Scholarly Index

Optimism, Hope, and Well-being

Lifetime World Top1000 Scholar ranking for Optimism, Hope, and Well-being.

World rank	Scholar	Impact score	Total citations	Total publications
1	Martin E. P. Seligman	99.87	104,527	339
2	Charles S. Carver	99.87	121,712	403
3	Andrew Steptoe	99.79	109,695	1,292
4	Shelley E. Taylor	99.73	75,084	301
5	Sheldon Cohen	99.63	125,527	372
6	Carol D. Ryff	99.63	68,939	288
7	Ed Diener	99.61	58,737	194
8	Ed Diener	99.55	86,880	220
9	Todd B. Kashdan	99.53	33,003	253
10	Neal Krause	99.52	26,530	384
11	Laura D. Kubzansky	99.52	35,262	492
12	Fred Luthans	99.51	57,675	270
13	Michael F. Scheier	99.50	75,101	152
14	Roy F. Baumeister	99.44	162,428	676
15	Crystal L. Park	99.40	31,764	461
16	E. Scott Huebner	99.38	25,543	323
17	Barbara L. Fredrickson	99.37	86,675	262
18	Adrian Furnham	99.37	81,702	1,487
19	Sonja Lyubomirsky	99.27	47,099	173
20	C. R. Snyder	99.27	37,082	195
21	Gregory E. Miller	99.27	41,790	367
22	George A. Bonanno	99.25	46,865	326
23	Shigehiro Oishi	99.23	42,488	235
24	Stephen Joseph	99.21	36,757	390
25	Ralf Schwarzer	99.17	37,354	455
26	Michael H. Antoni	99.11	27,677	517
27	Richard E. Lucas	99.05	50,077	210
28	Jane Wardle	99.02	85,201	764
29	Karen A. Matthews	98.95	64,482	766
30	Neil D. Weinstein	98.91	29,228	105
31	Christopher Peterson	98.89	25,022	241
32	Gian Vittorio Caprara	98.85	36,011	332
33	Vicki S. Helgeson	98.83	22,367	211
34	Dilip V. Jeste	98.79	58,004	876
35	Alex Zautra	98.72	17,773	236
36	Brent W. Roberts	98.67	47,618	265
37	Willibald Ruch	98.66	18,002	338
38	Kennon M. Sheldon	98.66	46,341	232
39	Lauren B. Alloy	98.64	36,964	480
40	William M. P. Klein	98.60	16,682	299
41	David Lester	98.59	37,902	2,466
42	Laurence Steinberg	98.59	88,126	472
43	Frederick X. Gibbons	98.56	31,736	305
44	Howard Tennen	98.52	26,598	413
45	Michael F. Steger	98.51	24,283	177
46	Jeff Greenberg	98.51	30,956	259
47	Edward C. Chang	98.47	10,726	274
48	Laura A. King	98.45	17,774	161
49	Howard S. Frıedman	98.41	17,357	325
50	Annette L. Stanton	98.40	21,952	290