Subfield · Religious studies
Top Religious studies Researchers
Stuart Hall ranks first, out of 3,443 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 Stuart Hall United Kingdom · #115 worldwide 1.9k citations · 137 works
- 2 Bryan S. Turner United States · #337 worldwide 1.9k citations · 273 works
- 3 Robert P. Heaney United States · #377 worldwide 2k citations · 143 works
- 4 Peter Richardson United Kingdom · #833 worldwide 2.1k citations · 99 works
- 5 Alasdair MacIntyre United States · #1,605 worldwide 844 citations · 102 works
- 6 David Gordon Australia · #1,753 worldwide 1.4k citations · 117 works
- 7 Richard H. Popkin United States · #2,754 worldwide 484 citations · 97 works
- 8 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Spain · #3,241 worldwide 445 citations · 82 works
- 9 Terence Ranger United Kingdom · #3,283 worldwide 452 citations · 88 works
- 10 Richard Swinburne United Kingdom · #3,310 worldwide 505 citations · 96 works
- 11 Wolfgang Huber Germany · #4,047 worldwide 782 citations · 99 works
- 12 Jan Vansina United States · #4,265 worldwide 421 citations · 94 works
- 13 W. F. Albright United States · #4,325 worldwide 560 citations · 195 works
- 14 J. A. Emerton United States · #5,198 worldwide 285 citations · 99 works
- 15 Martin Conway United Kingdom · #5,841 worldwide 564 citations · 88 works
- 16 Israel Finkelstein Israel · #5,842 worldwide 403 citations · 98 works
- 17 Franz Rosenthal United States · #6,963 worldwide 292 citations · 77 works
- 18 Andrew M. Greeley United States · #7,322 worldwide 501 citations · 149 works
- 19 William W. Adams United States · #7,432 worldwide 1.3k citations · 64 works
- 20 Claude E. Welch United States · #7,578 worldwide 545 citations · 159 works
- 21 Klaus Berger Germany · #7,595 worldwide 612 citations · 94 works
- 22 T. D. Barnes Canada · #7,704 worldwide 344 citations · 64 works
- 23 Ruud Koopmans Germany · #7,965 worldwide 597 citations · 75 works
- 24 Robert M. Grant United States · #8,225 worldwide 784 citations · 185 works
- 25 Erich S. Gruen United States · #8,326 worldwide 276 citations · 71 works
- 26 Fergus Millar United Kingdom · #8,969 worldwide 306 citations · 63 works
- 27 Mark J. Edwards United Kingdom · #10,669 worldwide 717 citations · 113 works
- 28 William J. Courtenay United States · #10,991 worldwide 188 citations · 87 works
- 29 David T. Runia Australia · #11,199 worldwide 184 citations · 80 works
- 30 J. C. M. van Winden United States · #11,389 worldwide 181 citations · 133 works
- 31 Annemarie Schımmel United States · #12,093 worldwide 241 citations · 119 works
- 32 Bruce M. Metzger United States · #13,457 worldwide 162 citations · 75 works
- 33 William M. Thompson United States · #14,256 worldwide 345 citations · 73 works
- 34 Markham J. Geller United Kingdom · #14,882 worldwide 202 citations · 68 works
- 35 Hugh Kennedy United Kingdom · #15,439 worldwide 176 citations · 74 works
- 36 John F. Schwaller United States · #15,677 worldwide 159 citations · 74 works
- 37 Walter Brueggemann United States · #16,062 worldwide 124 citations · 101 works
- 38 Daniel Boyarín United States · #16,358 worldwide 177 citations · 74 works
- 39 Werner Eck Germany · #16,388 worldwide 153 citations · 105 works
- 40 Sebastian P. Brock United Kingdom · #16,469 worldwide 190 citations · 142 works
- 41 Francis Oakley United States · #16,571 worldwide 200 citations · 59 works
- 42 Erika Bourguignon United States · #16,690 worldwide 239 citations · 62 works
- 43 Adrian Hastings United Kingdom · #16,873 worldwide 186 citations · 62 works
- 44 Richard A. Taylor United States · #17,047 worldwide 424 citations · 47 works
- 45 Mircéa Éliade United States · #18,417 worldwide 151 citations · 78 works
- 46 I. Howard Marshall United Kingdom · #18,478 worldwide 203 citations · 89 works
- 47 Louis Dumont France · #19,292 worldwide 234 citations · 56 works
- 48 Natalio Fernández Marcos Spain · #19,492 worldwide 180 citations · 52 works
- 49 Morton Smith United States · #19,503 worldwide 170 citations · 70 works
- 50 Brent D. Shaw United States · #19,759 worldwide 249 citations · 49 works
