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Highly Cited Researchers 103 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 103 scientists , Updates every 3 days
* Last 5 Years Citation Counts Rankings

Rankings

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3,850
World Rank
China
161
Country Rank
Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences Logo
1
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
1
Bo Li
Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences Hefei, China
Engineering & Technology / Electrical & Information Engineering
Adversarial machine learning | security | privacy | big data | social networ

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    51,862
  • Last 5 Years
    48,580
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.937
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* Last 5 Years Citation Counts Rankings

Rankings

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62,618
World Rank
China
4,872
Country Rank
Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences Logo
2
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
2
Wei Zhou
Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences Hefei, China
Engineering & Technology / Computer Science
data minin

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    8,964
  • Last 5 Years
    7,702
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.859
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Rankings

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63,252
World Rank
China
4,928
Country Rank
Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences Logo
3
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
3
Kai Chen
Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences Hefei, China
Engineering & Technology / Electrical & Information Engineering
Software analysis and testing | artificial intelligence | smartphones | privac

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    9,538
  • Last 5 Years
    7,644
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.801
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Rankings

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93,678
World Rank
China
7,210
Country Rank
Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences Logo
4
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
4
Weiping Wang
Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences Hefei, China
Engineering & Technology / Computer Science
Database

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    7,554
  • Last 5 Years
    5,673
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.751
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Rankings

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122,482
World Rank
China
9,304
Country Rank
Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences Logo
5
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
5
Hua Zhang
Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences Hefei, China
Engineering & Technology / Computer Science
Computer Vision | Multimedia， Machine learning，Artificial Intelligenc

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    5,563
  • Last 5 Years
    4,561
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.820
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Rankings

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141,393
World Rank
China
10,656
Country Rank
Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences Logo
6
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
6
Shiming Ge
Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences Hefei, China
Engineering & Technology / Electrical & Information Engineering
Computer Vision | Artificial Intelligenc

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    4,337
  • Last 5 Years
    4,042
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.932
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Rankings

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143,674
World Rank
China
10,819
Country Rank
Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences Logo
7
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
7
Jizhong Han
Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences Hefei, China
Engineering & Technology / Electrical & Information Engineering

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    5,282
  • Last 5 Years
    3,985
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.754
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Rankings

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154,919
World Rank
China
11,598
Country Rank
Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences Logo
8
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
8
Tingwen Liu
Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences Hefei, China
Engineering & Technology / Electrical & Information Engineering
Content Security | Natural Language Processing | Knowledge Grap

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    3,952
  • Last 5 Years
    3,732
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.944
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Rankings

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191,100
World Rank
China
14,052
Country Rank
Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences Logo
9
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
9
Hongsong Zhu
Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences Hefei, China
Engineering & Technology / Computer Science
cybersecurity | internet measuremen

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    3,981
  • Last 5 Years
    3,093
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.777
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Rankings

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198,604
World Rank
China
14,533
Country Rank
Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences Logo
10
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
10
Guozhu Meng
Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences Hefei, China
Others
mobile security | program analysis | AI privacy and securit

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    3,521
  • Last 5 Years
    2,985
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.848
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Rankings

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240,142
World Rank
China
17,253
Country Rank
Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences Logo
11
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
11
Xiaojun Jia
Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences Hefei, China
Engineering & Technology / Electrical & Information Engineering
Explainable AI | Robust AI | Efficient A

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    2,505
  • Last 5 Years
    2,490
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.994
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Rankings

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354,618
World Rank
China
23,879
Country Rank
Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences Logo
12
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
12
Tianrui Hui
Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences Hefei, China
Engineering & Technology / Electrical & Information Engineering
Computer Vision | Multimedia Analysi

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    1,647
  • Last 5 Years
    1,647
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    1.000
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* Last 5 Years Citation Counts Rankings

Rankings

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391,159
World Rank
China
25,936
Country Rank
Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences Logo
13
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
13
Shaofei Huang
Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences Hefei, China
Engineering & Technology / Electrical & Information Engineering
Computer Visio

