Scholarly Index

Indian and Buddhist Studies

2021-2025 World Top1000 Scholar ranking for Indian and Buddhist Studies.

World rank	Scholar	Impact score	Total citations	Total publications
1	Bhikkhu Anālayo	99.79	1,146	124
2	Jessica Frazier	97.99	93	44
3	Eviatar Shulman	97.93	215	27
4	Federico Divino	96.74	89	30
5	Vineet Gairola	95.34	65	43
6	Rafal K. Stepien	93.95	105	20
7	Elizabeth Williams-Oerberg	92.85	40	14
8	Nilanjan Das	92.79	232	30
9	Elisa Iori	92.55	56	16
10	Young Jae Kim	92.06	175	67
11	Jeffery D. Long	92.03	328	70
12	Rashid Manzoor Bhat	91.71	223	39
13	Sthaneshwar Timalsina	91.62	92	39
14	Julia Cassaniti	91.44	433	28
15	Nathan McGovern	91.03	35	23
16	Jana S. Rošker	91.02	315	169
17	Péter-Dániel Szántó	90.58	16	23
18	David B. Gray	89.43	2,356	103
19	Aleksandra Wenta	88.09	19	9
20	Dalpat Singh Rajpurohit	87.22	12	9
21	Purushottama Bilimoria	87.15	345	118
22	Audrey Truschke	86.70	177	23
23	Bo Mou	85.38	157	116
24	Jayarava Attwood	85.17	29	21
25	Davey K. Tomlinson	85.16	12	8
26	Shuchen Xiang	85.03	74	20
27	Andrea Acri	84.97	240	62
28	Tamara Ditrich	84.93	96	20
29	Monima Chadha	82.90	497	45
30	Julian Schott	82.55	7	5
31	Max Deeg	82.31	159	41
32	Waldemar Brys	82.19	20	8
33	Kai Shmushko	81.78	40	9
34	Colin H. Simonds	79.44	22	8
35	Daud Ali	79.33	265	61
36	Matteo Di Placido	78.88	114	27
37	Marc-Henri Deroche	78.37	43	14
38	Hans-Rudolf Kantor	78.17	89	16
39	Jan Vrhovski	78.02	49	33
40	Rajan Rajan	77.39	42	31
41	Swami Medhananda	75.86	112	14
42	Laura P. Guerrero	74.49	20	9
43	Karen O’Brien-Kop	73.93	31	12
44	Pradeep P. Gokhale	73.25	21	12
45	Ann Gleig	72.55	156	63
46	Dimitry Shevchenko	72.47	13	11
47	Sarah Shaw	72.16	1,670	52
48	Anand Singh	71.97	171	69
49	Johannes Bronkhorst	71.68	694	197
50	Kshama Gupta	71.50	1,189	138