Total 2,384,803 scientists, country 221, and institutions 24,463 are evaluated in the Productivity Rankings, an exclusive service provided by AD Scientific Index. This ranking measures and highlights the scientific productivity of researchers based on the i10 index (number of publications with at least 10 citations). This system identifies highly productive scientists across disciplines, institutions, and regions, contributing to the development of evidence-based academic policies and effective incentive mechanisms. The rankings include global, regional, and institutional analyses, along with specialized rankings such as Scientists' Last 6 Years' i10 Index and Universities' i10 Index Rankings 2025. With Premium Membership, you can:
- Gain full access to detailed comparisons and advanced analytics,
- Objectively evaluate your academic productivity,
- Make strategic, data-driven decisions to enhance performance.
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 1
![Muhammad Shahbaz](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/e8/695743.jpg)
Applied Economics
Energy Economics
Environmental Economics
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
611
551
0.902
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
![Chien-Chiang Lee (李建強)](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/e5/294542.jpg)
Banking and Finance
Energy and Environmental Economics
Applied Economietrics
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
371
342
0.922
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
![Xiangzheng Deng](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/66/4972595.jpg)
Natural Resource Management
Environmental Economics
Urban-Rural Integration
Global Change
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
260
206
0.792
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
![Chi Wei Su](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/5f/730148.jpg)
International Finance
Urban studies
Energy Economics
Environmental Economics
Econometrics
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
239
207
0.866
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
![Peng Zhou P Zhou](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/c4/695326.jpg)
Energy economics and policy
Environmental economics and management
Low carbon and sustainable development
Performance measure
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
175
162
0.926
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
![ZhongXiang Zhang 张中祥](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/a3/725209.jpg)
Energy economics and policy
environmental economics and policy
economic modeling
economic growth
trade and environment
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
158
63
0.399
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
![Muhammad Khalid Anser Rao](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/79/736815.jpg)
Economics
Energy Economics
Environmental Economics
Sustainability
Corporate Social Responsibili
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
155
155
1.000
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
![Abdul Rehman](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/bd/784725.jpg)
Economics
Agricultural Economics
Energy Economics
Environmental Economics
Climate Change
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
135
132
0.978
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
![Munir Ahmad](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/2b/695458.jpg)
Innovation & Green Growth
Consumer Behavior
Sustainable Development
Environmental Economics
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
128
128
1.000
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
![Yang Zhou](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/36/4995063.jpg)
Development Economics
Rural Revitalization
Land Use Change
Food Security
Environmental Economics
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
91
80
0.879
Enroll all your faculty members with discounted institutional membership to showcase your institution's academic strength to the world in the best way possible – join now and achieve results fast!
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
![Zhang Bing](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/f3/710198.jpg)
Environmental Economics
Policy Analysis
Environmental Policy
Climate Policy
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
89
73
0.820
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
![Zeeshan Fareed](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/2b/694462.jpg)
Environmental Economics
Resource Economics
Green Finance
Sustainable Development
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
82
78
0.951
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
![Huijuan Dong (董会娟)](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/2d/713349.jpg)
Carbon emission
Environmental Economics,Sustainable development
Industry ecology
Water resource management
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
82
77
0.939
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
![Muhammad Usman](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/f9/5011697.jpg)
Environmental Economics
Energy Economics
Economic Analysis
Sustainable Development
Panel data
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
76
76
1.000
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
![Zeeshan Khan](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/c9/695362.jpg)
Energy Economics
Environmental Economics
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
75
74
0.987
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
![Fayyaz Ahmad](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/f3/695341.jpg)
Energy Economics
Environmental Economics
Foreign Investment
International Economics
Regional Economics
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
73
71
0.973
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
![Atif Jahanger](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/44/4347098.jpg)
Environmental Economics
International Trade
World Economy
Energy Economics
Tourism Economics
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
71
71
1.000
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
![Chao Wang 王超](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/4f/695738.jpg)
Complexity economics
Resource and environmental economics
Sustainable supply chains
Metaheuristics
Complex network
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
68
66
0.971
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
![Chu Wei](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/30/695459.jpg)
Energy economics
Environmental economics
Efficiency and Productivity
