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
Jürgen Scheffran
Climate-Migration-Conflict
Energy-Water-Food Nexus
Rural-Urban-Coastal Relations
Complexity-Stability-Sustainability
ABM
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
60
189
14,991
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
Jürgen Böhner
Physical Geography
Climatology
GIS
Remote Sensing
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
46
94
14,639
Beate Ratter
Climate Change Adaptation
Island Studies
Integrative Geographie
Complexity Theory
Coastal Management
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
27
57
3,091
Cormac Walsh
maritime spatial planning
marine conservation
protected area management
transboundary governance
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
17
26
828
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 1
Jürgen Scheffran
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
60
189
14,991
Climate-Migration-Conflict
Energy-Water-Food Nexus
Rural-Urban-Coastal Relations
Complexity-Stability-Sustainability
ABM
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
Jürgen Böhner
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
46
94
14,639
Physical Geography
Climatology
GIS
Remote Sensing
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Parnreiter
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
29
61
3,021
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Beate Ratter
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
27
57
3,091
Climate Change Adaptation
Island Studies
Integrative Geographie
Complexity Theory
Coastal Management
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
Cormac Walsh
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
17
26
828
maritime spatial planning
marine conservation
protected area management
transboundary governance
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
Christin Bernhold
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
6
3
82