Scholarly Index

German legal, social, and political studies

Lifetime World Top1000 Scholar ranking for German legal, social, and political studies.

World rank	Scholar	Impact score	Total citations	Total publications
1	Ruth Wodak	99.90	15,732	417
2	Cas Mudde	99.69	15,154	218
3	Michael Minkenberg	99.26	2,570	67
4	Oliver Decker	99.02	7,246	102
5	Andreas Zick	98.90	3,602	242
6	Dieter Rucht	98.89	5,383	132
7	Dirk Baier	98.76	2,967	257
8	Hanspeter Kriesi	98.61	11,399	158
9	Albert Scherr	98.49	1,078	120
10	Birgit Sauer	98.47	1,082	101
11	Hans‐Georg Betz	98.33	2,592	55
12	Frank Decker	98.15	1,038	110
13	Helmut Willems	97.89	627	317
14	Elmar Brähler	97.61	51,918	1,172
15	Jens Rydgren	97.50	5,292	83
16	Arnd‐Michael Nohl	97.40	921	65
17	Werner Bergmann	97.40	2,997	160
18	Lars Rensmann	97.30	505	67
19	Astrid Messerschmidt	97.20	313	58
20	Hans Thiersch	97.19	934	104
21	Beate Küpper	97.10	1,196	90
22	Kai Arzheimer	97.09	3,433	53
23	Eckhard Jesse	97.06	620	181
24	Susanne Rippl	96.97	830	39
25	Gert Pickel	96.94	1,307	79
26	Jürgen Habermas	96.77	48,966	728
27	Sabine Andresen	96.77	1,211	107
28	Jo Reichertz	96.61	997	113
29	Wolfgang Edelstein	96.37	1,540	324
30	Manuela Caiani	96.15	1,422	79
31	Manès Weisskircher	96.14	822	42
32	Daniele Albertazzi	96.06	1,276	56
33	Gertrud Nunner‐Winkler	95.99	1,509	143
34	Samuel Salzborn	95.99	262	45
35	Uwe Backes	95.86	381	55
36	Reinhard Heinisch	95.77	1,121	125
37	Oskar Niedermayer	95.69	932	82
38	Karl-Heinz Reuband	95.58	588	121
39	Simón Bornschier	95.53	2,994	45
40	Gabriele Dietze	95.53	256	32
41	Jürgen Budde	95.41	472	73
42	Joseph W. Bendersky	95.39	1,073	56
43	Andrei S. Markovits	95.35	1,123	147
44	Christian Pfeiffer	95.31	877	94
45	Heiko Beyer	95.22	277	32
46	Farid Hafez	95.19	690	80
47	Georg Weißeno	95.15	401	65
48	Marc Debus	95.14	3,466	121
49	Wilhelm Kempf	95.14	615	224
50	Sven Reichardt	94.98	299	88