Citation Rankings
Highly Cited Researchers
North AmericaEngineering & Technology / Computer Science Highly Cited Researchers 33.935 Scientists Citation Rankings - 2025
The Citation Rankings (Highly Cited Researchers) list highlight the most cited and influential researchers across a vast range of scientific fields, covering 197 main and sub-disciplines, including the Art and Humanities Citation Rankings and Social Sciences and Humanities Citation Rankings. This service, offered exclusively by AD Scientific Index, aims to provide a balanced perspective by excluding data from CERN and other statistical sources that disproportionately favor certain researchers, particularly in the social sciences and humanities. This unique approach addresses the advantages researchers with multi-author publications and CERN involvement hold over others. Furthermore, citation rankings help uncover rule violations and unethical practices within the research community. For more detailed 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 intelligence
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
886,721
611,432
0.690
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
machine learning
psychology
artificial intelligence
cognitive science
computer science
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
885,820
510,530
0.576
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Computer Vision
Machine Learning
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
653,870
538,986
0.824
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Machine Learning
Neural Networks
Artificial Intelligence
Deep Learning
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
589,246
422,993
0.718
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
computer vision
machine learning
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
536,315
422,002
0.787
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
AI
machine learning
computer vision
robotics
image compression
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
390,752
239,816
0.614
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
Deep Learning
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
336,218
261,932
0.779
* 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
328,179
190,153
0.579
* 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
315,367
245,968
0.780
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Deep Learning
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
298,702
247,971
0.830
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Computer Vision
Neuroscience
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
283,207
193,546
0.683
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
Machine Learning
Deep Learning
Neural Networks
Generative Models
Artificial Intelligence
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
282,266
229,596
0.813
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
Computer Vision
Artificial Intelligence
AI
Machine Learning
Deep Learning
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
280,316
170,241
0.607
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
Machine learning
Artificial Intelligence
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
276,915
208,771
0.754
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
Biometrics
Computer vision
Pattern recognition
Machine learning
Image processing
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
276,241
58,614
0.212
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
Machine Learning
Deep Learning
AI
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
272,211
127,431
0.468
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
Natural Language Processing
Computational Linguistics
Deep Learning
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
271,993
137,483
0.505
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
computer vision
deep learning
machine learning
artificial intelligence
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
250,277
202,278
0.808
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
Artificial Intelligence
Deep Learning
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
248,822
186,306
0.749
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
Machine Learning & Logic in Computer Science
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
231,730
206,984
0.893
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 21
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Reinforcement Learning
Planning
Computer Games
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
224,009
179,026
0.799
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 22
Data Science
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
221,155
72,239
0.327
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 23
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Deep Learning
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
221,145
143,146
0.647
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 24
Data mining
Database
Privacy
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
215,082
97,876
0.455
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 25
Deep Learning
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
210,743
198,577
0.942
* 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
886,721
611,432
0.690
Machine learning
deep learning
artificial intelligence
* 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
885,820
510,530
0.576
machine learning
psychology
artificial intelligence
cognitive science
computer science
* 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
653,870
538,986
0.824
Computer Vision
Machine Learning
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
14
7
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Ilya Sutskever
OpenAI
San Francisco, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
589,246
422,993
0.718
Machine Learning
Neural Networks
Artificial Intelligence
Deep Learning
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
18
11
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
Ross Girshick
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
536,315
422,002
0.787
computer vision
machine learning
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
81
41
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
Yann Lecun
New York University
New York, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
390,752
239,816
0.614
AI
machine learning
computer vision
robotics
image compression
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
153
71
5
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
Ian Goodfellow
Stanford University
Stanford, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
336,218
261,932
0.779
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
169
76
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
Jeff Dean
Google Inc.
California, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
328,179
190,153
0.579
Distributed systems
Artificial Intelligence
machine learning
compilers
computer architecture
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
191
88
2
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
Oriol Vinyals
Google Inc.
California, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
315,367
245,968
0.780
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Deep Learning
Vision
Natural Language Processing
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
234
102
7
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
Quoc V Le
Stanford University
Stanford, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
298,702
247,971
0.830
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Deep Learning
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
295
125
9
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
Li Fei Fei
Stanford University
Stanford, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
283,207
193,546
0.683
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Computer Vision
Neuroscience
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
299
128
3
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
Diederik P Kingma|Durk Kingma, Diederik Pieter Kingma
Google Inc.
California, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
282,266
229,596
0.813
Machine Learning
Deep Learning
Neural Networks
Generative Models
Artificial Intelligence
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
309
134
6
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
Trevor Darrell
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
280,316
170,241
0.607
Computer Vision
Artificial Intelligence
AI
Machine Learning
Deep Learning
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
323
20
3
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
Aaron Courville
Université de Montréal
Montréal, Canada
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
276,915
208,771
0.754
Machine learning
Artificial Intelligence
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
324
139
2
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
Anil K Jain
Michigan State University
East Lansing, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
276,241
58,614
0.212
Biometrics
Computer vision
Pattern recognition
Machine learning
Image processing
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
343
144
10
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
Andrew Ng
Stanford University
Stanford, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
272,211
127,431
0.468
Machine Learning
Deep Learning
AI
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
344
145
11
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
Christopher D Manning
Stanford University
Stanford, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
271,993
137,483
0.505
Natural Language Processing
Computational Linguistics
Deep Learning
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
469
191
2
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
Piotr Dollár
Facebook Inc
Camridge, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
250,277
202,278
0.808
computer vision
deep learning
machine learning
artificial intelligence
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
481
194
4
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
Karen Simonyan
Google Inc.
California, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
248,822
186,306
0.749
Artificial Intelligence
Deep Learning
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
603
238
2
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
Łukasz Kaiser
OpenAI
San Francisco, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
231,730
206,984
0.893
Machine Learning & Logic in Computer Science
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
650
256
5
Ranking Based On Selection: 21
David Silver
Google Inc.
California, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
224,009
179,026
0.799
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Reinforcement Learning
Planning
Computer Games
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
668
262
4
Ranking Based On Selection: 22
Jacob Searcy
University of Oregon
Eugene, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
221,155
72,239
0.327
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
670
263
2
Ranking Based On Selection: 23
Ruslan Salakhutdinov
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
221,145
143,146
0.647
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Deep Learning
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
707
282
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 24
Philip S Yu
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
215,082
97,876
0.455
Data mining
Database
Privacy
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
740
295
6
Ranking Based On Selection: 25
Noam Shazeer
Google Inc.
California, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
210,743
198,577
0.942