Citation Rankings
Highly Cited Researchers
Highly Cited Researchers 1.359 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
Computer Vision
Machine Learnin
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
695,740
580,320
0.834
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* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
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: 3
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Language Modeling
Natural Language Processin
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
179,423
111,129
0.619
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Computer Visio
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
149,538
121,046
0.809
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Bioinformatics
Vision
Natural Language Processin
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
133,489
68,738
0.515
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
125,273
105,870
0.845
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
computer vision
machine learning
artificial intelligence
computer graphic
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
115,493
83,656
0.724
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
109,229
89,495
0.819
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision
Machine Learnin
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
94,482
93,564
0.990
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* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
Machine Learnin
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
88,120
76,663
0.870
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
83,072
76,667
0.923
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
Natural language processing
machine learning
linguistic
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
82,537
80,442
0.975
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
80,238
74,962
0.934
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
Speech Processing
Speech Recognition
Spoken Language Processing
Machine Learning
A
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
73,234
50,819
0.694
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
computer vision
machine learning
artificial intelligenc
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
72,241
67,099
0.929
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
Machine Learning
Machine Perception
Big Data
Cosmology
High Redshift Univers
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
66,878
27,503
0.411
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
Natural Language Processing
Machine Learning
Structured Prediction
Information Extractio
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
63,959
59,762
0.934
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
machine learning
natural language processing
artificial intelligenc
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
63,701
56,268
0.883
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
Indexing
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Visio
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
63,478
44,746
0.705
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
Artificial Intelligence
Deep-Learning
Computer Visio
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
61,886
61,811
0.999
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 21
Software System
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
60,739
59,788
0.984
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 22
Database systems
Web data management
Artificial Intelligenc
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
57,957
8,459
0.146
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 23
Computer Vision
Machine Learnin
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
56,154
48,708
0.867
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 24
Computer Graphics
Computer Vision
Image Based Renderin
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
55,127
12,770
0.232
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 25
NLP
statistical machine translation
machine learning
neural network
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
53,063
38,101
0.718
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
5
3
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 1
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
355
150
2
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
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
1,083
448
3
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Tomas Mikolov
Facebook Inc
Camridge, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
179,423
111,129
0.619
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Language Modeling
Natural Language Processin
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,537
672
4
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Laurens van der Maaten
Facebook Inc
Camridge, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
149,538
121,046
0.809
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Computer Visio
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,927
859
5
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
Jason Weston
Facebook Inc
Camridge, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
133,489
68,738
0.515
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Bioinformatics
Vision
Natural Language Processin
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
2,168
1,000
6
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
Benoit Steiner
Facebook Inc
Camridge, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
125,273
105,870
0.845
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
2,556
1,194
7
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
C Lawrence Zitnick
Facebook Inc
Camridge, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
115,493
83,656
0.724
computer vision
machine learning
artificial intelligence
computer graphic
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
2,855
1,338
8
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
Bing Xu
Facebook Inc
Camridge, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
109,229
89,495
0.819
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
3,760
1,763
9
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
Francisco Massa
Facebook Inc
Camridge, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
94,482
93,564
0.990
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision
Machine Learnin
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
4,235
1,995
10
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
Armand Joulin
Facebook Inc
Camridge, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
88,120
76,663
0.870
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* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
4,692
2,216
11
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
Adam Lerer
Facebook Inc
Camridge, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
83,072
76,667
0.923
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
4,739
2,241
12
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
Mike Lewis
Facebook Inc
Camridge, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
82,537
80,442
0.975
Natural language processing
machine learning
linguistic
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
4,969
2,356
13
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
Sam Gross
Facebook Inc
Camridge, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
80,238
74,962
0.934
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
5,810
2,735
14
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
Abdelrahman Mohamed
Facebook Inc
Camridge, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
73,234
50,819
0.694
Speech Processing
Speech Recognition
Spoken Language Processing
Machine Learning
A
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
5,951
2,806
15
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
Saining Xie
Facebook Inc
Camridge, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
72,241
67,099
0.929
computer vision
machine learning
artificial intelligenc
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
6,745
3,168
16
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
Peter Capak
Facebook Inc
Camridge, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
66,878
27,503
0.411
Machine Learning
Machine Perception
Big Data
Cosmology
High Redshift Univers
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
7,222
3,408
17
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
Veselin Stoyanov
Facebook Inc
Camridge, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
63,959
59,762
0.934
Natural Language Processing
Machine Learning
Structured Prediction
Information Extractio
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
7,268
3,429
18
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
Edouard Grave
Facebook Inc
Camridge, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
63,701
56,268
0.883
machine learning
natural language processing
artificial intelligenc
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
7,316
3,456
19
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
Hervé Jégou
Facebook Inc
Camridge, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
63,478
44,746
0.705
Indexing
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Visio
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
7,623
3,604
20
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
Hugo Touvron
Facebook Inc
Camridge, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
61,886
61,811
0.999
Artificial Intelligence
Deep-Learning
Computer Visio
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
7,867
3,719
21
Ranking Based On Selection: 21
Lu Fang
Facebook Inc
Camridge, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
60,739
59,788
0.984
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
8,475
4,007
22
Ranking Based On Selection: 22
Alon Halevy
Facebook Inc
Camridge, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
57,957
8,459
0.146
Database systems
Web data management
Artificial Intelligenc
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
8,947
4,240
23
Ranking Based On Selection: 23
Piotr Bojanowski
Facebook Inc
Camridge, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
56,154
48,708
0.867
Computer Vision
Machine Learnin
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
9,190
4,360
24
Ranking Based On Selection: 24
Michael F Cohen
Facebook Inc
Camridge, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
55,127
12,770
0.232
Computer Graphics
Computer Vision
Image Based Renderin
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
9,765
4,613
25
Ranking Based On Selection: 25
Holger Schwenk
Facebook Inc
Camridge, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
53,063
38,101
0.718
NLP
statistical machine translation
machine learning
neural network