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.

Xuemin Sterling Yan
Finance
Asset Pricing
Institutional Investors
Mutual Funds
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
27
33
5,497
Heibatollah Sami
Financial Accounting
International Accounting
Regulation
Accounting Standards
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
26
39
3,145
Parveen P Gupta
Corporate Governance
Disclosure Regulation
Audit and Financial Reporting Quality
Sarbanes-Oxley and Internal Controls
Board
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
20
34
2,011
Qianqian Yu
Corporate Finance
Entrepreneurial Finance
Venture Capital
Initial Public Offerings
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
8
8
393

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Bright Asante-Appiah
Accounting-related business sustainability
audit and financial reporting quality
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
3
2
239
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 1
Paul Brockman
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
41
66
7,618
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
Xuemin Sterling Yan
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
27
33
5,497
Finance
Asset Pricing
Institutional Investors
Mutual Funds
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Heibatollah Sami
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
26
39
3,145
Financial Accounting
International Accounting
Regulation
Accounting Standards
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Parveen P Gupta
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
20
34
2,011
Corporate Governance
Disclosure Regulation
Audit and Financial Reporting Quality
Sarbanes-Oxley and Internal Controls
Board
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
S Mckay Price
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
15
19
1,795
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
Jesus M Salas
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
14
14
1,423
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
Ke Yang
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
8
8
720
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
Qianqian Yu
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
8
8
393
Corporate Finance
Entrepreneurial Finance
Venture Capital
Initial Public Offerings
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
Ke Shen
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
5
2
85
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
Donald E Bowen III
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
4
2
127

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Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
Chen Cai
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
4
2
42
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
Bright Asante-Appiah
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
3
2
239
Accounting-related business sustainability
audit and financial reporting quality
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
James Hall
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
2
2
192