Citation Rankings
Highly Cited Researchers

World Highly Cited Researchers Citation Rankings 2025

Citation Rankings (Highly Cited Researchers) and the list of the most cited and influential researchers cover a wide range of scientific fields, spanning 197 main and sub-disciplines, as well as the Art and Humanities Rankings and Social Sciences and Humanities Rankings, offering a unique service. Additionally, the list without CERN, Statistical Data, etc., provided exclusively by “AD Scientific Index”, is part of our effort to balance the situation created by CERN and researchers with statistical data, who have an advantage over others, especially those in the social and humanities fields. There is still much work to be done in this area. See also for more specific citation analyses: "last 6 years citation indexUniversities Rankings 2024 (Sort by: Total Citations) and Universities Rankings 2024 (Sort by : Last 6 Years Citations)

* 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
836,344
543,619
0.650
* 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
828,471
644,268
0.778
* 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
814,805
481,460
0.591
* 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
691,805
254,344
0.368
* 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
620,584
161,422
0.260
* 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
612,030
281,454
0.460
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :7
United Kingdom
Gregory Lip
Atrial fibrillation
hypertension
thrombosis
heart failure
stroke
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
601,241
279,812
0.465
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :8
United States
Kaiming He
Computer Vision
Machine Learning
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
596,456
535,895
0.898
* 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
588,045
186,269
0.317
* 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
583,725
282,425
0.484
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :11
United States
Ronald C Kessler
Psychiatric Epidemiology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
571,770
197,224
0.345
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :12
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
570,799
354,334
0.621
* 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
562,143
358,427
0.638
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :14
United States
Daniel Kahneman
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
545,485
176,399
0.323
* 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
534,420
427,994
0.801
* 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
521,360
233,192
0.447
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :17
Canada
Salim Yusuf
Cardiology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
510,665
160,328
0.314
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :18
United States
Bert Vogelstein
Cancer
Biology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
508,553
105,882
0.208
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :19
United States
Icek Ajzen
Attitudes
Persuasion
Attitude-Behavior Relation
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
507,785
201,538
0.397
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :20
United States
Frank B Hu
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
506,664
217,174
0.429
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :21
United States
Ali H Mokdad
Health Metrics
Population Health
IHME
Global Health
Epidemiology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
506,647
313,396
0.619
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :22
Finland
Jaakko Tuomilehto
Public Health
Epidemiology
Diabetes
Cardiovascular Disease
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
504,029
161,460
0.320
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :23
United States
Robert Tibshirani
Statistics
data science
Machine Learning
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
501,970
210,295
0.419
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :24
South Korea
SB Kim
physics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
501,250
162,703
0.325
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :25
United Kingdom
John McMurray
Heart failure
Cardiology
Diabetes
CKD
Clinical trials
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
500,619
232,434
0.464
* 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
836,344
543,619
0.650
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
828,471
644,268
0.778
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
814,805
481,460
0.591
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
691,805
254,344
0.368
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
620,584
161,422
0.260
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
612,030
281,454
0.460
Self-Determination Theory
psychology
intrinsic motivation
education
organizational behavior
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
7
United Kingdom
1
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
Gregory Lip
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
601,241
279,812
0.465
Atrial fibrillation
hypertension
thrombosis
heart failure
stroke
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
8
United States
4
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
Kaiming He
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
596,456
535,895
0.898
* 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
588,045
186,269
0.317
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
583,725
282,425
0.484
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
11
United States
5
3
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
Ronald C Kessler
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
571,770
197,224
0.345
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
12
United States
6
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
John PA Ioannidis
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
570,799
354,334
0.621
meta-research
clinical epidemiology
evidence-based medicine
research methods
meta-analysis
* 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
562,143
358,427
0.638
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
545,485
176,399
0.323
* 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
534,420
427,994
0.801
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
521,360
233,192
0.447
self-determination theory
motivation
psychology
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
17
Canada
4
2
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
Salim Yusuf
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
510,665
160,328
0.314
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
18
United States
10
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
Bert Vogelstein
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
508,553
105,882
0.208
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
19
United States
11
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
Icek Ajzen
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
507,785
201,538
0.397
Attitudes
Persuasion
Attitude-Behavior Relation
* 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
506,664
217,174
0.429
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
21
United States
13
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 21
Ali H Mokdad
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
506,647
313,396
0.619
Health Metrics
Population Health
IHME
Global Health
Epidemiology
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
22
Finland
1
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 22
Jaakko Tuomilehto
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
504,029
161,460
0.320
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
23
United States
14
2
Ranking Based On Selection: 23
Robert Tibshirani
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
501,970
210,295
0.419
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
24
South Korea
2
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 24
SB Kim
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
501,250
162,703
0.325
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
25
United Kingdom
3
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 25
John McMurray
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
500,619
232,434
0.464
Heart failure
Cardiology
Diabetes
CKD
Clinical trials