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Top Arts and Humanities Researchers

Michel Foucault ranks first, out of 4,424 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 Michel Foucault Poland · #5 worldwide 4.6k citations · 194 works
  2. 2 Noam Chomsky United States · #7 worldwide 3.7k citations · 239 works
  3. 3 Charles Tilly United States · #8 worldwide 3.7k citations · 238 works
  4. 4 Stanley Hoffmann United States · #21 worldwide 2.3k citations · 197 works
  5. 5 Sigmund Freud United States · #25 worldwide 2.7k citations · 174 works
  6. 6 Sander L. Gilman United States · #37 worldwide 4.2k citations · 154 works
  7. 7 Jacques Derrida France · #82 worldwide 1.3k citations · 192 works
  8. 8 Stuart Hall United Kingdom · #115 worldwide 1.9k citations · 137 works
  9. 9 Fritz Stern United States · #126 worldwide 1.2k citations · 183 works
  10. 10 Peter Burke United States · #136 worldwide 997 citations · 191 works
  11. 11 Gilles Deleuze France · #166 worldwide 4.6k citations · 114 works
  12. 12 Karl Marx Denmark · #180 worldwide 1.1k citations · 217 works
  13. 13 Martha C. Nussbaum United States · #279 worldwide 1.6k citations · 260 works
  14. 14 Bryan S. Turner United States · #337 worldwide 1.9k citations · 273 works
  15. 15 Richard Rorty United States · #462 worldwide 1.2k citations · 258 works
  16. 16 Teun A. van Dijk Spain · #680 worldwide 2.5k citations · 107 works
  17. 17 Walter Benjamín France · #726 worldwide 1.3k citations · 106 works
  18. 18 Fredric Jameson United States · #782 worldwide 1.4k citations · 99 works
  19. 19 Ian Hacking Canada · #791 worldwide 1.3k citations · 118 works
  20. 20 Franco Ferrari United States · #827 worldwide 661 citations · 139 works
  21. 21 Immanuel Kant United States · #896 worldwide 718 citations · 185 works
  22. 22 Roman Jakobson United States · #1,107 worldwide 708 citations · 148 works
  23. 23 J. G. A. Pocock United States · #1,156 worldwide 810 citations · 101 works
  24. 24 Ken Hyland United Kingdom · #1,163 worldwide 1.7k citations · 101 works
  25. 25 David Hume Australia · #1,397 worldwide 1.9k citations · 378 works
  26. 26 Tzvetan Todorov France · #1,447 worldwide 666 citations · 98 works
  27. 27 David William Foster United Kingdom · #1,486 worldwide 474 citations · 132 works
  28. 28 Alasdair MacIntyre United States · #1,605 worldwide 844 citations · 102 works
  29. 29 Geoffrey Leech United Kingdom · #1,726 worldwide 1.8k citations · 80 works
  30. 30 Richard Schechner United States · #1,792 worldwide 537 citations · 114 works
  31. 31 Umberto Eco Italy · #1,841 worldwide 462 citations · 145 works
  32. 32 Claude Lévi‐Strauss France · #1,861 worldwide 460 citations · 136 works
  33. 33 Adam Roberts United Kingdom · #1,894 worldwide 640 citations · 103 works
  34. 34 Charles Darwin Indonesia · #1,923 worldwide 1.3k citations · 188 works
  35. 35 Roland Barthes Indonesia · #1,998 worldwide 739 citations · 84 works
  36. 36 John R. Searle United States · #2,126 worldwide 1.1k citations · 131 works
  37. 37 Martín Haspelmath Germany · #2,398 worldwide 900 citations · 88 works
  38. 38 John Locke United States · #2,559 worldwide 1.3k citations · 285 works
  39. 39 Richard H. Popkin United States · #2,754 worldwide 484 citations · 97 works
  40. 40 Janet B. Croft United States · #2,884 worldwide 891 citations · 99 works
  41. 41 Donald Davidson United States · #2,897 worldwide 1.1k citations · 74 works
  42. 42 James A. Brundage United States · #2,930 worldwide 361 citations · 99 works
  43. 43 Joan Wallach Scott United States · #3,074 worldwide 643 citations · 76 works
  44. 44 Rod Ellis New Zealand · #3,086 worldwide 1.8k citations · 70 works
  45. 45 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Spain · #3,241 worldwide 445 citations · 82 works
  46. 46 Richard Swinburne United Kingdom · #3,310 worldwide 505 citations · 96 works
  47. 47 Quentin Skinner United Kingdom · #3,351 worldwide 498 citations · 88 works
  48. 48 A. L. Kroeber United States · #3,778 worldwide 689 citations · 116 works
  49. 49 Max Black United States · #3,988 worldwide 647 citations · 73 works
  50. 50 Philip Kitcher United States · #4,131 worldwide 699 citations · 103 works
