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: 1
Werner Goebl
Performance Science
Music Psychology
Musical Acoustics
Music Acoustics
Digital Musicology
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
31
62
3,621
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Thomas Grill
electroacoustic music
experimental music
machine listening
sound art
music informatics
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
16
22
1,519
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
Vasileios Chatziioannou
Music Acoustics
Mathematical Modelling
Numerical Analysis
Inverse Modelling
Virtual Reality
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
15
22
803
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
David M. Weigl
Digital Musicology
Linked Data
Music Informatics
Music Encoding
Information-seeking Behaviour
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
13
17
500
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
Rosa Reitsamer
Music Sociology
Popular Music Studies
Music and Gender
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
13
14
631
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
Wilfried Kausel
acoustics of musical instruments
signal processing
applied optics
optimization
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
12
16
481
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
Hofmann, Alex
Music Acoustics
Performance Science
Signal Processing
Sound-Synthesis
Saxophone
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
11
12
383

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* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
Matthias A. Bertsch
music acoustic
music physiology
musicology
music psychology
performing science
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
9
8
237
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
Ulrich Morgenstern
European Folk music (scholarship)
Multipart instrumental music
Folk music research and political ideologies
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
7
3
110
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
Leonhard Horstmeyer
Stochastic Processes on Networks and Dimensional Reduction
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
6
6
179
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
Anja Brunner
Ethnomusicology
Music and (Forced) Migration
Music and Minorities
(African) Popular Music
Decolonizing Music Studies
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
5
2
63
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
Hannah Riedl
Musiktherapie
Musik im Gesundheitswesen
evidence-based medicine
public health
health economics
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
4
1
270
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
Axel Petri-Preis
Musikvermittlung
Music Mediation
Community Music
Community Engagement
Cultural Participation
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
4
1
50
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 21
Kristen Murdaugh
Voice
Singing
Voice Pedagogy
Music Acoustics
Gender Studies
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
2
1
25
* Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 23
Maria Fuchs
Music and media
inter-and transmediality
popular music
aesthetics
postcolonialism
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation
2
1
20
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 1
Werner Goebl
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
31
62
3,621
Performance Science
Music Psychology
Musical Acoustics
Music Acoustics
Digital Musicology
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
Christian Herbst
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
28
49
2,558
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Dagmar Abfalter
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
17
24
1,551
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Thomas Grill
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
16
22
1,519
electroacoustic music
experimental music
machine listening
sound art
music informatics
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
Vasileios Chatziioannou
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
15
22
803
Music Acoustics
Mathematical Modelling
Numerical Analysis
Inverse Modelling
Virtual Reality
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
David M. Weigl
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
13
17
500
Digital Musicology
Linked Data
Music Informatics
Music Encoding
Information-seeking Behaviour
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
Rosa Reitsamer
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
13
14
631
Music Sociology
Popular Music Studies
Music and Gender
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
Wilfried Kausel
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
12
16
481
acoustics of musical instruments
signal processing
applied optics
optimization
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
Hofmann, Alex
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
11
12
383
Music Acoustics
Performance Science
Signal Processing
Sound-Synthesis
Saxophone

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Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
Matthias A. Bertsch
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
9
8
237
music acoustic
music physiology
musicology
music psychology
performing science
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
Mayer Alexander
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
9
8
164
Music Acoustics
Musik Instrument making
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
Montserrat Pàmies-Vilà
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
8
4
139
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
Ulrich Morgenstern
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
7
3
110
European Folk music (scholarship)
Multipart instrumental music
Folk music research and political ideologies
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
Leonhard Horstmeyer
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
6
6
179
Stochastic Processes on Networks and Dimensional Reduction
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
Anja Brunner
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
5
2
63
Ethnomusicology
Music and (Forced) Migration
Music and Minorities
(African) Popular Music
Decolonizing Music Studies
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
Tatiana Statsenko
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
5
2
56
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
Francesc Lluís
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
4
2
197
Machine Learning
Machine Listening
Signal Processing
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
Hannah Riedl
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
4
1
270
Musiktherapie
Musik im Gesundheitswesen
evidence-based medicine
public health
health economics
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
Axel Petri-Preis
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
4
1
50
Musikvermittlung
Music Mediation
Community Music
Community Engagement
Cultural Participation
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 21
Kristen Murdaugh
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
2
1
25
Voice
Singing
Voice Pedagogy
Music Acoustics
Gender Studies
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 23
Maria Fuchs
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
2
1
20
Music and media
inter-and transmediality
popular music
aesthetics
postcolonialism
Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 25
Kai Tang
Metrics
H-Index
i10 Index
Citation Counts
1
1
38