| Most Cited Philosophers | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| All 287, Ranked by Citations | |||
| Author | Institution | Rank | Cited 1996-2024 |
| usa | |||
| Floridi, Luciano | Yale University | 2274 | 19640 |
| Nussbaum, Martha Craven | The University of Chicago | 4028 | 15245 |
| Lewis, David K. | Princeton University | 8473 | 10213 |
| Searle, John R. | University of California, Berkeley | 10517 | 10175 |
| Chalmers, David J. | New York University | 16195 | 9183 |
| Buchanan, Allen E. | The University of Arizona | 19228 | 6362 |
| Fine, Kit | New York University | 22583 | 4462 |
| Goldman, Alvin I. | Rutgers University | 22336 | 7080 |
| Schaffer, Jonathan | Rutgers University | 21825 | 4943 |
| Anderson, Elizabeth S. | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | 23361 | 6327 |
| Pritchard, Duncan H. | University of California, Irvine | 17383 | 4545 |
| Fricker, Miranda | New York University | 34808 | 7339 |
| Pogge, Thomas W. | Yale University | 34507 | 3864 |
| Stalnaker, Robert C. | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 36479 | 4270 |
| Sober, Elliott R. | Stanford University | 33895 | 5180 |
| Rorty, Richard | Stanford University | 38921 | 6274 |
| Arneson, Richard J. | University of California, San Diego | 42153 | 3507 |
| Mele, Alfred R. | Florida State University | 36329 | 3638 |
| Schatzki, Theodore R. | University of Kentucky | 44046 | 4283 |
| Honneth, Axel | Columbia University | 47573 | 3781 |
| Sosa, Ernest | Rutgers University | 48429 | 4106 |
| MacHery, Édouard | University of Pittsburgh | 44647 | 5270 |
| Hardin, Russell | New York University | 51069 | 4148 |
| Strawson, Galen | The University of Texas at Austin | 56128 | 3379 |
| Bicchieri, Cristina | University of Pennsylvania | 55509 | 4315 |
| Burge, Tyler | University of California, Los Angeles | 56597 | 3501 |
| Skyrms, Brian | Stanford University | 55416 | 4057 |
| Stanley, Jason | Yale University | 61899 | 4170 |
| Sider, Theodore R. | Rutgers University | 61718 | 2808 |
| Annas, Julia | The University of Arizona | 66576 | 2623 |
| Schwitzgebel, Eric | University of California, Riverside | 63355 | 2809 |
| Shusterman, Richard J. | Florida Atlantic University | 63029 | 2596 |
| Hawthorne, John P. | University of Southern California | 72061 | 3717 |
| Hausman, Daniel M. | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 72089 | 2811 |
| Schroeder, Mark | University of Southern California | 72707 | 2626 |
| Bach, Kent | San Francisco State University | 73296 | 2313 |
| Harding, Sandra G. | University of California, Los Angeles | 78386 | 3305 |
| Dreyfus, Hubert L. | University of California, Berkeley | 78732 | 2593 |
| Velleman, J. David | New York University | 79045 | 2787 |
| Putnam, Hilary W. | Harvard University | 87137 | 3213 |
| van Fraassen, Bas C. | San Francisco State University | 88149 | 2216 |
| Audi, Robert N. | University of Notre Dame | 84536 | 2113 |
| Carroll, Noël | The City University of New York | 88991 | 2035 |
| Soames, Scott | University of Southern | 79169 | 1784 |
| Lackey, Jennifer | Northwestern University | 93870 | 2224 |
| van Inwagen, Peter | University of Notre Dame | 96556 | 1857 |
| Kriegel, Uriah | Rice University | 88887 | 2110 |
| Boghossian, Paul Artin | New York University | 98615 | 2486 |
| Kittay, Eva Feder | Stony Brook University | 95042 | 2035 |
| Kitcher, Philip S. | Columbia University | 91360 | 2230 |
| Alcoff, Linda Martín | Hunter College | 101983 | 2295 |
| Field, Hartry H. | New York University | 102402 | 1919 |
| Rosen, Gideon | Princeton University | 105760 | 2330 |
| Davidson, Donald | University of California, Berkeley | 106913 | 2244 |
| Jamieson, Dale W. | New York University | 105437 | 2683 |
| Noë, Alva | University of California, Berkeley | 100579 | 4131 |
| Haslanger, Sally | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 102249 | 2393 |
