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" (910,673 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
Östen Dahl
Linguistics
Language typology
Cultural evolution
Tense and Aspect
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
52
121
18,611
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Hartmut Traunmüller
Phonetics
speech perception
interlinguistics
scientific method
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
26
48
3,775
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Björn Hammarberg
Second language development
L3 acquisition
Multilingualism
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
25
46
4,515
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
Maria Kuteeva
discourse analysis
multilingualism
sociolinguistics
English for Academic Purposes
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
21
29
3,128
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
Bernhard Wälchli
Linguistic Typology
Areal Linguistics
Historical Linguistics
Baltic Linguistics
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
21
38
2,056
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
Johanna Mesch
sign language linguistics
tactile sign language
SL corpus
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
20
37
1,330
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
Una Cunningham
Learning and teaching languages
multilingualism
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
20
35
1,603
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
Josep Soler|Josep Soler-Carbonell
Sociolinguistics
Language Policy
English Language Education
English for Research Publication
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
19
30
903

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* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
Linus Salö
sociolinguistics
multilingualism
bilingualism
language policy
Bourdieu
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
17
24
1,237
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
Beyza Björkman
English as a lingua franca
English-medium instruction
spoken academic discourse
engineering communication
language policy
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
17
22
2,153
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
Cecilia Alvstad
Translation Studies
Literary Translation
Children's Literature
Travel Writing
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
16
22
1,216
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
Carl Börstell
linguistics
sign language
morphology
typology
corpus linguistics
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
16
18
868
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
Johan Lagerkvist
Chinese language and culture
civil society and governance
China's media system
Sino-African relations
IR
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
16
19
1,039
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
Ljuba Veselinova
Linguistic typology
Language and Geography
GIS
Language cartography
negation
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
15
20
1,063
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
Henrik Liljegren
areal linguistics
language documentation
typology
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
15
18
530
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
Ingela Holmström
Deaf studies
Applied linguistics
Deaf education
sign language
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
13
17
614
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
Krister Schönström
Multilingualism in the deaf
sign linguistics
second language acquisition
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
12
14
445
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
Spela Mezek
applied linguistics
EAP
reading
genre
vocabulary acquisition
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
12
13
401
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 22
Iris-Corinna Schwarz
child language development
neural correlates
speech perception
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
11
12
463
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 23
Grigonyte G.
computational linguistics
NLP
corpus linguistics
language learning
language acquisition
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
11
11
341
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 24
Petter Kallioinen
EEG
ERP
N400
psycholinguistics
natural language processing
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
10
12
379
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 25
Thomas Hörberg
language comprehension
grammatical relations
neurolinguistics
olfactory perception
olfactory
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
10
12
325
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 26
Mona Blåsjö
literacy
interaction
digitalization
multimodality
discourse analysis
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
10
11
604
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 29
Linnea Hanell
mediated discourse analysis
sociolinguistics
linguistic anthropology
climate and environmental communication
ecolinguistics
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
10
11
238
Klara Skogmyr Marian
Second Language Acquisition
Social Interaction
Conversation Analysis
Sociolinguistics
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
9
9
330
Mickaëlle Cedergren
Littérature francophone
TRansferts littéraires
Sociologie de la littérature
Sociologie de la traduction
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
8
5
181
Cecilia Schwartz
literature
translation
reception
women’s writing
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
7
5
160
Gláucia Laís Salomão
Vocal Communication
Affective Neuroscience
Neuroimaging
Emotion
Empathy
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
7
7
277
Franco Pauletto
Interactional Linguistics
Conversation Analysis
Sociolinguistics
Italian as a Foreign Language
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
7
5
134
Ambika Kirkland
Phonetics
Computational Linguistics
Neurolinguistics
Psycholinguistics
Speech Synthesis
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
6
5
161
Signe Tonér
general linguistics
child language development
higher cognitive functions
multilingualism
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
6
4
128
Charlotta Seiler Brylla
Discourse linguistics
political discourse analysis
lexicology
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
6
3
264
Adnan Mahmutovic
world literature
