The Citation Rankings (Highly Cited Researchers) list highlights the most cited and influential researchers across a vast range of scientific fields, covering 211 main and sub-disciplines, including the Art and Humanities Citation Rankings and Social Sciences and Humanities Citation Rankings. This service, offered exclusively and with real-time updates by AD Scientific Index, aims to provide a balanced and dynamic perspective by excluding data from CERN and other statistical sources that disproportionately favor certain researchers — particularly in the social sciences and humanities. This real-time methodology addresses the unfair advantage researchers with multi-author publications and CERN involvement hold over others, ensuring a more equitable evaluation. Furthermore, real-time citation rankings help uncover rule violations and unethical practices within the research community by continuously monitoring citation behavior.
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* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 1
Linguistics
Cognitive Science
Politics
Law
Psychology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
280,519
66,253
0.236
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* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
Applied linguistics
language learning and teaching
language education policy and practice
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
208,848
36,180
0.173
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
cognitive science
philosophy of language
moral theory
aesthetics
American Philosophy
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
171,557
43,098
0.251
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
linguistics
literacy
learning
and video game
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
147,244
37,137
0.252
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
second language acquisition
task-based language teachin
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
143,509
39,775
0.277
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
Literature studies
Media theory
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
131,068
30,337
0.231
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
Metaphysics
epistemology
logic
language
mind
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
122,959
31,797
0.259
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
linguistics
cognitive science
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
96,804
15,737
0.163
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
Phylogenetics
Computational Biology
Evolutionary Biology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
96,543
8,902
0.092
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* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
Applied linguistics
Academic discourse
EAP
discourse analysis
English for Specific
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
96,232
39,536
0.411
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
94,031
20,305
0.216
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
Radiocarbon
Geochronology
Bayesian statistics
Archaeology
Quaternary Scienc
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
91,159
36,439
0.400
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
Natural Language Processing
Speech Recognition
Computational Linguistics
Linguistics
Computational Social Science
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
88,765
43,084
0.485
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
Linguistics
corpus linguistics
English grammar
registe
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
84,271
28,200
0.335
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
Trust
Research Methods
Ecommerce
IT Outsourcing
Sociolinguistics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
84,093
27,206
0.324
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
Information Theory and Error-correcting Codes
Reliable Computation with Unreliable Hardware
Machine Learning and Bayesian Data Modelling
Sustainable Energy and Public Understanding of Science
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
81,655
18,177
0.223
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
Biomineralization
microarchaeology
archaeological scienc
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
80,759
21,455
0.266
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
Philosophy
computing
semiotics
semantics
cybercultur
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
80,430
18,034
0.224
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
Ethics
Philosophy of Race
Philosophy of Mind
Identit
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
75,897
18,066
0.238
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
African politics
history
colonialism
race
enlightenmen
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
69,750
39,121
0.561
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 21
AI Ethics
Digital Ethics
Information Ethics
Philosophy of Information
Philosophy of Technolog
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
69,000
48,428
0.702
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 22
Pendidikan Isla
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
67,182
34,267
0.510
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 23
Linguistics
Humaniora
Pendidikan
English
Social Science
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
65,529
28,148
0.430
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 24
Philosophy
Cognitive Scienc
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
64,673
21,983
0.340
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 25
Philosophy
Philosophy of Mind
Philosophy of Language
Cognitive Science
Metaphysic
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
63,766
22,691
0.356
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
301
128
6
Ranking Based On Selection: 1
George Lakoff
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
280,519
66,253
0.236
Linguistics
Cognitive Science
Politics
Law
Psychology
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
765
58
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
Jim Coleman
Open University UK
Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
208,848
36,180
0.173
Applied linguistics
language learning and teaching
language education policy and practice
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,153
485
8
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Mark Johnson
University of Oregon
Eugene, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
171,557
43,098
0.251
cognitive science
philosophy of language
moral theory
aesthetics
American Philosophy
