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: 3
Xiuliang Jin
Remote Sensing in Agriculture
Crop Phenotyping
Precision Agriculture
Crop Modelling
UAV/UGV
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
48
109
7,308
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
Chuanxiao Xie
Maize nitrogen use efficiency
genetic dissection
molecular breeding
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
38
72
5,510

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Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 1
Zhi-Kang Li Or Zhikang Li
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
82
275
27,867
Plant Breeding
Plant Genetics
Plant Genomics
Rice
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
Jian-Long Xu
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
54
163
10,270
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Xiuliang Jin
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
48
109
7,308
Remote Sensing in Agriculture
Crop Phenotyping
Precision Agriculture
Crop Modelling
UAV/UGV
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
Binying Fu
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
38
66
9,566
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
Chuanxiao Xie
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
38
72
5,510
Maize nitrogen use efficiency
genetic dissection
molecular breeding
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
Hongning Tong
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
27
35
5,011
Phytohormones-Brassinosteroids
Crop yield
Stress
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
Zefu Lu
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
25
33
5,469
Plant epigenome
Wheat genetics
Cis-regulatory elements

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Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
Zheng Tian-Qing
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
24
42
3,213
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
Sha Tang
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
23
40
2,203
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
Mehmood Ali Noor
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
23
36
2,203
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
Luyan Zhang
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
20
27
2,745
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
Yong Guo
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
15
16
2,383
Molecular genetics and functional genomics of soybean
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
Xiaogang Liu
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
10
10
775
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
Yuxin Yang
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
8
7
218
Plant Genetics
Genomics
Bioinformatics
Biology
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
Mohsin Ali
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
8
7
197
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
崔运鹏
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
7
6
139
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 21
Carbon cycling
greenhouse gas emission
food security
biological invasion