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United States 2,254 Scientists H-Index Social Sciences / Library and Information Science Rankings - 2026

Track the real-time academic impact of 2.6 million scientists across 221 countries. The H-Index Rankings evaluate both total and last 5 years’ H-index values, offering the most transparent measure of scholarly recognition. Compare global, continental, national, and institutional performance across 13 major fields and 221 disciplines.

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Total 2.254 scientist , 3,198 institution , Updates every 3 days
* Total H Index Rankings

Rankings

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5,174
World Rank
United States
2,304
Country Rank
Pennsylvania State University Logo
12
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
1
C Lee Giles
Pennsylvania State University University Park, United States
Social Sciences / Library and Information Science
Information extraction | search engines | information retrieval | deep learning | digital librarie

H-Index Metrics

  • Total
    121
  • Last 5 Years
    62
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.512
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* Total H Index Rankings

Rankings

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18,312
World Rank
United States
7,814
Country Rank
Argonne National Laboratory Logo
26
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
2
Jianguo Wen (JG Wen)
Argonne National Laboratory Lemont, United States
Social Sciences / Library and Information Science
Electron Microscopy | Energy Materials | Complex Oxides | Carbon materials | Quantum Information Science Material

H-Index Metrics

  • Total
    86
  • Last 5 Years
    61
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.709
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* Total H Index Rankings

Rankings

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18,775
World Rank
United States
8,009
Country Rank
National Institutes of Health Logo
115
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
3
Clement J Mcdonald
National Institutes of Health Bethesda, United States
Social Sciences / Library and Information Science
Medical informatics | statistics | healthcare | Electronic medical records | Health information standard

H-Index Metrics

  • Total
    86
  • Last 5 Years
    37
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.430
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* Total H Index Rankings

Rankings

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31,655
World Rank
United States
12,911
Country Rank
Drexel University Logo
12
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
4
Chaomei Chen
Drexel University Philadelphia, United States
Social Sciences / Library and Information Science
Information visualization | visual analytics | scientometrics | bibliometrics | scholarly communicatio

H-Index Metrics

  • Total
    73
  • Last 5 Years
    51
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.699
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* Total H Index Rankings

Rankings

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35,294
World Rank
United States
14,210
Country Rank
University of South Florida Logo
37
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
5
Randy Borum
University of South Florida Tampa, United States
Social Sciences / Library and Information Science
Intelligence Studies | National Security | Threat Assessment | Violent Extremism | Information Scienc

H-Index Metrics

  • Total
    71
  • Last 5 Years
    37
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.521
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* Total H Index Rankings

Rankings

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40,814
World Rank
United States
16,148
Country Rank
Indiana University Bloomington Logo
55
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
6
Cassidy R Sugimoto
Indiana University Bloomington Bloomington, United States
Social Sciences / Library and Information Science
science policy | scientometrics | scholarly communication | science communicatio

H-Index Metrics

  • Total
    67
  • Last 5 Years
    56
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.836
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* Total H Index Rankings

Rankings

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41,223
World Rank
United States
16,274
Country Rank
University of Texas Austin Logo
182
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
7
Ying Ding
University of Texas Austin Austin, United States
Social Sciences / Library and Information Science
AI in Health | Knowledge Graph | Science of Scienc

H-Index Metrics

  • Total
    69
  • Last 5 Years
    48
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.696
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* Total H Index Rankings

Rankings

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42,794
World Rank
United States
16,889
Country Rank
National Institutes of Health Logo
179
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
8
Sameer Antani
National Institutes of Health Bethesda, United States
Social Sciences / Library and Information Science
Medical Imaging | Machine Learning | Artificial Intelligence | Image Informatics | Visual Informatio

H-Index Metrics

  • Total
    66
  • Last 5 Years
    54
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.818
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* Total H Index Rankings

Rankings

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44,257
World Rank
United States
17,390
Country Rank
University of Tennessee Knoxville Logo
54
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
9
Carol Tenopir
University of Tennessee Knoxville Knoxville, United States
Social Sciences / Library and Information Science
Scholarly publishing | value of reading | value of librarie

H-Index Metrics

  • Total
    66
  • Last 5 Years
    32
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.485
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* Total H Index Rankings

Rankings

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49,355
World Rank
United States
19,109
Country Rank
National Institutes of Health Logo
198
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
10
Dina Demner-Fushman
National Institutes of Health Bethesda, United States
Social Sciences / Library and Information Science
Biomedical Informatics | Information Retrieval | Natural Language Processing | Question Answering | Summarizatio

H-Index Metrics

  • Total
    63
  • Last 5 Years
    49
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.778
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* Total H Index Rankings

Rankings

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53,367
World Rank
United States
20,513
Country Rank
Indiana University Bloomington Logo
73
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
11
Blaise Cronin
Indiana University Bloomington Bloomington, United States
Social Sciences / Library and Information Science
Bibliometrics | Informetrics | Scientometrics | Webometrics | Scholarly Communicatio

H-Index Metrics

  • Total
    62
  • Last 5 Years
    29
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.468
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* Total H Index Rankings

