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: 2
Ko Noguchi
Plant Ecophysiology
Plant Physiology
Respiration
Plant Mitochondria
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
50
90
7,132
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Shin Ichi Yokobori
evolution
evolutionary biology
phylogenetics
astrobiology
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
44
83
4,831
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
Hidemasa Nakaminami
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
MRSA
Panton-Valentine Leukocidin
PVL
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
27
66
2,328
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
Takeshi O Fukuhara
Antibody engineering
Neuroimmunology
Cancer immunotherapy
Directed evolution
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
16
20
2,405

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* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
Motohide Aoki
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Analytical Chemistry
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
12
12
749
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 1
Akihiko Yamagishi
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
52
178
8,369
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
Ko Noguchi
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
50
90
7,132
Plant Ecophysiology
Plant Physiology
Respiration
Plant Mitochondria
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Shin Ichi Yokobori
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
44
83
4,831
evolution
evolutionary biology
phylogenetics
astrobiology
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Yamato Kikkawa
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
39
76
6,048
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
Hiroyoshi Miyakawa
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
33
68
5,586
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
Hidemasa Nakaminami
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
27
66
2,328
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
MRSA
Panton-Valentine Leukocidin
PVL
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
Takeaki Wajima
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
22
40
1,519
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
Takeshi O Fukuhara
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
16
20
2,405
Antibody engineering
Neuroimmunology
Cancer immunotherapy
Directed evolution

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Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
Hisanao Kishimoto
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
14
16
459
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
Motohide Aoki
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
12
12
749
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Analytical Chemistry
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
Sho Konno
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
10
10
583
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
Hiroki Kobayashi
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
10
10
790
Chemical Biology
Cancer
Stemness
Metabolism