| Appiah, Kwame Anthony | New York University | 113148 | 2887 |
| Bratman, Michael E. | Stanford University | 105152 | 2075 |
| Greco, John | Georgetown University | 109939 | 1918 |
| Piccinini, Gualtiero | University of Missouri | 97062 | 1925 |
| Maudlin, Tim W.E. | New York University | 118362 | 1905 |
| Horgan, Terry E. | The University of Arizona | 96619 | 2485 |
| Solomon, Robert Charles | The University of Texas at Austin | 119541 | 1879 |
| Fischer, John Martin | University of California, Riverside | 104719 | 1772 |
| Gilbert, Margaret | University of California, Irvine | 111192 | 1889 |
| Leiter, Brian R. | The University of Chicago Law School | 113862 | 1532 |
| Estlund, David M. | Brown University | 115583 | 2552 |
| Darwall, Stephen L. | Yale University | 114651 | 1541 |
| Kim, Jaegwon | Brown University | 118616 | 2104 |
| Harman, Gilbert H. | Princeton University | 127104 | 1954 |
| Médina, José M. | Northwestern University | 113094 | 2635 |
| Beitz, Charles R. | Princeton University | 128634 | 2231 |
| Lange, Marc | College of Arts & Sciences | 104828 | 1499 |
| Held, Virginia | The City University of New York | 128815 | 2638 |
| Dotson, Kristie | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | 128349 | 2601 |
| Gendler, Tamar Szabó | Yale University | 124366 | 2245 |
| Dancy, Jonathan | The University of Texas at Austin | 128926 | 1944 |
| Fallis, Don | Northeastern University | 121765 | 1604 |
| Byrne, Alex | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 120199 | 1923 |
| Pippin, Robert B. | The University of Chicago | 129250 | 1645 |
| Shapiro, Lawrence A. | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 129268 | 1899 |
| Christiano, Thomas D. | The University of Arizona | 132161 | 2252 |
| Thomasson, Amie L. | Faculty of Arts and Sciences | 123745 | 1451 |
| Moor, James H. | Dartmouth College | 137177 | 1983 |
| Suppes, Patrick | Stanford University | 125313 | 2094 |
| Kamm, Frances Myrna | Department of Philosophy | 120344 | 1680 |
| Beall, J. C. | University of Notre Dame | 117003 | 1683 |
| Scheffler, Samuel | University of California, Berkeley | 138724 | 1794 |
| Feldman, Richard H. | University of Rochester | 136444 | 2455 |
| Yablo, Stephen | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 137737 | 1674 |
| Devitt, Michael | The Graduate Center | 98962 | 1455 |
| Tye, Michael | The University of Texas at Austin | 139744 | 1468 |
| Hintikka, Jaakko | Boston University | 129071 | 1606 |
| Guyer, Paul D. | Brown University | 126201 | 1355 |
| Zagzebski, Linda Trinkaus | The University of Oklahoma | 140239 | 1726 |
| Wedgwood, Ralph | University of Southern California | 135430 | 1512 |
| Wellman, Christopher Heath | Washington University in St. Louis | 146475 | 1864 |
| Pollock, John L. | The University of Arizona | 140037 | 1584 |
| Fine, Arthur I. | University of Washington | 145091 | 1841 |
| Gaus, Gerald F. | Wake Forest University | 138200 | 1372 |
| Copp, David | University of California, Davis | 145392 | 1461 |
| Peacocke, Christopher | Columbia University | 148205 | 1349 |
| Shapiro, Stewart | The Ohio State University | 136941 | 1390 |
| Casey, Edward S. | Stony Brook University | 155381 | 1930 |
| MacFarlane, John | University of California, Berkeley | 143851 | 1984 |
| Dretske, Fred I. | Stanford University | 156772 | 1500 |
| Belnap, Nuel D. | University of Pittsburgh | 145860 | 2472 |
| Walker, Margaret Urban | Marquette University | 156194 | 1547 |
| Hitchcock, Christopher Read | California Institute of Technology | 154184 | 1889 |
| Risse, Mathias | John F. Kennedy School of Government | 155620 | 1353 |
| Brennan, Jason F. | McDonough School of Business | 144821 | 1701 |
| Korsgaard, Christine M. | Harvard University | 162111 | 2178 |
| Stump, Eleonore | Saint Louis University | 157762 | 1612 |
| Huemer, Michael | University of Colorado Boulder | 159167 | 1191 |
