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 rankings in world, region, country, and university are in Beta version and are subject to real-time updates, since the subject field “Others” (1,121,289 scientists profile whose branch cannot be determined, not yet edited or determined) is excluded. These rankings will dynamically evolve in real time as the “Others” profiles are revised and classified. Please note that. Subjects indicated as “ * others ” will not be included in the ranking by regions and subjects.

* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
James Banks
Economics
Applied Microeconometrics
Economics of Agein
Metrics
 
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
60
142
19,095
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
George Stoye
Health Economics
Healthcare
Labour Economics
Public Finance
Metrics
 
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
21
31
1,223
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
Laura Abramovsky
development economics
public policy
tax and subsidies
programme evaluatio
Metrics
 
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
17
27
1,959
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
Ben Waltmann
public economics
economics of education
applied econometric
Metrics
 
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
11
11
441
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
David Sturrock
Applied microeconomics
Savings
Wealth inequality
Intergenerational transmission of inequality
Game theor
Metrics
 
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
9
8
350
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
Agnes Norris Keiller
Labour economics
public economics
industrial organisatio
Metrics
 
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
2
2
164
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 1
Rachel Griffith
Metrics
 
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
61
126
36,521
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
James Banks
Metrics
 
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
60
142
19,095
Economics
Applied Microeconometrics
Economics of Agein
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Carl Emmerson
Metrics
 
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
40
92
4,801
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Sonya Krutikova
Metrics
 
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
24
36
2,939
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
George Stoye
Metrics
 
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
21
31
1,223
Health Economics
Healthcare
Labour Economics
Public Finance
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
Peter Levell
Metrics
 
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
18
32
1,199
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
Laura Abramovsky
Metrics
 
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
17
27
1,959
development economics
public policy
tax and subsidies
programme evaluatio
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
Alison Andrew
Metrics
 
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
16
18
2,532
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
Wenchao Jin
Metrics
 
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
16
19
953
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
Chris Belfield
Metrics
 
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
15
18
1,214
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
Ben Zaranko
Metrics
 
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
12
14
615
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
Angus Phimister
Metrics
 
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
11
12
1,931
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
Lucy Kraftman
Metrics
 
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
11
11
1,952
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
Ben Waltmann
Metrics
 
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
11
11
441
public economics
economics of education
applied econometric
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
Kate Smith
Metrics
 
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
11
11
660
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
David Sturrock
Metrics
 
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
9
8
350
Applied microeconomics
Savings
Wealth inequality
Intergenerational transmission of inequality
Game theor
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
Max Warner
Metrics
 
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
8
7
198
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
Andrea Smurra
Metrics
 
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
8
8
432
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
Agnes Norris Keiller
Metrics
 
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
2
2
164
Labour economics
public economics
industrial organisatio