Scholarly Index

Language and cultural evolution

2021-2025 World Top1000 Scholar ranking for Language and cultural evolution.

World rank	Scholar	Impact score	Total citations	Total publications
1	Simon J. Greenhill	98.74	10,073	114
2	Inbal Arnon	97.19	3,826	83
3	Johann‐Mattis List	96.95	3,663	177
4	Balthasar Bickel	96.19	4,415	111
5	Morten H. Christiansen	96.11	19,183	269
6	Antonio Benítez‐Burraco	95.02	2,265	205
7	Michael C. Frank	94.45	14,902	342
8	Klaus Zuberbühler	94.34	20,977	348
9	Thomas L. Griffiths	94.21	43,234	488
10	Andrew Whiten	94.15	30,576	272
11	Sheina Lew‐Levy	94.06	1,938	76
12	Damián E. Blasí	94.04	3,923	51
13	Simon Kirby	93.92	11,059	354
14	Nicolas Baumard	93.77	3,563	120
15	Claudio Tennie	93.75	5,692	101
16	Tadahiro Taniguchi	93.71	2,455	244
17	Kenny Smith	93.36	11,473	359
18	Joseph Henrich	92.91	55,352	183
19	Cecilia Heyes	92.81	18,792	177
20	Alex Mesoudi	92.77	9,001	112
21	Alberto Acerbi	92.53	2,774	101
22	Marcus W. Feldman	92.38	54,658	595
23	Dietrich Stout	92.25	6,214	74
24	Felix Riede	91.95	3,383	261
25	Kim Sterelny	91.88	9,612	174
26	François Osiurak	91.82	3,920	199
27	Lucy M. Aplin	91.74	4,779	79
28	Thom Scott‐Phillips	91.11	622	30
29	Peter Gärdenfors	90.72	9,551	322
30	Karl Friston	90.57	284,569	1,426
31	Ze Hong	90.44	252	26
32	Matthias Urban	90.17	1,474	58
33	Manvir Singh	90.14	2,069	39
34	Adriano R. Lameira	90.07	2,198	54
35	Jennifer Culbertson	89.22	4,775	117
36	Martín Haspelmath	88.94	14,994	258
37	W. Tecumseh Fitch	88.90	22,708	257
38	Natalia Levshina	88.76	869	103
39	Shane Steinert‐Threlkeld	88.43	520	54
40	Russell D. Gray	88.21	19,445	215
41	Hyowon Gweon	88.13	3,706	103
42	Mathieu Charbonneau	87.48	662	64
43	Lindell Bromham	87.23	10,541	122
44	Bodo Winter	87.05	4,596	129
45	Andrea Ravignani	86.72	3,186	148
46	Matías Guzmán Naranjo	86.65	185	40
47	Søren Wichmann	86.59	4,219	166
48	Brendan T. Johns	86.25	1,493	69
49	Steven T. Piantadosi	86.07	8,814	127
50	Dan Dediu	84.87	3,084	139