Scholarly Index

Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence

2021-2025 World Top1000 Scholar ranking for Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence.

World rank	Scholar	Impact score	Total citations	Total publications
1	James A. Piazza	98.32	4,641	76
2	Daniel Köehler	98.23	682	67
3	Ryan Scrivens	97.89	1,116	42
4	Tahir Abbas	97.78	3,162	200
5	Arie W. Kruglanski	97.71	43,102	450
6	Milan Obaidi	97.49	1,057	44
7	Brian J. Phillips	96.57	1,348	63
8	Paul Gill	96.43	3,835	144
9	Daniel Meierrieks	96.36	2,884	111
10	Håvard Haugstvedt	96.21	119	20
11	Sophia Moskalenko	96.02	2,817	51
12	Christopher Baker‐Beall	95.87	273	19
13	Ryan Shandler	95.83	2,580	23
14	Gary LaFree	95.33	6,824	154
15	Tarela Juliet Ike	95.17	282	47
16	Emeka Thaddues Njoku	94.99	147	27
17	Lee Jarvis	94.78	1,444	84
18	Michael Wolfowicz	94.31	578	21
19	Molly Ellenberg	94.14	576	32
20	Gadi Hitman	93.97	207	47
21	Todd Sandler	93.88	24,435	354
22	Andrey Korotayev	93.85	5,673	376
23	Lance Y. Hunter	93.80	440	52
24	Sarah L. Carthy	93.80	176	12
25	Adrian Cherney	93.72	3,479	165
26	Bettina Rottweiler	93.47	369	18
27	Šádí Shanaáh	93.35	170	15
28	Caitlin Clemmow	93.07	388	30
29	Christopher Blair	92.99	436	71
30	Rune Ellefsen	92.85	373	24
31	Ayhan Kaya	92.64	1,510	108
32	Michael I. Ugwueze	92.33	333	31
33	Stéphane J. Baele	92.32	1,038	58
34	Ahmet Güler	92.29	329	53
35	Cécile Rousseau	92.23	14,887	420
36	Eylem Kanol	92.19	173	13
37	Tomislav Pavlović	92.11	1,862	159
38	Miron Lakomy	91.81	279	54
39	Thomas J. Holt	91.61	8,425	254
40	Jörg Matthes	91.51	18,375	356
41	Paul Lushenko	91.29	203	31
42	Vincenzo Bove	90.90	2,751	82
43	Isak Svensson	90.75	2,198	132
44	Simon Ozer	90.65	908	57
45	Jocelyn J. Bélanger	89.71	5,907	129
46	Nir Rozmann	89.12	376	26
47	Rik Peels	88.99	1,293	175
48	János Bésenyő	88.64	326	130
49	James Rogers	88.41	876	135
50	Ali Balcı	88.31	443	119