Rankings

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55,700
World Rank
United States
21,286
Country Rank
University of California Los Angeles Logo
426
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
12
Christine L Borgman
University of California Los Angeles Los Angeles, United States
Social Sciences / Library and Information Science
information | computing | digital libraries | scientific dat

H-Index Metrics

  • Total
    61
  • Last 5 Years
    30
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.492
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* Total H Index Rankings

Rankings

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58,787
World Rank
United States
22,373
Country Rank
University of Texas Austin Logo
251
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
13
Robert Van De Geijn
University of Texas Austin Austin, United States
Social Sciences / Library and Information Science
Dense Linear Algebra | Libraries | High-Performance Computing | Parallel Computin

H-Index Metrics

  • Total
    60
  • Last 5 Years
    23
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.383
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* Total H Index Rankings

Rankings

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70,413
World Rank
United States
26,155
Country Rank
University of Maryland Logo
242
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
14
John Bertot
University of Maryland College Park, United States
Social Sciences / Library and Information Science
E-government | ICT | Information Policy | Library Scienc

H-Index Metrics

  • Total
    56
  • Last 5 Years
    32
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.571
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* Total H Index Rankings

Rankings

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71,895
World Rank
United States
26,658
Country Rank
Feinstein Institute for Medical Research Logo
26
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
15
Louise Falzon
Feinstein Institute for Medical Research Manhasset, United States
Social Sciences / Library and Information Science
Information Science | Evidence-based Practice | Systematic Review

H-Index Metrics

  • Total
    55
  • Last 5 Years
    46
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.836
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* Total H Index Rankings

Rankings

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74,596
World Rank
United States
27,473
Country Rank
National Institutes of Health Logo
263
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
16
Olivier Bodenreider
National Institutes of Health Bethesda, United States
Social Sciences / Library and Information Science
biomedical ontology | bioNL

H-Index Metrics

  • Total
    55
  • Last 5 Years
    26
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.473
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* Total H Index Rankings

Rankings

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87,819
World Rank
United States
31,609
Country Rank
University of California Berkeley Logo
525
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
17
Bela Gipp|Béla Gipp
University of California Berkeley Berkeley, United States
Social Sciences / Library and Information Science
AI/Data Science/NLP | Digital Libraries | Scientific Paper Mining | Blockchain Technolog

H-Index Metrics

  • Total
    52
  • Last 5 Years
    40
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.769
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* Total H Index Rankings

Rankings

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89,259
World Rank
United States
32,037
Country Rank
IBM Corporation Logo
91
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
18
Dmitri Maslov
IBM Corporation New York, United States
Social Sciences / Library and Information Science
Quantum Circuits | Quantum Compilation | Quantum Computing | Quantum Information | Reversible Logi

H-Index Metrics

  • Total
    51
  • Last 5 Years
    36
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.706
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Rankings

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89,742
World Rank
United States
32,177
Country Rank
University of Southern California Logo
330
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
19
Janis F Brown
University of Southern California Los Angeles, United States
Social Sciences / Library and Information Science

H-Index Metrics

  • Total
    51
  • Last 5 Years
    33
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.647
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Rankings

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94,144
World Rank
United States
33,569
Country Rank
Indiana University Bloomington Logo
120
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
20
Johan Bollen
Indiana University Bloomington Bloomington, United States
Social Sciences / Library and Information Science
network science | complex systems | computational social science | cognitive science | bibliometric

H-Index Metrics

  • Total
    50
  • Last 5 Years
    34
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.680
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Rankings

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107,179
World Rank
United States
37,482
Country Rank
University of Michigan Logo
815
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
21
David Jurgens
University of Michigan Ann Arbor, United States
Social Sciences / Library and Information Science
Natural Language Processing | Computational Social Science | Computational Sociolinguistic

H-Index Metrics

  • Total
    47
  • Last 5 Years
    42
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.894
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Rankings

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116,143
World Rank
United States
40,044
Country Rank
University at Buffalo Logo
153
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
22
Heidi Julien
University at Buffalo Buffalo, United States
Social Sciences / Library and Information Science
information literacy | digital literacy | information behavio

H-Index Metrics

  • Total
    46
  • Last 5 Years
    28
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.609
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Rankings

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117,748
World Rank
United States
40,581
Country Rank
University of Texas Austin Logo
422
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
23
Andrew Dillon
University of Texas Austin Austin, United States
Social Sciences / Library and Information Science
Information science | User Experience Design | User-Centered Design | Human-Computer Interactio

H-Index Metrics

  • Total
    46
  • Last 5 Years
    21
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.457
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Rankings

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120,648
World Rank
United States
41,367
Country Rank
Georgia Institute of Technology Logo
321
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
24
Jan Youtie
Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, United States
Social Sciences / Library and Information Science
Innovation | Manufacturing | Bibliometrics | Polic

H-Index Metrics

  • Total
    45
  • Last 5 Years
    33
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.733
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Rankings

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125,737
World Rank
United States
42,856
Country Rank
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign Logo
411
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
25
Matthew J Turk
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign Champaign, United States
Social Sciences / Library and Information Science
Information Sciences | Data Visualization | Astronomy | High-Performance Computin

H-Index Metrics

  • Total
    44
  • Last 5 Years
    37
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.841
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