Highly Cited Researchers (h>100). Foucault at number 1 (2019)

Highly Cited Researchers (h>100) according to their Google Scholar Citations public profiles, Ranking Web of Universities, Tenth Edition

[Editor: See also my January 2025 post on this topic.]

[Editor. Update 8 February 2026. The link above is to the archived page on the Wayback Machine. The Wayback Machine only started indexing the Ranking Web of Universities in 2018. In 2018, Foucault was ranked at number 11
In April 2020, he was ranked again at number 1. In 2021, the list excluded deceased authors and Foucault was no longer ranked as a result.]

Highly Cited Researchers (h>100) according to their Google Scholar Citations public profiles. Tenth Edition

The data for this edition was collected during the first week of April 2019 of a BETA list of the public profiles of the most highly cited researchers (h-index larger than 100) according to their declared presence in the Google Scholar Citations database. There is a separate ranking for the high energy physicists with hyper-authored papers.

The list, that includes both living and deceased authors, is ranked first by h-index in decreasing order and when ties appear, then by the total number of citations as a secondary criteria.

This ranking is far of being complete, as many scientists have no developed a GSC public profile yet, that it is a very easy and free task and with a surprisingly large coverage of both contributions and citations. […]

Methodology

2019