| MacIntyre, Alasdair Chalmers | University of Notre Dame | 166894 | 1375 |
| Adams, Fred R. | University of Delaware | 148502 | 1871 |
| Brogaard, Berit O. | College of Arts and Sciences | 131448 | 1385 |
| Plantinga, Alvin | University of Notre Dame | 164916 | 1295 |
| Roberts, Robert C. | Baylor University | 168154 | 1774 |
| Kukla, Rebecca | Georgetown University | 162701 | 1652 |
| Bermúdez, José Luis | Texas A&M University | 155971 | 1438 |
| DeRose, Keith | Yale University | 172157 | 1569 |
| McKenna, Michael S. | The University of Arizona | 159412 | 1272 |
| Weatherson, Brian | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | 171632 | 1280 |
| Kolodny, Niko | University of California, Berkeley | 174923 | 1754 |
| Quine, Willard Van Orman | Harvard University | 179467 | 1285 |
| Baehr, Jason S. | Loyola Marymount University | 179148 | 1507 |
| Williams, Bernard | University of California, Berkeley | 186222 | 1585 |
| McDowell, John | University of Pittsburgh | 186328 | 1296 |
| Smith, Michael A. | Princeton University | 179198 | 1332 |
| Goldberg, Sanford C. | Northwestern University | 159055 | 1177 |
| Clarke, Randolph | Florida State University | 176116 | 1075 |
| Nolan, Daniel P. | University of Notre Dame | 184582 | 1154 |
| Rescher, Nicholas | University of Pittsburgh | 169680 | 1277 |
| Shoemaker, Sydney | Cornell University | 188177 | 1318 |
| Feldman, Fred | University of Massachusetts Amherst | 191615 | 1236 |
| Bernstein, Richard J. | New School for Social Research | 193773 | 1448 |
| Cohen, Joshua P. | Apple Computer | 193967 | 2274 |
| Slote, Michael Anthony | University of Miami | 178537 | 1495 |
| Egan, Andy | Rutgers University–New Brunswick | 188332 | 1223 |
| Levinson, Jerrold | University of Maryland, College Park | 189806 | 1039 |
| Otsuka, Michael | Department of Philosophy | 195504 | 1250 |
| Holton, Richard | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 200421 | 1305 |
| Christman, John | Pennsylvania State University | 199700 | 1390 |
| Chakravartty, Anjan | College of Arts and Sciences | 201731 | 1140 |
| Beiser, Frederick C. | Syracuse University | 207776 | 1218 |
| Critchley, Simon | The New School | 208064 | 1062 |
| Zollman, Kevin James Spears | Carnegie Mellon University | 190956 | 1322 |
| Varzi, Achille C. | Columbia University | 190288 | 1144 |
| Wood, Allen W. | Indiana University Bloomington | 215964 | 1382 |
| Elgin, Catherine Z. | Harvard Graduate School of Education | 218585 | 978 |
| Lycan, William G. | University of Connecticut | 202915 | 1047 |
| Pereboom, Derk | Cornell University | 195440 | 1044 |
| Bernasconi, Robert | Pennsylvania State University | 197489 | 989 |
| Fitelson, Branden | Northeastern University | 212410 | 1265 |
| Brandom, Robert Boyce | University of Pittsburgh | 224744 | 1271 |
| King, Jeffrey C. | Department of Philosophy | 207894 | 1015 |
| Neander, Karen | Duke University | 219960 | 1159 |
| Glennan, Stuart S. | Butler University | 213444 | 1210 |
| Ihde, Don | Stony Brook University | 224735 | 910 |
| Satz, Debra M. | Stanford University | 224851 | 1551 |
| Alston, William P. | Syracuse University | 230358 | 917 |
| Rosenberg, Alex | Duke University | 226255 | 1054 |
| Merricks, Trenton | University of Virginia | 229623 | 972 |
| Shoemaker, David W. | Cornell University | 220432 | 1073 |
| Strevens, Michael | New York University | 219294 | 972 |
| Rorty, Ámelie Oksenberg | Rutgers University | 235767 | 848 |
| Quong, Jonathan | University of Southern California | 236079 | 1147 |
| Ross, Don | Georgia State University | 207572 | 2054 |
| Camp, Elisabeth H. | Rutgers University | 227907 | 1014 |
| Salmon, Nathan | University of California, Santa Barbara | 200209 | 928 |
| McGinn, Colin | Rutgers University | 243701 | 1106 |
| Haack, Susan | University of Miami | 238633 | 844 |
