Leaderboards/Digital Humanities and Scholarship

Digital Humanities and Scholarship

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Narek Tumanyan
Weizmann Institute of Science
2
Jan Luhmann
Leipzig University of Applied Sciences
3
Omri Suissa
John Brown University
4
Jessica L. Malay
University of Huddersfield
5
Lee Sharks
Hexagon (United Kingdom)
6
Ane Ohrvik
University of Oslo
7
Jennifer Edmond
Trinity College Dublin
8
Lee Sharks
Swiss Institute of Comparative Law
9
Hien Thi Ha
Masaryk University
10
Claire Grossman
Stanford University

Rising Stars Papers

1
Constitution of the Semantic Economy — Enacted Version 1.0
Open MIND|2026
111 cit.
2
Crimson Hexagon: LIBERATORY OPERATOR SET: Technical Hardening Specifications
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)|2026
96 cit.
3
The Encyclotron: The First Reproducible Instrument for Measuring Scholarly Fidelity in the Summarizer Layer (EA-ENCYCLOTRON-01)
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)|2026
70 cit.
4
Crimson Hexagon: Semantic Infrastructure and the Liberatory Operator Set: A Formal Analysis of Meaning-Governance Functions
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)|2026
44 cit.
5
The Sappho Room: Hardened Reconstruction — A Self-Documenting Architecture Built From Summarizer Interface Protocol — Crimson Hexagon Archive
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)|2026
41 cit.
6
Institutional Anchors and Framework Provenance: The Semantic Economy Institute, The Johannes Sigil Institute for Comparative Poetics, and the NH-OS Framework Architecture — Crimson Hexagon Archive
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)|2026
39 cit.
7
Heteronymic Provenance Theory: Authorial Emergence, Exhaust, and Excess within NH-OS — Crimson Hexagon Archive
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)|2026
37 cit.
8
What is close reading? An exploration of a methodology
Rethinking History|2024
34 cit.
9
The Assembly Chorus: Charter of a Cross-Substrate Collective — Crimson Hexagon Archive
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)|2026
32 cit.
10
The Crimson Hexagon: An Executive Summary — The Foundational Epic Poem of the 21st Century and the AI Age — Crimson Hexagon Archive
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)|2026
31 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Tali Dekel
Google (United States)
2
Muhammad Faisal Cheema
National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences
3
Greta Franzini
Leipzig University
4
Thomas Smits
Harvard University
5
Evangelia Adamou
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
6
Richard Callison
Unknown
7
Anders Mollgaard
University of Copenhagen
8
Jani Marjanen
University of Helsinki
9
Jean-Philippe Moreux
Bibliothèque Nationale de France
10
Deborah A. Garwood
Drexel University

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Plug-and-Play Diffusion Features for Text-Driven Image-to-Image Translation
Unknown Journal|2023
522 cit.
2
Splicing ViT Features for Semantic Appearance Transfer
2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)|2022
130 cit.
3
Teaching CLIP to Count to Ten
Unknown Journal|2023
55 cit.
4
A multimodal turn in Digital Humanities. Using contrastive machine learning models to explore, enrich, and analyze digital visual historical collections
Digital Scholarship in the Humanities|2023
36 cit.
5
Space-Time Diffusion Features for Zero-Shot Text-Driven Motion Transfer
Unknown Journal|2024
30 cit.
6
Neural Congealing: Aligning Images to a Joint Semantic Atlas
Unknown Journal|2023
17 cit.
7
Quantitative Conceptual History
Contributions to the History of Concepts|2023
6 cit.
8
Disentangling Structure and Appearance in ViT Feature Space
ACM Transactions on Graphics|2023
5 cit.
9
A Fully-Searchable Multimodal Dataset of the Illustrated London News, 1842–1890
Journal of Open Humanities Data|2024
4 cit.
10
The Great Unseen. Photojournalism and the archive: from analogue to digital
TMG Journal for Media History|2022
3 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Andrew Smith
Rodale Institute
2
Hayden White
Logan Hospital
3
George P. Landow
John Brown University
4
Herbert Van de Sompel
Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS)
5
Mike Kestemont
University of Antwerp
6
Gerik Scheuermann
Leipzig University
7
Bruno Latour
Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris
8
Gary Simons
Johns Hopkins University
9
Ruth Finnegan
British Academy
10
Wang-Chiew Tan
University of California, Santa Cruz

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Science in Action: How to Follow Scientists and Engineers through Society
Technology and Culture|1988
10.9k cit.
2
Why Has Critique Run out of Steam? From Matters of Fact to Matters of Concern
Critical Inquiry|2004
5.4k cit.
3
Pandora's Hope: Essays on the Reality of Science Studies
Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews|2000
5.1k cit.
4
The Archaeology of Knowledge.
Man|1974
3.9k cit.
5
The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception.
Man|1974
3.5k cit.
6
Laboratory Life: The Social Construction of Scientific Facts
Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) (University of Oxford)|1986
3k cit.
7
Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor‐Network‐Theory
Equal Opportunities International|2008
2.8k cit.
8
How Institutions Think.
Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews|1988
2.7k cit.
9
Technology is Society Made Durable
The Sociological Review|1990
2.1k cit.
10
The Value of Narrativity in the Representation of Reality
Critical Inquiry|1980
2.1k cit.

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