postcolonial writing
religion
history
creative writing
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
6
2
102
Memet AktürkDrake
bilingualism
phonology
sociolinguistics
minority languages
Turkish
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
6
3
67
Moa Gärdenfors
bimodal bilingualism
multilingualism
keylogging
sign language
writing development
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
5
5
164
Matti Marttinen Larsson
language change
morphosyntax
corpus linguistics
analogy
usage-based linguistics
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
5
2
102
Julia Forsberg
Linguistics
language
second language
phonetics
swedish
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
5
4
120
Azucena Castro
Latin American literature and culture
multispecies futures
future fictions
political ecology
environmental justice
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
4
1
68
Johan Sjons|Johan Engdahl
Computational linguistics
first language acquisition
information theory
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
4
1
42
Nora Duggan
Applied linguistics
sociolinguistics
Deaf Studies
sign language
multilingualism
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
3
2
37
Anna Jon-And|Anna Jon
language evolution
cultural evolution
language change
language acquisition
language contact
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
3
0
25
Valérie Alfvén
Translation Studies
children's literature
taboo topic
transnationalisms
sociology of translation
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
3
0
19
Caroline Arvidsson
linguistic processing during interaction
language production
pragmatics
neurocognition
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
2
0
15
Linnea Kjellsson
Literatura contemporánea
Literatura hispanoamericana
Latin American Literature
Spanish Literature
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
2
0
9
Jonathan Foster
Victorian literature and bureaucracy
civil service fiction
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
1
0
3
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 1
Östen Dahl
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
52
121
18,611
Linguistics
Language typology
Cultural evolution
Tense and Aspect
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
Kenneth Hyltenstam
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
41
88
8,954
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Hartmut Traunmüller
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
26
48
3,775
Phonetics
speech perception
interlinguistics
scientific method
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Björn Hammarberg
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
25
46
4,515
Second language development
L3 acquisition
Multilingualism
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
Maria Kuteeva
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
21
29
3,128
discourse analysis
multilingualism
sociolinguistics
English for Academic Purposes
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
Bernhard Wälchli
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
21
38
2,056
Linguistic Typology
Areal Linguistics
Historical Linguistics
Baltic Linguistics
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
Johanna Mesch
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
20
37
1,330
sign language linguistics
tactile sign language
SL corpus
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
Una Cunningham
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
20
35
1,603
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
Birgitta Englund Dimitrova
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
20
31
2,367
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
Josep Soler|Josep Soler-Carbonell
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
19
30
903
Sociolinguistics
Language Policy
English Language Education
English for Research Publication

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Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
Linus Salö
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
17
24
1,237
sociolinguistics
multilingualism
bilingualism
language policy
Bourdieu
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
Beyza Björkman
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
17
22
2,153
English as a lingua franca
English-medium instruction
spoken academic discourse
engineering communication
language policy
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
Cecilia Alvstad
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
16
22
1,216
Translation Studies
Literary Translation
Children's Literature
Travel Writing
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
Carl Börstell
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
16
18
868
linguistics
sign language
morphology
typology
corpus linguistics
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
Johan Lagerkvist
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
16
19
1,039
Chinese language and culture
civil society and governance
China's media system
Sino-African relations
IR
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
Ljuba Veselinova
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
15
20
1,063
Linguistic typology
Language and Geography
GIS
Language cartography
negation
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
Henrik Liljegren
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
15
18
530
areal linguistics
language documentation
typology
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
Ingela Holmström
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
13
17
614
Deaf studies
Applied linguistics
Deaf education
sign language
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
Krister Schönström
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
12
14
445
Multilingualism in the deaf
sign linguistics
second language acquisition
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
Spela Mezek
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
12
13
401
applied linguistics
EAP
reading
genre
vocabulary acquisition
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 21
Joanna Nykiel
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
11
13
372
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 22
Iris-Corinna Schwarz
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
11
12
463
child language development
neural correlates
speech perception
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 23
Grigonyte G.
