Scholarly Index
Public Relations and Crisis Communication
Lifetime World Top1000 Scholar ranking for Public Relations and Crisis Communication.
| World rank | Scholar | Impact score | Total citations | Total publications |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | W. Timothy Coombs | 99.70 | 16,056 | 129 |
| 2 | Maureen Taylor | 99.44 | 8,664 | 140 |
| 3 | Leysia Palen | 99.35 | 13,874 | 109 |
| 4 | Brooke Fisher Liu | 99.28 | 6,279 | 103 |
| 5 | James C. McCroskey | 99.23 | 22,355 | 250 |
| 6 | Linjuan Rita Men | 99.22 | 6,532 | 86 |
| 7 | Yan Jin | 99.22 | 6,613 | 133 |
| 8 | William L. Benoit | 99.22 | 8,310 | 225 |
| 9 | Glen T. Cameron | 99.20 | 5,602 | 168 |
| 10 | Muhammad Imran | 99.09 | 5,876 | 115 |
| 11 | Ansgar Zerfaß | 99.05 | 4,375 | 113 |
| 12 | James E. Grunig | 99.04 | 5,568 | 104 |
| 13 | Anne Gregory | 99.04 | 11,181 | 144 |
| 14 | Timothy L. Sellnow | 99.00 | 5,494 | 170 |
| 15 | Patric R. Spence | 98.98 | 6,367 | 161 |
| 16 | Jesper Strömbäck | 98.87 | 12,040 | 317 |
| 17 | Richard D. Waters | 98.86 | 4,811 | 101 |
| 18 | Naim Kapucu | 98.80 | 8,656 | 187 |
| 19 | Axel Bruns | 98.62 | 9,677 | 333 |
| 20 | Jeannette Sutton | 98.60 | 4,036 | 89 |
| 21 | Seth C. Lewis | 98.59 | 9,769 | 141 |
| 22 | Kenneth A. Lachlan | 98.58 | 5,105 | 143 |
| 23 | Michael L. Kent | 98.57 | 6,556 | 63 |
| 24 | Kate Starbird | 98.54 | 7,436 | 102 |
| 25 | Edson C. Tandoc | 98.53 | 10,627 | 190 |
| 26 | Eyun‐Jung Ki | 98.52 | 2,976 | 93 |
| 27 | Sora Kim | 98.51 | 4,069 | 198 |
| 28 | Kaye D. Sweetser | 98.46 | 4,559 | 60 |
| 29 | Mohan J. Dutta | 98.46 | 9,605 | 268 |
| 30 | E. L. Quarantelli | 98.44 | 9,399 | 299 |
| 31 | Christian Reuter | 98.37 | 4,934 | 317 |
| 32 | Robert L. Heath | 98.35 | 2,946 | 92 |
| 33 | Jim Macnamara | 98.32 | 2,836 | 90 |
| 34 | Scott A. Myers | 98.32 | 6,034 | 202 |
| 35 | Folker Hanusch | 98.30 | 3,784 | 118 |
| 36 | Yeunjae Lee | 98.26 | 2,592 | 78 |
| 37 | Virginia P. Richmond | 98.26 | 8,312 | 122 |
| 38 | Young Kim | 98.13 | 7,859 | 470 |
| 39 | Tom Christensen | 98.13 | 11,032 | 249 |
| 40 | Dejan Verčič | 98.09 | 4,453 | 113 |
| 41 | Spiro Kiousis | 98.05 | 5,051 | 107 |
| 42 | Matthew W. Seeger | 98.04 | 5,599 | 86 |
| 43 | Dietram A. Scheufele | 98.03 | 27,828 | 285 |
| 44 | Sherry J. Holladay | 98.01 | 5,575 | 45 |
| 45 | Øyvind Ihlen | 98.00 | 2,499 | 86 |
| 46 | Yang Cheng | 97.98 | 3,368 | 136 |
| 47 | Toni G.L.A. van der Meer | 97.97 | 3,257 | 109 |
| 48 | Jeong‐Nam Kim | 97.94 | 3,496 | 128 |
| 49 | Robert L. Heath | 97.87 | 18,417 | 210 |
| 50 | J. Brian Houston | 97.84 | 4,707 | 105 |