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
Thomas Metzinger
Cognitives Science
Philosophy of Mind
Consciousness
Self-consciousness
Applied Ethics
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
51
96
15,235
Gerhard Lauer
Book and Literary History
Cognitive Poetics
Digital Humanities
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
26
49
2,644
John Carter Wood
history of violence
history of crime and justice
Christian intellectual history
gender and media
history of technology
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
16
25
873
Thomas Hieke
Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies
Biblical Theology
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
14
32
1,065
Klaus-Dietrich (Cloudy) Fischer
histoire de la médecine et médecine vétérinaire
antiquité et moyen âge
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
12
18
672
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 1
Thomas Metzinger
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
51
96
15,235
Cognitives Science
Philosophy of Mind
Consciousness
Self-consciousness
Applied Ethics
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
Gerhard Lauer
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
26
49
2,644
Book and Literary History
Cognitive Poetics
Digital Humanities
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
John Carter Wood
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
16
25
873
history of violence
history of crime and justice
Christian intellectual history
gender and media
history of technology
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Thomas Hieke
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
14
32
1,065
Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies
Biblical Theology
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
Klaus-Dietrich (Cloudy) Fischer
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
12
18
672
histoire de la médecine et médecine vétérinaire
antiquité et moyen âge