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Top institutions in Switzerland for Information & Communication Technologies

18 institutions · Information & Communication Technologies · Switzerland

Which institutions in Switzerland have the most top-cited scientists in Information & Communication Technologies?

218 researchers in Switzerland whose main field is Information & Communication Technologies are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 6.1% of all listed authors in Switzerland, and 15th of 107 countries in the field. 96 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). ETH Zürich has the most (72), followed by École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (38) and EPFL (9). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors
218
6.1% of all in Switzerland
In the global top 100,000
96
44.0% of them
Country rank in the field
#15
of 107 countries in Information & Communication Technologies
Highest-ranked
#3,902
Unser, Michael A.
#InstitutionListed authorsTop 100kRank worldwideHighest-ranked author
1ETH Zürich7240#20Yu, Fisher #7,552
2École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne3816#63Unser, Michael A. #3,902
3EPFL93#429Payer, Mathias #66,982
4Università della Svizzera italiana72#538Bavota, Gabriele #34,356
5Google Switzerland GmbH72#548Bousquet, Olivier #45,014
6Universität Zürich64#608Sennrich, Rico #18,462
7Universität Basel62#635Helmert, Malte #37,007
8IBM Research - Zurich52#707Lyubashevsky, Vadim #9,344
9Université de Genève52#718Fleuret, François #17,935
10University of Bern53#748Cachin, Christian #35,985
11University of St. Gallen52#763Eppler, Martin J. #51,785
12IDSIA Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence32#1,093Scutari, Marco #26,634
13Meta31#16Schönberger, Johannes L. #34,226
14Swiss Data Science Center33#1,133Peréz-Cruz, Fernando #40,207
15Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois31#1,161Wagner, Dorothea #50,875
16Université de Lausanne (UNIL)31#1,224Mettler, Tobias #78,865
17ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences30#1,283Queralta, Jorge Pena #134,571
18Institut Dalle Molle D'intelligence Artificielle Perceptive30#1,324Gatica-Pérez, Daniel #178,940

