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Highly Cited Researchers
Highly Cited Researchers 2.409 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
NCDs
Clinical Epidemiolog
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
142,053
126,013
0.887
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* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
Microbiology
Immunology
Genetic
Molecular Science
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
45,213
42,494
0.940
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Hemodialysis
Nursing education
Nursing practice
Medical ethic
Nursing ethic
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
46,100
43,385
0.941
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
37,651
35,107
0.932
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
Biostatistics
Survival Analysis
Structural Equation Modelling
Statistical Learning
Machin
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
37,362
29,289
0.784
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
Immunology
Cancer immunotherapy
Cancer biolog
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
34,684
31,858
0.919
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
Cancer research
Cell signaling
Molecular Biolog
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
33,986
26,097
0.768
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
Parasitology
Host-Parasite Interactions
Toxoplasmosis
Echinococcosi
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
33,007
29,821
0.903
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
Immunology
cancer
antibod
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
32,893
27,547
0.837
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* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
Health Policy Analysis
Health Research Policy&system
Universal Health Coverag
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
30,364
29,687
0.978
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
29,730
29,588
0.995
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
Medical Informatic
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
29,413
29,074
0.988
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
Regenerative medicine
cartilage regeneration
Molecular & cellular Pharmacology
mitochondria
kidne
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
27,031
24,267
0.898
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
Solubilization techniques
Capillary electrophoresis
Pharmaceutical Analysis
Bioanalysi
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
26,082
15,391
0.590
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
Smart energy systems
machine learning
uncertainty management
decision making
renewable energ
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
24,516
19,896
0.812
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
Pulmonary drug delivery
Dermal drug delivery
Cosmeceutic
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
22,381
17,797
0.795
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
Industrial Electronics
Power Electronics
Multilevel Inverter
Matrix Converter
Z-Source Inverte
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
21,446
12,451
0.581
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
Pharmaceutical nanotechnology
Smart drug delivery systems
Nanostructured polymeric scaffold
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
21,188
14,428
0.681
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
Professor of Community Genetics and Epidemiolog
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
19,637
13,990
0.712
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
Reproductive Immunology
Infertility Immunotherap
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
18,265
15,451
0.846
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 21
Critical Care
Family Presence
Nurse Prescribing
Cardiac Nursing
Educatio
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
17,479
16,162
0.925
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 22
Non communicable disease (NCD)
Nutritional Epidemiology
Clinical Nutritio
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
15,603
12,250
0.785
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 23
Data Science
Evolutionary Algorithm
Structural Optimization
Machine Learning
Metaheuristic
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
15,438
8,269
0.536
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 24
Power Electronics
Industrial Electronics
Renewable Energy
Power Quality
Harmonics and VAR Compensatio
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
14,370
8,095
0.563
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 25
Health Promotion
Women Health
Public Healt
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
14,366
12,592
0.877
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,721
17
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 1
Saeid Safiri
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
142,053
126,013
0.887
NCDs
Clinical Epidemiolog
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
12,663
90
3
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
Hossein Samadi Kafil
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
45,213
42,494
0.940
Microbiology
Immunology
Genetic
Molecular Science
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
12,243
87
2
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Mansour Ghafourifard
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
46,100
43,385
0.941
Hemodialysis
Nursing education
Nursing practice
Medical ethic
Nursing ethic
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
16,967
126
4
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Fereshteh Ansari
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
37,651
35,107
0.932
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
17,177
127
5
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
Mohammad Asghari Jafarabadi
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
37,362
29,289
0.784
Biostatistics
Survival Analysis
Structural Equation Modelling
Statistical Learning
Machin
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
19,263
138
6
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
Farhad Jadidi Niaragh
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
34,684
31,858
0.919
Immunology
Cancer immunotherapy
Cancer biolog
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
19,876
145
7
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
Bahman Yousefi
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
33,986
26,097
0.768
Cancer research
Cell signaling
Molecular Biolog
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
20,795
150
8
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
Ehsan Ahmadpour
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
33,007
29,821
0.903
Parasitology
Host-Parasite Interactions
Toxoplasmosis
Echinococcosi
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
20,904
151
9
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
Behzad Baradaran
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
32,893
27,547
0.837
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
23,732
170
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
Leila Doshmangir
University of Tabriz
Tabriz, Iran
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
30,364
29,687
0.978
Health Policy Analysis
Health Research Policy&system
Universal Health Coverag
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* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
24,489
174
10
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
Masoud Moghadaszadeh
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
29,730
29,588
0.995
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
24,848
177
11
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
Leila Kalankesh
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
29,413
29,074
0.988
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
28,254
192
12
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
Elham Ahmadian
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
27,031
24,267
0.898
Regenerative medicine
cartilage regeneration
Molecular & cellular Pharmacology
mitochondria
kidne
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
29,783
207
13
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
A Ghasem Jouyban
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
26,082
15,391
0.590
Solubilization techniques
Capillary electrophoresis
Pharmaceutical Analysis
Bioanalysi
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
32,580
219
2
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
Behnam Mohammadi İvatloo
University of Tabriz
Tabriz, Iran
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
24,516
19,896
0.812
Smart energy systems
machine learning
uncertainty management
decision making
renewable energ
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
37,070
249
14
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
Hamed Hamishehkar
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
22,381
17,797
0.795
Pulmonary drug delivery
Dermal drug delivery
Cosmeceutic
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
39,401
259
3
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
Ebrahim Babaei
University of Tabriz
Tabriz, Iran
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
21,446
12,451
0.581
Industrial Electronics
Power Electronics
Multilevel Inverter
Matrix Converter
Z-Source Inverte
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
40,088
263
15
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
Soodabeh Davaran
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
21,188
14,428
0.681
Pharmaceutical nanotechnology
Smart drug delivery systems
Nanostructured polymeric scaffold
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
44,524
284
16
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
Saeed Dastgiri
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
19,637
13,990
0.712
Professor of Community Genetics and Epidemiolog
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
49,182
302
17
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
Mehdi Yousefi
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
18,265
15,451
0.846
Reproductive Immunology
Infertility Immunotherap
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
52,163
312
18
Ranking Based On Selection: 21
Hamidreza Haririan
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
17,479
16,162
0.925
Critical Care
Family Presence
Nurse Prescribing
Cardiac Nursing
Educatio
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
60,716
361
19
Ranking Based On Selection: 22
Mahdieh Abbasalizad Farhangi
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
15,603
12,250
0.785
Non communicable disease (NCD)
Nutritional Epidemiology
Clinical Nutritio
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
61,587
370
4
Ranking Based On Selection: 23
Siamak Talatahari
University of Tabriz
Tabriz, Iran
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
15,438
8,269
0.536
Data Science
Evolutionary Algorithm
Structural Optimization
Machine Learning
Metaheuristic
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
67,660
397
5
Ranking Based On Selection: 24
Seyed Hossein Hosseini
University of Tabriz
Tabriz, Iran
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
14,370
8,095
0.563
Power Electronics
Industrial Electronics
Renewable Energy
Power Quality
Harmonics and VAR Compensatio
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
67,677
398
20
Ranking Based On Selection: 25
Mojgan Mirghafourvand
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
14,366
12,592
0.877
Health Promotion
Women Health
Public Healt