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" (873,864 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
Pavel Trofimovich
Second Language Acquisition
Pronunciation
Psycholinguistics
Comprehensibility
Accent
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
49
104
9,719
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :2
Kim Mcdonough
Second language acquisition
Visual cues in task interaction
Collaboration in L2 writing
L2 writing development
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
43
78
8,923
Anne Wade
Literacy
information literacy
information retrieval
systematic reviews
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
24
38
10,756
Alan Bale
Semantics
Morphology
Linguistics
Psychology
Philosophy
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
24
32
2,396
Charles Reiss
linguistics
phonology
phonetics
cognitive science
historical linguistics
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
24
34
2,734
Taraneh Javanbakht
Sciences & Engineering
Philosophy
Literature & Arts
Human Rights
Politics
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
18
21
791
Jill Didur
postcolonial studies
environmental humanities
South Asian literature and culture
posthumanism
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
13
15
877
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :10
Alan Shepard
Literature history theatre early modern culture gay studies
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
10
10
387
Jason Camlot
Literature
Sound Studies
Media History
Library and Archives
DH
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
7
6
260
Laia Fibla|Laia Fibla Reixachs
language development
input
cross-cultural
word learning
bilingualism
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
6
4
162
Veno Volenec
Phonology
Phonetics
Biolinguistics
General Linguistic Theory
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
5
5
155
Tzu-Hua Chen
Second Language Acquisition
Task-Based Language Teaching
Pragmatics
CALL
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
5
3
96
Mike Barcomb
Second Language Pronunciation
Gamification
Instructional Design
Teacher Training
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
3
2
67
Teresa Hernandez Gonzalez
Second Language Pedagogy
Gamification in Education
Language and Power
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
3
1
24
Reza Taher-Kermani
World Literature
Victorian Literature
Medieval Persian Poetry
Translation Studies
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
3
1
25
Chaoqun Zheng
Second Language Acquisition
Pronunciation
Psycholinguistics
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
2
2
130
Bruce Gilchrist
Old English
Medieval Studies
Boethius
Beowulf
Children's Literature
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
2
1
39
Clinton Hendry
Mandarin tones
phonology
developmental sequences
corpus linguistics
computer assisted language learning
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
2
0
11
Hamed Jafarpour
Natural Language Processing
BioNLP
Computational Linguistics
Machine Learning
Ontology
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
1
0
5
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 1
Pavel Trofimovich
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
49
104
9,719
Second Language Acquisition
Pronunciation
Psycholinguistics
Comprehensibility
Accent
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
Kim Mcdonough
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
43
78
8,923
Second language acquisition
Visual cues in task interaction
Collaboration in L2 writing
L2 writing development
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Sherry Simon
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
28
68
7,220
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Anne Wade
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
24
38
10,756
Literacy
information literacy
information retrieval
systematic reviews
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
Alan Bale
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
24
32
2,396
Semantics
Morphology
Linguistics
Psychology
Philosophy
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
Charles Reiss
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
24
34
2,734
linguistics
phonology
phonetics
cognitive science
historical linguistics
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
Mark Hale
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
19
31
2,633
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
Taraneh Javanbakht
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
18
21
791
Sciences & Engineering
Philosophy
Literature & Arts
Human Rights
Politics
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
Jill Didur
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
13
15
877
postcolonial studies
environmental humanities
South Asian literature and culture
posthumanism
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
Alan Shepard
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
10
10
387
Literature history theatre early modern culture gay studies
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
Bradley J Nelson
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
9
8
318
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
Jason Camlot
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
7
6
260
Literature
Sound Studies
Media History
Library and Archives
DH
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
Laia Fibla|Laia Fibla Reixachs
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
6
4
162
language development
input
cross-cultural
word learning
bilingualism
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
Anaïs Tatossian
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
6
3
87
linguistics
computer-mediated communication
orthography
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
Veno Volenec
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
5
5
155
Phonology
Phonetics
Biolinguistics
General Linguistic Theory
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
Tzu-Hua Chen
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
5
3
96
Second Language Acquisition
Task-Based Language Teaching
Pragmatics
CALL
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
Stephen M Yeager
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
4
2
62
Medieval Studies
English Literature
Digital Humanities
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
Mike Barcomb
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
3
2
67
Second Language Pronunciation
Gamification
Instructional Design
Teacher Training
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
Sigwan Thivierge
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
3
1
31
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 21
Teresa Hernandez Gonzalez
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
3
1
24
Second Language Pedagogy
Gamification in Education
Language and Power
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 22
Laura Pissani
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
3
0
23
Metaphors
Psycholinguistics
Language
Cognitive science
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 23
Reza Taher-Kermani
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
3
1
25
World Literature
Victorian Literature
Medieval Persian Poetry
Translation Studies
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 24
Chaoqun Zheng
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
2
2
130
Second Language Acquisition
Pronunciation
Psycholinguistics
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 25
Bruce Gilchrist
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
2
1
39
Old English
Medieval Studies
Boethius
Beowulf
Children's Literature
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 26
Clinton Hendry
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
2
0
11
Mandarin tones
phonology
developmental sequences
corpus linguistics
computer assisted language learning
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 27
Hamed Jafarpour
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
1
0
5
Natural Language Processing
BioNLP
Computational Linguistics
Machine Learning
Ontology