Top 100 most-cited scientists in Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing

2025 single-year list · 100 authors, ranked by c-score excluding self-citations · all 10,854 in Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing

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#	Author	Country	Subfield rank	c-score	Cites 2025	h	hm	Self-cit.	Papers	Active
1 #3 overall	Mirjalili, Seyedali Torrens University Australia	AUS	#1 · top <0.01%	5.235	26,703	62	30.9	3.7%	679	2010–2026
2 #6 overall	Bengio, Yoshua Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms	CAN	#2 · top <0.01%	5.099	56,641	67	26.4	0.5%	665	1988–2026
3 #8 overall	Girshick, Ross B. Vercept		#3 · top <0.01%	5.055	61,379	40	13.8	0.0%	92	2004–2025
4 #12 overall	Hinton, Geoffrey E. University of Toronto	CAN	#4 · top <0.01%	5.011	52,780	45	24.6	0.1%	293	1979–2026
5 #36 overall	Zadeh, Lotfi A. University of California, Berkeley	USA	#5 · top <0.01%	4.811	7,347	23	22.0	0.0%	239	1949–2024
6 #63 overall	Schmidhuber, Jürgen U. King Abdullah University of Science and Technology	SAU	#6 · top <0.01%	4.674	20,804	31	15.0	0.5%	398	1989–2026
7 #80 overall	Lecun, Yann Le Meta Ai	USA	#7 · top <0.01%	4.631	25,817	41	17.2	0.2%	275	1987–2026
8 #108 overall	He, Kaiming Massachusetts Institute of Technology	USA	#8 · top <0.01%	4.564	86,811	45	15.5	0.0%	91	2009–2026
9 #113 overall	Deb, Kalyanmoy Department of Computer Science	USA	#9 · top <0.01%	4.557	10,578	30	16.9	2.2%	685	1989–2026
10 #117 overall	Hochreiter, Sepp Johannes Kepler University Linz	AUT	#10 · top <0.01%	4.544	19,747	24	9.9	0.5%	152	1994–2026
11 #124 overall	Sarker, Iqbal H. Edith Cowan University	AUS	#11 · top <0.01%	4.536	4,981	24	14.8	0.7%	133	2012–2026
12 #125 overall	Jordan, Michael I. University of California, Berkeley	USA	#12 · top <0.01%	4.534	14,552	49	22.3	1.2%	709	1989–2026
13 #162 overall	Abualigah, Laith Mohammad Qasim Al Al-Bayt University	JOR	#13 · top <0.01%	4.474	11,814	44	22.9	7.2%	708	2016–2026
14 #188 overall	Jain, Anil K. Michigan State University	USA	#14 · top <0.01%	4.436	5,840	32	18.7	1.7%	875	1972–2026
15 #197 overall	Yager, Ronald R. Iona College	USA	#15 · top <0.01%	4.421	3,244	22	19.6	1.1%	842	1975–2026
16 #207 overall	Yang, Xin She Middlesex University	GBR	#16 · top <0.01%	4.410	3,851	27	18.4	1.3%	430	1992–2026
17 #254 overall	Zhou, Zhihua Nanjing University	CHN	#17 · top <0.01%	4.358	6,228	25	16.7	3.8%	556	1999–2026
18 #258 overall	Xu, Zeshui Sichuan University	CHN	#18 · top <0.01%	4.356	6,076	30	21.9	7.5%	1,208	1999–2026
19 #284 overall	Le, Quocviet Google DeepMind	GBR	#19 · top <0.01%	4.337	36,253	60	17.7	0.1%	190	2005–2026
20 #300 overall	van der Maaten, Laurens Meta	USA	#20 · top <0.01%	4.328	15,307	21	8.5	0.1%	96	2005–2026
21 #309 overall	Jin, Yaochu Westlake University	CHN	#21 · top <0.01%	4.324	8,690	45	23.5	8.2%	735	1994–2027
22 #318 overall	Blei, David M. Simons Foundation	USA	#22 · top <0.01%	4.322	6,372	25	12.9	0.8%	244	2001–2026
23 #342 overall	van der Aalst, Wil M.P. Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen	DEU	#23 · top <0.01%	4.304	5,235	26	17.1	8.2%	1,083	1993–2026
24 #362 overall	Barron, Jonathan T. Google Deepmind	GBR	#24 · top <0.01%	4.286	11,447	39	13.5	1.2%	104	2011–2026
25 #363 overall	Pearl, Judea UCLA Samueli School of Engineering	USA	#25 · top <0.01%	4.286	2,658	24	20.3	1.2%	280	1964–2026
