Citation Rankings
Highly Cited Researchers
Highly Cited Researchers 493 Scientists Citation Rankings (Sort by last 6 years Citation Index) - 2025
The Citation Rankings (Highly Cited Researchers) list highlight 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 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.
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 1
Machine Learning Systems
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
56,229
55,624
0.989
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* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
Deep Learning
Computer Vision
Autonomous Driving
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
39,428
26,593
0.674
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
machine learning
large-scale optimization
inverse problems
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
41,894
20,215
0.483
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Cloud Computing
Large Scale Distributed Systems
Machine Learning
Query Processing
Query
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
23,438
19,269
0.822
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
Multimedia IR
Big Multimedia Data
Machine Learning
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
36,922
18,266
0.495
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
graph learning
large scale pretrain language model
drug design and target discovery
search and
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
19,140
17,575
0.918
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
natural language processing
machine translation
information extraction
speech recognition
machine learning
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
17,157
15,863
0.925
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
Foundation Model
Representation Learning
Multimodal System
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
14,151
13,842
0.978
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
Natural Language Processing
Large Language Models
Large Multimodal Models
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
13,676
12,442
0.910
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* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
Video Coding
Computer Vision
Image Processing
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
21,318
12,144
0.570
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
image processing
inverse problems
convex optimization
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
14,964
11,898
0.795
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
Machine Learning
Generative AI
Cognitive Intelligence
Statistical Modeling
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
11,552
11,133
0.964
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
Natural Language Processing
Cross-Modal Representation Learning
Pretraining
Citation Metrics
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Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
11,025
10,797
0.979
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
Data Mining
Machine Learning
Citation Metrics
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Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
11,717
9,988
0.852
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
video coding
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
14,730
9,854
0.669
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
computer vision
multi-media advertising
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
11,217
9,814
0.875
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
Medical Image Analysis
Computer Vision
Vision and Language
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
10,535
9,527
0.904
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
Computer Vision
Machine Learning
Deep Learning
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
11,195
9,335
0.834
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
Databases
Data Privacy
Machine Learning
Citation Metrics
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Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
13,577
9,300
0.685
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
Multi-Modal Learning
Visual Generatio
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
10,278
10,140
0.987
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 21
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
9,074
8,445
0.931
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 22
Natural Language Processing
Recommender System
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
8,446
8,038
0.952
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 23
Compter Vision
Machine Learning
Casuality
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
7,468
7,420
0.994
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 24
Recommender Systems
Online Advertising
Transfer Learning
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
8,634
7,307
0.846
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 25
Large Language Models
Pretraining
Reasoning
Natural Language Generatio
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
7,640
7,619
0.997
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
2,251
864
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 1
Junjie Bai
Alibaba Group
Sunnyvale, United States
Citation Metrics
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Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
56,229
55,624
0.989
Machine Learning Systems
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
7,429
2,960
2
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
Gang Wang
Alibaba Group
Sunnyvale, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
39,428
26,593
0.674
Deep Learning
Computer Vision
Autonomous Driving
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
11,481
4,528
3
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Wotao Yin
Alibaba Group
Sunnyvale, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
41,894
20,215
0.483
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
12,338
4,857
4
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Jingren Zhou
Alibaba Group
Sunnyvale, United States
Citation Metrics
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Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
23,438
19,269
0.822
Cloud Computing
Large Scale Distributed Systems
Machine Learning
Query Processing
Query
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
13,323
5,256
5
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
Xian-Sheng Hua (华先胜)
Alibaba Group
Sunnyvale, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
36,922
18,266
0.495
Multimedia IR
Big Multimedia Data
Machine Learning
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
14,144
5,577
6
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
Taifeng Wang
Alibaba Group
Sunnyvale, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
19,140
17,575
0.918
graph learning
large scale pretrain language model
drug design and target discovery
search and
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
16,467
6,451
7
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
Fei Huang
Alibaba Group
Sunnyvale, United States
Citation Metrics
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Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
17,157
15,863
0.925
natural language processing
machine translation
information extraction
speech recognition
machine learning
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
20,268
7,928
8
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
Chang Zhou
Alibaba Group
Sunnyvale, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
14,151
13,842
0.978
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
23,833
9,248
9
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
Lidong Bing (邴立东)|邴立东
Alibaba Group
Sunnyvale, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
13,676
12,442
0.910
Natural Language Processing
Large Language Models
Large Multimodal Models
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
24,698
9,597
10
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
Ying Chen
Alibaba Group
Sunnyvale, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
21,318
12,144
0.570
Video Coding
Computer Vision
Image Processing
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* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
25,484
9,897
11
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
Yunjin Chen
Alibaba Group
Sunnyvale, United States
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Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
14,964
11,898
0.795
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
28,222
10,881
12
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
Hongxia Yang
Alibaba Group
Sunnyvale, United States
Citation Metrics
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Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
11,552
11,133
0.964
Machine Learning
Generative AI
Cognitive Intelligence
Statistical Modeling
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
29,534
11,393
13
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
Junyang Lin
Alibaba Group
Sunnyvale, United States
Citation Metrics
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Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
11,025
10,797
0.979
Natural Language Processing
Cross-Modal Representation Learning
Pretraining
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
33,166
12,765
15
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
Yaliang Li
Alibaba Group
Sunnyvale, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
11,717
9,988
0.852
Data Mining
Machine Learning
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
33,869
13,030
16
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
Yan Ye
Alibaba Group
Sunnyvale, United States
Citation Metrics
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Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
14,730
9,854
0.669
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
34,053
13,093
17
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
Yuning Jiang
Alibaba Group
Sunnyvale, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
11,217
9,814
0.875
computer vision
multi-media advertising
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
35,577
13,680
18
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
Xiaosong Wang
Alibaba Group
Sunnyvale, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
10,535
9,527
0.904
Medical Image Analysis
Computer Vision
Vision and Language
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
36,614
14,047
19
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
Liu Ting
Alibaba Group
Sunnyvale, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
11,195
9,335
0.834
Computer Vision
Machine Learning
Deep Learning
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
36,800
14,107
20
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
Bolin Ding
Alibaba Group
Sunnyvale, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
13,577
9,300
0.685
Databases
Data Privacy
Machine Learning
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
32,408
12,480
14
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
Shuai Bai|白帅
Alibaba Group
Sunnyvale, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
10,278
10,140
0.987
Multi-Modal Learning
Visual Generatio
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
42,354
16,137
21
Ranking Based On Selection: 21
Chuanqi Tan
Alibaba Group
Sunnyvale, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
9,074
8,445
0.931
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
45,391
17,222
22
Ranking Based On Selection: 22
Fei Sun
Alibaba Group
Sunnyvale, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
8,446
8,038
0.952
Natural Language Processing
Recommender System
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
50,847
19,168
24
Ranking Based On Selection: 23
Jianqiang Huang
Alibaba Group
Sunnyvale, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
7,468
7,420
0.994
Compter Vision
Machine Learning
Casuality
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
52,010
19,591
25
Ranking Based On Selection: 24
Han Zhu
Alibaba Group
Sunnyvale, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
8,634
7,307
0.846
Recommender Systems
Online Advertising
Transfer Learning
* Last 6 Years Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
48,969
18,508
23
Ranking Based On Selection: 25
Dayiheng Liu (刘大一恒)|Dayiheng Liu
Alibaba Group
Sunnyvale, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
7,640
7,619
0.997
Large Language Models
Pretraining
Reasoning
Natural Language Generatio