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Top Classics Researchers

Janet L. Nelson ranks first, followed by Leonard Neidorf and Derek A. Pearsall, out of 124,818 ranked researchers.

Field rank: how many more of the researcher's articles, reviews and conference papers in this field reached the world top 10% for their subfield and year than the 10% expected of anyone's. A paper in the top 10% adds 0.9 and any other takes 0.1 away, however highly cited, so many strong papers in the field outrank one famous paper, a long record of ordinary papers does not climb, and work in other fields does not count. A paper in two subfields counts half in each. A researcher with fewer papers in the Nature Index's selective journals than expected has the count lowered by the square root of that journal factor. Floor: 15 works, an institution the snapshot can resolve, and an article, review or conference paper in this field.

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  1. 1 Janet L. Nelson United Kingdom · #261,921 worldwide overall 20.6 of 58 papers here in the top 10%
  2. 2 Leonard Neidorf China · #259,973 worldwide overall 18.8 of 44 papers here in the top 10%
  3. 3 Derek A. Pearsall United Kingdom · #325,132 worldwide overall 18.8 of 67 papers here in the top 10%
  4. 4 Caroline Walker Bynum United States · #120,218 worldwide overall 15.0 of 34 papers here in the top 10%
  5. 5 Cyril Mango United States · #263,408 worldwide overall 16.1 of 39 papers here in the top 10%
  6. 6 C. Warren Hollister United States · #283,106 worldwide overall 12.7 of 36 papers here in the top 10%
  7. 7 Alastair J. Minnis United States · #249,764 worldwide overall 11.5 of 25 papers here in the top 10%
  8. 8 Siegfried Wenzel United States · #400,642 worldwide overall 13.0 of 41 papers here in the top 10%
  9. 9 Richard W. Pfaff United States · #359,627 worldwide overall 12.8 of 40 papers here in the top 10%
  10. 10 Timothy David Barnes Canada · #51,057 worldwide overall 10.8 of 27 papers here in the top 10%
  11. 11 Rosamond McKitterick United Kingdom · #321,136 worldwide overall 11.0 of 29 papers here in the top 10%
  12. 12 Rory Naismith United Kingdom · #438,351 worldwide overall 10.3 of 23 papers here in the top 10%
  13. 13 R. H. Britnell United Kingdom · #276,843 worldwide overall 9.8 of 18 papers here in the top 10%
  14. 14 Michael Lapidge United Kingdom · #144,497 worldwide overall 10.0 of 21 papers here in the top 10%
  15. 15 Alan Cameron United Kingdom · #183,878 worldwide overall 11.4 of 15 papers here in the top 10%
  16. 16 Derek Brewer United Kingdom · #440,356 worldwide overall 9.7 of 21 papers here in the top 10%
  17. 17 Geoffrey D. Dunn Australia · #430,953 worldwide overall 9.9 of 25 papers here in the top 10%
  18. 18 Christopher Michael Dyer United Kingdom · #1,816,324 worldwide overall 12.8 of 30 papers here in the top 10%
  19. 19 Richard Sharpe United Kingdom · #445,764 worldwide overall 9.0 of 16 papers here in the top 10%
  20. 20 Pauline Stafford United Kingdom · #410,398 worldwide overall 10.5 of 26 papers here in the top 10%
  21. 21 Malcolm R. Godden United Kingdom · #210,142 worldwide overall 8.3 of 12 papers here in the top 10%
  22. 22 Ralph Whitney Mathisen United States · #328,441 worldwide overall 9.0 of 16 papers here in the top 10%
  23. 23 Charles Robert Young United States · #237,275 worldwide overall 9.0 of 20 papers here in the top 10%
  24. 24 P. J. P. Goldberg United Kingdom · #182,620 worldwide overall 8.0 of 10 papers here in the top 10%
  25. 24 John Haldon United States · #73,204 worldwide overall 9.0 of 20 papers here in the top 10%
  26. 24 Averil Cameron United Kingdom · #112,780 worldwide overall 9.3 of 23 papers here in the top 10%
  27. 27 John W. Baldwin United States · #262,058 worldwide overall 10.4 of 36 papers here in the top 10%
  28. 28 Catherine Batt Denmark · #341,960 worldwide overall 8.2 of 15 papers here in the top 10%
