Subfield · History
Top History Researchers
Charles Tilly ranks first, out of 4,287 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 Charles Tilly United States · #8 worldwide 3.7k citations · 238 works
- 2 Stanley Hoffmann United States · #21 worldwide 2.3k citations · 197 works
- 3 Sander L. Gilman United States · #37 worldwide 4.2k citations · 154 works
- 4 Stuart Hall United Kingdom · #115 worldwide 1.9k citations · 137 works
- 5 Fritz Stern United States · #126 worldwide 1.2k citations · 183 works
- 6 Peter Burke United States · #136 worldwide 997 citations · 191 works
- 7 Karl Marx Denmark · #180 worldwide 1.1k citations · 217 works
- 8 Bryan S. Turner United States · #337 worldwide 1.9k citations · 273 works
- 9 Gaddis Smith United States · #846 worldwide 886 citations · 130 works
- 10 Ronald Aylmer Fisher United Kingdom · #947 worldwide 2k citations · 229 works
- 11 J. G. A. Pocock United States · #1,156 worldwide 810 citations · 101 works
- 12 William H. Sewell United States · #1,183 worldwide 1.6k citations · 90 works
- 13 David Hume Australia · #1,397 worldwide 1.9k citations · 378 works
- 14 David A. Bell United Kingdom · #1,653 worldwide 1.1k citations · 94 works
- 15 Geoff Eley United States · #1,887 worldwide 1.3k citations · 78 works
- 16 John Locke United States · #2,559 worldwide 1.3k citations · 285 works
- 17 James A. Brundage United States · #2,930 worldwide 361 citations · 99 works
- 18 Joan Wallach Scott United States · #3,074 worldwide 643 citations · 76 works
- 19 Quentin Skinner United Kingdom · #3,351 worldwide 498 citations · 88 works
- 20 Carl Wittke United States · #3,809 worldwide 345 citations · 100 works
- 21 E. J. Hobsbawm United Kingdom · #5,032 worldwide 456 citations · 70 works
- 22 Jürgen Osterhammel Germany · #5,719 worldwide 286 citations · 125 works
- 23 William H. McNeill United States · #5,772 worldwide 404 citations · 114 works
- 24 George L. Mosse United States · #5,825 worldwide 392 citations · 69 works
- 25 Martin Conway United Kingdom · #5,841 worldwide 564 citations · 88 works
- 26 Natalie Zemon Davis Canada · #6,504 worldwide 320 citations · 76 works
- 27 Jacques Godechot France · #6,735 worldwide 243 citations · 172 works
- 28 Wietse de Boer Netherlands · #7,009 worldwide 595 citations · 89 works
- 29 Georg G. Iggers United States · #7,026 worldwide 349 citations · 67 works
- 30 Andrew M. Greeley United States · #7,322 worldwide 501 citations · 149 works
- 31 Friedrich Engels Brazil · #7,554 worldwide 285 citations · 145 works
- 32 Caroline Walker Bynum United States · #7,666 worldwide 566 citations · 56 works
- 33 T. D. Barnes Canada · #7,704 worldwide 344 citations · 64 works
- 34 Dominick LaCapra United States · #7,714 worldwide 1.3k citations · 52 works
- 35 Paul Oskar Kristeller United States · #7,727 worldwide 288 citations · 74 works
- 36 Donald R. Kelley United States · #7,748 worldwide 305 citations · 67 works
- 37 Jacques Le Goff France · #7,793 worldwide 218 citations · 169 works
- 38 R. N. Swanson United Kingdom · #8,054 worldwide 314 citations · 73 works
- 39 Rosamond McKitterick United Kingdom · #8,109 worldwide 287 citations · 68 works
- 40 David Crouch United Kingdom · #8,209 worldwide 389 citations · 103 works
- 41 Robert M. Grant United States · #8,225 worldwide 784 citations · 185 works
- 42 Félix Gilbert United States · #8,876 worldwide 343 citations · 60 works
- 43 Antonio Mestre Spain · #9,032 worldwide 471 citations · 54 works
- 44 David Riesman United States · #9,259 worldwide 394 citations · 148 works
- 45 Joseph R. Strayer United States · #9,288 worldwide 282 citations · 63 works
- 46 William C. Roberts United States · #9,733 worldwide 2.2k citations · 321 works
- 47 Erwin Panofsky Nigeria · #9,784 worldwide 226 citations · 71 works
- 48 David I. Kertzer United States · #9,876 worldwide 360 citations · 69 works
- 49 Terry Eagleton United Kingdom · #10,346 worldwide 303 citations · 144 works
- 50 Elisabeth Bronfen Switzerland · #10,685 worldwide 268 citations · 146 works
