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" (873,864 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
Frank Piller|Frank T. Piller
Open Innovation
Mass Customization
Business Model Innovation
User Innovation
Hybrid Intelligence
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
73
173
25,746
Christian Hopp
Entrepreneurship
Innovation
Venture Capital
Corporate Finance
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
28
43
2,742
David Antons
Innovation & Sustainability
Innovation & AI
Information Systems
Not-Invented-Here
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
22
31
2,813
Volker Bilgram
Innovation
AI
Co-Creation
Service Design
Consumer Empowerment
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
15
19
1,765
Sebastian Schaefer
Open Innovation
Crowdsourcing
Innovation Collaboration
Multinational Corporations
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
3
3
97
Alexandra Gatzweiler
Open Innovation
Business Model Innovation
Consumer Research
Coporate Incubation
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
2
1
94
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 1
Frank Piller|Frank T. Piller
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
73
173
25,746
Open Innovation
Mass Customization
Business Model Innovation
User Innovation
Hybrid Intelligence
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
Christian Hopp
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
28
43
2,742
Entrepreneurship
Innovation
Venture Capital
Corporate Finance
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
David Antons
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
22
31
2,813
Innovation & Sustainability
Innovation & AI
Information Systems
Not-Invented-Here
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Volker Bilgram
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
15
19
1,765
Innovation
AI
Co-Creation
Service Design
Consumer Empowerment
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
Stefan Breunig
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
7
7
148
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
Christian Weller
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
5
3
1,260
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
Sebastian Schaefer
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
3
3
97
Open Innovation
Crowdsourcing
Innovation Collaboration
Multinational Corporations
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
Alexandra Gatzweiler
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
2
1
94
Open Innovation
Business Model Innovation
Consumer Research
Coporate Incubation