  29. 29 Peter Dronke United Kingdom · #303,532 worldwide overall 8.6 of 20 papers here in the top 10%
  30. 30 R. M. Wilson United States · #538,763 worldwide overall 9.8 of 33 papers here in the top 10%
  31. 31 W. Mark Ormrod United Kingdom · #475,782 worldwide overall 7.9 of 14 papers here in the top 10%
  32. 32 Alice-Mary Maffry Talbot United States · #262,365 worldwide overall 7.9 of 15 papers here in the top 10%
  33. 33 Henry C. Maguire Jr. United States · #746,201 worldwide overall 9.0 of 19 papers here in the top 10%
  34. 34 Brian Croke Australia · #129,967 worldwide overall 7.7 of 11 papers here in the top 10%
  35. 34 José María Salvador González Spain · #3,741,911 worldwide overall 10.6 of 28 papers here in the top 10%
  36. 36 Simon Keynes United Kingdom · #417,068 worldwide overall 7.8 of 16 papers here in the top 10%
  37. 37 A. R. Bridbury United Kingdom · #190,283 worldwide overall 7.0 of 8 papers here in the top 10%
  38. 37 David V Herlihy United States · #251,115 worldwide overall 8.9 of 28 papers here in the top 10%
  39. 39 Ralph V. Turner United States · #661,990 worldwide overall 9.0 of 28 papers here in the top 10%
  40. 40 Bruce Campbell United Kingdom · #26,488 worldwide overall 7.0 of 10 papers here in the top 10%
  41. 41 Kathryn Kerby-Fulton Canada · #416,685 worldwide overall 7.4 of 14 papers here in the top 10%
  42. 42 Warren T. Treadgold Belgium · #1,068,160 worldwide overall 11.0 of 38 papers here in the top 10%
  43. 43 Nick Hammond United Kingdom · #341,429 worldwide overall 7.3 of 14 papers here in the top 10%
  44. 44 Gerd Althoff Germany · #545,868 worldwide overall 8.2 of 24 papers here in the top 10%
  45. 45 John D. Niles United States · #412,915 worldwide overall 8.9 of 31 papers here in the top 10%
  46. 46 Susan Reynolds United Kingdom · #214,808 worldwide overall 7.2 of 16 papers here in the top 10%
  47. 47 J. R. Maddicott United States · #1,538,069 worldwide overall 10.3 of 32 papers here in the top 10%
  48. 48 Stanley B. Greenfield United States · #411,747 worldwide overall 7.2 of 17 papers here in the top 10%
  49. 48 Christopher Cannon United States · #736,787 worldwide overall 7.2 of 17 papers here in the top 10%
  50. 50 Elaine M. Treharne United States · #417,033 worldwide overall 8.4 of 29 papers here in the top 10%
  51. 51 Mary Carruthers United States · #306,635 worldwide overall 7.2 of 17 papers here in the top 10%
  52. 51 David Aers United States · #584,218 worldwide overall 7.2 of 17 papers here in the top 10%
  53. 53 Judith Herrin United Kingdom · #380,653 worldwide overall 7.0 of 16 papers here in the top 10%
  54. 53 Peter Charanis United States · #966,340 worldwide overall 10.0 of 46 papers here in the top 10%
  55. 55 Ralph Hanna United Kingdom · #714,709 worldwide overall 10.0 of 46 papers here in the top 10%
  56. 56 Georges Duby France · #850,828 worldwide overall 8.0 of 26 papers here in the top 10%
  57. 56 Bernard S. Bachrach United States · #741,959 worldwide overall 10.8 of 44 papers here in the top 10%
  58. 58 Robert Ousterhout United States · #308,879 worldwide overall 7.0 of 16 papers here in the top 10%
  59. 59 Barbara A. Hanawalt United States · #473,765 worldwide overall 7.8 of 23 papers here in the top 10%
  60. 60 Andy Orchard Canada · #183,650 worldwide overall 6.5 of 12 papers here in the top 10%
  61. 61 James C. Holt United Kingdom · #587,938 worldwide overall 6.5 of 12 papers here in the top 10%
  62. 61 Paul Stephenson United States · #1,003,457 worldwide overall 6.7 of 14 papers here in the top 10%
  63. 63 Richard Gameson United Kingdom · #601,769 worldwide overall 8.4 of 31 papers here in the top 10%
  64. 64 Barbara H. Rosenwein United States · #825,733 worldwide overall 9.4 of 21 papers here in the top 10%
  65. 64 Simon Horobin United States · #495,195 worldwide overall 6.7 of 15 papers here in the top 10%
