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Highly Cited Researchers

Highly Cited Researchers 840 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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16
World Rank
United States
9
Country Rank
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1
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
1
Medical and Health Sciences / Epidemiology and Public Health
Health Metrics | Population Health | IHME | Global Health | Epidemiolog

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    585,101
  • Last 6 Years
    354,592
  • Last 6 Years / Total
    0.606
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Rankings

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36
World Rank
United States
21
Country Rank
University of Washington Logo
2
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
2
Others
Burden of Diseases | Causes of Death | Antimicrobials Resistance | Ira

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    484,950
  • Last 6 Years
    306,614
  • Last 6 Years / Total
    0.632
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* Total Citation Rankings

Rankings

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61
World Rank
United States
31
Country Rank
University of Washington Logo
3
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
3
Medical and Health Sciences / Epidemiology and Public Health
IHME | Health Metrics | Global Health | Public Health | Epidemiolog

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    429,662
  • Last 6 Years
    324,334
  • Last 6 Years / Total
    0.755
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* Total Citation Rankings

Rankings

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493
World Rank
United States
198
Country Rank
University of Washington Logo
4
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
4
Natural Sciences / Molecular Biology & Genetics
Segmental duplication | copy number variation | autism | developmental delay | gene duplicatio

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    254,152
  • Last 6 Years
    96,313
  • Last 6 Years / Total
    0.379
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* Total Citation Rankings

Rankings

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656
World Rank
United States
257
Country Rank
University of Washington Logo
5
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
5
Business & Management / Entrepreneurship
Leadership | Leader Development | Individual to Global Strategic Leadershi

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    230,478
  • Last 6 Years
    83,722
  • Last 6 Years / Total
    0.363
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* Total Citation Rankings

Rankings

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1,020
World Rank
United States
419
Country Rank
University of Washington Logo
6
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
6
Others
Health Medicin

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    186,313
  • Last 6 Years
    101,498
  • Last 6 Years / Total
    0.545
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Rankings

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1,186
World Rank
United States
498
Country Rank
University of Washington Logo
7
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
7
Natural Sciences / Physics
Astronomy | Machine Learning

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    173,092
  • Last 6 Years
    143,569
  • Last 6 Years / Total
    0.829
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* Total Citation Rankings

Rankings

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1,245
World Rank
United States
529
Country Rank
University of Washington Logo
8
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
8
Medical and Health Sciences / Biostatistics
Biostatistics | Epidemiology | Bayesian Statistics | Public Healt

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    168,143
  • Last 6 Years
    102,780
  • Last 6 Years / Total
    0.611
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* Total Citation Rankings

Rankings

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1,377
World Rank
United States
595
Country Rank
University of Washington Logo
9
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
9
Natural Sciences / Molecular Biology & Genetics
Evolutionary biology | phylogenetic methods | population genetic

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    159,107
  • Last 6 Years
    25,689
  • Last 6 Years / Total
    0.161
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* Total Citation Rankings

Rankings

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1,670
World Rank
United States
735
Country Rank
University of Washington Logo
10
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
10
Engineering & Technology / Computer Science
Natural Language Processing | Semantics | Machine Learning | Artificial Intelligenc

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    145,116
  • Last 6 Years
    130,797
  • Last 6 Years / Total
    0.901
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* Total Citation Rankings

Rankings

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1,713
World Rank
United States
755
Country Rank
University of Washington Logo
11
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
11

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    143,070
  • Last 6 Years
    43,438
  • Last 6 Years / Total
    0.304
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Rankings

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1,852
World Rank
United States
821
Country Rank
University of Washington Logo
12
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
12
Engineering & Technology / Computer Science
Type Theory | Computer Vision | Machine Learnin

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    137,404
  • Last 6 Years
    118,462
  • Last 6 Years / Total
    0.862
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Rankings

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1,867
World Rank
United States
827
Country Rank
University of Washington Logo
13
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
13
Engineering & Technology / Computer Science
Machine Learning | Distributed Systems | Artificial Intelligence | Parallel Algorithms | Sensor Network

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    136,687
  • Last 6 Years
    101,741
  • Last 6 Years / Total
    0.744
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* Total Citation Rankings

Rankings

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2,140
World Rank
United States
983
Country Rank
University of Washington Logo
14
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
14
Social Sciences / Psychology
Psychology | social cognition | social psychology | cognitive psychology | methodolog

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    127,031
  • Last 6 Years
    35,387
  • Last 6 Years / Total
    0.279
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* Total Citation Rankings

Rankings

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2,365
World Rank
United States
1,089
Country Rank
University of Washington Logo
15
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
15

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    121,212
  • Last 6 Years
    45,955
  • Last 6 Years / Total
    0.379
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* Total Citation Rankings

Rankings

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2,431
World Rank
United States
1,126
Country Rank
University of Washington Logo
16
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
16

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    119,640
  • Last 6 Years
    31,465
  • Last 6 Years / Total
    0.263
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* Total Citation Rankings

Rankings

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2,678
World Rank
United States
1,252
Country Rank
University of Washington Bothell Logo
1
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
17
Others
gravitational wave astronom

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    113,981
  • Last 6 Years
    84,620
  • Last 6 Years / Total
    0.742
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* Total Citation Rankings

Rankings

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2,693
World Rank
United States
1,259
Country Rank
University of Washington Logo
17
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
18
Engineering & Technology / Computer Science
Computer Vision | Computer Graphic

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    113,604
  • Last 6 Years
    26,515
  • Last 6 Years / Total
    0.233
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* Total Citation Rankings

Rankings

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2,697
World Rank
United States
1,262
Country Rank
University of Washington Logo
18
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
19
Medical and Health Sciences / Rheumatology
Rheumatology | Scleroderma | Rheumatoid Arthritis | Lupus | Vasculiti

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    113,531
  • Last 6 Years
    32,942
  • Last 6 Years / Total
    0.290
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* Total Citation Rankings

Rankings

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3,090
World Rank
United States
1,451
Country Rank
University of Washington Logo
19
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
20
Engineering & Technology / Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Robotics | Artificial Intelligence | Computer Visio

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    105,588
  • Last 6 Years
    40,040
  • Last 6 Years / Total
    0.379
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Rankings

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3,588
World Rank
United States
1,677
Country Rank
University of Washington Logo
20
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
21
Medical and Health Sciences / Biostatistics
biostatistics | longitudinal data | surviva

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    97,927
  • Last 6 Years
    40,346
  • Last 6 Years / Total
    0.412
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* Total Citation Rankings

Rankings

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4,427
World Rank
United States
2,092
Country Rank
University of Washington Bothell Logo
2
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
22
Natural Sciences / Biological Science
Microbial Ecology | Bioinformatics | Coral | Genome Evolution | Phylogenetic predictio

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    86,468
  • Last 6 Years
    59,467
  • Last 6 Years / Total
    0.688
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* Total Citation Rankings

Rankings

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4,553
World Rank
United States
2,150
Country Rank
University of Washington Logo
21
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
23

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    85,091
  • Last 6 Years
    18,029
  • Last 6 Years / Total
    0.212
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* Total Citation Rankings

Rankings

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4,825
World Rank
United States
2,282
Country Rank
University of Washington Logo
22
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
24
Others
Breast Cancer / Global Health Medicin

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    82,360
  • Last 6 Years
    45,080
  • Last 6 Years / Total
    0.547
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* Total Citation Rankings

Rankings

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5,724
World Rank
United States
2,697
Country Rank
University of Washington Logo
23
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
25

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    74,462
  • Last 6 Years
    33,697
  • Last 6 Years / Total
    0.453
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