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
Deborah Balk
Urbanization
Climate Change
Spatial Demography
Life course
Inequality & Equity
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
43
71
20,959
Hongwei Xu
demography
sociology
population health
spatial
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
23
36
2,155
Esther Isabelle Wilder
demography
health and disability
quantitative literacy
race and ethnicity
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
13
17
849
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 1
Deborah Balk
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
43
71
20,959
Urbanization
Climate Change
Spatial Demography
Life course
Inequality & Equity
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
Sanders Korenman
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
40
54
10,621
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Neil G Bennett
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
26
33
4,569
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Hongwei Xu
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
23
36
2,155
demography
sociology
population health
spatial
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
Frank Heiland
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
23
31
2,171
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
Esther Isabelle Wilder
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
13
17
849
demography
health and disability
quantitative literacy
race and ethnicity