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Engineering & Technology / Electrical & Information Engineering Highly Cited Researchers 7.500 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.

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Total 7.500 scientists

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* Total Citation Rankings

Rankings

1,003

World Rank

409

Country Rank

University

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HV Poor

Princeton University Princeton, United States

Engineering & Technology / Electrical & Information Engineering
Communication Systems | Wireless Communications | Communications | Statistical Signal Processing | Information Theor

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Total

189,309
Last 6 Years

97,835
Last 6 Years / Total

0.517

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* Total Citation Rankings

Rankings

3,727

World Rank

1,745

Country Rank

University

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Georgios B Giannakis

University of Minnesota Twin Cities Minneapolis, United States

Engineering & Technology / Electrical & Information Engineering
Signal processing | machine learning | wireless communications | power systems | network scienc

Citation Metrics

Total

95,677
Last 6 Years

19,890
Last 6 Years / Total

0.208

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* Total Citation Rankings

Rankings

4,040

World Rank

157

Country Rank

University

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Izak Benbasat

University of British Columbia Vancouver, Canada

Engineering & Technology / Electrical & Information Engineering
Information system

Citation Metrics

Total

91,590
Last 6 Years

25,763
Last 6 Years / Total

0.281

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Rankings

5,615

World Rank

Country Rank

University

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Андрей Зароченцев Andrey Zarochentsev

Saint Petersburg State University Saint Petersburg, Russia

Engineering & Technology / Electrical & Information Engineering
Информационные технологии | Распределенные вычисления | работа с боль�

Citation Metrics

Total

75,436
Last 6 Years

37,854
Last 6 Years / Total

0.502

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* Total Citation Rankings

Rankings

6,875

World Rank

195

Country Rank

University

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Meng Zhang

Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai, China

Engineering & Technology / Electrical & Information Engineering
Wireless communication | 4G/5G standardizatio

Citation Metrics

Total

66,696
Last 6 Years

50,412
Last 6 Years / Total

0.756

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* Total Citation Rankings

Rankings

7,320

World Rank

617

Country Rank

University

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Harald Haas

University of Edinburgh Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Engineering & Technology / Electrical & Information Engineering
Optical Wireless Communications | Interference Managment in Wireless Networks | Spatial Modulatio

Citation Metrics

Total

64,013
Last 6 Years

30,992
Last 6 Years / Total

0.484

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* Total Citation Rankings

Rankings

7,540

World Rank

3,553

Country Rank

University

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Marvin Simon

Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, United States

Engineering & Technology / Electrical & Information Engineering
Communication

Citation Metrics

Total

62,926
Last 6 Years

7,470
Last 6 Years / Total

0.119

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* Total Citation Rankings

Rankings

8,653

World Rank

4,097

Country Rank

University

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John M Carroll

Pennsylvania State University University Park, United States

Engineering & Technology / Electrical & Information Engineering
Human-Computer Interaction | Computer-Supported Collaborative Work | Community Informatics | Design Research | Learning Scienc

Citation Metrics

Total

57,728
Last 6 Years

12,395
Last 6 Years / Total

0.215

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* Total Citation Rankings

Rankings

8,970

World Rank

150

Country Rank

University

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Lukas Novotny

Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule ETH Zürich Zurich, Switzerland

Engineering & Technology / Electrical & Information Engineering
Levitodynamics | Nanophotonics | Optoelectronic

Citation Metrics

Total

56,570
Last 6 Years

17,596
Last 6 Years / Total

0.311

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* Total Citation Rankings

Rankings

9,269

World Rank

357

Country Rank

University

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Zhi-Gang Chen (陈志刚)

University of Southern Queensland Toowoomba, Australia

Engineering & Technology / Electrical & Information Engineering
Thermoelectrics | nanoelectronics | optoelectronics | microscop

Citation Metrics

Total

55,358
Last 6 Years

39,868
Last 6 Years / Total

0.720

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* Total Citation Rankings

Rankings

10,074

World Rank

4,757

Country Rank

118

University

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George Pappas

University of California Berkeley Berkeley, United States

Engineering & Technology / Electrical & Information Engineering
Control theory | automatic control | robotics | formal methods | cyber-physical system

Citation Metrics

Total

52,492
Last 6 Years

22,280
Last 6 Years / Total

0.424

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* Total Citation Rankings

Rankings

13,280

World Rank

1,168

Country Rank

103

University

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Steve Young

University of Cambridge Cambridge, United Kingdom

Engineering & Technology / Electrical & Information Engineering
speech and language processin

Citation Metrics

Total

44,137
Last 6 Years

9,651
Last 6 Years / Total

0.219

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* Total Citation Rankings

Rankings

14,344

World Rank

121

Country Rank

University

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Ewt Ngai

Hong Kong Polytechnic University Kowloon, Hong Kong

Engineering & Technology / Electrical & Information Engineering
E-commerce | Supply Chain Management | Business Intelligence | Green IT | Innovatio

Citation Metrics

Total

42,072
Last 6 Years

17,821
Last 6 Years / Total

0.424

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* Total Citation Rankings

Rankings

14,349

World Rank

571

Country Rank

University

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Jane Webster

Queen's University Kingston Kingston, Canada

Engineering & Technology / Electrical & Information Engineering
information system

Citation Metrics

Total

42,058
Last 6 Years

16,847
Last 6 Years / Total

0.401

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* Total Citation Rankings

Rankings

15,960

World Rank

646

Country Rank

University

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Jimmy Lin

University of Waterloo Waterloo, Canada

Engineering & Technology / Electrical & Information Engineering
information retrieval | natural language processing | data management | big dat

Citation Metrics

Total

39,388
Last 6 Years

23,110
Last 6 Years / Total

0.587

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* Total Citation Rankings

Rankings

16,746

World Rank

584

Country Rank

University

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Bo Li

Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences Hefei, China

Engineering & Technology / Electrical & Information Engineering
Adversarial machine learning | security | privacy | big data | social networ

Citation Metrics

Total

38,164
Last 6 Years

34,933
Last 6 Years / Total

0.915

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* Total Citation Rankings

Rankings

17,018

World Rank

600

Country Rank

University

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Lian-Mao Peng

Peking University Beijing, China

Engineering & Technology / Electrical & Information Engineering
Nanoelectronics | flexible electronics | carbon nanotubes | optoelectronics | electron microscop

Citation Metrics

Total

37,774
Last 6 Years

14,718
Last 6 Years / Total

0.390

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* Total Citation Rankings

Rankings

17,073

World Rank

212

Country Rank

University

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Emil Björnson

Linköping University Linköping, Sweden

Engineering & Technology / Electrical & Information Engineering
Massive MIMO | Cell-free Massive MIMO | RIS | Signal processing | Wireless communicatio