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North AmericaEngineering & Technology / Electrical & Electronic Engineering Highly Cited Researchers 9.412 Scientists Citation Rankings - 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.
Built on transparency, it also addresses unethical practices and encourages reporting of violations. Compare results across 13 fields and 221 disciplines.

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Total 9.412 scientists , Updates every 3 days
* Total Citation Counts Rankings

Rankings

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177
World Rank
United States
80
Country Rank
University of California Berkeley Logo
2
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
1
Michael I Jordan
University of California Berkeley Berkeley, United States
Engineering & Technology / Electrical & Electronic Engineering
machine learning | computer science | statistics | artificial intelligence | optimizatio

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    349,905
  • Last 5 Years
    151,443
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.433
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Rankings

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349
World Rank
United States
150
Country Rank
University of California Berkeley Logo
6
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
2
Lotfi A Zadeh
University of California Berkeley Berkeley, United States
Engineering & Technology / Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Fuzzy Logic | Soft Computing | Artificial Intelligence | Human-Level Machine Intelligenc

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    290,868
  • Last 5 Years
    75,289
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.259
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Rankings

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413
World Rank
United States
170
Country Rank
Stanford University Logo
12
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
3
Stephen Boyd
Stanford University Stanford, United States
Engineering & Technology / Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Optimization | Control | Signal Processing | Artificial Intelligence | Financ

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    283,122
  • Last 5 Years
    108,980
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.385
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Rankings

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514
World Rank
United States
204
Country Rank
University of California Berkeley Logo
8
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
4
Jitendra Malik
University of California Berkeley Berkeley, United States
Engineering & Technology / Electrical & Electronic Engineering
computer vision | machine learning | robotics | artificial intelligence | computer graphic

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    263,756
  • Last 5 Years
    122,186
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.463
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Rankings

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702
World Rank
United States
267
Country Rank
Michigan State University Logo
6
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
5
Kalyanmoy Deb
Michigan State University East Lansing, United States
Engineering & Technology / Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Optimization | Evolutionary Computation | Multi-objective optimization | Machine Learning | A

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    236,766
  • Last 5 Years
    94,656
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.400
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Rankings

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759
World Rank
United States
290
Country Rank
University of California Berkeley Logo
10
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
6
Pieter Abbeel
University of California Berkeley Berkeley, United States
Engineering & Technology / Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Robotics | Machine Learning | A

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    229,581
  • Last 5 Years
    195,105
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.850
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Rankings

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1,007
World Rank
United States
405
Country Rank
University of Texas Austin Logo
2
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
7
Alan Bovik
University of Texas Austin Austin, United States
Engineering & Technology / Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Computational Vision | Visual Neuroscience | Multimedia | Augmented Reality | Vision Scienc

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    203,058
  • Last 5 Years
    102,338
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.504
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Rankings

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1,047
World Rank
United States
420
Country Rank
University of Michigan Logo
7
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
8
Stephen R Forrest
University of Michigan Ann Arbor, United States
Engineering & Technology / Electrical & Electronic Engineering
optoelectronic

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    196,089
  • Last 5 Years
    51,884
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.265
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Rankings

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1,487
World Rank
United States
627
Country Rank
University of Massachusetts Medical School at Worcester Logo
1
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
9
Roger J Davis
University of Massachusetts Medical School at Worcester Worcester, United States
Engineering & Technology / Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Signal Transduction | Protein Kinase | MAP Kinase | JNK | Metabolis

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    162,920
  • Last 5 Years
    29,239
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.179
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Rankings

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1,624
World Rank
United States
689
Country Rank
Georgia Institute of Technology Logo
5
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
10
Ian F Akyildiz
Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, United States
Engineering & Technology / Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Wireless Commu5G/6G Wireless Systems | Intelligent Surfaces | Nano-scale and Molecular Communication | Underwater and CubeSats Co

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    156,965
  • Last 5 Years
    35,691
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.227
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Rankings

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1,708
World Rank
United States
726
Country Rank
California Institute of Technology Caltech Logo
6
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
11
Richard Abbott
California Institute of Technology Caltech Pasadena, United States
Engineering & Technology / Electrical & Electronic Engineering
electronic

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    153,579
  • Last 5 Years
    104,751
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.682
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Rankings

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2,026
World Rank
United States
881
Country Rank
Stanford University Logo
45
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
12
Shanhui Fan
Stanford University Stanford, United States
Engineering & Technology / Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Nanophotonics | Photonic Crystals | Metamaterials | Plasmonics | Solar Cell

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    141,891
  • Last 5 Years
    69,956
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.493
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Rankings

