Total 2,403,032 scientists, country 221, and institutions 24,466 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:
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* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 1
![Klaus F Zimmermann](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/d1/333392.jpg)
Economics
Labor Economics
Population Economics
Migration
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
320
152
0.475
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
![Zhiming Liu](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/fb/409594.jpg)
Computer Science
Software Engineering
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
237
149
0.629
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
![Dirk Messner](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/5d/340044.jpg)
Sustainability Research
Digital Transformations
Global Governance
Climate Politics
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
153
36
0.235
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
![Manzoor Qadir](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/1c/410876.jpg)
Unconventional water resources
water recycling and reuse
water quality and environmental health
water security
land degradat
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
132
103
0.780
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
![Vladimir Smakhtin](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/bb/331974.jpg)
Water
hydrology
floods
droughts
environmental flows
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
118
86
0.729
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
![Tony Addison](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/db/413143.jpg)
Oil and gas
Mining
Extractives
Aid
Poverty
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
112
43
0.384
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
![Bartel Van De Walle](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/65/301714.jpg)
Decision Support Systems
Crisis Response and Management
Policy Analysis
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
90
39
0.433
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
![Jamal Hisham Hashim](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/53/331969.jpg)
Professor of Environmental Health
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
71
54
0.761
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
![Foster Mcgregor Neil](/user/assets/images/profile/no-profile-photo.png)
Economic Development
International Economics
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
71
52
0.732
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
![Srikantha Herath](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/82/419399.jpg)
Hydrology
Climate Change and Impacts
Urban Water
Disaster Risk Reduction
Numerical Modeling
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
68
42
0.618
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* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
![Miguel Niño Zarazúa](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/4c/427049.jpg)
Development Economics
Social Protection
Poverty
Inequality
Political Economy
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
63
40
0.635
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
![Zita Sebesvari](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/77/341004.jpg)
Disaster risk reduction and adptation
risk tipping points
ecosystem loss and damege
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
60
52
0.867
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
![Kees Van Der Geest](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/08/358966.jpg)
Human Mobility
Climate Mobility
Environmental Migration
Displacement
Loss and Damage
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
54
47
0.870
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
![Sam Jones](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/29/423095.jpg)
Development Economics
Labour markets
Foreign Aid
Education
Mozambique
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
51
39
0.765
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
![Bruno Martorano](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/69/297478.jpg)
Inequality
Political Economics
Development Economics
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
45
30
0.667
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
![Michael Enlocher](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/c0/341005.jpg)
vulnerability
systemic risk
risk management
adaptation
hydrological extremes
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
41
38
0.927
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
![Ruediger Kuehr](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/70/424602.jpg)
E-waste
Sustainable Production
Consumption and Disposal
Technology Transfer
Environmental Policies
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
40
34
0.850
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
![Fred Gault](/user/assets/images/profile/no-profile-photo.png)
innovation
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
40
20
0.500
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
![Hiroshan Hettiarachchi](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/14/331970.jpg)
sustainability
waste management
circular economy
geotechnical engineering
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
36
30
0.833
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
![Micheline Goedhuys](/user/assets/images/profile/no-profile-photo.png)
firm growth innovation entrepreneurship employment empowerment developing countries
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
36
24
0.667
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 21
![Elias Ayuk](/user/assets/images/profile/no-profile-photo.png)
Natural resources management
poverty analysis
capacity building
agricultural economics