| Wenar, Leif | Stanford University | 242357 | 880 |
| Schiffer, Stephen | New York University | 240474 | 1054 |
| Kornblith, Hilary | University of Massachusetts Amherst | 232447 | 916 |
| Hatfield, Gary C. | University of Pennsylvania | 207509 | 902 |
| deu | |||
| Habermas, Jürgen | Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main | 14287 | 7107 |
| List, Christian | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München | 36394 | 4987 |
| Schurz, Gerhard | Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf | 152358 | 1134 |
| Wansing, Heinrich | Ruhr-Universitat Bochum | 165166 | 1133 |
| Leitgeb, Hannes | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München | 224639 | 1084 |
| aus | |||
| Pettit, Philip N. | The Australian National University | 12840 | 7288 |
| Priest, Graham | University of Melbourne | 27666 | 4485 |
| Levy, Neil L. | Macquarie University, Department of Philosophy | 33195 | 3994 |
| Jackson, Frank C. | The Australian National University | 103630 | 2305 |
| Bayne, Tim J. | Monash University | 132120 | 2412 |
| Colyvan, Mark | The University of Sydney | 128795 | 2801 |
| Makinson, David C. | The University of Queensland | 149656 | 1786 |
| Hájek, Alan | The Australian National University | 165387 | 1402 |
| Humberstone, Lloyd | Monash University | 133993 | 1408 |
| Franklin, James | UNSW Sydney | 165099 | 1705 |
| Mackenzie, Catriona | Macquarie University | 184517 | 1711 |
| Horwich, Paul | The Australian National University | 226838 | 1140 |
| Malpas, Jeff E. | University of Tasmania | 220113 | 1106 |
| Alfano, Mark | Macquarie University | 208801 | 1441 |
| gbr | |||
| Williamson, Timothy Luke | University of Oxford | 21103 | 4727 |
| McMahan, Jeff | University of Oxford | 37966 | 3523 |
| Broome, John | University of Oxford | 51921 | 3472 |
| O'Neill, Onora | Newnham College | 52054 | 3350 |
| Raz, Joseph | University of Oxford | 59625 | 2577 |
| Bostrom, Nick | University of Oxford | 57844 | 3924 |
| Cartwright, Nancy Delaney | Durham University | 61620 | 3487 |
| Foucault, Michel | University of Cambridge | 72167 | 2962 |
| Lowe, Edward Jonathan | Durham University | 69090 | 2482 |
| Wright, Crispin | University of St Andrews | 77582 | 2336 |
| Bird, Alexander J. | University of Cambridge | 76873 | 2411 |
| Mouffe, Chantal Al | University of Westminster | 90265 | 2421 |
| Parfit, Derek | Balliol College | 106912 | 3155 |
| Kahane, Guy | University of Oxford | 99189 | 3127 |
| Sedley, David N. | University of Cambridge | 115717 | 1700 |
| Currie, Gregory | University of York | 115357 | 1745 |
| Ratcliffe, Matthew | University of York | 116385 | 1629 |
| Geuss, Raymond | University of Cambridge | 135366 | 1862 |
| Goldie, Peter | King's College London | 138310 | 1600 |
| Swinburne, Richard G. | University of Oxford | 145925 | 1874 |
| Anscombe, G. Elisabeth M. | University of Oxford, Somerville College | 156985 | 2294 |
| Crisp, Roger | University of Oxford | 156009 | 1535 |
| Heil, John | Durham University | 156792 | 1780 |
| Papineau, David | King's College London | 155739 | 1289 |
| Wolff, Jonathan | University of Oxford, Blavatnik School of Government | 163665 | 3585 |
| Archard, David William | Queen's University Belfast | 185313 | 1217 |
| Zangwill, Nick | University College London | 162042 | 956 |
| Price, Huw | Trinity College Cambridge | 183478 | 1326 |
| Mumford, Stephen D. | Durham University | 178418 | 1489 |
| Kidd, Ian James | University of Nottingham | 166892 | 1723 |
| Owen, David | University of Southampton | 200467 | 1148 |
| Sorensen, Roy A. | University of St Andrews | 205393 | 1106 |
| Hacker, Peter M.S. | St. John's College, Oxford | 208240 | 1124 |
| Cameron, Ross Paul | University of Leeds | 203602 | 1047 |
| Hawley, Katherine | University of St Andrews | 222616 | 1030 |
| Restall, Greg | University of St Andrews | 214231 | 1297 |
| Brown, Jessica A. | University of St Andrews | 230002 | 935 |
