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
David Edwards
genomics
bioinformatics
next generation sequencing
brassica
wheat
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
85
274
35,817
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
Jacqueline Batley
genetics
genomics
brassica
plant pathogen interactions
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
78
245
30,595
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Donna Geddes
Lactation
breastfeeding
breast anatomy
milk ejection
stem cells
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
60
189
12,679
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
Simon Jarman
environmental genomics
eDNA
biodiversity
population biology
life cycles
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
54
102
11,750
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
Qin Yu
Herbicide resistance biochemistry and molecular biology
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
52
84
10,283

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* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
Brian Paul Dalrymple
Genomics
Bioinformatics
Systems Biology
Sheep
Cattle
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
50
106
14,823
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
W Joost Lesterhuis
Tumor Immunology
Cancer Biology
Systems Biology
Drug Discovery
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
45
70
10,351
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
Yit Heng Chooi
secondary metabolite biosynthesis
synthetic biology
biosynthetic engineering
fungal genetics
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
42
75
7,188
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
Blancafort Pilar
Epigenetics
genome engineering
artificial transcription factors
metastasis
breast and ovarian cancer
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
40
59
5,145
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
Gianina Ravenscroft
neurogenetics
neuromuscular disorders
rare diseases
massively-parallel sequencing
genomics
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
39
78
4,859
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 21
Wayne Davies
Visual Ecology
Circadian Photobiology
Functional Genomics
GPCRs
ABC transporters
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
35
64
5,044
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 22
Kim Carter
bioinformatics
computational biology
genetics
genomics
visualisation
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
35
52
4,067
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 23
Mark Waters
Plant development
plant hormones
structural biology
chemical biology
butenolides
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
32
40
5,894
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 25
Song Zhang
Biostatistics
Cancer gene regulation
Epidemiology
Fetal physiology
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
28
40
2,437
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 27
Marcus Korb
Organometallic Chemistry
(Iron) Catalysis
Electrochemistry
Ferrocene
Single Crystal X-Ray Diffraction
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
27
73
2,208
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 32
Georg Fritz
Synthetic Biology
Systems Biology
Antimicrobial Resistance
Bioplastics
Biotechnology
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
24
35
1,835
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 33
Timothy T Perkins
Bacterial genomics
transcriptomics
high-throughput methodologies
systems biology
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
23
32
3,246
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 34
Karen Leanne Bell
DNA barcoding
population genetics
phylogeography
pollen
invasive species
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
19
26
1,695
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 35
Henrietta Cserne Szappanos
muscle physiology
cardiac physiology
cell biology
molecular biology
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
17
20
828
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 41
Rob White
Cell Biology
Biochemistry
Molecular Biology
Neuroscience
Genetics
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
15
16
1,854
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 42
Belinda Guo
Next-generation sequencing
Transcriptomics
Blood biomarkers
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
14
15
1,723
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 47
Edina Wang
Cancer Therapeutics
Transcription Factors
Biotechnology
Bioinformatics
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
11
11
594
Mark Fisher
RNAi
fungal plant pathogens
cyclic peptides
mass spectrometry
de novo transcriptomics
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
11
11
634
James Pb Lloyd
Genetics
Plant science
RNA decay
Alternative splicing
DNA methylation
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
10
11
570
Junrey C. Amas
host-pathogen interaction
genomics
biotechnology
plant disease-resistance breeding
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
10
11
434
Alison Testa
bioinformatics
gene expression
genetic disease
evolution
pathogens
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
10
10
1,561
Soo Sum Lean
Molecular Microbiology
Microbial Genomics
Antibiotic Resistance
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
9
9
322
Dulce B Vargas-Landin
Epigenomics
Genomics
Retrotransposons
Bioinformatics
Genome Evolution
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
7
7
1,561
Janice Hiu Chor Lam
Cancer Epigenetics
Genetics
Molecular Biology
Neural Regeneration and Carcinoma Research
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
6
6
361
Dnyanada Gokhale-Agashe
genomics
preeclampsia genetics
placental biology
cancer biology
cancer genomics
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
1
1
29
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 1
David Edwards
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
85
274
35,817
genomics
bioinformatics
next generation sequencing
brassica
wheat
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
Jacqueline Batley
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
78
245
30,595
genetics
genomics
brassica
plant pathogen interactions
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Ryan Lister
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
65
94
36,426
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Donna Geddes
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
60
189
12,679
Lactation
breastfeeding
breast anatomy
milk ejection
stem cells
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
Paul J Low
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
55
191
10,035
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
Simon Jarman
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
54
102
11,750
environmental genomics
eDNA
biodiversity
population biology
life cycles
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
Charles S Bond
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
53
106
10,625
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
George Cheng Yeoh
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
53
136
9,377
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
Qin Yu
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
52
84
10,283
Herbicide resistance biochemistry and molecular biology
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
Jerzy Kulski
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
50
156
10,149

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Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
Brian Paul Dalrymple
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
50
106
14,823
Genomics
Bioinformatics
Systems Biology
Sheep
Cattle
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
Steven Mutsaers
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
46
72
7,753
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
Peter Arthur
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
46
88
5,840
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
W Joost Lesterhuis
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
45
70
10,351
Tumor Immunology
Cancer Biology
