Subject Rankings
Germany Social Sciences / Library and Information Science Subject Rankings 2025
AD Scientific Index (Alper-Doger Scientific Index) offers the broadest spectrum of branches, providing analysis in 13 main fields and 197 sub-branches at global, national, and regional levels. These analyses can be based on indicators such as the H-index, i10-index, and citation count, as well as their values from the last 6 years. As of Dec 04, 2024, rankings are according to the Total H Index. BETA VERSION: The subject field rankings for the world, regions, countries, and universities are currently in beta. This is due to the exclusion of (873.937) scientists categorized under 'others,' whose profiles cannot yet be determined, edited, or classified. As these fields are updated, the rankings will adjust accordingly. Please keep this in mind. See Also: [University Subject Rankings]
* Total H IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection
:1
Linked Data
Knowledge Graphs
Web Science
Digital Libraries
Industry 4.0
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
71
279
34,202
* Total H IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection
:2
Cartography
Geographical Information Science
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
56
227
13,689
* Total H IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection
:3
palaeoclimate
palaeolimnology
paleohydrology
terrestrial archives
stable isotopes
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
53
120
7,298
* Total H IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection
:4
Bibliometrics
Information Retrieval
History of Science
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
40
81
5,341
* Total H IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection
:5
carbonate sediments and rocks as archives of environmental and climate variation
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
40
87
4,467
* Total H IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection
:6
Information Science
Scientometrics
Social Media
Smart Cities
Information Markets
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
38
109
6,034
* Total H IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection
:7
Bibliometrics
Scientometrics
Altmetrics
Chemistry
Physics
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
36
83
4,598
* Total H IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection
:8
Cartography
Geovisualisation
Geographic Information Science
Generalisation
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
31
74
3,012
* Total H IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection
:9
Information Retrieval
Recommender Systems
Data Science
Information Science
Lifelogging
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
28
73
2,812
* Total H IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection
:10
Multimedia Information Retrieval
Vision and Language
Digital Libraries
Multimodal Machine Learning
Visual Analytics
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
26
67
2,511
* Total H IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection
:11
Semantic Evolution
Digital Libraries
Web Archiving
Data Management in Distributed Systems
Self-organizing Systems
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
24
51
3,753
* Total H IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection
:12
Knowledge Management
Information science
Socio-Technical Systems
Intellectual Capital
Process Design
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
23
44
4,661
* Total H IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection
:13
Publishing
Open Science
Open Access
Library and Information Science
LIS
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
21
33
1,615
* Total H IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection
:14
Information science - informational city - digital city - knowledge city - social media - digital education
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
18
30
1,175
* Total H IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection
:15
bibliometrics
network analysis
open access
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
16
22
1,029
* Total H IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection
:16
Bibliothek in der Digitalen Gesellschaft
Informationsverhalten
Wissensmanagement
Strategisches Management von Informationseinrichtungen
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
16
26
917
* Total H IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection
:17
Today: Information techniques in libraries / Former: Glycosciences
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
16
16
1,672
* Total H IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection
:18
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
16
21
1,218
* Total H IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection
:19
Information Retrieval
Information Science
Digital Libraries
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
15
22
849
* Total H IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection
:20
Sociology of Science
Sociology of Technology
Sociology of the Media
Bibliometrics
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
15
21
558
* Total H IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection
:21
information science
personal information management
