Scholarly Index

Human Rights and Development

Lifetime World Top1000 Scholar ranking for Human Rights and Development.

World rank	Scholar	Impact score	Total citations	Total publications
1	Lawrence O. Gostin	99.73	27,948	1,046
2	Thomas Pogge	99.64	10,583	223
3	Leslie London	99.63	10,108	333
4	Sakiko Fukuda‐Parr	99.51	5,372	84
5	Sally Engle Merry	99.49	10,221	180
6	Alicia Ely Yamin	99.45	3,238	175
7	David Hulme	99.43	13,645	317
8	Jack Donnelly	99.42	4,844	94
9	Philip Alston	99.36	4,001	130
10	Sofia Gruskin	99.27	4,800	199
11	Un. Secretary-General	99.20	8,072	904
12	Emilie M. Hafner‐Burton	99.18	8,597	131
13	Joyeeta Gupta	99.18	15,418	463
14	Benjamin Mason Meier	99.08	3,092	235
15	Elaine Unterhalter	99.07	3,827	207
16	Lisa Forman	98.93	2,419	139
17	Rebecca J. Cook	98.89	2,390	189
18	Des Gasper	98.79	3,913	176
19	Paul Hunt	98.69	2,111	104
20	Claude E. Welch	98.66	7,352	392
21	Audrey R. Chapman	98.55	2,197	76
22	John H. Knox	98.51	10,053	179
23	Andy Sumner	98.49	3,478	125
24	Gita Sen	98.34	5,176	103
25	Sam Hickey	98.28	3,724	76
26	Gorik Ooms	98.20	3,736	112
27	Laurence R. Helfer	98.17	4,568	134
28	James Thuo Gathii	98.07	1,359	159
29	Theodor Meron	98.00	3,789	110
30	David P. Forsythe	97.95	2,467	163
31	Beth A. Simmons	97.94	15,065	167
32	Hilary Charlesworth	97.94	2,237	120
33	S. James Anaya	97.92	771	53
34	Michael J. Dennis	97.87	10,024	295
35	Martha C. Nussbaum	97.83	25,872	594
36	David S. Weissbrodt	97.75	1,750	187
37	David M. Trubek	97.75	3,299	116
38	Dinah Shelton	97.74	2,377	161
39	Sandra Fredman	97.73	1,650	93
40	Louis J. Kotzé	97.73	2,269	102
41	Patrick Bond	97.61	3,253	260
42	Makau W. Mutua	97.59	1,434	78
43	Jackie Dugard	97.58	869	55
44	Malcolm Langford	97.57	1,373	103
45	John Tasioulas	97.49	2,478	78
46	Sandra Liebenberg	97.45	639	59
47	David P. Fidler	97.38	5,315	146
48	Naila Kabeer	97.34	16,901	187
49	Wade M. Cole	97.33	1,677	47
50	Mark Heywood	97.31	1,867	73