  51. 51 Jacques Brès Estonia · #4,249 worldwide 406 citations · 78 works
  52. 52 W. F. Albright United States · #4,325 worldwide 560 citations · 195 works
  53. 53 Rudolf Arnheim United States · #4,386 worldwide 489 citations · 145 works
  54. 54 Octavio Paz Spain · #5,010 worldwide 287 citations · 87 works
  55. 55 J. A. Emerton United States · #5,198 worldwide 285 citations · 99 works
  56. 56 Jerome McGann United States · #5,591 worldwide 407 citations · 73 works
  57. 57 Jürgen Osterhammel Germany · #5,719 worldwide 286 citations · 125 works
  58. 58 Israel Finkelstein Israel · #5,842 worldwide 403 citations · 98 works
  59. 59 Ruth Finnegan United Kingdom · #6,240 worldwide 482 citations · 68 works
  60. 60 Natalie Zemon Davis Canada · #6,504 worldwide 320 citations · 76 works
  61. 61 Jacques Godechot France · #6,735 worldwide 243 citations · 172 works
  62. 62 Franz Rosenthal United States · #6,963 worldwide 292 citations · 77 works
  63. 63 David Crystal United Kingdom · #7,015 worldwide 765 citations · 127 works
  64. 64 Alan Dundes United States · #7,134 worldwide 351 citations · 71 works
  65. 65 Theodor W. Adorno Colombia · #7,258 worldwide 341 citations · 170 works
  66. 66 Andrew M. Greeley United States · #7,322 worldwide 501 citations · 149 works
  67. 67 Mark D. Griffiths United Kingdom · #7,344 worldwide 3.3k citations · 412 works
  68. 68 Arthur O. Lovejoy United States · #7,547 worldwide 404 citations · 63 works
  69. 69 Friedrich Engels Brazil · #7,554 worldwide 285 citations · 145 works
  70. 70 Caroline Walker Bynum United States · #7,666 worldwide 566 citations · 56 works
  71. 71 T. D. Barnes Canada · #7,704 worldwide 344 citations · 64 works
  72. 72 Paul Oskar Kristeller United States · #7,727 worldwide 288 citations · 74 works
  73. 73 Jacques Le Goff France · #7,793 worldwide 218 citations · 169 works
  74. 74 Ernst Cassirer Mexico · #7,828 worldwide 345 citations · 69 works
  75. 75 Philippe Walter France · #7,954 worldwide 554 citations · 122 works
  76. 76 Alan H. Gardiner Germany · #7,961 worldwide 371 citations · 68 works
  77. 77 René Girard United States · #8,038 worldwide 296 citations · 69 works
  78. 78 R. N. Swanson United Kingdom · #8,054 worldwide 314 citations · 73 works
  79. 79 Rosamond McKitterick United Kingdom · #8,109 worldwide 287 citations · 68 works
  80. 80 Hilary Putnam United States · #8,127 worldwide 688 citations · 123 works
  81. 81 David Crouch United Kingdom · #8,209 worldwide 389 citations · 103 works
  82. 82 Robert M. Grant United States · #8,225 worldwide 784 citations · 185 works
  83. 83 Erich S. Gruen United States · #8,326 worldwide 276 citations · 71 works
  84. 84 Kenneth Muir United Kingdom · #8,574 worldwide 636 citations · 126 works
  85. 85 Arnaldo Momigliano United Kingdom · #8,771 worldwide 281 citations · 66 works
  86. 86 Eleonore Stump United States · #8,808 worldwide 299 citations · 69 works
  87. 87 Jean‐Marc Dewaele United Kingdom · #8,883 worldwide 1k citations · 113 works
  88. 88 Fergus Millar United Kingdom · #8,969 worldwide 306 citations · 63 works
  89. 89 Hans‐Georg Gadamer Germany · #9,009 worldwide 283 citations · 68 works
  90. 90 Joseph R. Strayer United States · #9,288 worldwide 282 citations · 63 works
  91. 91 Richard N. Frye United States · #9,449 worldwide 296 citations · 65 works
  92. 92 Bernhard Dotzler United States · #9,644 worldwide 247 citations · 172 works
  93. 93 Gary Hatfield United States · #9,729 worldwide 523 citations · 55 works
  94. 94 Erwin Panofsky Nigeria · #9,784 worldwide 226 citations · 71 works
  95. 95 Anthony Grafton United States · #9,960 worldwide 225 citations · 89 works
  96. 96 Elliot W. Eisner United States · #10,043 worldwide 565 citations · 116 works
  97. 97 Howard Giles United States · #10,091 worldwide 1.6k citations · 138 works
  98. 98 Colin Renfrew United Kingdom · #10,298 worldwide 550 citations · 91 works
  99. 99 Terry Eagleton United Kingdom · #10,346 worldwide 303 citations · 144 works
  100. 100 Elisabeth Bronfen Switzerland · #10,685 worldwide 268 citations · 146 works

authors from the 6,000 highest-output in Arts and Humanities, 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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