Scholarly Index

Software-Defined Networks and 5G

2021-2025 World Top1000 Scholar ranking for Software-Defined Networks and 5G.

World rank	Scholar	Impact score	Total citations	Total publications
1	Mohsen Guizani	99.91	79,977	1,700
2	Neeraj Kumar	99.84	62,388	1,279
3	Xuemin Shen	99.69	96,802	1,996
4	Peiying Zhang	99.69	5,976	273
5	Tarik Taleb	99.67	24,379	502
6	Madhusanka Liyanage	99.59	14,523	269
7	Shalli Rani	99.35	4,869	283
8	Dusit Niyato	99.18	82,278	1,805
9	Tao Huang	99.11	8,579	474
10	Adlen Ksentini	98.88	9,894	279
11	Christos Verikoukis	98.85	8,255	406
12	Hongke Zhang	98.84	10,757	868
13	Shui Yu	98.83	27,747	859
14	Song Guo	98.75	29,892	888
15	Jiajia Liu	98.74	25,705	752
16	Himanshi Babbar	98.66	1,065	89
17	Melike Erol‐Kantarci	98.65	7,561	245
18	Dan Tang	98.61	1,423	147
19	Rashid Amin	98.43	2,974	76
20	Jehad Ali	98.36	2,328	94
21	Gautam Srivastava	98.33	27,497	679
22	Xingwei Wang	98.27	10,315	772
23	Zhu Han	98.27	82,839	2,120
24	Haotong Cao	98.24	3,388	189
25	Stefan Schmid	98.19	9,490	538
26	Josep Mangues‐Bafalluy	98.10	2,069	207
27	Tommaso Melodia	98.06	18,804	353
28	Zehua Guo	98.04	2,584	131
29	Mohammed Anbar	98.03	5,040	165
30	Raouf Boutaba	97.94	25,194	534
31	Qing Li	97.82	3,883	392
32	Eiji Oki	97.74	6,326	779
33	Ali Ghaffari	97.69	4,798	162
34	Xiangpeng Xie	97.68	18,198	651
35	Josep M. Guerrero	97.68	117,473	1,922
36	Abdallah Shami	97.65	11,199	293
37	Chunming Wu	97.61	2,880	306
38	Sudip Misra	97.60	14,837	562
39	Xavier Costa‐Pérez	97.59	8,115	236
40	Frank H. P. Fitzek	97.57	8,897	706
41	Kai Chen	97.51	18,661	547
42	Frede Blaabjerg	97.49	191,377	3,848
43	Mohammad Shojafar	97.48	8,985	229
44	Salvatore D’Oro	97.38	4,029	80
45	Jinbin Hu	97.36	727	58
46	Nirwan Ansari	97.35	26,256	743
47	F. Richard Yu	97.30	52,206	1,369
48	Jiawei Huang	97.30	1,443	105
49	Engin Zeydan	97.25	2,211	230
50	Trung Q. Duong	97.21	21,188	657