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EuropeEngineering & Technology / Computer Science Highly Cited Researchers 33.782 Scientists Citation Rankings (Sort by last 5 years Citation Index) - 2026

See how widely and consistently research is cited with real-time citation rankings.
Covering 2.6 million scientists, this list evaluates both total and last 5 years’ citation counts to measure scientific influence and highlight Highly Cited Researchers.
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Total 33.782 scientists , Updates every 3 days
* Last 5 Years Citation Counts Rankings

Rankings

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27
World Rank
United Kingdom
3
Country Rank
University of Oxford Logo
1
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
1
Andrew Zisserman
University of Oxford Oxford, United Kingdom
Engineering & Technology / Computer Science
Computer Vision | Machine Learnin

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    497,781
  • Last 5 Years
    292,407
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.587
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Rankings

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91
World Rank
Switzerland
2
Country Rank
Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence Logo
1
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
2
Juergen Schmidhuber
Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence Lugano, Switzerland
Engineering & Technology / Computer Science
computer science | artificial intelligence | reinforcement learning | neural networks | physic

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    304,737
  • Last 5 Years
    209,470
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.687
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Rankings

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93
World Rank
Germany
5
Country Rank
Universität Freiburg Logo
1
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
3
Olaf Ronneberger
Universität Freiburg Freiburg, Germany
Engineering & Technology / Computer Science
Image Analysis | Computer Vision | Pattern Recognition | Biomedical Application

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    225,676
  • Last 5 Years
    205,695
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.911
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Rankings

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176
World Rank
Germany
6
Country Rank
Universität Freiburg Logo
2
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
4
Thomas Brox
Universität Freiburg Freiburg, Germany
Engineering & Technology / Computer Science
Computer Vision | Machine Learning | Artificial Intelligence | Robotic

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    210,318
  • Last 5 Years
    169,187
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.804
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Rankings

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186
World Rank
Austria
2
Country Rank
Johannes Kepler Universität Linz Logo
1
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
5
Sepp Hochreiter
Johannes Kepler Universität Linz Linz, Austria
Engineering & Technology / Computer Science
Machine Learning | Deep Learning | Artificial Intelligence | Neural Networks | Bioinformatic

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    212,526
  • Last 5 Years
    166,958
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.786
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Rankings

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204
World Rank
Netherlands
2
Country Rank
University of Amsterdam Logo
1
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
6
Max Welling
University of Amsterdam Amsterdam, Netherlands
Engineering & Technology / Computer Science
Machine Learning | Artificial Intelligence | Statistic

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    192,385
  • Last 5 Years
    162,672
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.846
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Rankings

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228
World Rank
Switzerland
5
Country Rank
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule ETH Zürich Logo
1
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
7
Luc Van Gool
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule ETH Zürich Zurich, Switzerland
Engineering & Technology / Computer Science
computer vision | machine learning | AI | autonomous cars | cultural heritag

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    278,482
  • Last 5 Years
    157,437
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.565
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Rankings

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435
World Rank
France
11
Country Rank
Laboratoire d'Informatique de l'École polytechnique Logo
1
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
8
Gaël Varoquaux
Laboratoire d'Informatique de l'École polytechnique Palaiseau, France
Engineering & Technology / Computer Science
Machine learning | tabular AI | neuroscience | medical statistic

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    170,688
  • Last 5 Years
    133,260
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.781
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Rankings

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542
World Rank
France
14
Country Rank
Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique Logo
1
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
9
Alexandre Gramfort
Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique Le Chesnay-Rocquencourt, France
Engineering & Technology / Computer Science
machine learning | signal processing | brain imaging | neuroscienc

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    157,187
  • Last 5 Years
    124,902
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.795
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Rankings

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794
World Rank
France
17
Country Rank
Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique Logo
2
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
10
Bertrand Thirion
Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique Le Chesnay-Rocquencourt, France
Engineering & Technology / Computer Science
Machine learning | functional brain imaging | statistic

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    143,885
  • Last 5 Years
    110,398
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.767
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Rankings

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1,042
World Rank
Poland
7
Country Rank
University of Warsaw Logo
2
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
11
Adam Paszke
University of Warsaw Warsaw, Poland
Engineering & Technology / Computer Science
Programming languages | High performance computing | Graph Theory | Machine Learnin

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    105,644
  • Last 5 Years
    99,717
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.944
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Rankings

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1,056
World Rank
Germany
32
Country Rank
Universität Freiburg Logo
4
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
12
Frank Hutter
Universität Freiburg Freiburg, Germany
Engineering & Technology / Computer Science
Tabular Data | Foundation Models | AutoML | Meta-Learning | Deep Learnin

