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United Nations University 153 Scientists i10 Productivity Rankings - 2025

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
Japan
Klaus F Zimmermann
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
Japan
Zhiming Liu
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
Japan
Dirk Messner
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
Japan
Manzoor Qadir
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
Japan
Vladimir Smakhtin
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
Japan
Tony Addison
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
Japan
Bartel Van De Walle
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
Japan
Jamal Hisham Hashim
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
Japan
Foster Mcgregor Neil
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
Japan
Srikantha Herath
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
Japan
Miguel Niño Zarazúa
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
Japan
Zita Sebesvari
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
Japan
Kees Van Der Geest
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
Japan
Sam Jones
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
Japan
Bruno Martorano
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
Japan
Michael Enlocher
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
Japan
Ruediger Kuehr
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
Japan
Fred Gault
innovation
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
40
20
0.500
* Total i10 IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
Japan
Hiroshan Hettiarachchi
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
Japan
Micheline Goedhuys
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
Japan
Elias Ayuk
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
Japan
Ludovico Alcorta
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
Japan
Lili Wang
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
Japan
Morten Meyerhoff Nielsen
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
Japan
Gerald Forkuor
Remote Sensing/GIS
Environment
Water Resources
Agriculture
Climate Change
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
29
27
0.931
* Total i10 Index Rankings
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 1
Klaus F Zimmermann
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
320
152
0.475
Economics
Labor Economics
Population Economics
Migration
* Total i10 Index Rankings
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
Zhiming Liu
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
237
149
0.629
* Total i10 Index Rankings
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Dirk Messner
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
153
36
0.235
Sustainability Research
Digital Transformations
Global Governance
Climate Politics
* Total i10 Index Rankings
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Manzoor Qadir
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
* Total i10 Index Rankings
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
Vladimir Smakhtin
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
118
86
0.729
* Total i10 Index Rankings
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
Tony Addison
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
112
43
0.384
* Total i10 Index Rankings
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
Bartel Van De Walle
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
90
39
0.433
Decision Support Systems
Crisis Response and Management
Policy Analysis
* Total i10 Index Rankings
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
Jamal Hisham Hashim
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
71
54
0.761
Professor of Environmental Health
* Total i10 Index Rankings
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
Foster Mcgregor Neil
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
71
52
0.732
* Total i10 Index Rankings
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
Srikantha Herath
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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* Total i10 Index Rankings
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
Miguel Niño Zarazúa
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
63
40
0.635
Development Economics
Social Protection
Poverty
Inequality
Political Economy
* Total i10 Index Rankings
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
Zita Sebesvari
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
* Total i10 Index Rankings
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
Kees Van Der Geest
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
* Total i10 Index Rankings
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
Sam Jones
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
51
39
0.765
Development Economics
Labour markets
Foreign Aid
Education
Mozambique
* Total i10 Index Rankings
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
Bruno Martorano
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
45
30
0.667
Inequality
Political Economics
Development Economics
* Total i10 Index Rankings
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
Michael Enlocher
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
41
38
0.927
vulnerability
systemic risk
risk management
adaptation
hydrological extremes
* Total i10 Index Rankings
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
Ruediger Kuehr
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
* Total i10 Index Rankings
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
Fred Gault
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
40
20
0.500
* Total i10 Index Rankings
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
Hiroshan Hettiarachchi
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
36
30
0.833
sustainability
waste management
circular economy
geotechnical engineering
* Total i10 Index Rankings
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
Micheline Goedhuys
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
36
24
0.667
firm growth innovation entrepreneurship employment empowerment developing countries
* Total i10 Index Rankings
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 21
Elias Ayuk
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
31
16
0.516
Natural resources management
poverty analysis
capacity building
agricultural economics
* Total i10 Index Rankings
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 22
Ludovico Alcorta
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
31
14
0.452
Industrialization
Technology and Innovation
* Total i10 Index Rankings
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 23
Lili Wang
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
* Total i10 Index Rankings
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 24
Morten Meyerhoff Nielsen
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
30
17
0.567
eGoverment
governance
inter-governmental cooperation
eServices
eParticipation
* Total i10 Index Rankings
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 25
Gerald Forkuor
i-10 Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
29
27
0.931
Remote Sensing/GIS
Environment
Water Resources
Agriculture
Climate Change