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,546
678
7
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
James Paul Gee
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
147,244
37,137
0.252
linguistics
literacy
learning
and video game
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,624
8
5
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
Rod Ellis
University of Auckland
Auckland, New Zealand
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
143,509
39,775
0.277
second language acquisition
task-based language teachin
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,941
42
2
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
Marshall Herbert Mcluhan
Maastricht University
Maastricht, Netherlands
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
131,068
30,337
0.231
Literature studies
Media theory
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
2,185
1,010
33
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
David K Lewis
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
122,959
31,797
0.259
Metaphysics
epistemology
logic
language
mind
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
3,525
1,652
9
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
Ray Jackendoff
Tufts University
Medford, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
96,804
15,737
0.163
linguistics
cognitive science
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
3,544
1,660
26
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
David Swofford
Duke University
Durham, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
96,543
8,902
0.092
Phylogenetics
Computational Biology
Evolutionary Biology
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
3,562
292
4
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
Ken Hyland
University of East Anglia
Norwich, United Kingdom
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
96,232
39,536
0.411
Applied linguistics
Academic discourse
EAP
discourse analysis
English for Specific
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* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
3,701
10
8
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
Nestor Garcia Canclini
Universidad Nacional de La Plata
La Plata, Argentina
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
94,031
20,305
0.216
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
3,999
321
47
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
Christopher Bronk Ramsey
University of Oxford
Oxford, United Kingdom
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
91,159
36,439
0.400
Radiocarbon
Geochronology
Bayesian statistics
Archaeology
Quaternary Scienc
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
4,089
1,931
100
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
Dan Jurafsky
Stanford University
Stanford, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
88,765
43,084
0.485
Natural Language Processing
Speech Recognition
Computational Linguistics
Linguistics
Computational Social Science
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
4,462
2,109
2
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
Douglas Biber
Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
84,271
28,200
0.335
Linguistics
corpus linguistics
English grammar
registe
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
4,476
2,116
5
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
David Gefen
Drexel University
Philadelphia, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
84,093
27,206
0.324
Trust
Research Methods
Ecommerce
IT Outsourcing
Sociolinguistics
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
4,728
376
33
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
David MacKay
University of Cambridge
Cambridge, United Kingdom
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
81,655
18,177
0.223
Information Theory and Error-correcting Codes
Reliable Computation with Unreliable Hardware
Machine Learning and Bayesian Data Modelling
Sustainable Energy and Public Understanding of Science
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
4,807
13
2
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
Steve Weiner
Weizmann Institute of Science
Rehovot, Israel
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
80,759
21,455
0.266
Biomineralization
microarchaeology
archaeological scienc
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
4,842
189
9
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
Pierre Lévy
Université d'Ottawa
Ottawa, Canada
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
80,430
18,034
0.224
Philosophy
computing
semiotics
semantics
cybercultur
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
5,342
2,528
30
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
Kwame Anthony Appiah
New York University
New York, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
75,897
18,066
0.238
Ethics
Philosophy of Race
Philosophy of Mind
Identit
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
6,173
19
5
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
Achille Mbembe
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, South Africa
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
69,750
39,121
0.561
African politics
history
colonialism
race
enlightenmen
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
6,274
535
78
Ranking Based On Selection: 21
Luciano Floridi
University of Oxford
Oxford, United Kingdom
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
69,000
48,428
0.702
AI Ethics
Digital Ethics
Information Ethics
Philosophy of Information
Philosophy of Technolog
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
6,559
7
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 22
Saiful Bahri
Institut Agama Islam Negeri IAIN Tulungagung
Tulungagung, Indonesia
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
67,182
34,267
0.510
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
6,804
8
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 23
Asbah Ambalawi|ASBAH M.Hum
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
65,529
28,148
0.430
Linguistics
Humaniora
Pendidikan
English
Social Science
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
6,931
590
5
Ranking Based On Selection: 24
Andy Clark
University of Sussex
Brighton, United Kingdom
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
64,673
21,983
0.340
Philosophy
Cognitive Scienc
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
7,101
3,352
37
Ranking Based On Selection: 25
David Chalmers
New York University
New York, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
63,766
22,691
0.356
Philosophy
Philosophy of Mind
Philosophy of Language
Cognitive Science
Metaphysic