  66. 66 Catherine S. Cox Ireland · #1,166,849 worldwide overall 7.0 of 12 papers here in the top 10%
  67. 67 John J. Contreni United States · #758,613 worldwide overall 9.8 of 46 papers here in the top 10%
  68. 68 Joel Thomas Rosenthal United States · #683,977 worldwide overall 11.2 of 60 papers here in the top 10%
  69. 69 R. H. Hilton United Kingdom · #628,112 worldwide overall 6.7 of 12 papers here in the top 10%
  70. 69 David M. P. Jacoby United Kingdom · #75,277 worldwide overall 6.8 of 17 papers here in the top 10%
  71. 69 Anne Hudson United Kingdom · #438,931 worldwide overall 8.2 of 30 papers here in the top 10%
  72. 72 Walter Pohl Austria · #234,348 worldwide overall 6.5 of 15 papers here in the top 10%
  73. 73 Derek Keene United Kingdom · #555,224 worldwide overall 6.2 of 11 papers here in the top 10%
  74. 74 Helen Phillips United Kingdom · #2,198,504 worldwide overall 7.2 of 21 papers here in the top 10%
  75. 75 Cary Joseph Nederman United States · #377,926 worldwide overall 7.2 of 22 papers here in the top 10%
  76. 75 J. A. Burrow United Kingdom · #681,514 worldwide overall 8.2 of 32 papers here in the top 10%
  77. 77 Charles H. Lohr Germany · #362,561 worldwide overall 5.8 of 9 papers here in the top 10%
  78. 77 Peter Coss United Kingdom · #404,594 worldwide overall 6.3 of 14 papers here in the top 10%
  79. 79 G. W. Bowersock United States · #249,158 worldwide overall 6.2 of 12 papers here in the top 10%
  80. 79 Michael Angold United Kingdom · #987,805 worldwide overall 7.0 of 21 papers here in the top 10%
  81. 81 Donald M. Nicol United Kingdom · #241,406 worldwide overall 6.2 of 13 papers here in the top 10%
  82. 82 Leslie Brubaker United Kingdom · #346,004 worldwide overall 6.9 of 16 papers here in the top 10%
  83. 83 Ihor Ševčenko United States · #266,715 worldwide overall 6.5 of 16 papers here in the top 10%
  84. 83 Steven Vanderputten Belgium · #2,290,384 worldwide overall 9.7 of 48 papers here in the top 10%
  85. 85 Walter A. Goffart Canada · #398,833 worldwide overall 8.2 of 34 papers here in the top 10%
  86. 86 Otto Gerhard Oexle Germany · #383,514 worldwide overall 5.9 of 12 papers here in the top 10%
  87. 87 J. Adin Mann United States · #1,746,469 worldwide overall 6.7 of 13 papers here in the top 10%
  88. 88 R. W. Burgess Canada · #469,187 worldwide overall 5.4 of 7 papers here in the top 10%
  89. 89 Norman Frank Cantor United States · #478,058 worldwide overall 5.5 of 9 papers here in the top 10%
  90. 90 Ben Jervis United Kingdom · #260,203 worldwide overall 5.5 of 7 papers here in the top 10%
  91. 91 Florin Curta United States · #1,445,759 worldwide overall 6.6 of 18 papers here in the top 10%
  92. 92 Sebastian I. Sobecki Netherlands · #848,294 worldwide overall 7.3 of 28 papers here in the top 10%
  93. 93 Anthony Cutler United States · #827,472 worldwide overall 6.7 of 22 papers here in the top 10%
  94. 94 Anthony Kaldellis United States · #447,538 worldwide overall 6.7 of 22 papers here in the top 10%
  95. 95 Maryanne Kowaleski United States · #1,130,578 worldwide overall 8.8 of 18 papers here in the top 10%
  96. 96 Alexander P. Kazhdan Israel · #560,929 worldwide overall 6.8 of 24 papers here in the top 10%
  97. 96 John W. Barker United States · #1,102,864 worldwide overall 7.2 of 28 papers here in the top 10%
  98. 98 Daniel Javitch United States · #421,890 worldwide overall 5.4 of 11 papers here in the top 10%
  99. 99 Charles Muscatine United States · #646,708 worldwide overall 5.5 of 12 papers here in the top 10%
  100. 100 Robert Ian Moore United Kingdom · #1,002,614 worldwide overall 6.1 of 14 papers here in the top 10%

ranked researchers with an article, review or conference paper in Classics. 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, but it is not a removal or delisting request, and no such route exists yet.

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