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
11
11
341
computational linguistics
NLP
corpus linguistics
language learning
language acquisition
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 24
Petter Kallioinen
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
10
12
379
EEG
ERP
N400
psycholinguistics
natural language processing
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 25
Thomas Hörberg
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
10
12
325
language comprehension
grammatical relations
neurolinguistics
olfactory perception
olfactory
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 26
Mona Blåsjö
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
10
11
604
literacy
interaction
digitalization
multimodality
discourse analysis
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 27
Susanna Witt
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
10
10
399
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 28
Laura Álvarez López
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
10
11
395
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 29
Linnea Hanell
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
10
11
238
mediated discourse analysis
sociolinguistics
linguistic anthropology
climate and environmental communication
ecolinguistics
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 30
Klara Skogmyr Marian
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
9
9
330
Second Language Acquisition
Social Interaction
Conversation Analysis
Sociolinguistics
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 31
Hannah Botsis
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
9
8
211
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 32
Bjorn Kindenberg
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
8
6
175
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 33
Mickaëlle Cedergren
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
8
5
181
Littérature francophone
TRansferts littéraires
Sociologie de la littérature
Sociologie de la traduction
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 34
Cecilia Schwartz
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
7
5
160
literature
translation
reception
women’s writing
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 35
Helena Bodin
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
7
4
164
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 36
Gláucia Laís Salomão
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
7
7
277
Vocal Communication
Affective Neuroscience
Neuroimaging
Emotion
Empathy
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 37
Franco Pauletto
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
7
5
134
Interactional Linguistics
Conversation Analysis
Sociolinguistics
Italian as a Foreign Language
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 38
Ken Benson
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
7
4
211
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 39
Ambika Kirkland
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
6
5
161
Phonetics
Computational Linguistics
Neurolinguistics
Psycholinguistics
Speech Synthesis
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 40
Signe Tonér
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
6
4
128
general linguistics
child language development
higher cognitive functions
multilingualism
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 41
Charlotta Seiler Brylla
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
6
3
264
Discourse linguistics
political discourse analysis
lexicology
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 42
Adnan Mahmutovic
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
6
2
102
world literature
postcolonial writing
religion
history
creative writing
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 43
Memet AktürkDrake
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
6
3
67
bilingualism
phonology
sociolinguistics
minority languages
Turkish
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 44
Moa Gärdenfors
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
5
5
164
bimodal bilingualism
multilingualism
keylogging
sign language
writing development
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 45
Matti Marttinen Larsson
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
5
2
102
language change
morphosyntax
corpus linguistics
analogy
usage-based linguistics
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 46
Julia Forsberg
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
5
4
120
Linguistics
language
second language
phonetics
swedish
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 47
Signe Rirdance
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
5
2
111
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 48
Azucena Castro
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
4
1
68
Latin American literature and culture
multispecies futures
future fictions
political ecology
environmental justice
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 49
Johan Sjons|Johan Engdahl
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
4
1
42
Computational linguistics
first language acquisition
information theory
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 51
Nora Duggan
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
3
2
37
Applied linguistics
sociolinguistics
Deaf Studies
sign language
multilingualism
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 52
Anna Jon-And|Anna Jon
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
3
0
25
language evolution
cultural evolution
language change
language acquisition
language contact
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 53
Valérie Alfvén
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
3
0
19
Translation Studies
children's literature
taboo topic
transnationalisms
sociology of translation
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 54
Yoko Yamazaki
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
3
1
36
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 55
Caroline Arvidsson
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
2
0
15
linguistic processing during interaction
language production
pragmatics
neurocognition
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 56
Linnea Kjellsson
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
2
0
9
Literatura contemporánea
Literatura hispanoamericana
Latin American Literature
Spanish Literature
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 57
Amanda Kann
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
1
0
4
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 58
Anna Finozzi
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
1
0
4
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 59
Jonathan Foster
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
1
0
3
Victorian literature and bureaucracy
civil service fiction
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 60
Jonathan Brott
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
1
0
1