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Engineering & Technology / Electrical & Electronic Engineering Highly Cited Researchers 209 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.
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Total 209 scientists , Updates every 3 days
* Total Citation Counts Rankings

Rankings

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408
World Rank
United States
170
Country Rank
Stanford University Logo
12
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
1
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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2,006
World Rank
United States
872
Country Rank
Stanford University Logo
45
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
2
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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2,623
World Rank
United States
1,190
Country Rank
Stanford University Logo
59
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
3
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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3,941
World Rank
United States
1,805
Country Rank
Stanford University Logo
91
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
4
Matei Zaharia
Stanford University Stanford, United States
Engineering & Technology / Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Distributed Systems | Machine Learning | Databases | Securit

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    99,564
  • Last 5 Years
    51,955
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.522
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Rankings

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5,481
World Rank
United States
2,521
Country Rank
Stanford University Logo
128
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
5
HS Philip Wong
Stanford University Stanford, United States
Engineering & Technology / Electrical & Electronic Engineering
electron devices | VLSI | solid-state | nanotechnology | nan

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    81,818
  • Last 5 Years
    38,755
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.474
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Rankings

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6,360
World Rank
United States
2,914
Country Rank
Stanford University Logo
144
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
6
James S Harris Jr
Stanford University Stanford, United States
Engineering & Technology / Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Epitaxy | MBE | Semiconductor Lasers | Integrated Photonics | Nanotechnolog

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    74,886
  • Last 5 Years
    21,187
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.283
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Rankings

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6,462
World Rank
United States
2,965
Country Rank
Stanford University Logo
149
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
7
Mark Horowitz
Stanford University Stanford, United States
Engineering & Technology / Electrical & Electronic Engineering
VLSI | Hardware | Graphics and Imaging | Applying Engineering to Biolog

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    74,122
  • Last 5 Years
    18,179
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.245
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Rankings

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8,297
World Rank
United States
3,821
Country Rank
Stanford University Logo
180
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
8
Robert M Gray
Stanford University Stanford, United States
Engineering & Technology / Electrical & Electronic Engineering
quantization | information theory | signal processing | data compressio

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    63,353
  • Last 5 Years
    8,721
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.138
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Rankings

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9,322
World Rank
United States
4,324
Country Rank
Stanford University Logo
209
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
9
Oussama Khatib
Stanford University Stanford, United States
Engineering & Technology / Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Robotics | Haptics | Human Motion Understandin

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    58,858
  • Last 5 Years
    20,615
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.350
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Rankings

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10,187
World Rank
United States
4,702
Country Rank
Stanford University Logo
220
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
10
John Pauly
Stanford University Stanford, United States
Engineering & Technology / Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Magnetic Resonance Imaging | Medical Imaging | Signal Processing | Image Reconstruction | MR

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    55,647
  • Last 5 Years
    21,014
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.378
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Rankings

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13,946
World Rank
United States
6,404
Country Rank
Stanford University Logo
285
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
11
Bernd Girod
Stanford University Stanford, United States
Engineering & Technology / Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Multimedia Systems | Image and Video Coding | Media Streaming | Image/Video Processing | Multimedia Signal Processin

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    45,781
  • Last 5 Years
    4,623
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.101
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Rankings

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14,001
World Rank
United States
6,428
Country Rank
Stanford University Logo
286
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
12
Tomas Leijtens
Stanford University Stanford, United States
Engineering & Technology / Electrical & Electronic Engineering
photovoltaics | organic semiconductors | perovskite solar cell

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    45,669
  • Last 5 Years
    25,151
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.551
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Rankings

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15,226
World Rank
United States
6,955
Country Rank
Stanford University Logo
302
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
13
Eric Pop
Stanford University Stanford, United States
Engineering & Technology / Electrical & Electronic Engineering
nanoelectronics | semiconductors | electron devices | 2D materials | thermal managemen

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    43,385
  • Last 5 Years
    23,366
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.539
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Rankings

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16,432
World Rank
United States
7,497
Country Rank
Stanford University Logo
326
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
14
Abbas El Gamal
Stanford University Stanford, United States
Engineering & Technology / Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Network information theory | imaging sensors and systems | FPGAs | smart gri

