Citation Rankings
Highly Cited Researchers
Engineering & Technology / Computer Science Highly Cited Researchers 133.389 Scientists Citation Rankings - 2025
The Citation Rankings (Highly Cited Researchers) list highlights the most cited and influential researchers across a vast range of scientific fields, covering 211 main and sub-disciplines, including the Art and Humanities Citation Rankings and Social Sciences and Humanities Citation Rankings. This service, offered exclusively and with real-time updates by AD Scientific Index, aims to provide a balanced and dynamic perspective by excluding data from CERN and other statistical sources that disproportionately favor certain researchers — particularly in the social sciences and humanities. This real-time methodology addresses the unfair advantage researchers with multi-author publications and CERN involvement hold over others, ensuring a more equitable evaluation. Furthermore, real-time citation rankings help uncover rule violations and unethical practices within the research community by continuously monitoring citation behavior.
For more detailed and up-to-date citation analyses, explore the Scientists Last 6 Years Citation Index, Universities Total Citations Rankings 2025, and Universities Last 6 Years Citations Rankings 2025.
* 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
914,959
639,405
0.699
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* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
machine learning
psychology
artificial intelligence
cognitive science
computer scienc
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
910,117
534,857
0.588
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Computer Vision
Machine Learning
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
670,544
555,608
0.829
* 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
558,386
443,525
0.794
* 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 architecture
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
334,478
197,084
0.589
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Deep Learning
Vision
Natural Language Processing
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
324,067
255,184
0.787
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* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
Deep Learning
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
322,276
253,875
0.788
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
machine learning
statistics
computer science
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
321,402
103,374
0.322
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Deep Learning
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
308,830
258,610
0.837
* 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 Intelligence
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
290,026
237,274
0.818
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Computer Vision
Neuroscience
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
287,871
198,376
0.689
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
Machine learning
Artificial Intelligenc
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
286,196
218,103
0.762
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
Computer Vision
Artificial Intelligence
AI
Machine Learning
Deep Learning
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
285,777
175,213
0.613
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
Machine Learning
Deep Learning
AI
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
277,811
132,575
0.477
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
Biometrics
Computer vision
Pattern recognition
Machine learning
Image processing
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
276,052
59,051
0.214
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
computer science
artificial intelligence
reinforcement learning
neural networks
physic
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
274,973
180,904
0.658
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 21
Natural Language Processing
Computational Linguistics
Deep Learning
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
274,911
141,113
0.513
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 22
computer vision
deep learning
machine learning
artificial intelligence
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
259,191
211,027
0.814
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 23
Artificial Intelligence
Deep Learning
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
255,021
192,188
0.754
* 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
253,594
133,147
0.525
* 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
914,959
639,405
0.699
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
910,117
534,857
0.588
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
670,544
555,608
0.829
Computer Vision
Machine Learning
* 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
558,386
443,525
0.794
computer vision, machine learnin
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
39
4
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
73
38
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
148
69
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
Jeff Dean
Google Inc.
California, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
334,478
197,084
0.589
Distributed systems
Artificial Intelligence
machine learning
compilers
computer architecture
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
170
79
2
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
Oriol Vinyals
Google Inc.
California, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
324,067
255,184
0.787
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Deep Learning
Vision
Natural Language Processing
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
174
82
5
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
Ian Goodfellow
Stanford University
Stanford, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
322,276
253,875
0.788
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* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
176
4
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
Vapnik
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
321,402
103,374
0.322
machine learning
statistics
computer science
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
198
92
7
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
Quoc V Le
Stanford University
Stanford, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
308,830
258,610
0.837
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Deep Learning
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
204
19
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
262
115
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
290,026
237,274
0.818
Machine Learning
Deep Learning
Neural Networks
Generative Models
Artificial Intelligence
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
269
117
9
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
Li Fei Fei
Stanford University
Stanford, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
287,871
198,376
0.689
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Computer Vision
Neuroscience
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
278
18
3
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
Aaron Courville
Université de Montréal
Montréal, Canada
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
286,196
218,103
0.762
Machine learning
Artificial Intelligenc
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
281
124
4
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
Trevor Darrell
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
285,777
175,213
0.613
Computer Vision
Artificial Intelligence
AI
Machine Learning
Deep Learning
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
312
132
10
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
Andrew Ng
Stanford University
Stanford, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
277,811
132,575
0.477
Machine Learning
Deep Learning
AI
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
322
135
2
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
Anil K Jain
Michigan State University
East Lansing, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
276,052
59,051
0.214
Biometrics
Computer vision
Pattern recognition
Machine learning
Image processing
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
327
6
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
Juergen Schmidhuber
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
274,973
180,904
0.658
computer science
artificial intelligence
reinforcement learning
neural networks
physic
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
328
138
11
Ranking Based On Selection: 21
Christopher D Manning
Stanford University
Stanford, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
274,911
141,113
0.513
Natural Language Processing
Computational Linguistics
Deep Learning
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
409
173
2
Ranking Based On Selection: 22
Piotr Dollár
Facebook Inc
Camridge, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
259,191
211,027
0.814
computer vision
deep learning
machine learning
artificial intelligence
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
439
184
4
Ranking Based On Selection: 23
Karen Simonyan
Google Inc.
California, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
255,021
192,188
0.754
Artificial Intelligence
Deep Learning
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
447
10
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 24
Luc Van Gool
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
253,594
133,147
0.525
computer vision
machine learning
AI
autonomous cars
cultural heritag
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
499
202
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