Subfield · Music
Top Music Researchers
Max Weber ranks first, out of 2,212 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 Max Weber United Kingdom · #687 worldwide 960 citations · 119 works
- 2 Richard Schechner United States · #1,792 worldwide 537 citations · 114 works
- 3 Morris B. Holbrook United States · #1,889 worldwide 2.2k citations · 80 works
- 4 Howard S. Becker United States · #2,778 worldwide 915 citations · 171 works
- 5 George Lipsitz United States · #3,108 worldwide 645 citations · 76 works
- 6 A. L. Kroeber United States · #3,778 worldwide 689 citations · 116 works
- 7 Claudia Goldin United States · #3,894 worldwide 777 citations · 82 works
- 8 W. F. Albright United States · #4,325 worldwide 560 citations · 195 works
- 9 William Weber United States · #5,416 worldwide 639 citations · 68 works
- 10 Walter J. Ong Belgium · #5,696 worldwide 605 citations · 61 works
- 11 D. G. Charlton Israel · #6,045 worldwide 7.2k citations · 472 works
- 12 Ruth Finnegan United Kingdom · #6,240 worldwide 482 citations · 68 works
- 13 C. Willis France · #6,305 worldwide 1.8k citations · 120 works
- 14 Gerhard Kramer Germany · #7,044 worldwide 1.2k citations · 146 works
- 15 Theodor W. Adorno Colombia · #7,258 worldwide 341 citations · 170 works
- 16 Stephen Greenblatt United States · #7,614 worldwide 532 citations · 57 works
- 17 Linda Hutcheon Canada · #7,803 worldwide 327 citations · 74 works
- 18 Lawrence Grossberg United States · #8,960 worldwide 500 citations · 71 works
- 19 Simon Frith United Kingdom · #9,467 worldwide 253 citations · 73 works
- 20 Elliot W. Eisner United States · #10,043 worldwide 565 citations · 116 works
- 21 Terry Eagleton United Kingdom · #10,346 worldwide 303 citations · 144 works
- 22 John C. Reed United States · #10,435 worldwide 1.6k citations · 152 works
- 23 Andrew Steptoe United Kingdom · #10,640 worldwide 1.9k citations · 244 works
- 24 Elisabeth Bronfen Switzerland · #10,685 worldwide 268 citations · 146 works
- 25 Bruce Johnson Slovenia · #10,811 worldwide 626 citations · 51 works
- 26 Joshua A. Tucker United States · #10,984 worldwide 734 citations · 62 works
- 27 Jan McDonald United Kingdom · #12,407 worldwide 511 citations · 63 works
- 28 R. M. W. Dixon Australia · #13,911 worldwide 272 citations · 66 works
- 29 Stephen Graham United Kingdom · #13,968 worldwide 498 citations · 49 works
- 30 Michael West United Kingdom · #14,372 worldwide 1.3k citations · 210 works
- 31 John Street United Kingdom · #14,416 worldwide 322 citations · 86 works
- 32 Alexandre F.R. Stewart Canada · #16,223 worldwide 586 citations · 48 works
- 33 David Gilbert United Kingdom · #17,317 worldwide 405 citations · 80 works
- 34 Stephen Pope United States · #17,825 worldwide 427 citations · 44 works
- 35 Marjorie Perloff United States · #18,564 worldwide 168 citations · 59 works
- 36 E. Paul Torrance United States · #19,709 worldwide 554 citations · 79 works
- 37 Simon Peyton Jones United Kingdom · #20,304 worldwide 927 citations · 110 works
- 38 Theodore Ziolkowski United States · #21,398 worldwide 188 citations · 156 works
- 39 Robert D. Hume United States · #23,077 worldwide 157 citations · 51 works
- 40 David T. Gies United States · #23,560 worldwide 120 citations · 64 works
- 41 Carl Dahlhaus France · #24,028 worldwide 127 citations · 86 works
- 42 Alexander Nehamas United States · #24,424 worldwide 441 citations · 38 works
- 43 Susan McClary United States · #24,762 worldwide 268 citations · 42 works
- 44 David Grayson United States · #25,292 worldwide 260 citations · 62 works
- 45 David J. Hargreaves United Kingdom · #26,179 worldwide 532 citations · 80 works
- 46 Richard Taruskin United States · #28,067 worldwide 121 citations · 92 works
- 47 Robert F. Spencer United States · #29,301 worldwide 258 citations · 67 works
- 48 Paul Griffiths United Kingdom · #29,393 worldwide 376 citations · 99 works
- 49 David Mayer United Kingdom · #30,272 worldwide 148 citations · 60 works
- 50 Ronald Schleifer United States · #32,336 worldwide 152 citations · 45 works