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    1,467
  • Last 5 Years
    1,467
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    1.000
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Rankings

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402,473
World Rank
China
26,510
Country Rank
Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences Logo
14
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
14
Wenhao Wang
Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences Hefei, China
Engineering & Technology / Electrical & Information Engineering
Confidential Computing | Trusted Execution Environment | System Securit

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    1,613
  • Last 5 Years
    1,417
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.878
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* Last 5 Years Citation Counts Rankings

Rankings

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403,711
World Rank
China
26,557
Country Rank
Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences Logo
15
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
15
Chang Liu
Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences Hefei, China
Engineering & Technology / Electrical & Information Engineering
Network Security | Network Behavior Analysis | Encrypted Traffic Analysis

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    1,427
  • Last 5 Years
    1,412
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.989
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* Last 5 Years Citation Counts Rankings

Rankings

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406,544
World Rank
China
26,730
Country Rank
Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences Logo
16
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
16
Jian Liu
Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences Hefei, China
Engineering & Technology / Electrical & Information Engineering
Software testing and securit

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    1,611
  • Last 5 Years
    1,400
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.869
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Rankings

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435,550
World Rank
China
28,204
Country Rank
Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences Logo
17
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
17
Wei Huo
Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences Hefei, China
Engineering & Technology / Electrical & Information Engineering
Software Security | Programming language | Program diagnosis | Computer Architectur

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    1,505
  • Last 5 Years
    1,284
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.853
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Rankings

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443,438
World Rank
China
28,586
Country Rank
Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences Logo
18
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
18
Yu Chen
Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences Hefei, China
Engineering & Technology / Electrical & Information Engineering
cryptograph

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    2,015
  • Last 5 Years
    1,254
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.622
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Rankings

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450,307
World Rank
China
28,940
Country Rank
Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences Logo
19
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
19
Dayan Wu（吴大衍）
Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences Hefei, China
Engineering & Technology / Electrical & Information Engineering
Multimedia | Computer Vision | Multimedia Retrieva

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    1,255
  • Last 5 Years
    1,229
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.979
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Rankings

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457,761
World Rank
China
29,274
Country Rank
Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences Logo
20
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
20
Xiaotong Sun
Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences Hefei, China
Engineering & Technology / Electrical & Information Engineering
Cyber Security | Computer Vision | Artificial Intelligence | Multimedia | Machine Learnin

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    1,434
  • Last 5 Years
    1,203
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.839
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Rankings

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466,940
World Rank
China
29,770
Country Rank
Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences Logo
21
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
21
Chuan Wang
Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences Hefei, China
Engineering & Technology / Computer Science
image processing | computer vision | machine learnin

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    1,392
  • Last 5 Years
    1,172
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.842
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Rankings

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486,138
World Rank
China
30,740
Country Rank
Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences Logo
22
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
22
Yue Zhao
Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences Hefei, China
Engineering & Technology / Computer Science
machine learning security | adversarial attack | backdoor attack | Circular-SA

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    1,182
  • Last 5 Years
    1,110
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.939
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Rankings

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498,975
World Rank
China
31,346
Country Rank
Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences Logo
23
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
23
Bo Jiang
Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences Hefei, China
Engineering & Technology / Electrical & Information Engineering
Machine Learning | Data Mining | Network Securit

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    1,173
  • Last 5 Years
    1,071
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.913
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Rankings

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505,100
World Rank
China
31,629
Country Rank
Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences Logo
24
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
24
Can Ma
Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences Hefei, China
Others

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    1,134
  • Last 5 Years
    1,053
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.929
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Rankings

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513,588
World Rank
China
31,993
Country Rank
Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences Logo
25
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
25
Zhengwei Jiang
Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences Hefei, China
Engineering & Technology / Electrical & Information Engineering
cyber threat intelligence | malware analysis | malicious traffic analysis | security big data mnin

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    1,102
  • Last 5 Years
    1,028
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.933
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