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Highly Cited Researchers
Highly Cited Researchers 87 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
Neural Networks
Artificial Intelligence
Deep Learnin
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Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
624,028
457,746
0.734
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* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
Machine Learning & Logic in Computer Scienc
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Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
246,800
227,378
0.921
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Deep Learning
Machine Learnin
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Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
222,706
209,004
0.938
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Artificial Intelligence
Mathematic
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Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
118,708
115,056
0.969
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
112,413
111,151
0.989
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
Artificial Intelligence
Robotics
Neuroscienc
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Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
112,100
98,505
0.879
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
106,628
106,221
0.996
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
AI Policy Researc
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Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
105,962
105,811
0.999
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
artificial intelligence policy
machine learning
artificial intelligenc
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Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
95,271
95,040
0.998
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* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
Machine Perception
Machine Learning
Computer Vision
Natural Language Processin
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Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
94,099
76,521
0.813
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
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Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
88,398
88,009
0.996
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
Machine Learning
Computer Science
Neuroscienc
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Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
77,909
76,927
0.987
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
74,944
74,199
0.990
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
Artificial Intelligence
Deep Learning
Reinforcement Learning
Bayesian Statistic
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
74,267
73,798
0.994
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
Deep Learnin
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Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
71,958
70,401
0.978
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
66,389
66,333
0.999
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
Supercomputing
AI
Data warehousin
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Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
59,700
59,293
0.993
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
artificial intelligence
distributed computin
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Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
57,609
57,494
0.998
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
Machine Learning
Optimizatio
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Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
56,660
56,470
0.997
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
Music Information Retrieval
Machine Learnin
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Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
54,042
53,916
0.998
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 21
Robotics
Artificial Intelligenc
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Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
48,785
43,443
0.890
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 22
AI policy
measurement of AI system
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Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
46,682
46,238
0.990
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 23
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Deep Learnin
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Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
45,157
37,698
0.835
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 24
Machine Learning
Deep Learnin
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
41,650
33,792
0.811
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 25
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligenc
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
40,154
37,157
0.925
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
8
4
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 1
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
521
207
2
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
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
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
687
271
3
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Alec Radford
OpenAI
San Francisco, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
222,706
209,004
0.938
Deep Learning
Machine Learnin
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
2,425
1,127
4
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Prafulla Dhariwal
OpenAI
San Francisco, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
118,708
115,056
0.969
Artificial Intelligence
Mathematic
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
2,691
1,256
5
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
Jeffrey Wu
OpenAI
San Francisco, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
112,413
111,151
0.989
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
2,708
1,268
6
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
John Schulman
OpenAI
San Francisco, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
112,100
98,505
0.879
Artificial Intelligence
Robotics
Neuroscienc
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
2,993
1,402
7
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
Sandhini Agarwal
OpenAI
San Francisco, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
106,628
106,221
0.996
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
3,032
1,426
8
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
Gretchen Krueger
OpenAI
San Francisco, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
105,962
105,811
0.999
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
3,699
1,730
9
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
Girish Sastry
OpenAI
San Francisco, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
95,271
95,040
0.998
artificial intelligence policy
machine learning
artificial intelligenc
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
3,784
1,774
10
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
Wojciech Zaremba
OpenAI
San Francisco, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
94,099
76,521
0.813
Machine Perception
Machine Learning
Computer Vision
Natural Language Processin
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* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
4,214
1,982
11
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
Mark Chen
OpenAI
San Francisco, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
88,398
88,009
0.996
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
5,221
2,464
12
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
Scott Gray
OpenAI
San Francisco, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
77,909
76,927
0.987
Machine Learning
Computer Science
Neuroscienc
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
5,584
2,638
13
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
Christopher Hesse
OpenAI
San Francisco, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
74,944
74,199
0.990
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
5,661
2,672
14
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
Pranav Shyam
OpenAI
San Francisco, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
74,267
73,798
0.994
Artificial Intelligence
Deep Learning
Reinforcement Learning
Bayesian Statistic
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
5,988
2,824
15
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
Arvind Neelakantan
OpenAI
San Francisco, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
71,958
70,401
0.978
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
6,816
3,206
16
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
Pamela Mishkin
OpenAI
San Francisco, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
66,389
66,333
0.999
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
8,097
3,835
17
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
Christopher Berner
OpenAI
San Francisco, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
59,700
59,293
0.993
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
8,563
4,056
18
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
Mateusz Litwin
OpenAI
San Francisco, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
57,609
57,494
0.998
artificial intelligence
distributed computin
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
8,817
4,172
19
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
Gabriel Goh
OpenAI
San Francisco, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
56,660
56,470
0.997
Machine Learning
Optimizatio
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
9,498
4,482
20
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
Jong Wook Kim
OpenAI
San Francisco, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
54,042
53,916
0.998
Music Information Retrieval
Machine Learnin
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
11,109
5,244
21
Ranking Based On Selection: 21
Peter Welinder
OpenAI
San Francisco, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
48,785
43,443
0.890
Robotics
Artificial Intelligenc
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
11,916
5,626
22
Ranking Based On Selection: 22
Jack Clark
OpenAI
San Francisco, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
46,682
46,238
0.990
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
12,602
5,926
23
Ranking Based On Selection: 23
Igor Babuschkin
OpenAI
San Francisco, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
45,157
37,698
0.835
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Deep Learnin
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
14,378
6,734
24
Ranking Based On Selection: 24
Luke Metz
OpenAI
San Francisco, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
41,650
33,792
0.811
Machine Learning
Deep Learnin
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
15,260
7,141
25
Ranking Based On Selection: 25
Ryan Lowe
OpenAI
San Francisco, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
40,154
37,157
0.925
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligenc