Scholarly Index

Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East

2021-2025 World Top1000 Scholar ranking for Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East.

World rank	Scholar	Impact score	Total citations	Total publications
1	Raj Verma	99.02	495	87
2	Zahid Shahab Ahmed	99.00	809	111
3	Niamatullah Ibrahimi	97.90	183	27
4	Sara de Jong	96.27	550	54
5	Sameen A. Mohsin Ali	96.22	173	16
6	Muhammad Makki	96.04	421	52
7	Tim Willasey-Wilsey	95.72	705	40
8	Shahram Akbarzadeh	95.54	1,235	144
9	Filippo Boni	95.42	200	31
10	Fayaz Gul Mazloum Yar	94.58	25	38
11	Najibullah Loodin	94.14	151	14
12	Sanaullah	93.86	69	14
13	Danish Khan	92.96	138	25
14	Syed Muhammad Saad Zaidi	92.91	55	16
15	Florian Weigand	92.62	304	16
16	Saroj Kumar Aryal	92.53	110	25
17	Mehmood Hussain	92.31	206	39
18	Mariam Mufti	91.98	133	15
19	Simant Shankar Bharti	91.76	98	35
20	Azeem Gul	91.40	345	36
21	Nemanja Džuverović	90.90	108	24
22	Rashid Manzoor Bhat	90.70	223	39
23	Šumit Ganguly	90.55	3,461	298
24	Sayed Qudrat Hashimy	89.59	60	70
25	Georgi Asatryan	89.53	342	82
26	Jack Paine	89.46	789	34
27	Sayeed Naqibullah Orfan	89.25	489	33
28	Asma Faiz	88.97	14	4
29	Michael Skjelderup	88.92	60	8
30	Shozab Raza	88.55	26	6
31	Megan Turnbull	88.54	83	12
32	Ahmed Bux Jamali	88.48	125	13
33	M. Fahim Khan	88.46	195	56
34	Kashif Hasan Khan	88.45	148	19
35	Syed Irfan Ashraf	88.43	163	28
36	Dylan O’Driscoll	87.80	408	65
37	Maria‐Louise Clausen	87.78	254	21
38	Alex Waterman	87.75	131	30
39	Fayaz Gul Mazloum Yar	87.02	40	50
40	Muhammad Jahanzaib	86.88	52	30
41	Ali Balcı	86.82	443	119
42	Chetna Sharma	86.79	234	23
43	Julien Lévesque	86.74	56	16
44	Joshua Akintayo	86.65	46	12
45	Muhammad Muzaffar	86.64	9,754	54
46	Mukesh Shankar Bharti	86.57	141	33
47	Mohsen Solhdoost	86.50	15	5
48	Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili	86.36	1,076	63
49	Zahoor Ahmad Wani	86.20	14	9
50	Ejaz Hussain	86.19	336	28