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" (870,057 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: 2
Kristiina Ross
Philology
Linguistics
History of the Estonian Language
Bible Translation
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
13
21
1,199
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Hille Pajupuu
Linguistics
Speech acoustics
Speech perception
Speech emotions
Applied linguistics
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
13
14
413
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
Ene Vainik
cognitive semantics
psycholinguistics
affective computing
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
11
15
448
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
Kristina Koppel
lexicography
linguistics
learners' dictionaries
language learning
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
10
10
376
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
Meelis Mihkla
speech acoustics
speech prosody
speech synthesis
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
10
10
274

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* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
Sven-Erik Soosaar
historical linguistics
etymology
lexicography
Finno-Ugric studies
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
5
3
112
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 1
Langemets, Margit
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
14
19
642
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
Kristiina Ross
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
13
21
1,199
Philology
Linguistics
History of the Estonian Language
Bible Translation
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Hille Pajupuu
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
13
14
413
Linguistics
Speech acoustics
Speech perception
Speech emotions
Applied linguistics
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Jelena Kallas
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
12
17
515
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
Ene Vainik
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
11
15
448
cognitive semantics
psycholinguistics
affective computing
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
Kristina Koppel
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
10
10
376
lexicography
linguistics
learners' dictionaries
language learning
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
Meelis Mihkla
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
10
10
274
speech acoustics
speech prosody
speech synthesis
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
Heete Sahkai
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
9
8
247
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
Arvi Tavast
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
9
8
232
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
Lydia Risberg
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
6
1
66

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Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
Marja Kallasmaa
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
6
4
178
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
Tiina Laansalu
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
6
1
58
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
Geda Paulsen
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
5
3
94
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
Peeter Päll
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
5
2
150
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
Sven-Erik Soosaar
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
5
3
112
historical linguistics
etymology
lexicography
Finno-Ugric studies
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
Martin Eessalu
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
3
0
23
linguistics
open science
research administration
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
Liis Ermus
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
3
0
16