Systems Biology
Drug Discovery
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
Yit Heng Chooi
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
42
75
7,188
secondary metabolite biosynthesis
synthetic biology
biosynthetic engineering
fungal genetics
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
Kristen J Nowak
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
42
77
6,130
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
Blancafort Pilar
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
40
59
5,145
Epigenetics
genome engineering
artificial transcription factors
metastasis
breast and ovarian cancer
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
Gianina Ravenscroft
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
39
78
4,859
neurogenetics
neuromuscular disorders
rare diseases
massively-parallel sequencing
genomics
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
Richard Allcock
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
37
85
5,234
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
Sarra Jamieson
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
36
63
4,309
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 21
Wayne Davies
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
35
64
5,044
Visual Ecology
Circadian Photobiology
Functional Genomics
GPCRs
ABC transporters
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 22
Kim Carter
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
35
52
4,067
bioinformatics
computational biology
genetics
genomics
visualisation
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 23
Mark Waters
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
32
40
5,894
Plant development
plant hormones
structural biology
chemical biology
butenolides
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 24
W Jason Kennington
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
32
66
2,795
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 25
Song Zhang
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
28
40
2,437
Biostatistics
Cancer gene regulation
Epidemiology
Fetal physiology
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 26
Gemma Cadby
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
27
45
6,071
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 27
Marcus Korb
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
27
73
2,208
Organometallic Chemistry
(Iron) Catalysis
Electrochemistry
Ferrocene
Single Crystal X-Ray Diffraction
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 28
Parwinder Kaur
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
26
48
2,030
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 29
Bharti Morar
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
26
35
3,278
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 30
Richard Francis
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
25
41
4,636
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 31
Guan Tay
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
25
56
2,559
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 32
Georg Fritz
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
24
35
1,835
Synthetic Biology
Systems Biology
Antimicrobial Resistance
Bioplastics
Biotechnology
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 33
Timothy T Perkins
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
23
32
3,246
Bacterial genomics
transcriptomics
high-throughput methodologies
systems biology
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 34
Karen Leanne Bell
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
19
26
1,695
DNA barcoding
population genetics
phylogeography
pollen
invasive species
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 35
Henrietta Cserne Szappanos
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
17
20
828
muscle physiology
cardiac physiology
cell biology
molecular biology
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 36
Mark Cruickshank
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
16
22
1,265
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 37
Lois Balmer
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
16
22
1,047
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 38
Margaretha Van Der Merwe
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
16
18
1,170
Metabolomics
Transcriptomics
Molecular Plant Physiology
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 39
Andrew J Woo
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
16
19
1,949
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 41
Rob White
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
15
16
1,854
Cell Biology
Biochemistry
Molecular Biology
Neuroscience
Genetics
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 42
Belinda Guo
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
14
15
1,723
Next-generation sequencing
Transcriptomics
Blood biomarkers
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 43
Sarah Beecroft
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
13
16
715
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 44
Rebecca K Simmons
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
12
12
2,010
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 45
María Pazos Navarro
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
12
12
483
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 46
Christian Pflüger
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
11
12
1,857
Epigenetics
Single Cell Biology
Developmental Biology
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 47
Edina Wang
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
11
11
594
Cancer Therapeutics
Transcription Factors
Biotechnology
Bioinformatics
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 48
Mark Fisher
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
11
11
634
RNAi
fungal plant pathogens
cyclic peptides
mass spectrometry
de novo transcriptomics
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 49
James Pb Lloyd
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
10
11
570
Genetics
Plant science
RNA decay
Alternative splicing
DNA methylation
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 50
Junrey C. Amas
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
10
11
434
host-pathogen interaction
genomics
biotechnology
plant disease-resistance breeding
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 51
Alison Testa
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
10
10
1,561
bioinformatics
gene expression
genetic disease
evolution
pathogens
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 52
Amanda Cleaver
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
10
10
512
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 53
Soo Sum Lean
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
9
9
322
Molecular Microbiology
Microbial Genomics
Antibiotic Resistance
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 54
Mat Welch
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
9
8
298
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 55
Dulce B Vargas-Landin
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
7
7
1,561
Epigenomics
Genomics
Retrotransposons
Bioinformatics
Genome Evolution
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 56
Dek Tan
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
7
7
1,131
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 57
Martyna Broda
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
7
7
537
molecular biology
retrograde signalling
mitochondria
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 58
Janice Hiu Chor Lam
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
6
6
361
Cancer Epigenetics
Genetics
Molecular Biology
Neural Regeneration and Carcinoma Research
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 59
Shriprabha R Upadhyaya
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
2
0
14
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 60
Dnyanada Gokhale-Agashe
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
1
1
29
genomics
preeclampsia genetics
placental biology
cancer biology
cancer genomics
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 61
Rashika Rajput
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
1
0
3