- 51 G. Ernest Wright United Kingdom · #20,129 worldwide 173 citations · 65 works
- 52 J. D. Y. Peel United Kingdom · #20,318 worldwide 224 citations · 62 works
- 53 F. C. Porter United States · #20,481 worldwide 3.8k citations · 290 works
- 54 Elias Bickerman United States · #20,681 worldwide 145 citations · 61 works
- 55 Rosane Rocher United States · #21,491 worldwide 138 citations · 72 works
- 56 G. D. Kilpatrick United Kingdom · #21,594 worldwide 155 citations · 59 works
- 57 David M. Fergusson New Zealand · #21,755 worldwide 1k citations · 98 works
- 58 David Konstan United States · #22,090 worldwide 200 citations · 111 works
- 59 Birgit Meyer Algeria · #22,145 worldwide 314 citations · 44 works
- 60 Heinz Schilling Canada · #22,472 worldwide 105 citations · 93 works
- 61 Richard Gray United Kingdom · #22,486 worldwide 156 citations · 85 works
- 62 William Godwin United Kingdom · #23,042 worldwide 153 citations · 158 works
- 63 Asunción Lavrín United States · #23,108 worldwide 166 citations · 59 works
- 64 H.A.C. McKay United Kingdom · #23,216 worldwide 235 citations · 52 works
- 65 Frank Moore Cross United States · #23,912 worldwide 143 citations · 72 works
- 66 Paul K. Moser United States · #24,184 worldwide 300 citations · 71 works
- 67 Kieran Flanagan United Kingdom · #24,609 worldwide 243 citations · 43 works
- 68 W. G. Lambert United Kingdom · #24,926 worldwide 176 citations · 49 works
- 69 Eric M. Meyers United States · #26,217 worldwide 162 citations · 54 works
- 70 Louis H. Feldman United States · #26,220 worldwide 138 citations · 105 works
- 71 Peter Adamson Germany · #26,310 worldwide 197 citations · 79 works
- 72 Nicholas Lange United Kingdom · #26,424 worldwide 228 citations · 46 works
- 73 Martín Heidegger Chile · #26,942 worldwide 203 citations · 169 works
- 74 Ludo Rocher United States · #26,961 worldwide 162 citations · 100 works
- 75 David Bebbington United Kingdom · #27,058 worldwide 146 citations · 56 works
- 76 A. F. J. Klijn Bulgaria · #27,189 worldwide 106 citations · 72 works
- 77 Bernard McGinn United States · #27,425 worldwide 110 citations · 69 works
- 78 Achille Mbembé South Africa · #27,686 worldwide 198 citations · 44 works
- 79 Morton S. Enslin United States · #27,921 worldwide 297 citations · 38 works
- 80 John Proctor United Kingdom · #28,211 worldwide 544 citations · 87 works
- 81 Hans Goedicke United States · #28,258 worldwide 158 citations · 75 works
- 82 David Lewis United Kingdom · #28,406 worldwide 416 citations · 124 works
- 83 Joel Robbins United Kingdom · #28,674 worldwide 248 citations · 44 works
- 84 Erich Fromm United States · #29,750 worldwide 328 citations · 177 works
- 85 George Cross United States · #29,799 worldwide 308 citations · 61 works
- 86 Donald E. Miller United States · #30,526 worldwide 180 citations · 60 works
- 87 James C. VanderKam United States · #30,606 worldwide 106 citations · 85 works
- 88 Günter Stemberger Austria · #30,646 worldwide 113 citations · 65 works
- 89 Nancy T. Ammerman United States · #30,824 worldwide 289 citations · 37 works
- 90 Donald K. McKim United States · #30,863 worldwide 89 citations · 77 works
- 91 John T. McNeill United States · #31,306 worldwide 135 citations · 79 works
- 92 Graham Priest Australia · #31,448 worldwide 554 citations · 132 works
- 93 William Adler United States · #31,740 worldwide 248 citations · 53 works
- 94 John D. W. Watts United States · #31,811 worldwide 309 citations · 74 works
- 95 Richard H. Bell United States · #31,840 worldwide 312 citations · 52 works
- 96 Roger Bastide United States · #32,297 worldwide 108 citations · 68 works
- 97 Alexander L. George United States · #32,672 worldwide 183 citations · 52 works
- 98 H. G. M. Williamson United Kingdom · #34,723 worldwide 125 citations · 118 works
- 99 Eugene A. Nida United States · #35,897 worldwide 97 citations · 88 works
- 100 Rayford W. Loģan United States · #36,066 worldwide 138 citations · 50 works
authors from the 6,000 highest-output in Religious studies, 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.