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David Moher ranks first, out of 3,481 ranked researchers.

Composite score: field-normalised excellence, output and total citations weighted 50 / 30 / 20, each as a percentile so no single heavy-tailed measure dominates. Floor: 15 works, and an institution the snapshot can resolve.

The ranking

  1. 1 David Moher Canada · #1 worldwide 38k citations · 235 works
  2. 2 Pierre Bourdıeu France · #2 worldwide 10k citations · 235 works
  3. 3 Michel Foucault Poland · #5 worldwide 4.6k citations · 194 works
  4. 4 Noam Chomsky United States · #7 worldwide 3.7k citations · 239 works
  5. 5 Charles Tilly United States · #8 worldwide 3.7k citations · 238 works
  6. 6 Ronald C. Kessler United States · #14 worldwide 9.8k citations · 232 works
  7. 7 Norman K. Denzin United States · #16 worldwide 8.6k citations · 169 works
  8. 8 Michael E. Porter United States · #19 worldwide 4.7k citations · 226 works
  9. 9 Stanley Hoffmann United States · #21 worldwide 2.3k citations · 197 works
  10. 10 Sigmund Freud United States · #25 worldwide 2.7k citations · 174 works
  11. 11 Kenneth J. Arrow United States · #26 worldwide 5.4k citations · 176 works
  12. 12 Amartya Sen United States · #28 worldwide 4.9k citations · 190 works
  13. 13 Francis Fukuyama United States · #30 worldwide 4.1k citations · 158 works
  14. 14 William Diebold United States · #33 worldwide 3.8k citations · 208 works
  15. 15 Paúl Krugman United States · #35 worldwide 4.4k citations · 167 works
  16. 16 Robert J. Barro United States · #36 worldwide 7.9k citations · 165 works
  17. 17 Sander L. Gilman United States · #37 worldwide 4.2k citations · 154 works
  18. 18 Joseph E. Stiglitz United States · #43 worldwide 7.4k citations · 383 works
  19. 19 Bruno Latour France · #46 worldwide 2k citations · 198 works
  20. 20 Niklas Luhmann Germany · #53 worldwide 2.3k citations · 277 works
  21. 21 G. John Ikenberry United States · #57 worldwide 3k citations · 159 works
  22. 22 Juan Ramón De La Fuente Mexico · #61 worldwide 1.5k citations · 228 works
  23. 23 Josep María Haro Spain · #63 worldwide 6.4k citations · 180 works
  24. 24 M. Hashem Pesaran United States · #64 worldwide 9.1k citations · 161 works
  25. 25 Herbert A. Simon United States · #65 worldwide 4.2k citations · 188 works
  26. 26 Judith Butler United States · #70 worldwide 6.7k citations · 132 works
  27. 27 Gordon Tullock United States · #73 worldwide 3.2k citations · 169 works
  28. 28 Martin McKee United Kingdom · #78 worldwide 5.4k citations · 369 works
  29. 29 Jacques Derrida France · #82 worldwide 1.3k citations · 192 works
  30. 30 Émile Durkheim United States · #87 worldwide 2.5k citations · 135 works
  31. 31 Loïc Wacquant United States · #89 worldwide 3.1k citations · 153 works
  32. 32 Maarten J. Postma Netherlands · #90 worldwide 4.6k citations · 251 works
  33. 33 Paul A. Samuelson United States · #91 worldwide 3.6k citations · 170 works
  34. 34 Daron Acemoğlu United States · #106 worldwide 5.7k citations · 213 works
  35. 35 William J. Baumöl United States · #108 worldwide 3.6k citations · 187 works
  36. 36 Richard N. Cooper United States · #109 worldwide 2.7k citations · 185 works
  37. 37 Immanuel Wallerstein United States · #111 worldwide 1.7k citations · 232 works
  38. 38 Stuart Hall United Kingdom · #115 worldwide 1.9k citations · 137 works
  39. 39 Johan Galtung Norway · #119 worldwide 2.3k citations · 135 works
  40. 40 Fritz Stern United States · #126 worldwide 1.2k citations · 183 works
  41. 41 Richard Blundell United Kingdom · #129 worldwide 5.2k citations · 140 works
  42. 42 Wilmar B. Schaufeli Netherlands · #130 worldwide 5.3k citations · 157 works
  43. 43 Peter Burke United States · #136 worldwide 997 citations · 191 works
  44. 44 Richard M. Ryan United States · #153 worldwide 10k citations · 118 works
  45. 45 Anthony Giddens United States · #164 worldwide 4.9k citations · 114 works
  46. 46 Rosabeth Moss Kanter United States · #169 worldwide 2.6k citations · 132 works
  47. 47 Lawrence Freedman United Kingdom · #179 worldwide 1.2k citations · 214 works
  48. 48 Karl Marx Denmark · #180 worldwide 1.1k citations · 217 works
  49. 49 Lawrence H. Summers United States · #195 worldwide 3.9k citations · 125 works
  50. 50 Howard Gardner United States · #205 worldwide 3.7k citations · 123 works
  51. 51 Richard A. Posner United States · #212 worldwide 1.9k citations · 228 works
  52. 52 Manuel Castells United States · #259 worldwide 1.1k citations · 160 works
