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
Valentine James
sustainable development and sustainability
environmental science
planning and policy
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
75
181
18,943
Vasudeva Rao Aravind
Scanning Probe Microscopy
Ferroelectric Materials
Intelligent Tutoring Systems
Learning Sciences
Artificial Intelligence
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
9
9
535
George Michael La Rue
Sudan
Egypt
Chad
slavery and trans-Saharan slave trade
land tenure
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
9
9
509

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Inoussa Boubacar
FDI
Productivity
Land Policy
Sustainable Development
International Trade
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
6
6
205
Kathleen Welsch
Rhetoric
Composition
Women's Literature
Working-Class Literature
Women & Gender Studies
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
5
4
131
Herbert W Luthin
ethnopoetics
native american languages
oral literature
sociolinguistics
dialectology
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
5
3
174
Sandra Trejos
Development Economics
International Economics
Economics of Education
Happiness Economics
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
5
2
202
Annette Rosati
composition
plagiarism
working class
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
2
2
282
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 1
Valentine James
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
75
181
18,943
sustainable development and sustainability
environmental science
planning and policy
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
Andrew M Turner
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
24
28
3,047
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Miguel Olivas Lujan
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
18
35
2,213
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Jeanne M Slattery
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
18
23
1,365
Clinical psychology
teaching of psychology
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
Dan Rearick
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
12
12
381
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
Greg S Goodman
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
11
12
354
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
Suzanne Boyden
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
10
10
845
Forest Ecology
Competition
Community Ecology
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
Vasudeva Rao Aravind
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
9
9
535
Scanning Probe Microscopy
Ferroelectric Materials
Intelligent Tutoring Systems
Learning Sciences
Artificial Intelligence
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
George Michael La Rue
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
9
9
509
Sudan
Egypt
Chad
slavery and trans-Saharan slave trade
land tenure

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Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
Sharon L Montgomery
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
8
7
535
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
Kurt J Regester
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
8
8
474
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
Inoussa Boubacar
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
6
6
205
FDI
Productivity
Land Policy
Sustainable Development
International Trade
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
Pamela J Gent
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
6
6
175
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
Ning Chen
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
5
4
134
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
Kathleen Welsch
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
5
4
131
Rhetoric
Composition
Women's Literature
Working-Class Literature
Women & Gender Studies
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
Herbert W Luthin
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
5
3
174
ethnopoetics
native american languages
oral literature
sociolinguistics
dialectology
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
Sandra Trejos
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
5
2
202
Development Economics
International Economics
Economics of Education
Happiness Economics
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
Daniel D Clark
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
5
3
138
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
Douglas R Gisewhite
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
3
3
64
non-innocent ligands
catalysis
bioinorganic chemistry
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 21
Annette Rosati
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
2
2
282
composition
plagiarism
working class
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 22
Simon Aristeguieta-Trillos
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
2
0
8
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 23
David H Hartley
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
1
1
12
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 24
Jayakumar Annadatha
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
1
1
10
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 25
Leah Chambers
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
1
0
2
composition
retention
literacy