Scholarly Index

Sports Analytics and Performance

2021-2025 World Top1000 Scholar ranking for Sports Analytics and Performance.

World rank	Scholar	Impact score	Total citations	Total publications
1	Daniel Memmert	99.61	10,743	333
2	Christos Tjortjis	99.27	2,351	126
3	Philip Newall	99.25	2,201	163
4	Miguel‐Ángel Gómez	99.21	8,570	379
5	Keith Davids	98.59	25,231	615
6	Toni Modrić	98.37	915	77
7	Nicolas Scelles	98.29	1,681	108
8	Łászló Csató	98.03	1,017	110
9	Vangelis Sarlis	97.83	490	17
10	Hui Zhang	97.79	3,128	182
11	Jan André Lee Ludvigsen	97.62	668	75
12	Christoph Breuer	97.38	6,213	204
13	Alex Krumer	97.24	979	49
14	Rafael Martínez-Gallego	97.04	772	79
15	Sérgio J. Ibáñez	96.93	6,238	476
16	Keisuke Fujii	96.87	1,288	136
17	Miguel Crespo	96.87	1,443	129
18	Rachel Allison	96.54	966	57
19	Mark D. Griffiths	96.45	120,023	1,971
20	Dominik Schreyer	96.44	1,264	68
21	Nicholas M. Watanabe	96.20	1,359	75
22	Brad R. Humphreys	96.14	6,522	243
23	Bradley J. Baker	96.10	2,100	64
24	Spyridon Plakias	95.87	342	59
25	Pascal Bauer	95.73	893	70
26	Gibson Moreira Praça	95.35	1,882	174
27	Robert Rein	95.34	5,728	219
28	Sergio Lorenzo Jiménez Sáiz	95.34	1,842	158
29	Fabian Wunderlich	95.21	798	67
30	Gabriel Anzer	95.15	369	10
31	Stacey Pope	95.03	929	41
32	Juan D. Moreno‐Ternero	95.00	1,278	98
33	Maurizio Valenti	94.89	344	17
34	Thilo Kunkel	94.85	2,078	70
35	George Papageorgiou	94.70	295	30
36	George B. Cunningham	94.62	7,364	234
37	Yixiong Cui	94.53	785	59
38	Rubén Maneiro	94.49	965	92
39	Wei‐Yao Wang	94.43	2,231	92
40	Matthias Kempe	94.41	786	45
41	Marco Beato	94.38	4,799	189
42	Sam Robertson	94.22	5,203	218
43	Rory Bunker	94.15	532	13
44	Joseph Baker	94.14	14,429	381
45	Brian P. Soebbing	94.12	1,147	89
46	Filipe Manuel Clemente	94.11	14,086	745
47	Henk Erik Meier	93.94	1,367	110
48	Carlos Lago‐Peñas	93.91	9,398	206
49	John Charles Bradbury	93.87	1,029	68
50	Carl Singleton	93.73	657	75