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" (1,014,167 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 :2
Hung Soo Kim, 김형수
Hydrology
Water Resources
Climate Change
Natural Disaster
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
34
165
7,094
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :3
Ki Il Song
Civil Engineering
Numerical analysis
Tunnel Engineering
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
29
57
2,775
Soojun Kim 김수전
Hydrology
Water resources
Climate change
Natural disaster
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
18
47
1,469
Jae Hun Jo|Jae-Hun Jo
Building Environment and Mechanical Engineering
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
17
32
1,119
Jaewan Joe
Building science
Model-based predictive control
Distributed optimization
System identification
Empirical validation
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
15
16
945
Seong Hoon Jeong
Earthquake Engineeirng
Reinforced Concrete
Civil Engineering
Structural Engineering
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
14
18
1,194
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :10
Jung Yeol Kim
construction management
automation
information technology
sensor network
visual recognition
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
11
13
653
Viet Nguyen-Le
Shale gas and Hydraulic fracturing
CCS
Heavy oil recovery
Reservoir modeling and simulation
ML & AI
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
5
4
108
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 1
Dong Hoon Kim
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
51
116
7,822
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
Hung Soo Kim, 김형수
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
34
165
7,094
Hydrology
Water Resources
Climate Change
Natural Disaster
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Ki Il Song
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
29
57
2,775
Civil Engineering
Numerical analysis
Tunnel Engineering
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Jong Han Lee|JH Lee
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
22
31
1,535
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
Jin Hoon Jeong
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
21
37
1,508
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
Soojun Kim 김수전
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
18
47
1,469
Hydrology
Water resources
Climate change
Natural disaster
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
Jae Hun Jo|Jae-Hun Jo
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
17
32
1,119
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
Jaewan Joe
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
15
16
945
Building science
Model-based predictive control
Distributed optimization
System identification
Empirical validation
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
Seong Hoon Jeong
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
14
18
1,194
Earthquake Engineeirng
Reinforced Concrete
Civil Engineering
Structural Engineering
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
Jung Yeol Kim
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
11
13
653
construction management
automation
information technology
sensor network
visual recognition
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
Viet Nguyen-Le
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
5
4
108
Shale gas and Hydraulic fracturing
CCS
Heavy oil recovery
Reservoir modeling and simulation
ML & AI