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: 1
Betty Simkins
Risk Management
Energy Finance
Enterprise Risk Management
Diversity
Real Options
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
41
67
14,790
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Ramesh P Rao
corporate finance
capital structure
corporate governance
payout policy
security offerings
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
37
67
7,001
Josephine Shikongo
finance in higher education
academic capitalism
endowment funds
economics of education
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
3
3
89
Ashleigh Bakke
audit quality
audit markets
auditor incentives
financial reporting quality
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
2
1
17

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Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 1
Betty Simkins
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
41
67
14,790
Risk Management
Energy Finance
Enterprise Risk Management
Diversity
Real Options
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
Douglas A Hershey
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
38
56
5,473
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Ramesh P Rao
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
37
67
7,001
corporate finance
capital structure
corporate governance
payout policy
security offerings
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Qin Emma Wang
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
10
10
696
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
Jun Zhang
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
6
4
153
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
Craig A Sisneros
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
4
3
211
Accounting- Financial
Capital Markets
Earnings Management
Valuation
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
Josephine Shikongo
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
3
3
89
finance in higher education
academic capitalism
endowment funds
economics of education
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
Sissy Osteen, Cfp®
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
3
1
48
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
Ashleigh Bakke
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
2
1
17
audit quality
audit markets
auditor incentives
financial reporting quality

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Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
Eric Sisneros
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
1
1
115