Scholarly Index

Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices

Lifetime World Top1000 Scholar ranking for Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices.

World rank	Scholar	Impact score	Total citations	Total publications
1	James R. Lewis	99.70	15,026	290
2	Thomas Robbins	99.60	5,754	171
3	Ralph W. Hood	99.48	12,293	226
4	James T. Richardson	99.42	9,880	356
5	Harvey J. Irwin	99.26	3,193	118
6	Murray B. Stein	99.18	129,848	1,066
7	Michael Winkelman	99.12	3,889	134
8	Robert C. Fuller	99.09	6,351	248
9	G. Quispel	98.99	8,473	254
10	Jerome Tobacyk	98.86	2,181	93
11	Benjamin Beit‐Hallahmi	98.79	3,195	138
12	Rodney Stark	98.74	20,411	182
13	Robert A. Segal	98.64	1,693	309
14	James A. Beckford	98.58	2,442	147
15	Wouter J. Hanegraaff	98.52	1,276	105
16	William H. Swatos	98.51	2,875	138
17	Hugh B. Urban	98.46	848	84
18	Ronald Hutton	98.44	1,858	229
19	Eileen Barker	98.43	2,127	154
20	Mircéa Éliade	98.40	3,259	217
21	Carlos S. Alvarado	98.38	1,712	163
22	Robert Wuthnow	98.29	7,543	186
23	Joseph O. Baker	98.00	2,919	89
24	Wade Clark Roof	97.97	5,944	158
25	William Sims Bainbridge	97.70	5,738	184
26	Egil Asprem	97.69	681	59
27	Åke Hultkrantz	97.67	1,115	134
28	James Houran	97.62	3,486	162
29	T. M. Luhrmann	97.56	3,902	134
30	David Robertson	97.52	2,520	209
31	Ann Taves	97.51	1,372	107
32	Michael A. Thalbourne	97.46	1,907	118
33	James V. Spickard	97.43	7,150	128
34	Donald Capps	97.39	2,405	192
35	Stanley Krippner	97.34	2,668	319
36	Marion Bowman	97.32	416	48
37	Robert S. Ellwood	97.29	914	112
38	Raymond L. M. Lee	97.20	1,011	76
39	J. Gordon Melton	97.13	732	43
40	Christine Ferguson	97.07	295	81
41	Don Handelman	96.94	2,144	85
42	Kathryn Rountree	96.92	465	35
43	Daniel A. Helminiak	96.90	691	51
44	Michael Daniels	96.88	2,254	93
45	Ian Reader	96.86	954	152
46	John Hedley Brooke	96.79	559	134
47	David Frankfurter	96.79	1,094	94
48	David Lester	96.73	37,902	2,466
49	Douglas Ezzy	96.72	2,258	114
50	David Martin	96.69	5,739	461