Scholarly Index

Misinformation and Its Impacts

2021-2025 World Top1000 Scholar ranking for Misinformation and Its Impacts.

World rank	Scholar	Impact score	Total citations	Total publications
1	Sander van der Linden	99.94	31,321	283
2	David G. Rand	99.91	46,079	365
3	Stephan Lewandowsky	99.85	34,264	464
4	Gordon Pennycook	99.80	30,462	170
5	Karen M. Douglas	99.68	24,055	175
6	Emilio Ferrara	99.57	16,357	212
7	Heidi J. Larson	99.52	93,946	338
8	Jan‐Willem van Prooijen	99.49	10,968	223
9	Jon Roozenbeek	99.48	6,898	80
10	Michael Hameleers	99.48	4,404	127
11	Steve Rathje	99.39	3,238	42
12	Ullrich K. H. Ecker	99.34	15,083	156
13	Preslav Nakov	99.30	12,999	342
14	Adam Enders	99.18	3,325	65
15	Joseph E. Uscinski	99.06	5,611	104
16	Edson C. Tandoc	99.05	10,627	190
17	Homero Gil de Zúñiga	98.98	14,903	205
18	Nicolas Pröllochs	98.97	1,489	56
19	Porismita Borah	98.96	3,727	105
20	Yan Su	98.96	2,347	89
21	Jay Joseph Van Bavel	98.93	10,623	82
22	Jörg Matthes	98.91	18,375	356
23	James Druckman	98.87	34,976	299
24	Donghee Shin	98.86	18,074	541
25	Kathleen M. Carley	98.84	23,631	571
26	Kai Shu	98.76	9,916	122
27	Filippo Menczer	98.76	19,553	225
28	Fahim Sufi	98.68	1,922	92
29	Han Zheng	98.64	2,229	123
30	Saifuddin Ahmed	98.63	2,648	104
31	Jeffrey T. Hancock	98.63	22,507	267
32	Michael Bang Petersen	98.60	9,310	180
33	Brendan Nyhan	98.60	24,920	114
34	Matt Motta	98.58	3,849	99
35	Jiyoung Lee	98.55	2,626	353
36	Dietram A. Scheufele	98.52	27,828	285
37	Xizhu Xiao	98.52	1,498	43
38	Matthew J. Hornsey	98.51	19,581	253
39	David M. Markowitz	98.46	2,917	120
40	Stefan Feuerriegel	98.41	7,172	209
41	Magdalena Wojcieszak	98.37	5,941	128
42	Roland Imhoff	98.37	8,131	158
43	Malik Sallam	98.36	15,555	176
44	David Lazer	98.34	24,298	244
45	Matteo Cinelli	98.34	4,196	74
46	Mike S. Schäfer	98.26	7,613	221
47	Rasmus Kleis Nielsen	98.25	8,375	171
48	S. Shyam Sundar	98.21	18,588	282
49	Sacha Altay	98.20	1,231	38
50	Robbie M. Sutton	98.19	10,659	135