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" (870,057 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
Henri Servaes
Corporate finance
mutual funds
corporate governance
corporate social responsibility
ESG
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
39
60
33,186
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Vikrant Vig
Law
Financial Contracting
Organizational Economics and Politics and Regulation
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
25
35
8,363
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
Francesca Cornelli
Corporate governance
private equity
privatisation
bankruptcy
IPOs
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
20
27
4,781
S Lakshmi Naaraayanan
Empirical Corporate Finance
Entrepreneurship
Financial Intermediation
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
8
7
297
Rachel W Flam
Financial reporting
Disclosure
Financial analysts
Earnings conference calls
Financial journalism
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
5
4
125

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Maxime Bonelli
Financial Economics
Asset Management
Corporate Finance
Entrepreneurship
Fintech
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
5
2
75
Sicong Li
Empirical Asset Pricing
Financial Econometrics
Machine Learning
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
2
2
24
Rebecca De Simone
corporate finance
corporate governance
financial intermediation
public finance
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
2
1
25
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 1
Henri Servaes
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
39
60
33,186
Corporate finance
mutual funds
corporate governance
corporate social responsibility
ESG
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
James Dow
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
26
38
5,713
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Vikrant Vig
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
25
35
8,363
Law
Financial Contracting
Organizational Economics and Politics and Regulation
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Joao Cocco
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
21
27
8,977
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
Francesca Cornelli
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
20
27
4,781
Corporate governance
private equity
privatisation
bankruptcy
IPOs
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
Aytekin Ertan
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
13
14
529
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
S Lakshmi Naaraayanan
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
8
7
297
Empirical Corporate Finance
Entrepreneurship
Financial Intermediation
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
Marco Grotteria
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
7
6
299
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
Rachel W Flam
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
5
4
125
Financial reporting
Disclosure
Financial analysts
Earnings conference calls
Financial journalism

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Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
Maxime Bonelli
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
5
2
75
Financial Economics
Asset Management
Corporate Finance
Entrepreneurship
Fintech
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
Purnendu Nath
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
4
4
417
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
Gunjan Seth
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
2
2
31
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
Sicong Li
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
2
2
24
Empirical Asset Pricing
Financial Econometrics
Machine Learning
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
Rebecca De Simone
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
2
1
25
corporate finance
corporate governance
financial intermediation
public finance
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
Christian Villouta
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
1
0
7