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Top Philosophy Researchers

Pierre Bourdıeu ranks first, out of 4,650 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 Pierre Bourdıeu France · #2 worldwide 10k citations · 235 works
  2. 2 Michel Foucault Poland · #5 worldwide 4.6k citations · 194 works
  3. 3 Noam Chomsky United States · #7 worldwide 3.7k citations · 239 works
  4. 4 Norman K. Denzin United States · #16 worldwide 8.6k citations · 169 works
  5. 5 Sigmund Freud United States · #25 worldwide 2.7k citations · 174 works
  6. 6 Amartya Sen United States · #28 worldwide 4.9k citations · 190 works
  7. 7 Sander L. Gilman United States · #37 worldwide 4.2k citations · 154 works
  8. 8 Bruno Latour France · #46 worldwide 2k citations · 198 works
  9. 9 Niklas Luhmann Germany · #53 worldwide 2.3k citations · 277 works
  10. 10 Judith Butler United States · #70 worldwide 6.7k citations · 132 works
  11. 11 Jacques Derrida France · #82 worldwide 1.3k citations · 192 works
  12. 12 Émile Durkheim United States · #87 worldwide 2.5k citations · 135 works
  13. 13 Johan Galtung Norway · #119 worldwide 2.3k citations · 135 works
  14. 14 Gilles Deleuze France · #166 worldwide 4.6k citations · 114 works
  15. 15 Karl Marx Denmark · #180 worldwide 1.1k citations · 217 works
  16. 16 Martha C. Nussbaum United States · #279 worldwide 1.6k citations · 260 works
  17. 17 Bryan S. Turner United States · #337 worldwide 1.9k citations · 273 works
  18. 18 Michael Marmot United Kingdom · #451 worldwide 2.5k citations · 226 works
  19. 19 Richard Rorty United States · #462 worldwide 1.2k citations · 258 works
  20. 20 Aristotle  South Africa · #590 worldwide 659 citations · 155 works
  21. 21 Teun A. van Dijk Spain · #680 worldwide 2.5k citations · 107 works
  22. 22 Walter Benjamín France · #726 worldwide 1.3k citations · 106 works
  23. 23 Ernest Gellner United Kingdom · #740 worldwide 1.8k citations · 98 works
  24. 24 Ian Hacking Canada · #791 worldwide 1.3k citations · 118 works
  25. 25 Franco Ferrari United States · #827 worldwide 661 citations · 139 works
  26. 26 Immanuel Kant United States · #896 worldwide 718 citations · 185 works
  27. 27 Thomas Nagel Germany · #992 worldwide 1.8k citations · 116 works
  28. 28 Axel Honneth Germany · #1,014 worldwide 1k citations · 100 works
  29. 29 Hannah Arendt United States · #1,066 worldwide 1.1k citations · 95 works
  30. 30 Andrew J. Lees United Kingdom · #1,099 worldwide 2k citations · 170 works
  31. 31 W. V. Quine United States · #1,177 worldwide 1.1k citations · 105 works
  32. 32 David Hume Australia · #1,397 worldwide 1.9k citations · 378 works
  33. 33 Tzvetan Todorov France · #1,447 worldwide 666 citations · 98 works
  34. 34 David William Foster United Kingdom · #1,486 worldwide 474 citations · 132 works
  35. 35 Alasdair MacIntyre United States · #1,605 worldwide 844 citations · 102 works
  36. 36 Jack Goody United Kingdom · #1,614 worldwide 708 citations · 137 works
  37. 37 Ernest Nagel United States · #1,645 worldwide 888 citations · 98 works
  38. 38 Daniel C. Dennett United States · #1,701 worldwide 1.3k citations · 101 works
  39. 39 Umberto Eco Italy · #1,841 worldwide 462 citations · 145 works
  40. 40 Dan J. Stein South Africa · #1,863 worldwide 7.7k citations · 620 works
  41. 41 Roland Barthes Indonesia · #1,998 worldwide 739 citations · 84 works
  42. 42 Ole Mors Denmark · #2,020 worldwide 2.3k citations · 128 works
  43. 43 Thomas Pogge United States · #2,108 worldwide 909 citations · 100 works
  44. 44 John R. Searle United States · #2,126 worldwide 1.1k citations · 131 works
  45. 45 Geoffrey Brennan Australia · #2,219 worldwide 993 citations · 81 works
  46. 46 John E. Overall United States · #2,413 worldwide 1.6k citations · 81 works
  47. 47 Carl G. Hempel United States · #2,479 worldwide 1.7k citations · 71 works
  48. 48 Bernard Williams United Kingdom · #2,529 worldwide 773 citations · 81 works
  49. 49 Christof Koch United States · #2,536 worldwide 2.4k citations · 201 works
  50. 50 Clifford Geertz United States · #2,548 worldwide 1.2k citations · 72 works
  51. 51 John Locke United States · #2,559 worldwide 1.3k citations · 285 works
