Scholarly Index

Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices

2021-2025 World Top1000 Scholar ranking for Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices.

World rank	Scholar	Impact score	Total citations	Total publications
1	Julian Strube	98.74	171	27
2	Alexander Moreira‐Almeida	96.40	5,446	150
3	Bhikkhu Anālayo	93.72	1,146	124
4	Renaud Évrard	92.73	588	165
5	Hemopereki Simon	91.99	68	17
6	Júlia Gyimesi	90.14	103	14
7	Pascal Michael	89.55	122	16
8	William G. Pooley	89.12	245	45
9	Nikolay N. Podosokorsky	88.97	87	42
10	Massimo Introvigne	88.75	414	100
11	Venariy A. Burnakov	88.59	44	47
12	Galen Watts	88.08	714	81
13	Dennis Ioffe	88.02	105	88
14	Christine Ferguson	87.93	295	81
15	Kocku von Stuckrad	87.51	661	152
16	Nicole Bauer	87.39	347	36
17	Michelle Pfeffer	86.68	15	11
18	Peter Harrison	86.58	2,668	163
19	Michael Winkelman	85.49	3,889	134
20	Khegan M. Delport	84.77	17	31
21	Oliver Robinson	84.69	5,214	76
22	Eunyoung Kim	84.23	1,247	355
23	Lukáš Pokorný	84.03	43	143
24	Andrew Ter Ern Loke	83.81	192	53
25	Katie E. Corcoran	83.50	1,222	76
26	Dave Vliegenthart	82.72	26	13
27	Matteo Di Placido	81.84	114	27
28	Christopher P. Scheitle	81.04	3,165	129
29	Andrey Beskov	81.02	15	13
30	Yaël Dansac	80.71	22	20
31	Alessandro Testa	79.88	156	35
32	Charlotte Martial	79.08	3,902	173
33	Michael Nahm	78.83	1,199	79
34	O. N. Polyanskaya	78.29	9	26
35	Michael Stausberg	77.79	605	120
36	Sára Eszter Heidl	77.42	7	6
37	Alexander Panchenko	77.10	48	26
38	David Luke	76.82	1,305	81
39	Shai Feraro	76.73	45	13
40	Eva Toulouze	76.48	80	94
41	Dean Radin	76.07	2,196	121
42	Eugenia Roussou	75.51	50	18
43	Viola Teisenhoffer	75.02	31	8
44	Silvia Rivadossi	74.48	11	14
45	Alister E. McGrath	72.93	1,343	140
46	Bernd‐Christian Otto	72.75	102	25
47	Nomin D. Tsyrenova	72.27	12	12
48	Robert A. King	71.87	151	23
49	Terhi Utriainen	71.49	204	59
50	Ranus Sadikov	71.46	22	32