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
Jimmy Lin
information retrieval
natural language processing
data management
big data
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
98
409
36,981
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
Jian Zhao
Information Visualization
Human-Computer Interaction
Visual Analytics
Data Science
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
31
63
3,018
Luchen Tan
Information Retrieval
Natural Language Processing
Machine Learning
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
13
17
1,181
Peter He
Communications
information theory
signal processing
optimization theory and methods
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
13
16
929
Hongtao Zhang
Information security
secure communication
chaos dynamics
nonlinear systems
network control and synchronization.
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
11
12
644
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 1
Jimmy Lin
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
98
409
36,981
information retrieval
natural language processing
data management
big data
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
Jian Zhao
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
31
63
3,018
Information Visualization
Human-Computer Interaction
Visual Analytics
Data Science
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Mark D Smucker
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
30
57
4,253
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Luchen Tan
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
13
17
1,181
Information Retrieval
Natural Language Processing
Machine Learning
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
Peter He
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
13
16
929
Communications
information theory
signal processing
optimization theory and methods
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
Hongtao Zhang
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
11
12
644
Information security
secure communication
chaos dynamics
nonlinear systems
network control and synchronization.