Subfield · General Arts and Humanities
Top General Arts and Humanities Researchers
Pierre Bourdıeu ranks first, out of 2,311 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 Pierre Bourdıeu France · #2 worldwide 10k citations · 235 works
- 2 Steven Weinberg United States · #121 worldwide 5.1k citations · 151 works
- 3 Peter Burke United States · #136 worldwide 997 citations · 191 works
- 4 Gilles Deleuze France · #166 worldwide 4.6k citations · 114 works
- 5 Martha C. Nussbaum United States · #279 worldwide 1.6k citations · 260 works
- 6 Richard Rorty United States · #462 worldwide 1.2k citations · 258 works
- 7 Walter Benjamín France · #726 worldwide 1.3k citations · 106 works
- 8 Franco Ferrari United States · #827 worldwide 661 citations · 139 works
- 9 Umberto Eco Italy · #1,841 worldwide 462 citations · 145 works
- 10 Edward W. Said United States · #2,266 worldwide 528 citations · 101 works
- 11 Randall Collins United States · #2,636 worldwide 844 citations · 106 works
- 12 Ilya Prigogine United States · #3,076 worldwide 1.7k citations · 203 works
- 13 Charles Taylor Canada · #4,531 worldwide 453 citations · 86 works
- 14 Octavio Paz Spain · #5,010 worldwide 287 citations · 87 works
- 15 Friedrich Engels Brazil · #7,554 worldwide 285 citations · 145 works
- 16 Donald L. Shaw United States · #10,429 worldwide 299 citations · 76 works
- 17 Carlo Ginzburg Italy · #10,862 worldwide 218 citations · 70 works
- 18 Massimo Marraffa Italy · #11,745 worldwide 456 citations · 62 works
- 19 Mircéa Éliade United States · #18,417 worldwide 151 citations · 78 works
- 20 Gianni Vattimo Italy · #20,413 worldwide 147 citations · 92 works
- 21 G. La Rosa Italy · #21,396 worldwide 755 citations · 64 works
- 22 Martín Heidegger Chile · #26,942 worldwide 203 citations · 169 works
- 23 Paul Griffiths United Kingdom · #29,393 worldwide 376 citations · 99 works
- 24 Erich Fromm United States · #29,750 worldwide 328 citations · 177 works
- 25 Thomas G. Bergin United States · #31,324 worldwide 93 citations · 64 works
- 26 Friedrich Nietzsche United States · #41,056 worldwide 149 citations · 133 works
- 27 Miguel León‐Portilla Mexico · #42,960 worldwide 115 citations · 149 works
- 28 Luciano Floridi United Kingdom · #43,677 worldwide 899 citations · 214 works
- 29 John Howland Rowe United States · #43,844 worldwide 150 citations · 45 works
- 30 Mario De Italy · #43,847 worldwide 184 citations · 66 works
- 31 Marco Mulazzani Austria · #44,145 worldwide 152 citations · 47 works
- 32 Sandro Mezzadra Italy · #44,413 worldwide 109 citations · 79 works
- 33 Léo Strauss Brazil · #45,796 worldwide 130 citations · 75 works
- 34 Verena Stölcke Spain · #46,451 worldwide 166 citations · 35 works
- 35 Marco Solinas Italy · #51,173 worldwide 225 citations · 73 works
- 36 David Ward United Kingdom · #54,120 worldwide 208 citations · 58 works
- 37 Fernando Gómez Redondo Spain · #54,696 worldwide 73 citations · 51 works
- 38 Barry Smith United States · #55,155 worldwide 883 citations · 255 works
- 39 Domenico Parisi Italy · #55,450 worldwide 380 citations · 69 works
- 40 Franz Kafka Germany · #56,376 worldwide 68 citations · 50 works
- 41 Patrice Pavis France · #57,012 worldwide 60 citations · 60 works
- 42 Bertrand Westphal France · #57,367 worldwide 81 citations · 56 works
- 43 Karl‐Otto Apel Germany · #57,477 worldwide 147 citations · 34 works
- 44 Frank Nuessel United States · #63,102 worldwide 261 citations · 96 works
- 45 Carlo Ossola France · #63,979 worldwide 67 citations · 43 works
- 46 Paolo Migone Italy · #65,229 worldwide 119 citations · 54 works
- 47 Lino Pertile United States · #66,994 worldwide 73 citations · 40 works
- 48 Julián Ruiz Díaz United States · #67,071 worldwide 88 citations · 52 works
- 49 Helmut Hatzfeld United States · #69,796 worldwide 59 citations · 42 works
- 50 Antonio Franceschetti Italy · #70,615 worldwide 64 citations · 42 works
