Scholarly Index

Meta-analysis and systematic reviews

2021-2025 World Top1000 Scholar ranking for Meta-analysis and systematic reviews.

World rank	Scholar	Impact score	Total citations	Total publications
1	David Moher	99.92	827,847	1,253
2	Gary S. Collins	99.87	81,147	647
3	John P. A. Ioannidis	99.80	293,371	1,406
4	Matthew J. Page	99.77	157,848	260
5	Gordon Guyatt	99.69	287,345	1,901
6	Isabelle Boutron	99.69	199,375	373
7	Richard D Riley	99.61	49,665	533
8	Andrea C. Tricco	99.57	213,222	528
9	Joanne E. McKenzie	99.45	152,904	231
10	Zachary Munn	99.39	45,252	291
11	Romina Brignardello‐Petersen	99.26	23,886	303
12	Shinichi Nakagawa	99.22	57,745	481
13	Asbjørn Hróbjartsson	99.17	182,738	218
14	M. Hassan Murad	99.06	163,299	1,237
15	Evan Mayo‐Wilson	98.96	146,997	205
16	Elie A. Akl	98.89	267,670	641
17	Holger J. Schünemann	98.72	193,532	1,008
18	An‐Wen Chan	98.69	41,669	194
19	Dawid Pieper	98.68	12,560	302
20	Sally Hopewell	98.60	40,372	338
21	Patrick M. Bossuyt	98.50	231,764	1,028
22	Caroline B. Terwee	98.42	69,002	494
23	Julian P. T. Higgins	98.29	278,451	606
24	Hanan Khalil	98.22	25,429	219
25	Paula Dhiman	98.18	9,655	120
26	Daniël Lakens	98.16	26,156	256
27	Lifeng Lin	98.06	7,525	186
28	Lehana Thabane	98.02	67,472	1,418
29	Tianjing Li	97.93	145,324	212
30	Sue Brennan	97.91	141,128	132
31	Mike Thelwall	97.90	32,541	591
32	Malgorzata Lagisz	97.86	7,105	191
33	Toshi A. Furukawa	97.78	48,542	860
34	Eric‐Jan Wagenmakers	97.76	58,655	446
35	Mario Plebani	97.72	59,501	1,605
36	Gerald Gartlehner	97.62	25,185	680
37	Monica Taljaard	97.55	18,622	627
38	Ian R. White	97.54	66,127	560
39	Danielle Pollock	97.52	12,562	105
40	Timothy Hugh Barker	97.42	5,621	79
41	Georgia Salanti	97.33	58,429	309
42	Luis Furuya‐Kanamori	97.32	6,149	190
43	Lotty Hooft	97.20	34,896	284
44	Peter Tugwell	97.12	146,520	1,116
45	Areti Angeliki Veroniki	97.11	8,915	141
46	Chang Xu	96.91	4,296	195
47	Lidwine B. Mokkink	96.89	29,903	146
48	Neal Haddaway	96.82	18,918	263
49	Joerg J Meerpohl	96.82	46,591	440
50	Jaime A. Teixeira da Silva	96.53	24,815	1,051