- 51 Carlo Ginzburg Italy · #10,862 worldwide 218 citations · 70 works
- 52 William J. Courtenay United States · #10,991 worldwide 188 citations · 87 works
- 53 Edmund Burke United Kingdom · #11,259 worldwide 1.4k citations · 272 works
- 54 Woodrow Borah United States · #11,660 worldwide 192 citations · 91 works
- 55 James D. Tracy United States · #11,746 worldwide 251 citations · 60 works
- 56 Philippe Antoine France · #12,329 worldwide 332 citations · 144 works
- 57 Vern L. Bullough United States · #12,351 worldwide 396 citations · 114 works
- 58 Vivian Nutton United Kingdom · #12,444 worldwide 220 citations · 141 works
- 59 C. R. Boxer United Kingdom · #13,138 worldwide 172 citations · 78 works
- 60 Alan D. Deyermond United Kingdom · #13,502 worldwide 153 citations · 74 works
- 61 Thomas F. Glick United States · #14,194 worldwide 203 citations · 116 works
- 62 David Herlihy United States · #14,344 worldwide 298 citations · 50 works
- 63 Marc Raeff United States · #14,951 worldwide 161 citations · 96 works
- 64 Christine Shaw United Kingdom · #15,021 worldwide 359 citations · 49 works
- 65 Bertrand Russell Canada · #15,181 worldwide 1.1k citations · 648 works
- 66 Norman L. Jones Canada · #15,528 worldwide 696 citations · 120 works
- 67 Michael Winterbottom United Kingdom · #16,019 worldwide 146 citations · 96 works
- 68 Averil Cameron United Kingdom · #16,118 worldwide 164 citations · 65 works
- 69 Henry Nash Smith United States · #16,283 worldwide 271 citations · 63 works
- 70 Werner Eck Germany · #16,388 worldwide 153 citations · 105 works
- 71 Francis Oakley United States · #16,571 worldwide 200 citations · 59 works
- 72 Ralph W. Mathisen United States · #16,865 worldwide 233 citations · 51 works
- 73 Mason Hammond United States · #16,940 worldwide 205 citations · 55 works
- 74 Peter Paret United States · #17,191 worldwide 191 citations · 65 works
- 75 Garabed Eknoyan United States · #17,223 worldwide 461 citations · 74 works
- 76 Charles P. Kindleberger United States · #17,564 worldwide 759 citations · 169 works
- 77 Siegfried Wenzel United States · #18,198 worldwide 210 citations · 52 works
- 78 Maurice Lee South Korea · #18,254 worldwide 370 citations · 47 works
- 79 Gordon A. Craig United States · #18,537 worldwide 187 citations · 82 works
- 80 Thomas Kühne United States · #18,582 worldwide 430 citations · 59 works
- 81 Stefan Berger Germany · #18,817 worldwide 344 citations · 151 works
- 82 Quincy Wright United States · #19,000 worldwide 343 citations · 165 works
- 83 Patrick Collinson United Kingdom · #19,056 worldwide 143 citations · 78 works
- 84 Janet L. Nelson United Kingdom · #19,059 worldwide 139 citations · 80 works
- 85 Patrick J. McGrath Canada · #19,149 worldwide 724 citations · 102 works
- 86 Barbara Newman United States · #19,167 worldwide 158 citations · 75 works
- 87 Jiřı́ Svoboda Czechia · #19,272 worldwide 281 citations · 80 works
- 88 Jean Andreau France · #19,283 worldwide 146 citations · 78 works
- 89 Wim Decock Belgium · #19,436 worldwide 164 citations · 66 works
- 90 Henry Kamen United Kingdom · #19,490 worldwide 154 citations · 56 works
- 91 Michael Mann United States · #19,618 worldwide 1.3k citations · 231 works
- 92 Annette Becker France · #19,630 worldwide 300 citations · 118 works
- 93 Georges Duby France · #19,714 worldwide 128 citations · 85 works
- 94 Tenney Frank United States · #19,829 worldwide 168 citations · 68 works
- 95 R. A. Markus United Kingdom · #19,939 worldwide 135 citations · 65 works
- 96 George Catlin United Kingdom · #20,036 worldwide 251 citations · 124 works
- 97 Paul Farmer United States · #20,108 worldwide 416 citations · 89 works
- 98 John J. Contreni United States · #20,385 worldwide 153 citations · 58 works
- 99 William Chester Jordan United States · #20,557 worldwide 339 citations · 98 works
- 100 Richard Kieckhefer Brazil · #20,666 worldwide 177 citations · 60 works
authors from the 6,000 highest-output in History, 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.