Scholarly Index

Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies

Lifetime World Top1000 Scholar ranking for Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies.

World rank	Scholar	Impact score	Total citations	Total publications
1	Alan Dundes	99.80	4,128	168
2	Gary Alan Fine	99.64	19,961	675
3	Roger D. Abrahams	99.48	3,033	155
4	Jack Zipes	99.40	2,145	255
5	Richard Bauman	99.37	9,044	100
6	Elliott Oring	99.30	1,882	83
7	Richard M. Dorson	99.24	1,464	242
8	Ronald Hutton	99.18	1,858	229
9	Ray B. Browne	99.05	2,485	452
10	Maria Nikolajeva	98.99	1,231	108
11	William Bascom	98.97	2,647	99
12	Stith Thompson	98.87	1,959	91
13	Ruth B. Bottigheimer	98.84	2,899	104
14	Perry Nodelman	98.77	892	224
15	William A. Wilson	98.73	2,656	130
16	Simon J. Bronner	98.71	847	202
17	Timothy R. Tangherlini	98.69	1,329	92
18	Carl Lindahl	98.66	895	111
19	Regina Bendix	98.64	1,665	125
20	Wolfgang Mieder	98.50	1,338	164
21	Jacqueline Simpson	98.47	570	150
22	John Miles Foley	98.44	6,677	199
23	Jack Zipes	98.42	1,316	80
24	Bertrand Harris Bronson	98.40	786	105
25	Archer Taylor	98.38	1,085	369
26	Bill Ellis	98.38	1,373	65
27	Jan Harold Brunvand	98.32	1,054	95
28	Dan Ben‐Amos	98.28	978	134
29	Maria Tatar	98.24	907	60
30	John Stephens	98.17	9,296	200
31	Bruno Nettl	98.06	3,702	280
32	Gerald Porter	98.05	662	82
33	Lauri Honko	97.94	753	60
34	Donald Haase	97.91	394	44
35	Lee Haring	97.88	949	91
36	Kathryn Rountree	97.85	465	35
37	Karl Spracklen	97.84	1,721	105
38	Janet B. Croft	97.83	36,551	439
39	Simon Horobin	97.76	412	60
40	Kenneth B. Kidd	97.74	791	48
41	Michael Owen Jones	97.70	1,619	84
42	Felix J. Oinas	97.67	599	110
43	Adrienne L. Kaeppler	97.65	1,026	103
44	Brian Sutton‐Smith	97.61	6,167	159
45	Alan Lomax	97.56	6,095	712
46	W. F. H. Nicolaisen	97.50	529	112
47	Linda Dégh	97.49	363	58
48	Juliette Wood	97.48	384	77
49	Michael P. Carroll	97.44	1,401	119
50	Thomas A. DuBois	97.44	444	96