Citation Rankings
Highly Cited Researchers
Germany Highly Cited Researchers CitationEngineering & Technology / Computer Science in Germany Rankings 2025
The Citation Rankings (Highly Cited Researchers) 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
medical imaging
machine learning
computer vision
and graphics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
191,169
71,109
0.372
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :2
Computer Vision
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Robotics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
168,908
142,794
0.845
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :3
Image Analysis
Computer Vision
Pattern Recognition
Biomedical Applications
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
158,059
148,310
0.938
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :4
Machine learning
artificial intelligence
big data
computational neuroscience
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
148,557
82,948
0.558
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :5
Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
AI
Machine Learning
Computer Vision
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
119,270
48,548
0.407
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :6
Computer Vision
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Autonomous Driving
Scene Understanding
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
108,408
67,921
0.627
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :7
Computer Vision
Computer Graphics
Machine Learning
Virtual Humans
Digital Humans
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
92,272
54,109
0.586
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :8
Image and Video Coding
Data Compression
Machine Learning
Communications
Digital Health
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
82,417
25,758
0.313
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :9
AutoML
Meta-Learning
Neural Architecture Search
Deep Learning
Machine Learning
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
80,661
72,064
0.893
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :10
natural language processing
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
80,490
32,696
0.406
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :11
Machine Learning
Numerical Simulation
Data Science
Parallelisation
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
74,304
15,181
0.204
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :12
Computer Vision
Machine Learning
Optimization
Robotics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
74,239
44,466
0.599
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :13
computer vision
machine learning
robotics
scene understanding
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
68,966
58,171
0.843
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :14
Machine Learning
Speech Recognition
Machine Translation
Computer Vision
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
67,696
19,797
0.292
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :15
Computer Graphics
Geometric Modeling
Geometry Processing
Rendering
Video Processing
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
59,753
15,734
0.263
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :16
databases
information systems
requirements engineering
conceptual modeling
data warehouse
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
56,955
10,068
0.177
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :17
machine learning
artificial intelligence
bioinformatics
computer science
protein prediction
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
56,577
16,283
0.288
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :18
Quantenmechanische atomistische Simulationen
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
52,300
18,066
0.345
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :19
Data Analysis
Information Visualization
Visual Analytics
Visualization
Clustering
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
47,709
16,245
0.341
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :20
Databases
Data Mining
Information Retrieval
Web Data Management
Knowledge Bases
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
47,379
15,734
0.332
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :21
Cloud
Service Computing
Middleware
Pattern Languages
Quantum Computing
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
46,462
10,504
0.226
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :22
Computer Vision
Machine Learning
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
46,409
30,662
0.661
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :23
Computer Graphics
Computer Vision
AI & Machine Learning
HCI
Virtual/Augmented Reality
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
46,371
34,680
0.748
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :24
computer vision
machine learning
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
46,300
20,037
0.433
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :25
Distributed systems
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
46,196
4,743
0.103
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
890
24
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 1
Jingdan Zhang
Siemens AG
Munich, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
191,169
71,109
0.372
medical imaging
machine learning
computer vision
and graphics
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,134
29
2
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
Thomas Brox
Universität Freiburg
Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
168,908
142,794
0.845
Computer Vision
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Robotics
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,291
33
3
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Olaf Ronneberger
Universität Freiburg
Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
158,059
148,310
0.938
Image Analysis
Computer Vision
Pattern Recognition
Biomedical Applications
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,449
39
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Klaus Robert Müller
Technische Universität Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
148,557
82,948
0.558
Machine learning
artificial intelligence
big data
computational neuroscience
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
2,201
59
4
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
Wolfram Burgard
Universität Freiburg
Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
119,270
48,548
0.407
Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
AI
Machine Learning
Computer Vision
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
2,660
78
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
Bernt Schiele
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
108,408
67,921
0.627
Computer Vision
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Autonomous Driving
Scene Understanding
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
3,640
121
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
Michael J. Black
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
92,272
54,109
0.586
Computer Vision
Computer Graphics
Machine Learning
Virtual Humans
Digital Humans
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
4,393
157
2
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
Thomas Wiegand
Technische Universität Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
82,417
25,758
0.313
Image and Video Coding
Data Compression
Machine Learning
Communications
Digital Health
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
4,567
164
5
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
Frank Hutter
Universität Freiburg
Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
80,661
72,064
0.893
AutoML
Meta-Learning
Neural Architecture Search
Deep Learning
Machine Learning
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
4,589
166
13
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
Hinrich Schütze
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
80,490
32,696
0.406
natural language processing
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
5,298
199
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
Peter Steinbach
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
74,304
15,181
0.204
Machine Learning
Numerical Simulation
Data Science
Parallelisation
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
5,311
200
5
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
Daniel Cremers
Technische Universität München
München, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
74,239
44,466
0.599
Computer Vision
Machine Learning
Optimization
Robotics
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
5,961
231
9
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
Andreas Geiger
Universität Tubingen
Tübingen, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
68,966
58,171
0.843
computer vision
machine learning
robotics
scene understanding
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
6,143
237
5
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
Hermann Ney
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
67,696
19,797
0.292
Machine Learning
Speech Recognition
Machine Translation
Computer Vision
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
7,514
305
2
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
Hans-Peter Seidel
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
59,753
15,734
0.263
Computer Graphics
Geometric Modeling
Geometry Processing
Rendering
Video Processing
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
8,102
325
9
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
Matthias Jarke
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
56,955
10,068
0.177
databases
information systems
requirements engineering
conceptual modeling
data warehouse
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
8,196
331
11
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
Burkhard Rost
Technische Universität München
München, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
56,577
16,283
0.288
machine learning
artificial intelligence
bioinformatics
computer science
protein prediction
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
9,309
376
4
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
Thomas Frauenheim
Universität Bremen
Bremen, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
52,300
18,066
0.345
Quantenmechanische atomistische Simulationen
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
10,770
439
4
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
Daniel Keim
Universität Konstanz
Konstanz, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
47,709
16,245
0.341
Data Analysis
Information Visualization
Visual Analytics
Visualization
Clustering
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
10,898
448
3
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
Gerhard Weikum
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
47,379
15,734
0.332
Databases
Data Mining
Information Retrieval
Web Data Management
Knowledge Bases
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
11,198
472
4
Ranking Based On Selection: 21
Frank Leymann
Universität Stuttgart
Stuttgart, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
46,462
10,504
0.226
Cloud
Service Computing
Middleware
Pattern Languages
Quantum Computing
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
11,218
473
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 22
Stefan Roth
Technische Universität Darmstadt
Darmstadt, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
46,409
30,662
0.661
Computer Vision
Machine Learning
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
11,238
474
4
Ranking Based On Selection: 23
Christian Theobalt
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
46,371
34,680
0.748
Computer Graphics
Computer Vision
AI & Machine Learning
HCI
Virtual/Augmented Reality
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
11,264
476
32
Ranking Based On Selection: 24
Carsten Rother
Ruprecht Karls Universität Heidelberg
Heidelberg, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
46,300
20,037
0.433
computer vision
machine learning
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
11,298
478
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 25
Peter Druschel
Max Planck Institut für Software Systeme
Kaiserslautern, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
46,196
4,743
0.103