Top 100 Scientists

World Top 100 Scientists 2025

The ranking of “Top 100” scientists is based on total H-index scores. 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, and Social Sciences. According to Total H. BETA VERSION. Subject field ranking in world, region, country and university is beta version since subject field "others" (1,014,374 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. 

Berta Martín López
Biodiversity conservation
Ecosystem services
Social-ecological systems
Sustainability Science
Nature values
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
93
196
36,415
Joern Fischer
Sustainability Science
Landscape Ecology
Social-Ecological Systems
Conservation Science
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
87
206
34,297
Jan Hanspach
Biocultural diversity
Social-ecological systems
Conservation biology
Landscape Ecology
Sustainability Science
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
41
77
8,272
Jacqueline Loos
Landscape Ecology
Sustainability Science
Biodiversity Conservation
Agriculture and Food Security
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
30
50
4,070
Andreas Fichtner
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Fuctioning
Forest Ecology
Plant Ecology
Plant interactions
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
27
45
2,380
Benjamin M Delory
Functional ecology
Chemical ecology
Plant-soil interactions
Biodiversity
Global change
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
17
25
1,007
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 1
Berta Martín López
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
93
196
36,415
Biodiversity conservation
Ecosystem services
Social-ecological systems
Sustainability Science
Nature values
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
Joern Fischer
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
87
206
34,297
Sustainability Science
Landscape Ecology
Social-Ecological Systems
Conservation Science
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Jan Hanspach
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
41
77
8,272
Biocultural diversity
Social-ecological systems
Conservation biology
Landscape Ecology
Sustainability Science
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Jacqueline Loos
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
30
50
4,070
Landscape Ecology
Sustainability Science
Biodiversity Conservation
Agriculture and Food Security
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
Andreas Fichtner
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
27
45
2,380
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Fuctioning
Forest Ecology
Plant Ecology
Plant interactions
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
Benjamin M Delory
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
17
25
1,007
Functional ecology
Chemical ecology
Plant-soil interactions
Biodiversity
Global change
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
Heike Zimmermann
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
17
17
736
Invasion Biology
Ecology
Botany
Sustainability Science
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
Estève Boutaud
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
7
5
232
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Conservation
Taxonomy
Ecology