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: 2
Christian Mair
linguistics
English language
English linguistics
corpus linguistics
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
35
92
7,452
Kathrin Grummich
Information Retrieval
Systematic Literature Searches
Evidence Synthesis
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
16
19
1,414
Daniel Jacob
French
Spanish
Romance linguistics
information structure
historical linguistics
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
12
19
706
Katharina Ehret
Variationist linguistics
language complexity
second language acquisition
historical linguistics
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
11
13
284
Lotte Sommerer
English Linguistics
Construction Grammar
Noun Phrase
Grammaticalization
Syntax
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
11
11
656

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Dennis Dressel
Conversation Analysis
Interactional Linguistics
Storytelling
Co-construction
word search
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
5
4
92
Ignacio Satti
Interactional Linguistics
Conversation Analysis
Pragmatics
Contact Linguistics
Multimodality
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
5
3
94
Dominik Zink
Interkulturelle Literaturwissenschaft
Romantik
Ähnlichkeit
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
4
3
64
Luminita Trasca
Linguistics
language change
language contact
Construction Grammar
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
1
0
3
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 1
Bernd Kortmann
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
44
83
7,517
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
Christian Mair
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
35
92
7,452
linguistics
English language
English linguistics
corpus linguistics
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Claus Pusch
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
17
31
1,128
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Kathrin Grummich
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
16
19
1,414
Information Retrieval
Systematic Literature Searches
Evidence Synthesis
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
Daniel Jacob
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
12
19
706
French
Spanish
Romance linguistics
information structure
historical linguistics
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
Katharina Ehret
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
11
13
284
Variationist linguistics
language complexity
second language acquisition
historical linguistics
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
Lotte Sommerer
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
11
11
656
English Linguistics
Construction Grammar
Noun Phrase
Grammaticalization
Syntax
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
Laura Becker
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
8
6
204
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
Monika Edith Schulz
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
7
6
209

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Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
Dennis Dressel
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
5
4
92
Conversation Analysis
Interactional Linguistics
Storytelling
Co-construction
word search
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
Ignacio Satti
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
5
3
94
Interactional Linguistics
Conversation Analysis
Pragmatics
Contact Linguistics
Multimodality
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
Dominik Zink
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
4
3
64
Interkulturelle Literaturwissenschaft
Romantik
Ähnlichkeit
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
Imke Franzmeier
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
4
2
66
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
Luminita Trasca
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
1
0
3
Linguistics
language change
language contact
Construction Grammar