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
31
16
0.516
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 22
![Ludovico Alcorta](/user/assets/images/profile/no-profile-photo.png)
Industrialization
Technology and Innovation
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
31
14
0.452
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 23
![Lili Wang](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/39/524402.jpg)
Economics of science
Emerging technologies
Digitalisation and society
Green transition and
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
30
21
0.700
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 24
![Morten Meyerhoff Nielsen](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/82/430869.jpg)
eGoverment
governance
inter-governmental cooperation
eServices
eParticipation
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
30
17
0.567
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 25
![Gerald Forkuor](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/be/357263.jpg)
Remote Sensing/GIS
Environment
Water Resources
Agriculture
Climate Change
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
29
27
0.931
Klaus F Zimmermann
United Nations University
Tokyo, Japan
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
320
152
0.475
Economics
Labor Economics
Population Economics
Migration
Zhiming Liu
United Nations University
Tokyo, Japan
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
237
149
0.629
Computer Science
Software Engineering
Dirk Messner
United Nations University
Tokyo, Japan
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
153
36
0.235
Sustainability Research
Digital Transformations
Global Governance
Climate Politics
Manzoor Qadir
United Nations University
Tokyo, Japan
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
132
103
0.780
Unconventional water resources
water recycling and reuse
water quality and environmental health
water security
land degradat
Vladimir Smakhtin
United Nations University
Tokyo, Japan
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
118
86
0.729
Water
hydrology
floods
droughts
environmental flows
Tony Addison
United Nations University
Tokyo, Japan
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
112
43
0.384
Oil and gas
Mining
Extractives
Aid
Poverty
Bartel Van De Walle
United Nations University
Tokyo, Japan
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
90
39
0.433
Decision Support Systems
Crisis Response and Management
Policy Analysis
Jamal Hisham Hashim
United Nations University
Tokyo, Japan
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
71
54
0.761
Foster Mcgregor Neil
United Nations University
Tokyo, Japan
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
71
52
0.732
Economic Development
International Economics
Srikantha Herath
United Nations University
Tokyo, Japan
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
68
42
0.618
Hydrology
Climate Change and Impacts
Urban Water
Disaster Risk Reduction
Numerical Modeling
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Miguel Niño Zarazúa
United Nations University
Tokyo, Japan
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
63
40
0.635
Development Economics
Social Protection
Poverty
Inequality
Political Economy
Zita Sebesvari
United Nations University
Tokyo, Japan
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
60
52
0.867
Disaster risk reduction and adptation
risk tipping points
ecosystem loss and damege
Kees Van Der Geest
United Nations University
Tokyo, Japan
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
54
47
0.870
Human Mobility
Climate Mobility
Environmental Migration
Displacement
Loss and Damage
Sam Jones
United Nations University
Tokyo, Japan
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
51
39
0.765
Development Economics
Labour markets
Foreign Aid
Education
Mozambique
Bruno Martorano
United Nations University
Tokyo, Japan
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
45
30
0.667
Inequality
Political Economics
Development Economics
Michael Enlocher
United Nations University
Tokyo, Japan
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
41
38
0.927
vulnerability
systemic risk
risk management
adaptation
hydrological extremes
Ruediger Kuehr
United Nations University
Tokyo, Japan
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
40
34
0.850
E-waste
Sustainable Production
Consumption and Disposal
Technology Transfer
Environmental Policies
Fred Gault
United Nations University
Tokyo, Japan
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
40
20
0.500
Hiroshan Hettiarachchi
United Nations University
Tokyo, Japan
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
36
30
0.833
sustainability
waste management
circular economy
geotechnical engineering
Micheline Goedhuys
United Nations University
Tokyo, Japan
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
36
24
0.667
firm growth innovation entrepreneurship employment empowerment developing countries
Elias Ayuk
United Nations University
Tokyo, Japan
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
31
16
0.516
Natural resources management
poverty analysis
capacity building
agricultural economics
Ludovico Alcorta
United Nations University
Tokyo, Japan
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
31
14
0.452
Lili Wang
United Nations University
Tokyo, Japan
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
30
21
0.700
Economics of science
Emerging technologies
Digitalisation and society
Green transition and
Morten Meyerhoff Nielsen
United Nations University
Tokyo, Japan
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
30
17
0.567
eGoverment
governance
inter-governmental cooperation
eServices
eParticipation
Gerald Forkuor
United Nations University
Tokyo, Japan
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
29
27
0.931
Remote Sensing/GIS
Environment
Water Resources
Agriculture
Climate Change