Top 100 Scientists

World Top 100 Scientists 2025

Top 100 scientists can be ranked globally or specific to the following regions including Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, Latin America, Oceania, Arab League, ASEAN, EECA, and BRICS based on total H-index scores without any breakdown by subject areas. Top 100 rankings in the world, in a continent, or a region include standardized subjects areas of Agriculture & Forestry, Arts, Design and Architecture, Business & Management, Economics & Econometrics, Education, Engineering & Technology, History, Philosophy, Theology, Law/Law and Legal Studies, Medical and Health Sciences, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, Art and Humanities Rankings and Social Sciences and Humanities Rankings BETA VERSION. Subject field ranking in world, region, country and university is beta version since subject field "others" (873,690 scientists profile whose branch cannot be determined, not yet edited or determined) is excluded, so the ranking will change as the others fields are edited. Please note that. Subjects indicated as “ * others ” will not be included in the ranking by regions and subjects.

* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 1
Olaf Schmidt
Soil ecology
earthworms
stable isotopes
food authentication
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
51
107
9,277
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
Sharon O Rourke
soil organic carbon
soil geochemistry
visible near-infrared spectroscopy
hyperspectral imaging
portable & core-scanning XRF
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
18
23
3,400
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Thomas Cummins
Anthropogenic Soils
Forest Biogeochemistry
Ecosystem Monitoring
Soil history
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
16
25
1,034
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 1
Olaf Schmidt
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
51
107
9,277
Soil ecology
earthworms
stable isotopes
food authentication
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
Sharon O Rourke
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
18
23
3,400
soil organic carbon
soil geochemistry
visible near-infrared spectroscopy
hyperspectral imaging
portable & core-scanning XRF
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Thomas Cummins
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
16
25
1,034
Anthropogenic Soils
Forest Biogeochemistry
Ecosystem Monitoring
Soil history
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Xiaoyi Meng
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
3
3
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