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" (936,900 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: 3
Salwa Ismail
Middle East Politics - Political Ethnography - Urban Politics - Government and Violence
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
21
28
2,504
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Phil Clark
African politics
transitional justice
peacebuilding
reconciliation
Central Africa
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
21
31
2,327
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
Mark Laffey
International Theory
Postcolonialism
International Political Sociology
Critical Security Studies
Foreign Policy Analysis
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
19
22
4,124

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Sian Hawthorne
religion and gender
decolonial and postcolonial thought
religion and politics
global philosophy
Black feminist thought
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
9
8
214
Ben Whitham
International Relations
(In)security
Inequalities
Intersectionality
International Political Economy
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
6
3
176
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 1
Stephen Chan
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
26
62
2,435
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
Steve Tsang
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
23
39
2,706
area studies
political science
international relations
history
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Salwa Ismail
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
21
28
2,504
Middle East Politics - Political Ethnography - Urban Politics - Government and Violence
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Phil Clark
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
21
31
2,327
African politics
transitional justice
peacebuilding
reconciliation
Central Africa
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
Charles Tripp
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
21
39
4,875
Politics of the Middle East
Comparative Politics
Comparative Political Thought
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
Mark Laffey
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
19
22
4,124
International Theory
Postcolonialism
International Political Sociology
Critical Security Studies
Foreign Policy Analysis
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
Michael Buehler
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
18
24
1,944
Comparative Politics
Elites
Indonesia
Islam
Political Sociology
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
Tom Young
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
16
17
1,886
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
Rahul Rao
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
15
19
1,652
International relations
political theory
gender studies
South Asia

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Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
Dina Matar
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
14
17
684
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
Dan Plesch
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
13
18
807
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
Tat Yan Kong
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
13
15
585
East Asian capitalism & ineqality
East Asian security
Korean Peninsula
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
International Relations
Security
Peace and Conflict
Postcolonialism
Diaspora
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
Richard Axelby
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
9
7
560
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
Sian Hawthorne
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
9
8
214
religion and gender
decolonial and postcolonial thought
religion and politics
global philosophy
Black feminist thought
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
Bobby Anderson
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
8
6
221
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 21
Carlo Bonura
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
7
6
265
Comparative Political Thought
Asian Studies
Contemporary Islamic Political Thought
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 23
Ben Whitham
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
6
3
176
International Relations
(In)security
Inequalities
Intersectionality
International Political Economy
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 24
Politics
India
Visual & Identity Politics
Populism
India-Africa relations
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 26
Dara Salam
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
3
1
31
Political Theory
Philosophy
Religion
Comparative political thought
Middle East studies
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