Scholarly Index
German Social Sciences and History
Lifetime World Top1000 Scholar ranking for German Social Sciences and History.
| World rank | Scholar | Impact score | Total citations | Total publications |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Niklas Luhmann | 99.73 | 16,174 | 355 |
| 2 | Richard Münch | 99.09 | 5,659 | 162 |
| 3 | Jürgen Habermas | 99.06 | 48,966 | 728 |
| 4 | Renate Mayntz | 99.04 | 7,666 | 305 |
| 5 | Hartmut Esser | 98.77 | 3,369 | 129 |
| 6 | Wolfgang J. Mommsen | 98.21 | 2,064 | 126 |
| 7 | Peter Weingart | 98.10 | 4,726 | 190 |
| 8 | Uwe Schimank | 97.92 | 2,555 | 124 |
| 9 | Jürgen Kocka | 97.88 | 2,537 | 377 |
| 10 | David Kettler | 97.83 | 9,675 | 204 |
| 11 | Gesa Lindemann | 97.82 | 792 | 63 |
| 12 | Ralf Dahrendorf | 97.60 | 5,930 | 221 |
| 13 | George Steinmetz | 97.54 | 4,953 | 130 |
| 14 | Rudolf Stichweh | 97.41 | 1,159 | 76 |
| 15 | Hubert Knoblauch | 97.13 | 3,580 | 164 |
| 16 | Talcott Parsons | 97.10 | 47,508 | 239 |
| 17 | Mitchell G. Ash | 97.03 | 1,359 | 134 |
| 18 | Geoffrey J. Giles | 96.97 | 1,613 | 132 |
| 19 | Michael Schmid | 96.67 | 32,825 | 767 |
| 20 | Ronald Hitzler | 96.66 | 3,378 | 113 |
| 21 | Gerhard Wagner | 96.60 | 7,821 | 291 |
| 22 | Jo Reichertz | 96.44 | 997 | 113 |
| 23 | Max Weber | 96.43 | 15,628 | 336 |
| 24 | Gernot Böhme | 96.39 | 2,316 | 166 |
| 25 | Harry Oosterhuis | 96.37 | 4,552 | 287 |
| 26 | Geoffrey Cocks | 96.26 | 1,351 | 106 |
| 27 | Thomas Uebel | 96.25 | 1,380 | 134 |
| 28 | Hans‐Peter Krüger | 96.00 | 1,924 | 147 |
| 29 | Bettina Heintz | 95.96 | 1,063 | 31 |
| 30 | Erich Fromm | 95.91 | 9,459 | 463 |
| 31 | Axel Honneth | 95.68 | 10,805 | 272 |
| 32 | Christian Fleck | 95.30 | 384 | 177 |
| 33 | Otto Neurath | 95.28 | 2,819 | 76 |
| 34 | Konrad H. Jarausch | 95.21 | 1,261 | 162 |
| 35 | Paul Weindling | 95.04 | 2,376 | 202 |
| 36 | Hans‐Peter Müller | 94.98 | 2,000 | 171 |
| 37 | Guenther Roth | 94.84 | 6,753 | 135 |
| 38 | Michael H. Kater | 94.76 | 1,055 | 172 |
| 39 | Martyn Hammersley | 94.73 | 15,675 | 292 |
| 40 | Albion W. Small | 94.55 | 468 | 161 |
| 41 | Dieter Hoffmann | 94.45 | 720 | 286 |
| 42 | Uta Gerhardt | 93.75 | 697 | 79 |
| 43 | Klaus Lichtblau | 93.44 | 234 | 34 |
| 44 | Stephan Moebius | 93.40 | 243 | 40 |
| 45 | Monika Wohlrab-Sahr | 93.11 | 1,227 | 66 |
| 46 | Gert Albert | 93.08 | 138 | 18 |
| 47 | Otthein Rammstedt | 92.94 | 285 | 72 |
| 48 | Hartmann Tyrell | 92.90 | 411 | 37 |
| 49 | Nico Stehr | 92.85 | 2,136 | 156 |
| 50 | Thomas Kurtz | 92.83 | 229 | 36 |