Scholarly Index
History and Theory of Mathematics
Lifetime World Top1000 Scholar ranking for History and Theory of Mathematics.
| World rank | Scholar | Impact score | Total citations | Total publications |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | P. Erdös | 99.90 | 21,900 | 440 |
| 2 | G. H. Hardy | 99.80 | 14,743 | 318 |
| 3 | J. E. Littlewood | 99.68 | 10,608 | 166 |
| 4 | D. R. Heath‐Brown | 99.58 | 6,294 | 156 |
| 5 | H. Davenport | 99.51 | 7,713 | 270 |
| 6 | Keith Weber | 99.47 | 5,927 | 176 |
| 7 | David Tall | 99.42 | 7,976 | 176 |
| 8 | George E. Andrews | 99.35 | 10,486 | 364 |
| 9 | H. S. M. Coxeter | 99.34 | 9,730 | 224 |
| 10 | David Hilbert | 99.32 | 9,452 | 114 |
| 11 | D. H. Lehmer | 99.27 | 4,601 | 159 |
| 12 | Paul Erdős | 99.27 | 14,141 | 568 |
| 13 | L. Carlitz | 99.18 | 9,688 | 731 |
| 14 | Carl Ludwig Siegel | 99.17 | 3,957 | 72 |
| 15 | Solomon Feferman | 99.14 | 7,529 | 136 |
| 16 | Georg Pólya | 99.05 | 6,515 | 100 |
| 17 | Helmut Hasse | 98.96 | 2,619 | 118 |
| 18 | C. Hooley | 98.94 | 3,066 | 156 |
| 19 | J. W. S. Cassels | 98.85 | 4,826 | 138 |
| 20 | Henryk Iwaniec | 98.72 | 6,298 | 119 |
| 21 | Gregory Moore | 98.68 | 12,390 | 158 |
| 22 | Carl Pomerance | 98.67 | 4,725 | 205 |
| 23 | Hermann Weyl | 98.64 | 8,712 | 117 |
| 24 | L. E. Dickson | 98.58 | 4,200 | 340 |
| 25 | R. C. Vaughan | 98.57 | 3,847 | 137 |
| 26 | B. L. van der Waerden | 98.53 | 3,771 | 186 |
| 27 | Andrew Granville | 98.51 | 2,971 | 140 |
| 28 | G. N. Watson | 98.32 | 17,613 | 99 |
| 29 | E. C. Titchmarsh | 98.31 | 2,307 | 155 |
| 30 | I. Grattan‐Guinness | 98.28 | 2,116 | 303 |
| 31 | Hans Hahn | 98.22 | 2,601 | 228 |
| 32 | P. Túrán | 98.21 | 5,537 | 103 |
| 33 | G. Kreisel | 98.20 | 2,836 | 86 |
| 34 | Stewart Shapiro | 98.16 | 5,176 | 180 |
| 35 | L. J. Mordell | 98.15 | 1,866 | 232 |
| 36 | Edmund Landau | 98.13 | 2,663 | 137 |
| 37 | Vladimir I. Arnold | 98.07 | 12,457 | 204 |
| 38 | Michaël Friedman | 97.96 | 5,816 | 237 |
| 39 | Wacław Sierpiński | 97.92 | 2,695 | 361 |
| 40 | George D. Birkhoff | 97.88 | 6,513 | 131 |
| 41 | Gian‐Carlo Rota | 97.85 | 29,516 | 585 |
| 42 | Tom M. Apostol | 97.84 | 3,120 | 154 |
| 43 | Florian Cajori | 97.84 | 1,642 | 364 |
| 44 | Abraham A. Ungar | 97.82 | 1,957 | 111 |
| 45 | Bruce C. Berndt | 97.81 | 5,191 | 267 |
| 46 | Henri Poincaré | 97.78 | 2,255 | 132 |
| 47 | Hans Freudenthal | 97.73 | 3,801 | 241 |
| 48 | Oskar Perron | 97.68 | 3,369 | 113 |
| 49 | Hans Petersson | 97.63 | 3,424 | 187 |
| 50 | Pietro Mancosu | 97.61 | 6,625 | 425 |