- 51 Ray Jackendoff United States · #32,805 worldwide 446 citations · 46 works
- 52 Jane W. Davidson Australia · #33,217 worldwide 332 citations · 66 works
- 53 Leonard A. Cohen United States · #33,231 worldwide 234 citations · 55 works
- 54 Adrian C. North Australia · #33,482 worldwide 388 citations · 44 works
- 55 Steve Jones New Zealand · #34,049 worldwide 413 citations · 88 works
- 56 John Sloboda United Kingdom · #34,505 worldwide 315 citations · 42 works
- 57 Peter Manuel United States · #34,900 worldwide 117 citations · 54 works
- 58 Richard S. Hill United Kingdom · #35,532 worldwide 178 citations · 53 works
- 59 Richard A. Peterson United States · #35,887 worldwide 268 citations · 46 works
- 60 Antoine Hennion France · #37,780 worldwide 102 citations · 113 works
- 61 Charles W. Fox United States · #40,197 worldwide 516 citations · 93 works
- 62 Aldon Lynn Nielsen United States · #40,706 worldwide 1.3k citations · 30 works
- 63 Christian Gold Norway · #42,166 worldwide 319 citations · 50 works
- 64 David B. Lindenmayer Australia · #42,616 worldwide 1.6k citations · 184 works
- 65 David Lewin United States · #43,450 worldwide 200 citations · 84 works
- 66 Deirdre Coleman United States · #44,084 worldwide 115 citations · 43 works
- 67 Linda M. Scott United Kingdom · #44,112 worldwide 290 citations · 57 works
- 68 Alan Tyson United States · #44,296 worldwide 139 citations · 38 works
- 69 Judith Milhous United States · #44,299 worldwide 140 citations · 38 works
- 70 Malcolm Brown United States · #45,072 worldwide 108 citations · 51 works
- 71 Jonathan Stern United States · #45,637 worldwide 193 citations · 54 works
- 72 Katrina Skewes McFerran Australia · #46,198 worldwide 333 citations · 33 works
- 73 Lawrence Kramer United States · #46,236 worldwide 119 citations · 83 works
- 74 Sandra E. Trehub Canada · #46,770 worldwide 443 citations · 50 works
- 75 Charles L. Briggs United States · #47,179 worldwide 235 citations · 61 works
- 76 Andy Bennett Australia · #47,737 worldwide 193 citations · 55 works
- 77 Tony Wigram Denmark · #48,152 worldwide 313 citations · 33 works
- 78 J. H. Clapham United States · #48,421 worldwide 159 citations · 38 works
- 79 Geraínt A. Wiggins United Kingdom · #49,555 worldwide 305 citations · 68 works
- 80 Robin Moore United States · #50,252 worldwide 257 citations · 31 works
- 81 John Blacking United Kingdom · #50,831 worldwide 182 citations · 35 works
- 82 Bertrand Harris Bronson United States · #51,246 worldwide 101 citations · 42 works
- 83 Peter Kivy United States · #51,446 worldwide 141 citations · 67 works
- 84 R. F. Woodman Peru · #51,474 worldwide 315 citations · 38 works
- 85 J. A. Downie United Kingdom · #52,145 worldwide 69 citations · 53 works
- 86 Malcolm Arnold Canada · #52,916 worldwide 145 citations · 37 works
- 87 Richard Leppert South Korea · #53,074 worldwide 115 citations · 41 works
- 88 Jerrold Levinson United States · #53,470 worldwide 148 citations · 48 works
- 89 Edward Friedman United States · #53,571 worldwide 651 citations · 211 works
- 90 David Hesmondhalgh United Kingdom · #54,032 worldwide 184 citations · 32 works
- 91 Willi Apel United States · #54,639 worldwide 82 citations · 44 works
- 92 Jennifer Rowley Australia · #55,144 worldwide 474 citations · 29 works
- 93 Steven Feld United States · #55,374 worldwide 134 citations · 35 works
- 94 Egon Wellesz Austria · #55,544 worldwide 89 citations · 40 works
- 95 Bruno H. Repp United States · #55,597 worldwide 367 citations · 43 works
- 96 Peter Petocz Australia · #56,037 worldwide 249 citations · 47 works
- 97 Tia DeNora United Kingdom · #56,095 worldwide 175 citations · 42 works
- 98 Jon Stratton Australia · #56,478 worldwide 180 citations · 57 works
- 99 Holger Schramm Germany · #56,565 worldwide 359 citations · 43 works
- 100 Peter F. Ostwald United States · #56,611 worldwide 206 citations · 47 works
authors from the 6,000 highest-output in Music, 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.