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Engineering & Technology / Computer Science Highly Cited Researchers 133.388 Scientists Citation Rankings - 2025
Discover the world’s highly cited researchers through the AD Scientific Index 2025 Citation Rankings.
These rankings evaluate scientists based on their total and recent citation counts, capturing the breadth and real-time currency of academic recognition. Citation data reveals how widely a scholar’s work is referenced, applied, and extended across diverse disciplines. The rankings are routinely updated to reflect ongoing citation growth, while eliminating distortions from excessive co-authorship and institutional inflation. Premium tools provide access to detailed citation dynamics, unethical citation behavior detection, and field-normalized benchmarking.
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 1
Machine learning
deep learning
artificial intelligenc
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
934,630
658,342
0.704
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* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
machine learning
psychology
artificial intelligence
cognitive science
computer scienc
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Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
917,954
543,636
0.592
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Computer Vision
Machine Learnin
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
695,740
580,320
0.834
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Machine Learning
Neural Networks
Artificial Intelligence
Deep Learnin
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
624,028
457,746
0.734
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
computer vision
machine learnin
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
574,845
459,755
0.800
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
Computer Vision
Machine Learnin
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
463,881
259,635
0.560
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
AI
machine learning
computer vision
robotics
image compressio
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
403,055
252,357
0.626
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
Distributed systems
Artificial Intelligence
machine learning
compilers
computer architectur
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
345,270
207,397
0.601
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Deep Learning
Vision
Natural Language Processin
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
338,829
269,670
0.796
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* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
Deep Learnin
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Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
333,745
264,961
0.794
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Deep Learnin
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
326,110
275,591
0.845
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
machine learning
statistics
computer scienc
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Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
325,777
107,278
0.329
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
Software Engineering
Computational Biology
HPC
Physic
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
306,066
71,889
0.235
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
Machine Learning
Deep Learning
Neural Networks
Generative Models
Artificial Intelligenc
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
300,518
247,546
0.824
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Computer Vision
Neuroscienc
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
297,457
207,701
0.698
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
Computer Vision
Artificial Intelligence
AI
Machine Learning
Deep Learnin
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
293,734
182,893
0.623
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
Machine learning
Artificial Intelligenc
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
292,795
224,499
0.767
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
Machine Learning
Deep Learning
A
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
283,207
137,541
0.486
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
Natural Language Processing
Computational Linguistics
Deep Learnin
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
281,612
147,313
0.523
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
Biometrics
Computer vision
Pattern recognition
Machine learning
Image processin
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
278,466
61,077
0.219
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 21
computer science
artificial intelligence
reinforcement learning
neural networks
physic
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
279,404
185,187
0.663
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 22
computer vision
deep learning
machine learning
artificial intelligenc
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
272,639
224,352
0.823
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 23
Artificial Intelligence
Deep Learnin
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
263,069
200,000
0.760
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 24
computer vision
machine learning
AI
autonomous cars
cultural heritag
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
257,696
137,134
0.532
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 25
Machine Learning & Logic in Computer Scienc
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
246,800
227,378
0.921
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1
1
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 1
Yoshua Bengio
Université de Montréal
Montréal, Canada
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
934,630
658,342
0.704
Machine learning
deep learning
artificial intelligenc
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
2
2
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
Geoffrey Hinton
University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
917,954
543,636
0.592
machine learning
psychology
artificial intelligence
cognitive science
computer scienc
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
5
3
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Kaiming He
Facebook Inc
Camridge, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
695,740
580,320
0.834
Computer Vision
Machine Learnin
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
8
4
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Ilya Sutskever
OpenAI
San Francisco, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
624,028
457,746
0.734
Machine Learning
Neural Networks
Artificial Intelligence
Deep Learnin
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
16
9
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
Ross Girshick
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
574,845
459,755
0.800
computer vision
machine learnin
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
46
6
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
Andrew Zisserman
University of Oxford
Oxford, United Kingdom
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
463,881
259,635
0.560
Computer Vision
Machine Learnin
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
76
39
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
Yann Lecun
New York University
New York, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
403,055
252,357
0.626
AI
machine learning
computer vision
robotics
image compressio
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
146
68
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
Jeff Dean
Google Inc.
California, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
345,270
207,397
0.601
Distributed systems
Artificial Intelligence
machine learning
compilers
computer architectur
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
157
72
2
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
Oriol Vinyals
Google Inc.
California, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
338,829
269,670
0.796
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Deep Learning
Vision
Natural Language Processin
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
167
76
5
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
Ian Goodfellow
Stanford University
Stanford, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
333,745
264,961
0.794
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* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
183
85
7
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
Quoc V Le
Stanford University
Stanford, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
326,110
275,591
0.845
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Deep Learnin
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
184
4
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
Vapnik
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
325,777
107,278
0.329
machine learning
statistics
computer scienc
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
221
21
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
Thomas Doherty
University of Strathclyde
Glasgow, United Kingdom
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
306,066
71,889
0.235
Software Engineering
Computational Biology
HPC
Physic
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
243
107
3
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
Diederik P Kingma|Durk Kingma, Diederik Pieter Kingma
Google Inc.
California, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
300,518
247,546
0.824
Machine Learning
Deep Learning
Neural Networks
Generative Models
Artificial Intelligenc
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
256
113
9
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
Li Fei Fei
Stanford University
Stanford, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
297,457
207,701
0.698
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Computer Vision
Neuroscienc
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
274
119
4
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
Trevor Darrell
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
293,734
182,893
0.623
Computer Vision
Artificial Intelligence
AI
Machine Learning
Deep Learnin
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
277
18
3
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
Aaron Courville
Université de Montréal
Montréal, Canada
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
292,795
224,499
0.767
Machine learning
Artificial Intelligenc
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
309
131
10
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
Andrew Ng
Stanford University
Stanford, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
283,207
137,541
0.486
Machine Learning
Deep Learning
A
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
315
132
11
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
Christopher D Manning
Stanford University
Stanford, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
281,612
147,313
0.523
Natural Language Processing
Computational Linguistics
Deep Learnin
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
331
139
2
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
Anil K Jain
Michigan State University
East Lansing, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
278,466
61,077
0.219
Biometrics
Computer vision
Pattern recognition
Machine learning
Image processin
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
325
7
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 21
Juergen Schmidhuber
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
279,404
185,187
0.663
computer science
artificial intelligence
reinforcement learning
neural networks
physic
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
356
150
2
Ranking Based On Selection: 22
Piotr Dollár
Facebook Inc
Camridge, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
272,639
224,352
0.823
computer vision
deep learning
machine learning
artificial intelligenc
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
413
175
4
Ranking Based On Selection: 23
Karen Simonyan
Google Inc.
California, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
263,069
200,000
0.760
Artificial Intelligence
Deep Learnin
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
454
10
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 24
Luc Van Gool
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
257,696
137,134
0.532
computer vision
machine learning
AI
autonomous cars
cultural heritag
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
522
207
2
Ranking Based On Selection: 25
Łukasz Kaiser
OpenAI
San Francisco, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
246,800
227,378
0.921
Machine Learning & Logic in Computer Scienc