Scholarly Index

scientometrics and bibliometrics research

2021-2025 World Top1000 Scholar ranking for scientometrics and bibliometrics research.

World rank	Scholar	Impact score	Total citations	Total publications
1	John P. A. Ioannidis	99.76	293,371	1,406
2	Mike Thelwall	99.47	32,541	591
3	Jaime A. Teixeira da Silva	99.47	24,815	1,051
4	Vincent Larivière	99.29	19,223	402
5	Lin Zhang	98.96	3,447	198
6	Yi Bu	98.33	2,682	160
7	Kayvan Kousha	98.11	4,368	101
8	Lutz Bornmann	98.02	22,005	469
9	Ying Huang	97.79	4,935	282
10	Giovanni Abramo	97.72	3,812	117
11	Hugo Horta	97.40	4,469	132
12	Ludo Waltman	97.28	38,832	182
13	Rodrigo Costas	96.90	7,453	193
14	Tony Ross‐Hellauer	96.78	2,140	146
15	Quan‐Hoang Vuong	96.71	12,984	447
16	Vivek Kumar Singh	96.61	3,469	274
17	Gunnar Sivertsen	96.47	4,404	141
18	Weng Marc Lim	96.29	35,006	360
19	Daniel Torres‐Salinas	95.97	2,532	253
20	Mario Coccia	95.83	14,896	491
21	Hamid R. Jamali	95.73	5,372	195
22	Ciriaco Andrea D’Angelo	95.63	3,624	118
23	Ken Hyland	95.50	32,889	241
24	Nicolás Robinson‐García	95.36	2,151	140
25	Marek Kwiek	94.64	3,533	279
26	Serhii Nazarovets	94.63	461	86
27	Alex J. Yang	94.56	224	31
28	Mohammad Javed Ali	94.52	8,928	583
29	Dalmeet Singh Chawla	94.49	702	159
30	Wenceslao Arroyo‐Machado	94.44	357	66
31	Serge P. J. M. Horbach	94.42	1,568	66
32	An Zeng	94.38	4,061	181
33	Mario Pagliaro	94.34	19,002	431
34	Meijun Liu	94.32	718	58
35	Flaminio Squazzoni	94.25	3,763	158
36	Graham Kendall	94.07	10,945	300
37	Juan Pablo Alperín	94.01	2,092	120
38	Wei Lu	94.00	1,563	132
39	Emanuel Kulczycki	93.92	2,018	144
40	Thomas Klebel	93.82	391	37
41	Robin Haunschild	93.78	3,223	143
42	David Moher	93.61	827,847	1,253
43	Jiang Li	93.56	2,410	163
44	Dag W. Aksnes	93.37	5,418	144
45	L.M. Bouter	93.13	122,472	924
46	Eugenio Petrovich	92.92	295	27
47	Zhichao Fang	92.90	780	37
48	Yong Huang	92.72	1,030	89
49	João M. Santos	92.35	1,309	82
50	Fei Shu	92.30	1,276	87