26 #400 overall	Kshetri, Nir Bryan School of Business and Economics	USA	#26 · top <0.01%	4.262	4,421	20	17.2	3.0%	303	2003–2026
27 #401 overall	Leskovec, Jure Stanford University	USA	#27 · top <0.01%	4.262	17,397	57	26.8	1.1%	359	2003–2026
28 #412 overall	Rudin, Cynthia D. Department of Computer Science	USA	#28 · top <0.01%	4.257	4,250	20	11.0	3.1%	207	2004–2026
29 #427 overall	Silver, David Google DeepMind	GBR	#29 · top <0.01%	4.250	21,968	30	8.8	0.2%	128	2003–2026
30 #463 overall	Hamari, Juho J. Tampere University	FIN	#30 · top <0.01%	4.231	4,882	33	20.0	6.2%	441	2010–2026
31 #467 overall	Wang, Feiyue Macau University of Science and Technology	MAC	#31 · top <0.01%	4.228	7,862	35	18.9	10.1%	1,539	1991–2026
32 #472 overall	Herrera, Francisco P. Instituto Andaluz Interuniversitario en Data Science and Computational Intelligence	ESP	#32 · top <0.01%	4.226	12,474	43	22.0	3.0%	918	1992–2026
33 #475 overall	Schölkopf, Bernhard Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems	DEU	#33 · top <0.01%	4.223	10,081	43	19.5	3.1%	753	1995–2026
34 #480 overall	Gandomi, Amir H. University of Technology Sydney	AUS	#34 · top <0.01%	4.220	10,566	42	22.0	4.7%	728	2008–2027
35 #502 overall	Welling, Max Universiteit van Amsterdam	NLD	#35 · top <0.01%	4.209	12,240	33	16.2	0.7%	292	2000–2026
36 #523 overall	Bibri, Simon Elias École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	CHE	#36 · top <0.01%	4.199	2,702	27	17.2	4.4%	114	2015–2026
37 #537 overall	Pedrycz, Witold University of Alberta	CAN	#37 · top <0.01%	4.193	7,695	29	20.1	14.8%	2,475	1980–2026
38 #558 overall	Manning, Christopher D. Stanford Engineering	USA	#38 · top <0.01%	4.183	12,275	40	16.8	0.6%	356	1993–2026
39 #559 overall	Zhang, Zhengyou Tencent America LLC	USA	#39 · top <0.01%	4.183	3,065	23	11.2	1.5%	303	1988–2026
40 #575 overall	Aggarwal, Charu C. IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center	USA	#40 · top <0.01%	4.175	2,878	24	15.9	1.9%	418	1995–2026
41 #615 overall	Bottou, Léon FAIR at Meta	USA	#41 · top <0.01%	4.163	9,976	20	11.2	0.1%	107	1989–2026
42 #622 overall	Schapire, Robert E. Microsoft Research	USA	#42 · top <0.01%	4.160	6,315	26	12.3	0.4%	174	1987–2026
43 #627 overall	Taherdoost, Hamed National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology	TWN	#43 · top <0.01%	4.159	1,862	22	18.3	3.1%	233	2009–2026
44 #630 overall	Cambria, Erik Nanyang Technological University	SGP	#44 · top <0.01%	4.158	8,512	40	19.4	8.6%	586	2009–2027
45 #631 overall	Ferrara, Emilio USC Viterbi School of Engineering	USA	#45 · top <0.01%	4.157	2,753	26	15.8	5.6%	227	2010–2026
46 #649 overall	Kleinberg, Jon M. Cornell University	USA	#46 · top <0.01%	4.151	3,749	30	17.1	0.9%	360	1992–2026
47 #656 overall	Torralba, A. B. MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory	USA	#47 · top <0.01%	4.148	10,779	50	19.9	1.6%	335	1994–2026
48 #678 overall	Wang, Zhou University of Waterloo	CAN	#48 · top <0.01%	4.140	11,463	23	12.3	1.1%	258	1995–2026
49 #685 overall	Watts, Duncan J. University of Pennsylvania	USA	#49 · top <0.01%	4.137	4,404	26	13.8	1.8%	113	1998–2026
50 #703 overall	Li, Xuelong China Telecom Corporation Limited	CHN	#50 · top <0.01%	4.131	9,172	37	21.3	11.2%	1,512	2002–2026
51 #764 overall	Lowe, David G. Google LLC	USA	#51 · top <0.01%	4.107	4,154	10	6.6	0.0%	88	1978–2018
