Citation Rankings
Highly Cited Researchers

Europe Highly Cited Researchers 805.687 Scientists Citation Rankings - 2025

Discover the world’s highly cited researchers through the AD Scientific Index 2025 Citation Rankings.
These rankings evaluate scientists based on their total and recent citation counts, capturing the breadth and real-time currency of academic recognition. Citation data reveals how widely a scholar’s work is referenced, applied, and extended across diverse disciplines. The rankings are routinely updated to reflect ongoing citation growth, while eliminating distortions from excessive co-authorship and institutional inflation. Premium tools provide access to detailed citation dynamics, unethical citation behavior detection, and field-normalized benchmarking.

* Total Citation Rankings

Rankings

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7
World Rank
United Kingdom
1
Country Rank
University of Liverpool Logo
1
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
1
Medical and Health Sciences / Cardiology
Atrial fibrillation | hypertension | thrombosis | heart failure | strok

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    646,186
  • Last 6 Years
    264,316
  • Last 6 Years / Total
    0.409
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Rankings

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11
World Rank
United Kingdom
2
Country Rank
University of Bristol Logo
1
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
2
Others
evidence synthesis | meta-analysis | systematic review | health technology assessment | biostatistic

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    611,304
  • Last 6 Years
    369,859
  • Last 6 Years / Total
    0.605
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Rankings

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19
World Rank
Switzerland
1
Country Rank
Universität Bern Logo
1
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
3
Medical and Health Sciences / Epidemiology and Public Health
Infectious diseases | cancer | epidemiologic method

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    559,557
  • Last 6 Years
    297,685
  • Last 6 Years / Total
    0.532
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Rankings

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21
World Rank
United Kingdom
3
Country Rank
University of Glasgow Logo
1
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
4
Medical and Health Sciences / Cardiology
Heart failure | Cardiology | Diabetes | CKD | Clinical trial

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    541,170
  • Last 6 Years
    228,561
  • Last 6 Years / Total
    0.422
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Rankings

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26
World Rank
France
1
Country Rank
Université de Limoges Logo
1
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
5
Medical and Health Sciences / Cardiology
Preventive Cardiology | Vascular Medicine | Hypertensio

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    529,541
  • Last 6 Years
    338,574
  • Last 6 Years / Total
    0.639
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Rankings

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28
World Rank
Finland
1
Country Rank
University of Helsinki Logo
1
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
6
Medical and Health Sciences / Epidemiology and Public Health
Public Health | Epidemiology | Diabetes | Cardiovascular Diseas

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    528,900
  • Last 6 Years
    149,251
  • Last 6 Years / Total
    0.282
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Rankings

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30
World Rank
Switzerland
2
Country Rank
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Logo
1
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
7

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    512,266
  • Last 6 Years
    147,822
  • Last 6 Years / Total
    0.289
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Rankings

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32
World Rank
France
2
Country Rank
laboratoire de physique subatomique et de cosmologie Logo
1
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
8
Natural Sciences / Physics
physics | particle physics | nuclear physics | cosmology | computin

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    505,731
  • Last 6 Years
    201,220
  • Last 6 Years / Total
    0.398
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Rankings

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38
World Rank
Portugal
1
Country Rank
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Logo
1
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
9
Natural Sciences / Physics
Particle Physic

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    481,223
  • Last 6 Years
    190,013
  • Last 6 Years / Total
    0.395
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Rankings

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41
World Rank
Poland
1
Country Rank
Medical University of Wroclaw Logo
1
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
10

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    475,853
  • Last 6 Years
    241,819
  • Last 6 Years / Total
    0.508
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* Total Citation Rankings

Rankings

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44
World Rank
United Kingdom
5
Country Rank
Royal Holloway University of London Logo
1
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
11
Natural Sciences / Physics
Physics | Particle Physics | Statistical Data Analysi

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    471,452
  • Last 6 Years
    135,470
  • Last 6 Years / Total
    0.287
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Rankings