| Qizilbash, Mozaffar | University of York | 192310 | 1000 |
| Cottingham, John | University of Reading | 228510 | 1092 |
| Bortolotti, Lisa | University of Birmingham | 209484 | 1086 |
| Kelp, Christoph | University of Glasgow | 226610 | 847 |
| swe | |||
| Hansson, Sven Ove | The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) | 19059 | 5264 |
| Grüne-Yanoff, Till | The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) | 162554 | 1723 |
| Segerberg, Krister | Uppsala Universitet | 219530 | 896 |
| can | |||
| Walton, Douglas Neal | University of Windsor | 20201 | 5771 |
| Taylor, Charles | Université McGill | 108072 | 2088 |
| Mills, Charles Wright | University of Toronto | 101790 | 2366 |
| Feenberg, Andrew Lewis | Simon Fraser University | 118607 | 1672 |
| Turri, John | University of Waterloo | 87142 | 1663 |
| Heath, Joseph M. | University of Toronto | 147479 | 1676 |
| Matthen, Mohan | University of Toronto | 153351 | 2039 |
| Saul, Jennifer Mather | University of Waterloo | 167117 | 1290 |
| Misak, Cheryl J. | University of Toronto | 172063 | 3626 |
| Lopes, Dominic Mc Iver | The University of British Columbia | 192959 | 1054 |
| Hurka, Thomas M. | University of Toronto | 200583 | 1075 |
| Wilson, Jessica M. | University of Toronto | 197003 | 1233 |
| dnk | |||
| Zahavi, Dan | Københavns Universitet | 22803 | 5056 |
| Rendtorff, Jacob Dahl | Roskilde Universitet | 196111 | 555 |
| nld | |||
| Robeyns, Ingrid A.M. | Universiteit Utrecht | 37944 | 5183 |
| van Benthem, Johan F.A.K. | Universiteit van Amsterdam | 46471 | 3694 |
| van Eemeren, Frans H. | Universiteit van Amsterdam | 113291 | 2671 |
| Kleingeld, Pauline | Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | 156334 | 1555 |
| Hindriks, Frank A. | Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | 196980 | 973 |
| che | |||
| Žižek, Slavoj | European Graduate School | 57134 | 3092 |
| Heidegger, Martin | University of St. Gallen | 210674 | 1277 |
| Glock, Hans Johann | Universität Zürich | 203080 | 1044 |
| fra | |||
| Hacking, Ian | Collège de France | 55855 | 2788 |
| Récanati, François | Collège de France | 61565 | 2419 |
| Balibar, Étienne | Université Paris Nanterre | 95624 | 2420 |
| Douven, Igor | Sorbonne Université | 77670 | 1950 |
| Huneman, Philippe | Labex Who I Am | 224822 | 1019 |
| zaf | |||
| Metz, Thaddeus | University of Pretoria | 60705 | 2312 |
| isr | |||
| Enoch, David | Hebrew University of Jerusalem | 77306 | 2381 |
| nzl | |||
| Popper, Karl R. | The University of Auckland | 108080 | 2174 |
| Davies, Stephen J. | The University of Auckland | 193466 | 984 |
| Copeland, B. Jack | University of Canterbury | 187127 | 1110 |
| bel | |||
| Nanay, Bence | Universiteit Antwerpen | 82832 | 1607 |
| hkg | |||
| Cappelen, Herman | The University of Hong Kong | 153374 | 1922 |
| ind | |||
| Setiya, Kieran | MIT | 158483 | 1178 |
| nor | |||
| Naess, Arne | Universitetet i Oslo | 179290 | 3270 |
| Lippert–rasmussen, Kasper | UiT Norges Arktiske Universitet | 190049 | 1100 |
| Baumgartner, Michael | Universitetet i Bergen | 197026 | 1156 |
| Linnebo, Øystein | Universitetet i Oslo | 226983 | 832 |
| fin | |||
| Tuomela, Raimo | Helsingin Yliopisto | 202858 | 1591 |
| sgp | |||
| Kukathas, Chandran | Singapore Management University | 202966 | 1342 |
| aut | |||
| Crane, Tim | Central European University | 237904 | 1021 |
| Reiss, Julian | Johannes Kepler University Linz | 214665 | 986 |
| prt | |||
| Macagno, Fabrizio | Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa | 127232 | 2212 |
| jpn | |||
| Bueno, Ot´avio A. | Tohoku University | 206767 | 1082 |
| esp | |||
| García-Carpintero, Manuel | Universitat de Barcelona | 226973 | 665 |
| Source: August 2025 data-update for ‘Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators’ | |||
Top Philosophers
Based on Elsevier 2025 data