- 51 Italo Calvino United States · #70,876 worldwide 75 citations · 37 works
- 52 Pierre Vidal‐Naquet France · #73,598 worldwide 58 citations · 93 works
- 53 Stephen J. Milner United Kingdom · #74,227 worldwide 95 citations · 35 works
- 54 Dávid Forgács United States · #74,274 worldwide 95 citations · 33 works
- 55 Martin McLaughlin United Kingdom · #74,443 worldwide 83 citations · 43 works
- 56 Francisco Rico Spain · #75,247 worldwide 48 citations · 74 works
- 57 Enzo Traverso France · #75,761 worldwide 57 citations · 77 works
- 58 Bernhard Waldenfels Germany · #78,244 worldwide 68 citations · 89 works
- 59 Paolo Giorgi Rossi Italy · #78,848 worldwide 365 citations · 89 works
- 60 Paolo Virno Italy · #80,116 worldwide 217 citations · 26 works
- 61 S. Costa Austria · #80,511 worldwide 3.2k citations · 405 works
- 62 Ernst Robert Curtius Brazil · #80,892 worldwide 74 citations · 35 works
- 63 Thomas Brückner Germany · #82,264 worldwide 255 citations · 50 works
- 64 Paul F. Grendler Canada · #84,248 worldwide 46 citations · 69 works
- 65 Pierre Sorlin France · #85,001 worldwide 53 citations · 67 works
- 66 Iain Fenlon United Kingdom · #86,782 worldwide 49 citations · 59 works
- 67 Clotilde Pontecorvo Italy · #88,975 worldwide 208 citations · 39 works
- 68 Emir Rodríguez Monegal United States · #89,459 worldwide 28 citations · 70 works
- 69 Anselm Gerhard Germany · #89,498 worldwide 46 citations · 66 works
- 70 Daniel Eisenberg United States · #91,544 worldwide 40 citations · 45 works
- 71 Joseph Kerman United States · #92,774 worldwide 63 citations · 61 works
- 72 Jaime Alvar Ezquerra Spain · #93,379 worldwide 37 citations · 68 works
- 73 Ananda K. Coomáraswámy Hungary · #94,731 worldwide 75 citations · 79 works
- 74 Donald J. Cunningham United States · #97,886 worldwide 307 citations · 24 works
- 75 Gottfried Boehm Germany · #99,555 worldwide 45 citations · 64 works
- 76 Edoardo Roberto Barbieri Italy · #99,603 worldwide 49 citations · 66 works
- 77 Mario Vargas Llosa El Salvador · #100,177 worldwide 44 citations · 90 works
- 78 Giovanni Lodi Italy · #100,332 worldwide 206 citations · 93 works
- 79 Paolo Paolini Italy · #102,045 worldwide 208 citations · 61 works
- 80 Danilo Martuccelli France · #102,878 worldwide 49 citations · 78 works
- 81 José Manuel Martín Morán Brazil · #105,742 worldwide 49 citations · 35 works
- 82 Maurizio Ambrosini Italy · #107,890 worldwide 78 citations · 62 works
- 83 Konrad Eisenbichler Canada · #109,920 worldwide 29 citations · 54 works
- 84 Ignacio Sánchez-Cuenca Spain · #110,014 worldwide 109 citations · 31 works
- 85 Peter Bondanella United States · #110,458 worldwide 47 citations · 37 works
- 86 Francesco Saverio Fera Italy · #115,638 worldwide 104 citations · 26 works
- 87 Javier Huerta Calvo United States · #116,775 worldwide 29 citations · 86 works
- 88 Juan Manuel Abascal Palazón Spain · #117,000 worldwide 49 citations · 106 works
- 89 Anthony Close United Kingdom · #117,108 worldwide 66 citations · 29 works
- 90 Renato Nunes Bittencourt Brazil · #119,201 worldwide 17 citations · 79 works
- 91 Miquel Barceló Spain · #120,906 worldwide 44 citations · 81 works
- 92 T. E. Jessop Ireland · #123,505 worldwide 98 citations · 26 works
- 93 Jesús Marcial Conill Sancho Spain · #123,699 worldwide 28 citations · 56 works
- 94 Andréia Guerini Brazil · #125,297 worldwide 30 citations · 41 works
- 95 Marcel Bataillón France · #125,868 worldwide 24 citations · 95 works
- 96 Simone Weil United States · #126,361 worldwide 70 citations · 34 works
- 97 Gonzalo Ruiz Zapatero Spain · #126,622 worldwide 67 citations · 73 works
- 98 Salvador Giner San Julián Spain · #127,110 worldwide 25 citations · 60 works
- 99 Juan Martín Velasco Spain · #127,439 worldwide 32 citations · 35 works
- 100 Emílio Suárez de la Torre Spain · #128,082 worldwide 28 citations · 45 works
authors from the 6,000 highest-output in General 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.