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" (870,053 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: 3
James Shanahan
Media effects
television
environmental communication
cultural indicators
cultivation analysis
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
56
97
16,273
Sung-Un Yang
Communication Management
Public Relations
Reputation Management
Social Media
Public Diplomacy
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
31
39
6,686
Minjeong Kang
employee communication
public relations
organizational listening
trust/distrust
dialogic comm
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
17
19
2,946
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
Yan Lu Lucy
Social Media in Healthcare
Social Networks and Large-Scale Data Analysis
Business Analytics and Data-driven Decision Making
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
13
13
1,200

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* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
Mike Conway
content analysis
propaganda
journalism history
television news history
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
11
12
566
Owen V Johnson
Russian and East European area mass media
East European history
American journalism history
especially Ernie Pyle
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
9
9
445
Stephanie Deboer
screen cultures
media art
media geography
media production/co-production
global media studies
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
3
1
80
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 1
David H Weaver
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
72
153
28,338
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
Annie Lang
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
66
109
19,372
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
James Shanahan
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
56
97
16,273
Media effects
television
environmental communication
cultural indicators
cultivation analysis
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Maria Elizabeth Betsi Grabe
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
32
54
5,951
Media and democracy
visual communication
knowledge gap
news and emotion
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
Sung-Un Yang
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
31
39
6,686
Communication Management
Public Relations
Reputation Management
Social Media
Public Diplomacy
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
Robert F Potter
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
29
51
5,761
Audio
attention
emotion
cognitive nuroscience
psychophysiologye
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
Ronald Day
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
20
32
2,512
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
Minjeong Kang
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
17
19
2,946
employee communication
public relations
organizational listening
trust/distrust
dialogic comm
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
Yan Lu Lucy
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
13
13
1,200
Social Media in Healthcare
Social Networks and Large-Scale Data Analysis
Business Analytics and Data-driven Decision Making

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Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
Mike Conway
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
11
12
566
content analysis
propaganda
journalism history
television news history
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
Niki Fritz
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
9
9
1,074
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
Gerry Lanosga
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
9
8
229
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
Owen V Johnson
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
9
9
445
Russian and East European area mass media
East European history
American journalism history
especially Ernie Pyle
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
Maria Solomou
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
6
6
656
Digital media
Games
Learning
Creativity
Online Communities
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
Stephanie Deboer
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
3
1
80
screen cultures
media art
media geography
media production/co-production
global media studies