Scholarly Index

Digital and Cyber Forensics

2021-2025 World Top1000 Scholar ranking for Digital and Cyber Forensics.

World rank	Scholar	Impact score	Total citations	Total publications
1	Kim‐Kwang Raymond Choo	99.08	60,031	1,150
2	Arafat Al-Dhaqm	98.57	1,756	59
3	Victor R. Kebande	97.94	1,972	79
4	Farhan Ullah	97.51	2,878	159
5	Frank Breitinger	97.27	2,512	92
6	William J. Buchanan	96.78	8,208	449
7	Farkhund Iqbal	96.54	3,820	158
8	Imam Riadi	96.52	2,605	485
9	Graeme Horsman	96.32	1,153	100
10	Ümit Karabiyik	96.24	693	67
11	Mark Scanlon	95.99	1,333	82
12	Abdullah Ayub Khan	95.83	3,204	126
13	Hein S. Venter	95.40	2,965	186
14	Richard A. Ikuesan	95.03	1,201	68
15	Ibrahim Baggili	94.95	2,576	104
16	Alex Akinbi	94.76	434	15
17	Nhien‐An Le‐Khac	94.51	3,133	146
18	Simon Davies	94.45	156	17
19	Sangjin Lee	94.36	1,765	410
20	Francesco Mercaldo	94.33	6,568	325
21	Radina Stoykova	94.25	214	17
22	Khairul Akram Zainol Ariffin	94.05	1,348	51
23	Ishu Sharma	94.04	673	110
24	Taeshik Shon	93.97	3,111	242
25	Hudan Studiawan	93.63	718	114
26	Ömer Aslan	93.54	2,040	29
27	Mauro Conti	93.41	24,309	628
28	Arash Habibi Lashkari	93.06	10,738	124
29	Nina Sunde	92.87	266	18
30	Saed Alrabaee	92.78	1,485	77
31	Claude Roux	92.78	13,966	423
32	Davide Balzarotti	92.63	6,713	129
33	Christopher Hargreaves	91.75	431	30
34	Anton Yudhana	91.69	2,227	355
35	Rusydi Umar	91.64	1,459	203
36	İlker Kara	91.41	440	45
37	Yafei Song	91.12	3,051	169
38	Fahad Alotaibi	90.54	1,269	68
39	Áine MacDermott	90.40	750	44
40	Sandeep K. Shukla	90.27	4,717	364
41	Cihan Varol	90.23	521	96
42	Jacques Klein	89.81	8,849	232
43	Felix Freiling	89.70	4,791	220
44	Zeno Geradts	89.37	1,268	98
45	Mohammad Meraj Mirza	89.22	208	22
46	Tohari Ahmad	89.16	2,350	318
47	Ricardo J. Rodríguez	89.11	1,516	157
48	Rachana Patil	89.00	416	79
49	Richard Macfarlane	88.56	353	32
50	Harald Baier	88.56	843	76