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    112,254
  • Last 5 Years
    99,015
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.882
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Rankings

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1,080
World Rank
Spain
28
Country Rank
Universidad de Granada Logo
2
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
13
Francisco Herrera
Universidad de Granada Granada, Spain
Engineering & Technology / Computer Science
Artificial Intelligence | Computational Intelligence | Data Science | Trustworthy A

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    182,871
  • Last 5 Years
    98,231
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.537
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Rankings

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1,081
World Rank
France
22
Country Rank
Total Logo
1
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
14
Matthieu Brucher
Total Courbevoie, France
Engineering & Technology / Computer Science
machine learning | HPC | simulatio

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    123,786
  • Last 5 Years
    98,205
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.793
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Rankings

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1,206
World Rank
Germany
39
Country Rank
Technische Universität Berlin Logo
1
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
15
Klaus Robert Müller
Technische Universität Berlin Berlin, Germany
Engineering & Technology / Computer Science
Machine learning | artificial intelligence | big data | computational neuroscienc

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    170,389
  • Last 5 Years
    93,933
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.551
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Rankings

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1,544
World Rank
United Kingdom
107
Country Rank
University of Oxford Logo
15
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
16
Andrea Vedaldi
University of Oxford Oxford, United Kingdom
Engineering & Technology / Computer Science
Computer Vision | Machine Learnin

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    122,398
  • Last 5 Years
    84,693
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.692
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Rankings

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1,578
World Rank
United Kingdom
114
Country Rank
University of Birmingham Logo
7
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
17
Matthew Brett
University of Birmingham Birmingham, United Kingdom
Engineering & Technology / Computer Science
Data science teaching and practice | open source software | functional MRI | diffusion imagin

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    100,343
  • Last 5 Years
    83,898
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.836
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Rankings

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1,616
World Rank
United Kingdom
116
Country Rank
Bournemouth University Logo
1
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
18
Jian J Zhang
Bournemouth University Poole, United Kingdom
Engineering & Technology / Computer Science
computer graphics & animation | virtual reality | medical simulation & visualisatio

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    115,148
  • Last 5 Years
    82,849
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.720
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Rankings

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1,633
World Rank
United Kingdom
117
Country Rank
University of Strathclyde Logo
1
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
19
Thomas Doherty
University of Strathclyde Glasgow, United Kingdom
Engineering & Technology / Computer Science
Software Engineering | Computational Biology | HPC | Physic

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    316,065
  • Last 5 Years
    82,202
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.260
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Rankings

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1,638
World Rank
Denmark
7
Country Rank
University of Copenhagen Logo
3
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
20
Lars Juhl Jensen
University of Copenhagen Copenhagen, Denmark
Engineering & Technology / Computer Science
bioinformatics | data visualization | network biology | systems biology | text minin

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    132,143
  • Last 5 Years
    82,039
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.621
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Rankings

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1,923
World Rank
United Kingdom
144
Country Rank
University of East Anglia Logo
1
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
21
Ling Shao
University of East Anglia Norwich, United Kingdom
Engineering & Technology / Computer Science
Computer Vision | Generative AI | Multimodal AI | Spatial Intelligence | AI for Healthcar

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    89,089
  • Last 5 Years
    74,531
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.837
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Rankings

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1,968
World Rank
Germany
63
Country Rank
Universität Tubingen Logo
1
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
22
Andreas Geiger
Universität Tubingen Tübingen, Germany
Engineering & Technology / Computer Science
computer vision | machine learning | robotics | scene understandin

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    89,539
  • Last 5 Years
    73,436
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.820
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Rankings

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1,925
World Rank
Denmark
10
Country Rank
University of Copenhagen Logo
5
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
23
Samir Bhatt
University of Copenhagen Copenhagen, Denmark
Engineering & Technology / Computer Science
Public Health | Genetics | Infectious Diseases | Machine Learning | Mathematical Biolog

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    102,619
  • Last 5 Years
    74,460
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.726
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Rankings

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2,023
World Rank
Germany
69
Country Rank
Max Planck Institute for Informatics Logo
1
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
24
Bernt Schiele
Max Planck Institute for Informatics Saarbrücken, Germany
Engineering & Technology / Computer Science
Computer Vision | Machine Learning | Artificial Intelligence | Autonomous Driving | Scene Understandin

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    122,379
  • Last 5 Years
    72,306
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.591
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Rankings

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2,049
World Rank
United Kingdom
154
Country Rank
University of Wolverhampton Logo
1
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
25
Richard Evans
University of Wolverhampton Wolverhampton, United Kingdom
Engineering & Technology / Computer Science
natural language processing | computational linguistics | information extractio

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    78,643
  • Last 5 Years
    71,778
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.913
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