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45
World Rank
United Kingdom
6
Country Rank
University of Oxford Logo
1
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
12
Engineering & Technology / Computer Science
Computer Vision | Machine Learnin

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    468,747
  • Last 6 Years
    264,362
  • Last 6 Years / Total
    0.564
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Rankings

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46
World Rank
France
3
Country Rank
CEA (Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives) Logo
1
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
13
Natural Sciences / Physics
fundamental constituents | field theorie

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    467,773
  • Last 6 Years
    192,335
  • Last 6 Years / Total
    0.411
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Rankings

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43
World Rank
United Kingdom
4
Country Rank
University of Bristol Logo
2
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
14
Medical and Health Sciences / Epidemiology and Public Health
Epidemiology | genetics | history of scienc

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    471,650
  • Last 6 Years
    212,457
  • Last 6 Years / Total
    0.450
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Rankings

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52
World Rank
Austria
1
Country Rank
Universität Wien Logo
1
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
15
Natural Sciences / Physics
density functional theory | first principles calculations | many body theory | condensed matter physics | materials scienc

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    445,529
  • Last 6 Years
    205,582
  • Last 6 Years / Total
    0.461
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Rankings

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58
World Rank
Spain
1
Country Rank
Universidad de Cantabria Logo
1
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
16
Natural Sciences / Physics
Particle Physics | Statistical Data Analysis | High Energy Physics | Data Science | Physic

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    437,680
  • Last 6 Years
    148,121
  • Last 6 Years / Total
    0.338
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Rankings

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55
World Rank
France
4
Country Rank
Université Paris Cité Logo
1
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
17
Natural Sciences / Biological Science
aging | cancer | immunology | medicine | metabolis

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    440,586
  • Last 6 Years
    191,266
  • Last 6 Years / Total
    0.434
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Rankings

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64
World Rank
Germany
1
Country Rank
European Molecular Biology Laboratory Logo
1
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
18
Natural Sciences / Biological Science
biology | computational biology | systems biology | bioinformatics | evolutio

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    423,492
  • Last 6 Years
    192,109
  • Last 6 Years / Total
    0.454
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Rankings

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66
World Rank
United Kingdom
7
Country Rank
University of Manchester Logo
1
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
19

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    422,020
  • Last 6 Years
    148,443
  • Last 6 Years / Total
    0.352
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Rankings

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71
World Rank
Germany
2
Country Rank
Ruprecht Karls Universität Heidelberg Logo
1
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
20
Medical and Health Sciences / Ophthalmology
Ophthalmology | Epidemiolog

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    416,135
  • Last 6 Years
    278,639
  • Last 6 Years / Total
    0.670
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Rankings

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77
World Rank
Spain
2
Country Rank
Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Logo
1
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
21
Others
Cardiovascular Disease | Prevention | imagin

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    405,222
  • Last 6 Years
    107,905
  • Last 6 Years / Total
    0.266
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Rankings

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86
World Rank
Ireland
1
Country Rank
University College Dublin Logo
1
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
22
Natural Sciences / Physics
High-energy particle physic

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    394,788
  • Last 6 Years
    128,897
  • Last 6 Years / Total
    0.326
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* Total Citation Rankings

Rankings

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95
World Rank
Finland
2
Country Rank
University of Helsinki Logo
2
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
23
* Total Citation Rankings

Rankings

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99
World Rank
United Kingdom
8
Country Rank
University of the West of England Logo
1
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
24
Social Sciences / Psychology
Qualitative research | thematic analysis | sexuality | gender | famil

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    385,607
  • Last 6 Years
    296,560
  • Last 6 Years / Total
    0.769
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Rankings

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104
World Rank
Switzerland
3
Country Rank
Université de Geneve Logo
1
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
25
Natural Sciences / Physics
Silicon | Detectors | Tracking | Physic

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    383,178
  • Last 6 Years
    149,166
  • Last 6 Years / Total
    0.389
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