  52. 52 Richard H. Popkin United States · #2,754 worldwide 484 citations · 97 works
  53. 53 Hubert L. Dreyfus United States · #2,784 worldwide 1.3k citations · 70 works
  54. 54 Donald Davidson United States · #2,897 worldwide 1.1k citations · 74 works
  55. 55 John C. Rothwell United Kingdom · #3,035 worldwide 2.2k citations · 246 works
  56. 56 Patrick Suppes United States · #3,155 worldwide 1.7k citations · 154 works
  57. 57 Martin N. Rossor United Kingdom · #3,174 worldwide 1.9k citations · 175 works
  58. 58 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Spain · #3,241 worldwide 445 citations · 82 works
  59. 59 Gilbert Harman United States · #3,257 worldwide 1.4k citations · 69 works
  60. 60 Richard Swinburne United Kingdom · #3,310 worldwide 505 citations · 96 works
  61. 61 Quentin Skinner United Kingdom · #3,351 worldwide 498 citations · 88 works
  62. 62 Robert L. Spitzer United States · #3,601 worldwide 1.9k citations · 66 works
  63. 63 Rosi Braidotti Netherlands · #3,641 worldwide 425 citations · 85 works
  64. 64 Paul Ricœur France · #3,669 worldwide 333 citations · 102 works
  65. 65 Michael Walzer United States · #3,713 worldwide 515 citations · 79 works
  66. 66 Craig Calhoun United States · #3,969 worldwide 645 citations · 138 works
  67. 67 Max Black United States · #3,988 worldwide 647 citations · 73 works
  68. 68 Cass R. Sunstein United States · #4,061 worldwide 2.5k citations · 336 works
  69. 69 Philip Kitcher United States · #4,131 worldwide 699 citations · 103 works
  70. 70 Jacques Brès Estonia · #4,249 worldwide 406 citations · 78 works
  71. 71 Charles Taylor Canada · #4,531 worldwide 453 citations · 86 works
  72. 72 Joseph Raz United Kingdom · #4,629 worldwide 579 citations · 84 works
  73. 73 Ingrid Melle Norway · #4,674 worldwide 1.6k citations · 100 works
  74. 74 Nelson Goodman United States · #5,115 worldwide 1.3k citations · 59 works
  75. 75 Alfred Schütz United States · #5,166 worldwide 603 citations · 65 works
  76. 76 Jeremy Waldron United States · #5,358 worldwide 482 citations · 107 works
  77. 77 Dipesh Chakrabarty United States · #5,469 worldwide 746 citations · 61 works
  78. 78 Alvin I. Goldman United States · #6,217 worldwide 1.1k citations · 61 works
  79. 79 George H. Sabine United States · #6,369 worldwide 408 citations · 67 works
  80. 80 Rudolf Carnap United States · #6,425 worldwide 1.1k citations · 56 works
  81. 81 Herbert Marcuse United States · #6,443 worldwide 301 citations · 91 works
  82. 82 John Finnis United Kingdom · #6,632 worldwide 479 citations · 63 works
  83. 83 Charles Segal United States · #6,818 worldwide 356 citations · 71 works
  84. 84 Dan Sperber France · #6,931 worldwide 1.1k citations · 57 works
  85. 85 Ming T. Tsuang United States · #6,935 worldwide 1.8k citations · 185 works
  86. 86 Karl Friston United Kingdom · #7,132 worldwide 3k citations · 272 works
  87. 87 Theodor W. Adorno Colombia · #7,258 worldwide 341 citations · 170 works
  88. 88 Andrew M. Greeley United States · #7,322 worldwide 501 citations · 149 works
  89. 89 Mark D. Griffiths United Kingdom · #7,344 worldwide 3.3k citations · 412 works
  90. 90 Arthur O. Lovejoy United States · #7,547 worldwide 404 citations · 63 works
  91. 91 Friedrich Engels Brazil · #7,554 worldwide 285 citations · 145 works
  92. 92 Edward H. Madden United States · #7,663 worldwide 933 citations · 53 works
  93. 93 Dominick LaCapra United States · #7,714 worldwide 1.3k citations · 52 works
  94. 94 Robert Wuthnow United States · #7,745 worldwide 417 citations · 104 works
  95. 95 Jacques Le Goff France · #7,793 worldwide 218 citations · 169 works
  96. 96 Ernst Cassirer Mexico · #7,828 worldwide 345 citations · 69 works
  97. 97 Jeffrey C. Alexander United States · #8,014 worldwide 413 citations · 88 works
  98. 98 René Girard United States · #8,038 worldwide 296 citations · 69 works
  99. 99 Hilary Putnam United States · #8,127 worldwide 688 citations · 123 works
  100. 100 Christopher Gill United Kingdom · #8,140 worldwide 517 citations · 90 works

authors from the 6,000 highest-output in Philosophy, 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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