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    41,404
  • Last 5 Years
    7,523
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.182
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Rankings

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16,946
World Rank
United States
7,711
Country Rank
Stanford University Logo
331
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
15
Joseph M Kahn
Stanford University Stanford, United States
Engineering & Technology / Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Optical communications | Optical communication | Optical fiber communication | Fiber optics | Free-space optical communication

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    40,624
  • Last 5 Years
    10,235
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.252
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* Total Citation Counts Rankings

Rankings

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17,403
World Rank
United States
7,917
Country Rank
Stanford University Logo
339
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
16
Krishna Saraswat
Stanford University Stanford, United States
Engineering & Technology / Electrical & Electronic Engineering
semiconductor devices | nano electronics | optical interconnects | solar cell

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    39,927
  • Last 5 Years
    8,579
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.215
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* Total Citation Counts Rankings

Rankings

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18,499
World Rank
United States
8,388
Country Rank
Stanford University Logo
355
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
17
Gordon Wetzstein
Stanford University Stanford, United States
Engineering & Technology / Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Computational Imaging | Computational Displays | Computational Optics | Neural Renderin

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    38,382
  • Last 5 Years
    32,910
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.857
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* Total Citation Counts Rankings

Rankings

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19,671
World Rank
United States
8,876
Country Rank
Stanford University Logo
374
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
18
Andrea Montanari
Stanford University Stanford, United States
Engineering & Technology / Electrical & Electronic Engineering
statistics | machine learning | probability theory | information theory | signal processin

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    36,893
  • Last 5 Years
    21,809
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.591
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* Total Citation Counts Rankings

Rankings

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20,230
World Rank
United States
9,139
Country Rank
Stanford University Logo
389
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
19
Simiao Niu
Stanford University Stanford, United States
Engineering & Technology / Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Stretchable electronics | Wearable electronics | Energy Harvesting | Nanogenerato

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    36,187
  • Last 5 Years
    26,163
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.723
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Rankings

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26,782
World Rank
United States
11,963
Country Rank
Stanford University Logo
479
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
20
Dorsa Sadigh
Stanford University Stanford, United States
Engineering & Technology / Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Robotics | Human-Robot Interaction | Machine Learning | Artificial Intelligence | Control Theor

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    30,135
  • Last 5 Years
    28,682
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.952
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Rankings

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31,841
World Rank
United States
14,047
Country Rank
Stanford University Logo
549
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
21
Umran S Inan
Stanford University Stanford, United States
Engineering & Technology / Electrical & Electronic Engineering
artificial Intelligence | machine learning | control theor

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    26,804
  • Last 5 Years
    5,648
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.211
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Rankings

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31,848
World Rank
United States
14,050
Country Rank
Stanford University Logo
550
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
22
Belgacem Haba|Bel Haba, Berugasemu Haba
Stanford University Stanford, United States
Engineering & Technology / Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Engineering & Technology | materials science | electronics and electrical engineerin

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    26,798
  • Last 5 Years
    11,180
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.417
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Rankings

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42,433
World Rank
United States
18,280
Country Rank
Stanford University Logo
661
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
23
Jeannette Bohg
Stanford University Stanford, United States
Engineering & Technology / Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Robotics | Multi-Modal Perception | Machine Learning | Computer Vision | Grasping and Manipulatio

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    21,896
  • Last 5 Years
    19,919
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.910
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Rankings

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44,399
World Rank
United States
19,019
Country Rank
Stanford University Logo
682
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
24
H Tom Soh
Stanford University Stanford, United States
Engineering & Technology / Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Bioengineering | Biosensors | Biomaterials | Directed Evolution | Aptamer

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    21,215
  • Last 5 Years
    7,556
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.356
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Rankings

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46,113
World Rank
United States
19,707
Country Rank
Stanford University Logo
700
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
25
Deborah Gruenfeld
Stanford University Stanford, United States
Engineering & Technology / Electrical & Electronic Engineering
power | group

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    20,607
  • Last 5 Years
    6,451
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.313
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