information ethics
AI ethics & governance
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
14
17
533
* Total H IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection
:22
Recommender Systems
Information Science
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
14
17
1,346
* Total H IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection
:23
Information Science
Computational Neuroscience
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
14
19
825
* Total H IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection
:24
Digital Librariess
Information Retrieval
Database Systems
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
14
16
1,820
* Total H IndexRankings
Ranking Based On Selection
:25
Information Science
Social Media Research
Gamification
Information Behavior
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
13
16
847
Sören Auer
Universität Hannover
Hannover, Germany
Metrics
H-Index
i10-Index
Citation Counts
71
279
34,202
Linked Data
Knowledge Graphs
Web Science
Digital Libraries
Industry 4.0
Li Zhilin
Technische Universität Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Metrics
H-Index
i10-Index
Citation Counts
56
227
13,689
Cartography
Geographical Information Science
Andreas Lücke
Metrics
H-Index
i10-Index
Citation Counts
53
120
7,298
palaeoclimate
palaeolimnology
paleohydrology
terrestrial archives
stable isotopes
Werner Marx
Metrics
H-Index
i10-Index
Citation Counts
40
81
5,341
Bibliometrics
Information Retrieval
History of Science
Eberhard Gischler
Goethe University Frankfurt
Frankfurt, Germany
Metrics
H-Index
i10-Index
Citation Counts
40
87
4,467
carbonate sediments and rocks as archives of environmental and climate variation
Wolfgang G. Stock
Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf, Germany
Metrics
H-Index
i10-Index
Citation Counts
38
109
6,034
Information Science
Scientometrics
Social Media
Smart Cities
Information Markets
Robin Haunschild
Metrics
H-Index
i10-Index
Citation Counts
36
83
4,598
Bibliometrics
Scientometrics
Altmetrics
Chemistry
Physics
Dirk Burghardt
Technische Universität Dresden
Dresden, Germany
Metrics
H-Index
i10-Index
Citation Counts
31
74
3,012
Cartography
Geovisualisation
Geographic Information Science
Generalisation
Frank Hopfgartner
Universität Koblenz Landau
Koblenz, Germany
Metrics
H-Index
i10-Index
Citation Counts
28
73
2,812
Information Retrieval
Recommender Systems
Data Science
Information Science
Lifelogging
Ralph Ewerth
Universität Hannover
Hannover, Germany
Metrics
H-Index
i10-Index
Citation Counts
26
67
2,511
Multimedia Information Retrieval
Vision and Language
Digital Libraries
Multimodal Machine Learning
Visual Analytics
Thomas Risse
Goethe University Frankfurt
Frankfurt, Germany
Metrics
H-Index
i10-Index
Citation Counts
24
51
3,753
Semantic Evolution
Digital Libraries
Web Archiving
Data Management in Distributed Systems
Self-organizing Systems
Peter Heisig
Fachhochschule Potsdam
Potsdam, Germany
Metrics
H-Index
i10-Index
Citation Counts
23
44
4,661
Knowledge Management
Information science
Socio-Technical Systems
Intellectual Capital
Process Design
Birgit Schmidt
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Göttingen, Germany
Metrics
H-Index
i10-Index
Citation Counts
21
33
1,615
Publishing
Open Science
Open Access
Library and Information Science
LIS
Agnes Mainka
Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf, Germany
Metrics
H-Index
i10-Index
Citation Counts
18
30
1,175
Information science - informational city - digital city - knowledge city - social media - digital education
Frank Havemann
Metrics
H-Index
i10-Index
Citation Counts
16
22
1,029
bibliometrics
network analysis
open access
Hans Christoph Hobohm
Fachhochschule Potsdam
Potsdam, Germany
Metrics
H-Index
i10-Index
Citation Counts
16
26
917
Bibliothek in der Digitalen Gesellschaft
Informationsverhalten
Wissensmanagement
Strategisches Management von Informationseinrichtungen
Andreas Bohne Lang
Ruprecht Karls Universität Heidelberg
Heidelberg, Germany
Metrics
H-Index
i10-Index
Citation Counts
16
16
1,672
Today: Information techniques in libraries / Former: Glycosciences
Jan Brase
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Göttingen, Germany
Metrics
H-Index
i10-Index
Citation Counts
16
21
1,218
Philipp Schaer
Metrics
H-Index
i10-Index
Citation Counts
15
22
849
Information Retrieval
Information Science
Digital Libraries
Niels Taubert
Universität Bielefeld
Bielefeld, Germany
Metrics
H-Index
i10-Index
Citation Counts
15
21
558
Sociology of Science
Sociology of Technology
Sociology of the Media
Bibliometrics
Jesse David Dinneen|Jesse David Dinneen
Metrics
H-Index
i10-Index
Citation Counts
14
17
533
information science
personal information management
information ethics
AI ethics & governance
Lukas Lerche
Technische Universität Dortmund
Dortmund, Germany
Metrics
H-Index
i10-Index
Citation Counts
14
17
1,346
Recommender Systems
Information Science
Wolfram Horstmann
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Göttingen, Germany
Metrics
H-Index
i10-Index
Citation Counts
14
19
825
Information Science
Computational Neuroscience
Digital Librariess
Information Retrieval
Database Systems
Franziska Zimmer
Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf, Germany
Metrics
H-Index
i10-Index
Citation Counts
13
16
847
Information Science
Social Media Research
Gamification
Information Behavior