Chinese economy
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
68
51
0.750
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
![Muhammad Hafeez](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/5a/695216.jpg)
Finance
Financial Economics
Sustainability
Financial Econometrics
Environmental Economics
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
67
66
0.985
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 21
![Ke Li](/user/assets/images/profile/no-profile-photo.png)
Energy and Environmental Economics
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
62
61
0.984
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 22
![Irfan Khan](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/b0/4348349.jpg)
Top 2% Scientists
Researcher
Energy Economics
Environmental Economics
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
58
58
1.000
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 23
![Donglan ZHA](/user/assets/images/profile/no-profile-photo.png)
Energy economics and policy
Environmental economics and management
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
54
42
0.778
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 24
![Abdulrasheed Zakari](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/40/4346697.jpg)
Energy economics
environmental economics
health economic
development economics
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
49
49
1.000
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 25
![Xiaodong Yang](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/17/4507742.jpg)
Energy economics
environmental economics
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
47
47
1.000
Muhammad Shahbaz
Beijing Institute of Technology
Beijing, China
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
611
551
0.902
Applied Economics
Energy Economics
Environmental Economics
Chien-Chiang Lee (李建強)
Nanchang University
Nanchang, China
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
371
342
0.922
Banking and Finance
Energy and Environmental Economics
Applied Economietrics
Xiangzheng Deng
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
260
206
0.792
Natural Resource Management
Environmental Economics
Urban-Rural Integration
Global Change
Chi Wei Su
Qingdao University
Qingdao, China
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
239
207
0.866
International Finance
Urban studies
Energy Economics
Environmental Economics
Econometrics
Peng Zhou P Zhou
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
175
162
0.926
Energy economics and policy
Environmental economics and management
Low carbon and sustainable development
Performance measure
ZhongXiang Zhang 张中祥
Tianjin University
Tianjin, China
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
158
63
0.399
Energy economics and policy
environmental economics and policy
economic modeling
economic growth
trade and environment
Muhammad Khalid Anser Rao
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
155
155
1.000
Economics
Energy Economics
Environmental Economics
Sustainability
Corporate Social Responsibili
Abdul Rehman
Henan Agricultural University
Zhengzhou, China
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
135
132
0.978
Economics
Agricultural Economics
Energy Economics
Environmental Economics
Climate Change
Munir Ahmad
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
128
128
1.000
Innovation & Green Growth
Consumer Behavior
Sustainable Development
Environmental Economics
Yang Zhou
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
91
80
0.879
Development Economics
Rural Revitalization
Land Use Change
Food Security
Environmental Economics
Enroll all your faculty members with discounted institutional membership to showcase your institution's academic strength to the world in the best way possible – join now and achieve results fast!
Zhang Bing
Nanjing University
Nanjing, China
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
89
73
0.820
Environmental Economics
Policy Analysis
Environmental Policy
Climate Policy
Zeeshan Fareed
Huzhou University
Huzhou, China
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
82
78
0.951
Environmental Economics
Resource Economics
Green Finance
Sustainable Development
Huijuan Dong (董会娟)
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Shanghai, China
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
82
77
0.939
Carbon emission
Environmental Economics,Sustainable development
Industry ecology
Water resource management
Muhammad Usman
Wuhan University
Wuhan, China
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
76
76
1.000
Environmental Economics
Energy Economics
Economic Analysis
Sustainable Development
Panel data
Zeeshan Khan
Tsinghua University
Beijing, China
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
75
74
0.987
Energy Economics
Environmental Economics
Fayyaz Ahmad
Lanzhou University
Lanzhou, China
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
73
71
0.973
Energy Economics
Environmental Economics
Foreign Investment
International Economics
Regional Economics
Atif Jahanger
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
71
71
1.000
Environmental Economics
International Trade
World Economy
Energy Economics
Tourism Economics
Chao Wang 王超
Beijing University of Technology
Beijing, China
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
68
66
0.971
Complexity economics
Resource and environmental economics
Sustainable supply chains
Metaheuristics
Complex network
Chu Wei
Renmin University of China
Beijing, China
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
68
51
0.750
Energy economics
Environmental economics
Efficiency and Productivity
Chinese economy
Muhammad Hafeez
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
67
66
0.985
Finance
Financial Economics
Sustainability
Financial Econometrics
Environmental Economics
Ke Li
Hunan Normal University
Changsha, China
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
62
61
0.984
Energy and Environmental Economics
Irfan Khan
Beijing Institute of Technology
Beijing, China
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
58
58
1.000
Top 2% Scientists
Researcher
Energy Economics
Environmental Economics
Donglan ZHA
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
54
42
0.778
Energy economics and policy
Environmental economics and management
Abdulrasheed Zakari
Beijing Institute of Technology
Beijing, China
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
49
49
1.000
Energy economics
environmental economics
health economic
development economics
Xiaodong Yang
Xinjiang University
Urumqi, China
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
47
47
1.000
Energy economics
environmental economics