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
Peter Preisendörfer
Organization Research
Entrepreneurship
Environmental Sociology
Quantitative Social Research
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
38
89
14,745
Petra Ahrweiler
Innovation networks
Policy Modelling
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
28
42
2,987
Gunnar Otte
social stratification & inequality
cultural sociology
sociology of art
methods of social research
sociological theory
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
20
28
1,980
Felix Wolter
Sociology
Survey Methodology
Social Inequality
Environmental Sociology
Game Theory
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
12
13
788
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 1
Peter Preisendörfer
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
38
89
14,745
Organization Research
Entrepreneurship
Environmental Sociology
Quantitative Social Research
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
Petra Ahrweiler
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
28
42
2,987
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Sascha Dickel
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
22
39
1,775
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Gunnar Otte
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
20
28
1,980
social stratification & inequality
cultural sociology
sociology of art
methods of social research
sociological theory
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
Felix Wolter
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
12
13
788
Sociology
Survey Methodology
Social Inequality
Environmental Sociology
Game Theory
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
Nico Sonntag
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
5
2
204
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
Dave Balzer
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
5
1
183