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" (873,690 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
Holger Kreft
Macroecology
Biogeography
Tropical Ecology
Island Biogeography
Ecoinformatics
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
84
219
36,911
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
Patrick Weigelt
Macroecology
Island Biogeography
Biodiversity Data Science
Invasion Ecology
Plant Diversity
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
52
102
13,353
Felix Heitkamp
land use
soil carbon
biodiversity
climate change
biogeochemistry
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
18
22
1,378
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 1
Holger Kreft
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
84
219
36,911
Macroecology
Biogeography
Tropical Ecology
Island Biogeography
Ecoinformatics
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
Patrick Weigelt
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
52
102
13,353
Macroecology
Island Biogeography
Biodiversity Data Science
Invasion Ecology
Plant Diversity
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Felix Heitkamp
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
18
22
1,378
land use
soil carbon
biodiversity
climate change
biogeochemistry