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2,345
World Rank
Canada
87
Country Rank
University of Waterloo Logo
2
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
13
Zhou Wang
University of Waterloo Waterloo, Canada
Engineering & Technology / Electrical & Electronic Engineering
image processing | image quality assessment | multimedia | quality of experience | computational visio

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    130,100
  • Last 5 Years
    70,081
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.539
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Rankings

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2,420
World Rank
United States
1,092
Country Rank
Carnegie Mellon University Logo
10
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
14
Deva Ramanan
Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, United States
Engineering & Technology / Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Computer Vision | Machine Learnin

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    128,127
  • Last 5 Years
    89,088
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.695
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Rankings

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2,503
World Rank
United States
1,128
Country Rank
New York University Logo
12
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
15
Theodore Ted S Rappaport
New York University New York, United States
Engineering & Technology / Electrical & Electronic Engineering
wireless | communications | antennas | propagation | 6

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    125,866
  • Last 5 Years
    39,214
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.312
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* Total Citation Counts Rankings

Rankings

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2,526
World Rank
United States
1,139
Country Rank
University of California Berkeley Logo
35
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
16
Shankar Sastry
University of California Berkeley Berkeley, United States
Engineering & Technology / Electrical & Electronic Engineering
robotics | control | hybrid systems | cyber security | embedded system

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    125,379
  • Last 5 Years
    30,188
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.241
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Rankings

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2,568
World Rank
United States
1,162
Country Rank
University of Minnesota Twin Cities Logo
10
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
17
Phaedon Avouris
University of Minnesota Twin Cities Minneapolis, United States
Engineering & Technology / Electrical & Electronic Engineering
2D Materials | Nanophotonics | Nanoelectronic

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    124,332
  • Last 5 Years
    26,233
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.211
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* Total Citation Counts Rankings

Rankings

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2,648
World Rank
United States
1,206
Country Rank
Stanford University Logo
58
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
18
Tony F Heinz
Stanford University Stanford, United States
Engineering & Technology / Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Electronic and optical properties of materials | nonlinear optics | spectroscopy | photonics | nanoscienc

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    123,604
  • Last 5 Years
    55,692
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.451
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Rankings

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2,706
World Rank
United States
1,234
Country Rank
California Institute of Technology Caltech Logo
13
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
19
Lihong V Wang
California Institute of Technology Caltech Pasadena, United States
Engineering & Technology / Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Photoacoustic tomography | compressed ultrafast photography | time-reversal optics | ultrasound-modulated optical tomograph

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    121,132
  • Last 5 Years
    43,932
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.363
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Rankings

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3,030
World Rank
United States
1,383
Country Rank
University of Texas Arlington Logo
5
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
20
FL Lewis
University of Texas Arlington Arlington, United States
Engineering & Technology / Electrical & Electronic Engineering
cooperative control systems | nonlinear systems | optimal contro

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    114,886
  • Last 5 Years
    50,273
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.438
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Rankings

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3,098
World Rank
United States
1,416
Country Rank
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Logo
41
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
21
I Chuang
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, United States
Engineering & Technology / Electrical & Electronic Engineering
quantum | digital learnin

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    112,948
  • Last 5 Years
    45,364
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.402
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Rankings

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3,128
World Rank
United States
1,432
Country Rank
University of Washington Logo
20
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
22
Dieter Fox
University of Washington Seattle, United States
Engineering & Technology / Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Robotics | Artificial Intelligence | Computer Visio

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    113,680
  • Last 5 Years
    41,796
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.368
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Rankings

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3,318
World Rank
United States
1,526
Country Rank
Pennsylvania State University Logo
8
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
23
Jian Xu
Pennsylvania State University University Park, United States
Engineering & Technology / Electrical & Electronic Engineering
semiconductor optoelectronics | photonic

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    108,985
  • Last 5 Years
    70,833
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.650
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Rankings

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3,352
World Rank
United States
1,543
Country Rank
University of Pennsylvania Logo
19
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
24
Manfred Morari
University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, United States
Engineering & Technology / Electrical & Electronic Engineering
automatic control | electrical engineering | chemical engineerin

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    108,440
  • Last 5 Years
    28,639
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.264
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Rankings

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3,455
World Rank
United States
1,589
Country Rank
Columbia University New York Logo
31
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
25
Ruth S Defries
Columbia University New York New York, United States
Engineering & Technology / Electrical & Electronic Engineering
remote sensing | tropical forest | deforestation | land us

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    106,707
  • Last 5 Years
    41,866
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.392
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