Citation Rankings
Highly Cited Researchers

World Highly Cited Researchers Citation Rankings 2025

The Citation Rankings (Highly Cited Researchers) highlight the most cited and influential researchers across a vast range of scientific fields, covering 197 main and sub-disciplines, including the Art and Humanities Citation Rankings and Social Sciences and Humanities Citation Rankings. This service, offered exclusively by AD Scientific Index, aims to provide a balanced perspective by excluding data from CERN and other statistical sources that disproportionately favor certain researchers, particularly in the social sciences and humanities. This unique approach addresses the advantages researchers with multi-author publications and CERN involvement hold over others. Furthermore, citation rankings help uncover rule violations and unethical practices within the research community. For more detailed citation analyses, explore the Scientists Last 6 Years Citation Index, Universities Total Citations Rankings 2025, and Universities Last 6 Years Citations Rankings 2025.

* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :1
Canada
Geoffrey Hinton
machine learning
psychology
artificial intelligence
cognitive science
computer science
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
853,541
560,063
0.656
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :2
Canada
Yoshua Bengio
Machine learning
deep learning
artificial intelligence
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
845,693
660,916
0.782
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :3
United States
Ahmedin Jemal
Cancer disparities
Cancer treatment and outcomes
Cancer surveillance
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
830,891
496,566
0.598
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :4
United States
Eric Lander
Biology
Genomics
Genetics
Bioinformatics
Mathematics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
698,653
260,874
0.373
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :5
United States
Michael E Porter
Competitive Strategy
Digital Transformation
Economic Development
Health Care
U.S. Political System
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
629,807
168,108
0.267
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :6
Australia
Richard M Ryan
Self-Determination Theory
psychology
intrinsic motivation
education
organizational behavior
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
624,482
292,215
0.468
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :7
United States
Kaiming He
Computer Vision
Machine Learning
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
618,928
556,542
0.899
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :8
United Kingdom
Gregory Lip
Atrial fibrillation
hypertension
thrombosis
heart failure
stroke
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
608,683
286,305
0.470
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :9
South Korea
HJ Kim
high energy physics
astro-particle physics
scintillator
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
591,420
190,026
0.321
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :10
Canada
Gordon Guyatt
Evidence-based medicine
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
589,601
287,992
0.488
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :11
United States
John PA Ioannidis
meta-research
clinical epidemiology
evidence-based medicine
research methods
meta-analysis
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
581,694
364,798
0.627
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :12
United States
Ronald C Kessler
Psychiatric Epidemiology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
578,003
202,270
0.350
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :13
United Kingdom
Julian Higgins
evidence synthesis
meta-analysis
systematic review
health technology assessment
biostatistics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
573,728
369,351
0.644
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :14
United States
Daniel Kahneman
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
552,388
181,789
0.329
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :15
United States
Ilya Sutskever
Machine Learning
Neural Networks
Artificial Intelligence
Deep Learning
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
551,971
445,199
0.807
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :16
United States
Edward L Deci
self-determination theory
motivation
psychology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
531,693
242,031
0.455
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :17
United States
Ali H Mokdad
Health Metrics
Population Health
IHME
Global Health
Epidemiology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
518,578
324,853
0.626
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :18
United States
Icek Ajzen
Attitudes
Persuasion
Attitude-Behavior Relation
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
517,397
209,583
0.405
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :19
Canada
Salim Yusuf
Cardiology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
514,300
163,526
0.318
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :20
United States
Frank B Hu
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
513,770
223,484
0.435
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :21
United States
Bert Vogelstein
Cancer
Biology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
511,603
108,364
0.212
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :22
United Kingdom
John McMurray
Heart failure
Cardiology
Diabetes
CKD
Clinical trials
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
508,680
239,867
0.472
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :23
Finland
Jaakko Tuomilehto
Public Health
Epidemiology
Diabetes
Cardiovascular Disease
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
508,454
165,202
0.325
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :24
United States
Robert Tibshirani
Statistics
data science
Machine Learning
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
508,112
216,282
0.426
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :25
South Korea
SB Kim
physics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
506,178
167,156
0.330
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1
Canada
1
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 1
Geoffrey Hinton
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
853,541
560,063
0.656
machine learning
psychology
artificial intelligence
cognitive science
computer science
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
2
Canada
2
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
Yoshua Bengio
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
845,693
660,916
0.782
Machine learning
deep learning
artificial intelligence
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
3
United States
1
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Ahmedin Jemal
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
830,891
496,566
0.598
Cancer disparities
Cancer treatment and outcomes
Cancer surveillance
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
4
United States
2
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Eric Lander
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
698,653
260,874
0.373
Biology
Genomics
Genetics
Bioinformatics
Mathematics
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
5
United States
3
2
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
Michael E Porter
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
629,807
168,108
0.267
Competitive Strategy
Digital Transformation
Economic Development
Health Care
U.S. Political System
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
6
Australia
1
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
Richard M Ryan
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
624,482
292,215
0.468
Self-Determination Theory
psychology
intrinsic motivation
education
organizational behavior
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
7
United States
4
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
Kaiming He
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
618,928
556,542
0.899
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
8
United Kingdom
1
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
Gregory Lip
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
608,683
286,305
0.470
Atrial fibrillation
hypertension
thrombosis
heart failure
stroke
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
9
South Korea
1
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
HJ Kim
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
591,420
190,026
0.321
high energy physics
astro-particle physics
scintillator
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
10
Canada
3
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
Gordon Guyatt
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
589,601
287,992
0.488
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
11
United States
5
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
John PA Ioannidis
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
581,694
364,798
0.627
meta-research
clinical epidemiology
evidence-based medicine
research methods
meta-analysis
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
12
United States
6
3
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
Ronald C Kessler
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
578,003
202,270
0.350
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
13
United Kingdom
2
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
Julian Higgins
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
573,728
369,351
0.644
evidence synthesis
meta-analysis
systematic review
health technology assessment
biostatistics
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
14
United States
7
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
Daniel Kahneman
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
552,388
181,789
0.329
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
15
United States
8
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
Ilya Sutskever
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
551,971
445,199
0.807
Machine Learning
Neural Networks
Artificial Intelligence
Deep Learning
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
16
United States
9
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
Edward L Deci
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
531,693
242,031
0.455
self-determination theory
motivation
psychology
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
17
United States
10
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
Ali H Mokdad
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
518,578
324,853
0.626
Health Metrics
Population Health
IHME
Global Health
Epidemiology
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
18
United States
11
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
Icek Ajzen
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
517,397
209,583
0.405
Attitudes
Persuasion
Attitude-Behavior Relation
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
19
Canada
4
2
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
Salim Yusuf
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
514,300
163,526
0.318
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
20
United States
12
4
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
Frank B Hu
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
513,770
223,484
0.435
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
21
United States
13
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 21
Bert Vogelstein
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
511,603
108,364
0.212
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
22
United Kingdom
3
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 22
John McMurray
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
508,680
239,867
0.472
Heart failure
Cardiology
Diabetes
CKD
Clinical trials
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
23
Finland
1
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 23
Jaakko Tuomilehto
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
508,454
165,202
0.325
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
24
United States
14
2
Ranking Based On Selection: 24
Robert Tibshirani
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
508,112
216,282
0.426
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
25
South Korea
2
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 25
SB Kim
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
506,178
167,156
0.330