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Highly Cited Researchers
Highly Cited Researchers 392 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 Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 1
Quantitative Genetics
Statistical Genetics
Human Genetic
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
111,573
69,308
0.621
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* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
Artificial Intelligent
Machine Learning
AI for Scienc
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
76,826
34,137
0.444
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Materials Science and Engineering
Materials Chemistry
Materials Processing
Nanomaterial
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
44,719
14,314
0.320
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Genomics
epigenetics
genetics
proteomics
bioinformatic
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
38,070
27,251
0.716
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
Functional Genomics
Bioinformatics
Epigenetic
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
36,221
13,494
0.373
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
Polymer chemistry
Biomaterials
Drug Deliver
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
30,943
13,450
0.435
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
Regenerative Biolog
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
30,840
11,640
0.377
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
Graphene and Two-Dimensional Polyme
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
29,893
12,532
0.419
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
Cell Biolog
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
26,133
7,738
0.296
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* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
Nanophotonics
Optoelectronics
Photonics
Nanofabrication
Si
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
24,084
11,154
0.463
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
Origami
Flexible Electronics
Stretchable Electronics
Lithium-ion Batteries
Nanomaterial
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
23,763
9,937
0.418
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
Microelectronics and Bioengineerin
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
18,413
8,090
0.439
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
Groundwater
Coastal processes
Environmental modeling
Hydrogeolog
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
14,673
7,182
0.489
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
force field
drug design
protein dynamics
membrane transport
conformational samplin
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
13,457
11,020
0.819
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
NLP
Computer Vision
Multimedi
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
12,796
11,125
0.869
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
physic
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
12,429
4,776
0.384
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
Human Genetics
Genomics
Osteoporosis
Bone Mineral Densit
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
12,228
5,457
0.446
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
Neuroscienc
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
10,544
6,400
0.607
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
Computational Materials Science
First principles calculation
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
10,206
8,082
0.792
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
Flexible electronics
electronic skin
thin-film transistor
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
10,125
7,213
0.712
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 21
Computational Catalysis
Nitrogen Fixation
DFT
Magneto-catalytic Effec
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
9,572
7,750
0.810
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 22
Personalized nutrition
Microbiome Epidemiology
Nutritional Epidemiology
Diabetes
Brain Healt
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
8,491
5,967
0.703
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 23
Microbiome
Biotechnology
Antibiotic Resistance
Microbial Ecology
Metagenomic
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
7,836
5,928
0.757
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 24
Processing and Hetero-Integration of Halide Perovskites
Carbon Nanotubes Manipulatio
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
7,622
4,788
0.628
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 25
3D printing
electroncis
photonics
soft robotic
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
7,622
3,702
0.486
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
2,747
49
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 1
Jian Yang
Westlake University
Hangzhou, China
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
111,573
69,308
0.621
Quantitative Genetics
Statistical Genetics
Human Genetic
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
5,374
139
2
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
Stan Z. Li
Westlake University
Hangzhou, China
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
76,826
34,137
0.444
Artificial Intelligent
Machine Learning
AI for Scienc
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
12,847
427
3
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Jiaxing Huang
Westlake University
Hangzhou, China
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
44,719
14,314
0.320
Materials Science and Engineering
Materials Chemistry
Materials Processing
Nanomaterial
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
16,641
572
4
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
zhike lu
Westlake University
Hangzhou, China
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
38,070
27,251
0.716
Genomics
epigenetics
genetics
proteomics
bioinformatic
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
17,983
635
5
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
Lijia Ma
Westlake University
Hangzhou, China
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
36,221
13,494
0.373
Functional Genomics
Bioinformatics
Epigenetic
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
22,935
835
6
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
Jianjun Cheng
Westlake University
Hangzhou, China
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
30,943
13,450
0.435
Polymer chemistry
Biomaterials
Drug Deliver
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
23,049
839
7
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
Duanqing Pei
Westlake University
Hangzhou, China
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
30,840
11,640
0.377
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
24,208
894
8
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
Yuxi Xu
Westlake University
Hangzhou, China
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
29,893
12,532
0.419
Graphene and Two-Dimensional Polyme
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
29,607
1,109
9
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
Hongtao Yu
Westlake University
Hangzhou, China
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
26,133
7,738
0.296
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
33,351
1,274
10
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
Min Qiu
Westlake University
Hangzhou, China
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
24,084
11,154
0.463
Nanophotonics
Optoelectronics
Photonics
Nanofabrication
Si
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* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
33,992
1,299
11
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
Hanqing Jiang
Westlake University
Hangzhou, China
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
23,763
9,937
0.418
Origami
Flexible Electronics
Stretchable Electronics
Lithium-ion Batteries
Nanomaterial
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
48,473
1,966
12
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
Mohamad Sawan
Westlake University
Hangzhou, China
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
18,413
8,090
0.439
Microelectronics and Bioengineerin
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
65,542
2,776
13
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
Ling Li
Westlake University
Hangzhou, China
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
14,673
7,182
0.489
Groundwater
Coastal processes
Environmental modeling
Hydrogeolog
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
73,246
3,113
14
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
Jing Huang
Westlake University
Hangzhou, China
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
13,457
11,020
0.819
force field
drug design
protein dynamics
membrane transport
conformational samplin
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
77,971
3,349
15
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
Zhenzhong Lan
Westlake University
Hangzhou, China
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
12,796
11,125
0.869
NLP
Computer Vision
Multimedi
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
80,702
3,458
16
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
Congjun Wu
Westlake University
Hangzhou, China
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
12,429
4,776
0.384
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
82,362
3,530
17
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
Houfeng Zheng
Westlake University
Hangzhou, China
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
12,228
5,457
0.446
Human Genetics
Genomics
Osteoporosis
Bone Mineral Densit
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
98,317
4,297
18
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
Yi Sun
Westlake University
Hangzhou, China
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
10,544
6,400
0.607
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
102,111
4,461
19
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
Yizhou Zhu
Westlake University
Hangzhou, China
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
10,206
8,082
0.792
Computational Materials Science
First principles calculation
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
103,131
4,512
20
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
Bowen Zhu
Westlake University
Hangzhou, China
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
10,125
7,213
0.712
Flexible electronics
electronic skin
thin-film transistor
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
109,896
4,851
21
Ranking Based On Selection: 21
Tao Wang
Westlake University
Hangzhou, China
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
9,572
7,750
0.810
Computational Catalysis
Nitrogen Fixation
DFT
Magneto-catalytic Effec
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
125,683
5,600
22
Ranking Based On Selection: 22
Ju Sheng Zheng
Westlake University
Hangzhou, China
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
8,491
5,967
0.703
Personalized nutrition
Microbiome Epidemiology
Nutritional Epidemiology
Diabetes
Brain Healt
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
137,340
6,151
23
Ranking Based On Selection: 23
Feng Ju|Feng Ju
Westlake University
Hangzhou, China
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
7,836
5,928
0.757
Microbiome
Biotechnology
Antibiotic Resistance
Microbial Ecology
Metagenomic
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
141,540
6,374
24
Ranking Based On Selection: 24
Enzheng Shi
Westlake University
Hangzhou, China
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
7,622
4,788
0.628
Processing and Hetero-Integration of Halide Perovskites
Carbon Nanotubes Manipulatio
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
141,543
6,375
25
Ranking Based On Selection: 25
Nanjia Zhou
Westlake University
Hangzhou, China
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
7,622
3,702
0.486
3D printing
electroncis
photonics
soft robotic