychometric
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
28,216
511
17
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
Angel Lozano
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Barcelona, Spain
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
27,111
9,781
0.361
Wireless
MIMO
Wireless Communications
Communication Theor
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
28,398
516
18
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
De Herreros AG
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Barcelona, Spain
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
27,002
8,151
0.302
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
28,941
531
19
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
Robert Castelo
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Barcelona, Spain
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
26,639
13,775
0.517
Computational Biology
Statistics
Machine Learning
Graphical Model
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
30,692
560
20
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
Jaume Bertranpetit
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Barcelona, Spain
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
25,611
4,981
0.194
Human population genetics
human evolutionary genomics
natural selectio
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
31,185
574
21
Ranking Based On Selection: 21
Michael Greenacre
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Barcelona, Spain
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
25,340
8,342
0.329
Multivariate statistics
correspondence analysis
compositional data analysis
ecological dat
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
31,481
581
22
Ranking Based On Selection: 22
Joan Benach
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Barcelona, Spain
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
25,176
9,255
0.368
Public Health
Social Determinants
Health Inequalities
Precarious Employment
Health Polic
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
36,798
694
23
Ranking Based On Selection: 23
Miguel Lopez Botet
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Barcelona, Spain
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
22,546
6,379
0.283
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
37,427
704
24
Ranking Based On Selection: 24
Bart Bijnens
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Barcelona, Spain
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
22,289
6,692
0.300
Cardiovascular pathophysiology
Cardiac Imaging
Computational Physiolog
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
37,994
721
25
Ranking Based On Selection: 25
Nuria Sebastian Galles
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Barcelona, Spain
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
22,056
6,873
0.312
Psychology
Cognitive Neuroscience
Developmental Psycholog