The top 100 in Information & Communication Technologies in Switzerland, in order

  1. 1
    Unser, Michael A.
    École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
  2. 2
    Jaggi, Martin
    Machine Learning and Optimization Lab
  3. 3
    Sayed, Ali H.H.
    École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
  4. 4
    Yu, Fisher
    ETH Zürich
  5. 5
  6. 6
    Lyubashevsky, Vadim
    IBM Research - Zurich
  7. 7
    Tramèr, Florian
    ETH Zürich
  8. 8
  9. 9
    Brandes, Ulrik
    ETH Zürich
  10. 10
    Krause, Andreas
    ETH Zürich
  11. 11
    Loshchilov, Ilya G.
    École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
  12. 12
    Pollefeys, Marc
    ETH Zürich
  13. 13
    Alahi, Alexandre
    École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
  14. 14
    Hoefler, Torsten
    ETH Zürich
  15. 15
    Hofmann, Thomas
    ETH Zürich
  16. 16
    Fua, Pascal V.
    École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
  17. 17
    Benini, Luca
    ETH Zürich
  18. 18
    Zitzler, Eckart
    University of Teacher Education PHBern
  19. 19
    Fleuret, François
    Université de Genève
  20. 20
    Sennrich, Rico
    Universität Zürich
  21. 21
    Abbe, Emmànuel A.
    École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
  22. 22
    Boumal, Nicolas
    École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
  23. 23
    Denecke, Kerstin
    Berner Fachhochschule
  24. 24
    Maurer, Ueli M.
    ETH Zürich
  25. 25
    Fink, Olga
    École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
  26. 26
    Scutari, Marco
    IDSIA Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence
  27. 27
    Salathé, Marcel
    École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
  28. 28
  29. 29
    Massey, James L.
    ETH Zürich
  30. 30
    Camenisch, Jan
    DFINITY Foundation
  31. 31
  32. 32
    Hastings, Janna
    SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
  33. 33
  34. 34
    Bavota, Gabriele
    Università della Svizzera italiana
  35. 35
    Cachin, Christian
    University of Bern
  36. 36
    Helmert, Malte
    Universität Basel
  37. 37
    Flammini, Francesco
    IDSIA Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence
  38. 38
    Peréz-Cruz, Fernando
    Swiss Data Science Center
  39. 39
  40. 40
    Zhou, Tianfei
    ETH Zürich
  41. 41
    Gross, Markus H.
    ETH Zürich
  42. 42
    Rachidi, Farhad
    École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
  43. 43
    Bousquet, Olivier
    Google Switzerland GmbH
  44. 44
    Mathis, Alexander
    Brain Mind Institute and Neuro-X Institute
  45. 45
  46. 46
  47. 47
    Vetterli, Martin
    Audiovisual Communications Laboratory
  48. 48
    Wagner, Dorothea
    Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois
  49. 49
  50. 50
    Eppler, Martin J.
    University of St. Gallen
  51. 51
    Loukas, Andreas
    Roche Pharmaceuticals Division
  52. 52
    Thiele, Lothar
    ETH Zürich
  53. 53
    Achanta, Radhakrishna
    Swiss Data Science Center
  54. 54
    Rätsch, Gunnar
    ETH Zürich
  55. 55
  56. 56
    Peters, Jonas
    ETH Zürich
  57. 57
    Janson, Andreas
    University of St. Gallen
  58. 58
    Tonella, Paolo
    Università della Svizzera italiana
  59. 59
    Bunke, Horst
    University of Bern
  60. 60
    Zenke, Friedemann
    Universität Basel
  61. 61
    Perrig, Adrian
    ETH Zürich
  62. 62
    Müeller, Henning
    The Sense Innovation and Research Center
  63. 63
  64. 64
    Salzmann, Mathieu
    Swiss Data Science Center
  65. 65
  66. 66
    Puschmann, Thomas
    Universität Zürich
  67. 67
  68. 68
    Bringmann, Karl
    ETH Zürich
  69. 69
    Tang, Siyu
    ETH Zürich
  70. 70
    Čapkun, Srdjan
    ETH Zürich
  71. 71
  72. 72
    Matt, Christian
    University of Bern
  73. 73
    Frossard, Pascal
    École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
  74. 74
    Sarlin, Paul Edouard
    Google Switzerland GmbH
  75. 75
    Beullens, Ward
    IBM Research - Zurich
  76. 76
    Mettler, Tobias
    Université de Lausanne (UNIL)
  77. 77
    Pauly, Mark
    École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
  78. 78
  79. 79
    Süsstrunk, Sabine
    École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
  80. 80
    Rebecq, Henri
    ETH Zürich
  81. 81
    Zamir, Amir Roshan
    École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
  82. 82
    Sachan, Mrinmaya
    ETH Zürich
  83. 83
    Su, Zhendong
    ETH Zürich
  84. 84
  85. 85
    Peng, Songyou
    ETH Zürich
  86. 86
    Zhao, Zixiang
    ETH Zürich
  87. 87
    Moor, Michael M.
    ETH Zürich
  88. 88
    De Micheli, Giovanni
    École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
  89. 89
    Gehrig, Mathias
    Universität Zürich
  90. 90
    Fuchs, Benjamin
    Bundesamt für Kommunikation (BAKOM)
  91. 91
    Kowatsch, Tobias
    ETH Zürich
  92. 92
    Jakob, Wenzel
    École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
  93. 93
    Li, Yawei
    ETH Zürich
  94. 94
    Hilty, Lorenz M.
    Universität Zürich
  95. 95
  96. 96
    Pun, Thierry
    Université de Genève
  97. 97
    Cudre-Mauroux, Philippe
    University of Fribourg
  98. 98
    Basin, David A.
    ETH Zürich
  99. 99
    Mahajan, Sachit
    ETH Zürich
  100. 100
    Magno, Michele
    Center for Project-Based Learning - ETH Zürich

218 listed scientists in Information & Communication Technologies in Switzerland

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Data: Ioannidis, John P.A. (2026), ‘August 2026 data-update for “Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators”’, Mendeley Data, v9, doi:10.17632/btchxktzyw.9. 2026 list, ranked by composite citation score (c) excluding self-citations.

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