Scholarly Index

Higher Education

2021-2025 World Top1000 Scholar ranking for Higher Education.

World rank	Scholar	Impact score	Total citations	Total publications
1	Walter Leal Filho	100.00	39,581	814
2	Gwo‐Jen Hwang	99.95	36,497	570
3	David Boud	99.94	28,518	307
4	Denise Jackson	99.94	9,017	172
5	María Soledad	99.84	7,710	674
6	Kelly Matthews	99.78	3,888	289
7	Dawn Bennett	99.74	3,900	249
8	Margaret Bearman	99.69	6,109	204
9	Kelum A. A. Gamage	99.69	3,461	175
10	Niklas Gericke	99.69	4,864	219
11	Salvador Baena‐Morales	99.64	983	127
12	Philip Hallinger	99.61	27,451	312
13	Jisun Jung	99.57	2,292	103
14	David Carless	99.50	11,788	107
15	Rodrigo Lozano	99.46	17,863	150
16	Jesús López-Belmonte	99.45	4,342	201
17	Zi Yan	99.45	3,092	134
18	Ugochukwu Chinonso Okolie	99.43	1,170	59
19	Yehuda Baruch	99.41	16,345	270
20	Alison Cook‐Sather	99.36	6,927	165
21	Ernesto Panadero	99.34	11,358	127
22	Adrianna Kezar	99.30	9,511	325
23	Morris Siu–Yung Jong	99.29	6,431	173
24	Kathleen M. Quinlan	99.26	1,972	103
25	Chung Kwan Lo	99.25	6,664	74
26	Christian D. Schunn	99.20	15,251	408
27	Matthias Barth	99.18	4,883	133
28	Christopher DeLuca	99.13	4,065	152
29	Carlton J. Fong	99.08	3,652	87
30	Stephen Billett	99.06	13,070	297
31	Elizabeth Bell	99.03	1,043	59
32	Katharina Resch	98.97	2,799	69
33	Yueh‐Min Huang	98.97	12,332	479
34	Michalinos Zembylas	98.80	16,847	411
35	Liisa Postareff	98.79	3,132	65
36	David B. Knight	98.74	3,544	289
37	Nicholas A. Bowman	98.72	6,666	149
38	Román Liera	98.69	358	28
39	Fatma Gizem Karaoğlan Yılmaz	98.67	3,278	139
40	Terrell L. Strayhorn	98.63	4,608	130
41	Luciana Brandli	98.56	5,844	117
42	Jason M. Lodge	98.55	4,270	152
43	Javier Cifuentes‐Faura	98.50	5,481	217
44	Guangwei Hu	98.48	8,853	225
45	Savo Heleta	98.42	1,077	35
46	Paul Ashwin	98.40	2,013	95
47	Idiano D’Adamo	98.38	9,946	192
48	Tristan McCowan	98.33	2,183	83
49	Thanh Pham	98.31	1,000	59
50	Moeketsi Letseka	98.30	1,456	53