  53. 53 Martha C. Nussbaum United States · #279 worldwide 1.6k citations · 260 works
  54. 54 Arnold B. Bakker Netherlands · #293 worldwide 6k citations · 124 works
  55. 55 Eliot A. Cohen United States · #297 worldwide 1.1k citations · 147 works
  56. 56 Bryan S. Turner United States · #337 worldwide 1.9k citations · 273 works
  57. 57 Jeffrey A. Frankel United States · #341 worldwide 3.3k citations · 181 works
  58. 58 Linda Darling‐Hammond United States · #370 worldwide 2.4k citations · 137 works
  59. 59 Barry Buzan United Kingdom · #391 worldwide 1.6k citations · 116 works
  60. 60 Aaron Wíldavsky United States · #436 worldwide 1.7k citations · 137 works
  61. 61 Ben Bernanke United States · #440 worldwide 2.7k citations · 195 works
  62. 62 Richard Rorty United States · #462 worldwide 1.2k citations · 258 works
  63. 63 Allen N. Berger United States · #466 worldwide 3.4k citations · 133 works
  64. 64 Philippe Aghion France · #467 worldwide 3k citations · 139 works
  65. 65 N. Gregory Mankiw United States · #484 worldwide 2.2k citations · 153 works
  66. 66 René M. Stulz United States · #485 worldwide 4.4k citations · 112 works
  67. 67 James J. Heckman United States · #541 worldwide 3.3k citations · 175 works
  68. 68 Alberto Alesina United States · #549 worldwide 2.6k citations · 133 works
  69. 69 John C. Campbell United States · #555 worldwide 1.3k citations · 341 works
  70. 70 George Loewenstein United States · #577 worldwide 3.9k citations · 115 works
  71. 71 Zygmunt Bauman United Kingdom · #622 worldwide 827 citations · 145 works
  72. 72 Teun A. van Dijk Spain · #680 worldwide 2.5k citations · 107 works
  73. 73 Max Weber United Kingdom · #687 worldwide 960 citations · 119 works
  74. 74 Dani Rodrik United States · #698 worldwide 2.6k citations · 111 works
  75. 75 Richard E. Mayer United States · #706 worldwide 4.7k citations · 233 works
  76. 76 Fritz W. Scharpf Germany · #718 worldwide 1.3k citations · 128 works
  77. 77 Wil M. P. van der Aalst Netherlands · #736 worldwide 5.5k citations · 408 works
  78. 78 Theda Skocpol United States · #762 worldwide 1.4k citations · 114 works
  79. 79 Lucian W. Pye United States · #809 worldwide 1k citations · 121 works
  80. 80 Yogesh K. Dwivedi United Kingdom · #810 worldwide 3.2k citations · 172 works
  81. 81 Franco Ferrari United States · #827 worldwide 661 citations · 139 works
  82. 82 Gaddis Smith United States · #846 worldwide 886 citations · 130 works
  83. 83 Richard E. Petty United States · #851 worldwide 4.2k citations · 116 works
  84. 84 Dante Cicchetti United States · #892 worldwide 2.7k citations · 126 works
  85. 85 Immanuel Kant United States · #896 worldwide 718 citations · 185 works
  86. 86 Andrew J. Pierre United States · #944 worldwide 951 citations · 155 works
  87. 87 Olivier Blanchard United States · #979 worldwide 2.2k citations · 165 works
  88. 88 Jacquelynne S. Eccles United States · #982 worldwide 3.6k citations · 105 works
  89. 89 Greg J. Duncan United States · #1,034 worldwide 2.7k citations · 117 works
  90. 90 Kenneth Rogoff United States · #1,060 worldwide 2.1k citations · 106 works
  91. 91 Donald S. Zagoria United States · #1,072 worldwide 758 citations · 142 works
  92. 92 Edward L. Glaeser United States · #1,092 worldwide 3k citations · 124 works
  93. 93 Roman Jakobson United States · #1,107 worldwide 708 citations · 148 works
  94. 94 William B. Quandt United States · #1,126 worldwide 784 citations · 132 works
  95. 95 Donald S. Siegel United States · #1,182 worldwide 2.7k citations · 114 works
  96. 96 John B. Taylor United States · #1,269 worldwide 2.7k citations · 98 works
  97. 97 Harold D. Lasswell United States · #1,281 worldwide 819 citations · 164 works
  98. 98 Robert M. Solow United States · #1,301 worldwide 1.7k citations · 117 works
  99. 99 Richard Swedberg United States · #1,394 worldwide 1.4k citations · 107 works
  100. 100 David Hume Australia · #1,397 worldwide 1.9k citations · 378 works

authors from the 6,000 highest-output in Social Sciences, re-ranked on the composite score. Author identities come from OpenAlex disambiguation and inherit its errors: a merged record can put one name over two people’s work, and a split one can halve a career. Every row links out to the OpenAlex record so the underlying claim is checkable, and anything that looks wrong can be reported from the row. That report files a correction against the bibliographic record for a human to review — it is not a removal or delisting request, and no such route exists yet.

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