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
Knut Are Aastveit
Applied Econometrics
Forecasting
Monetary Policy
Business Cycles
Housing Market
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
22
24
2,061
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :2
Kasper Roszbach
Empirical banking
default risk
information in banking
household finance
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
20
25
2,530
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :3
Farooq Akram
International finance
Exchange rates
Energy Economics
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
18
28
2,593
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :6
Karsten Gerdrup
financial stability
monetary policy
forecasting
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
14
20
1,035
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :7
Johannes Skjeltorp
Financial Economics
Asset Pricing
Market Microstructure
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
14
22
1,619
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :8
Jin Cao
banking
financial crisis
banking regulation
monetary economics
macroeconomics
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
12
16
427
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :10
Saskia Ter Ellen
financial markets
empirical asset pricing
monetary policy
financial stability
behavioral finance
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
10
11
565
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :11
Vegard H. Larsen
Macroeconomics
Time Series Econometrics
Business Cycles
Machine Learning
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
10
10
888
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :12
Drago Bergholt
Macroeconomics
Monetary Economics
International macro and finance
DSGE modelling
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
8
8
722
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :15
Nicolò Maffei-Faccioli
Applied Macroeconomics
Time Series Econometrics
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
7
4
166
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 1
Knut Are Aastveit
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
22
24
2,061
Applied Econometrics
Forecasting
Monetary Policy
Business Cycles
Housing Market
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
Kasper Roszbach
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
20
25
2,530
Empirical banking
default risk
information in banking
household finance
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Farooq Akram
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
18
28
2,593
International finance
Exchange rates
Energy Economics
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Øyvind Eitrheim
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
18
21
1,914
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
Francesco Furlanetto
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
16
18
1,234
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
Karsten Gerdrup
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
14
20
1,035
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
Johannes Skjeltorp
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
14
22
1,619
Financial Economics
Asset Pricing
Market Microstructure
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
Jin Cao
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
12
16
427
banking
financial crisis
banking regulation
monetary economics
macroeconomics
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
Jan Fredrik Qvigstad
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
11
15
552
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
Saskia Ter Ellen
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
10
11
565
financial markets
empirical asset pricing
monetary policy
financial stability
behavioral finance
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
Vegard H. Larsen
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
10
10
888
Macroeconomics
Time Series Econometrics
Business Cycles
Machine Learning
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
Drago Bergholt
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
8
8
722
Macroeconomics
Monetary Economics
International macro and finance
DSGE modelling
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
Plamen Nenov
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
7
7
451
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
Ørjan Robstad
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
7
6
360
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
Nicolò Maffei-Faccioli
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
7
4
166
Applied Macroeconomics
Time Series Econometrics