Google Scholar is a valuable bibliographic resource, and is often used for ranking researchers, institutions or journals, based on the number of publications, of citations, or the h-index. However, these numbers are not always easy to interpret, and especially to compare from a domain to another. This list starts as an attempt to answer the questions: who are the most cited researchers (with a Scholar page) on a given topic, and how often are they cited? |
- Michel Foucault - 666k (history of ideas, epistemology, ethics, political, philosophy)
- Pierre Bourdieu - 486k (sociology)
- Sigmund Freud - 453k (Neurology, Psychology, Psychopathology)
- Noam Chomsky - 299k (Linguistic Theory, Syntax, Semantics, Philosophy of Language)
- Bert Vogelstein - 293k (cancer, biology) [h-index=226]
- Herbert Simon - 279k (Artificial intelligence, Cognitive psychology, Bounded rationality)
- Eric Lander - 278k (Biology, Genomics, Genetics, Bioinformatics, Mathematics) [h-index=220]
- Ulrich K. Laemmli - 259k (biochemistry, molecular biology)
- Daniel Kahneman - 255k (decision theory, behavioral economics, with A. Tversky)
- Douglas G Altman - 252k (biostatistics, statistics)
- Karl Marx - 241k (Economics History Marxism Philosophy Sociology)
- Oliver H. Lowry - 228k (biochemistry)
- Robert Tibshirani - 227k (statistics)
- Amos Tversky - 212k (decision theory, behavioral economics, with D. Kahneman)
- Max Weber - 214k (sociology, economics, history, law, politics)
- Jacques Derrida - 207k (philosophy deconstruction)
- Robert Langer - 205k (drug delivery tissue engineering biomaterials nanotechnology chemistry)
- Erving Goffman - 202k (sociology, symbolic interaction)
- Kenneth Kinzler - 193k (cancer, genetics, genomics)
- Michael Graetzel - estimated at above 181k (chemistry, solar cells)
- Donald B Rubin - 198k (Statistics, Economics, Psychology, Biostatistics, Epidemiology)
- Edward Witten - 175k (String theory M-theory Quantum gravity Quantum field theory Supersymmetry)
- Robert A. Weinberg - 176k (Cancer Biology Cell Biology Genetics)
- Vladimir Vapnik - 171k (machine learning, statistics, computer science)
- Matthias Mann - 166k (Proteomics, Systems biology, Metabolic diseases, Cancer, Signal Transduction)
- Lotfi A. Zadeh - 147k (Fuzzy Logic, Soft Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Human-Level Machine Intelligence)
- Karl Friston - 140k (Neuroscience)
- Edward L. Deci - 134k (motivation, self-determination theory, psychology)
- Yiguo Zhang - 142k (cell biology gene regulation transcription factors live-cell imaging)
- Guido Kroemer - 130k (apoptosis cancer research cell biology molecular biology immunology)
- Alan Baddeley - 129k (Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Memory, Working memory)
- Anil K. Jain - 126k (Biometrics, Computer vision, Pattern recognition, Machine learning, Image processing)
- Richard Frackowiak - 122k ("Human brain structure and function")
- Trevor Hastie - 110k (Statistical learning and modeling, data mining, machine learning)
- Geoffrey Hinton - 108k (machine learning, neural networks, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, object recognition)
- George Lakoff - 110k (Linguistics, Cognitive Science, Politics, Law Psychology)
- Robert Merton - 108k (sociology, anomie, criminology)
- Émile Durkheim - 106k sociology philosophy anthropology religion)
- Theodor Adorno - 105k (sociology)
- Talcott Parsons - 103k (sociology)
- John Rawls - 115k (philosophy political philosophy justice)
- Mark P. Mattson - 105k (Neuroscience, aging, Alzheimer's disease)
- George P. Chrousos (biochemistry) - 103k
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