52 #768 overall	Huang, Gao Tsinghua University	CHN	#52 · top 0.01%	4.106	9,768	34	12.4	1.6%	212	2012–2026
53 #787 overall	Vapnik, Vladimir N. Columbia University	USA	#53 · top 0.01%	4.102	7,931	19	8.9	0.0%	75	1978–2021
54 #793 overall	Shneiderman, Ben Department of Computer Science	USA	#54 · top 0.01%	4.100	2,343	16	14.6	1.5%	505	1971–2026
55 #853 overall	Zhang, Richard Adobe Inc.	USA	#55 · top 0.01%	4.082	7,521	22	8.8	0.5%	58	2014–2026
56 #856 overall	Garg, Harish Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology	IND	#56 · top 0.01%	4.082	2,967	20	16.0	7.2%	548	2009–2026
57 #869 overall	Chen, C. L.philip South China University of Technology	CHN	#57 · top 0.01%	4.079	10,216	41	23.0	11.7%	1,438	1989–2026
58 #873 overall	Holzinger, Andreas BOKU University	AUT	#58 · top 0.01%	4.077	3,549	29	13.8	6.0%	514	2002–2026
59 #892 overall	Salakhutdinov, Russ Carnegie Mellon University	USA	#59 · top 0.01%	4.073	11,625	36	16.9	0.7%	258	2003–2026
60 #903 overall	Mallat, Stéphane G. Collège de France	FRA	#60 · top 0.01%	4.071	2,174	18	12.1	2.7%	137	1987–2026
61 #928 overall	Wang, Xiaogang ACE Robotics	HKG	#61 · top 0.01%	4.066	12,659	43	20.3	0.6%	342	2002–2026
62 #942 overall	Nahavandi, Saeid Swinburne University of Technology	AUS	#62 · top 0.01%	4.063	5,038	30	13.0	7.2%	997	1994–2026
63 #951 overall	Ray, Partha Pratim Sikkim University	IND	#63 · top 0.01%	4.060	1,873	16	12.3	0.8%	189	2011–2026
64 #952 overall	Boneh, Dan Stanford Engineering	USA	#64 · top 0.01%	4.059	3,564	33	16.7	1.9%	289	1993–2026
65 #961 overall	Levine, Sergey University of California, Berkeley	USA	#65 · top 0.01%	4.057	13,739	50	22.4	2.4%	486	2009–2026
66 #968 overall	Coello Coello, Carlos A. Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional	MEX	#66 · top 0.01%	4.056	2,993	22	14.9	3.5%	662	1994–2026
67 #984 overall	Atanassov, Krassimir T. Institute of Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences	BGR	#67 · top 0.01%	4.051	2,421	12	10.0	3.2%	484	1985–2026
68 #987 overall	Hyvärinen, Aapo Helsingin Yliopisto	FIN	#68 · top 0.01%	4.048	2,689	20	12.4	1.7%	236	1996–2025
69 #1,019 overall	Liu, Bing College of Engineering	USA	#69 · top 0.01%	4.040	3,342	25	15.7	1.9%	342	1988–2026
70 #1,022 overall	Kashyap, Ramgopal Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya	IND	#70 · top 0.01%	4.040	1,654	25	19.8	2.9%	81	2010–2026
71 #1,025 overall	Feichtenhofer, Christoph Meta	USA	#71 · top 0.01%	4.038	7,119	27	7.8	1.0%	53	2013–2026
72 #1,027 overall	Shamir, Adi Weizmann Institute of Science Israel	ISR	#72 · top 0.01%	4.038	3,026	19	11.7	0.6%	213	1975–2026
73 #1,096 overall	Caruana, Rich A. Inc	USA	#73 · top 0.01%	4.022	2,832	20	10.7	0.8%	113	1986–2026
74 #1,102 overall	Ng, Andrew Y. Stanford University	USA	#74 · top 0.01%	4.021	9,722	35	14.0	0.7%	264	1995–2025
75 #1,107 overall	Gentry, Craig NYC	USA	#75 · top 0.01%	4.020	2,450	22	11.9	0.9%	95	2001–2025
76 #1,117 overall	Yao, Yiyu Y. University of Regina	CAN	#76 · top 0.01%	4.019	1,624	20	16.3	9.4%	470	1987–2026
77 #1,121 overall	Fei-Fei, Li Stanford University	USA	#77 · top 0.01%	4.017	24,865	45	17.6	0.7%	346	2002–2026
78 #1,136 overall	Rueckert, Daniel L. Klinikum Rechts der Isar	DEU	#78 · top 0.02%	4.015	8,782	37	13.9	6.9%	997	1994–2026
79 #1,162 overall	Geiger, Andreas Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen	DEU	#79 · top 0.02%	4.009	11,881	45	17.9	1.5%	198	2008–2026
80 #1,166 overall	Ma, Jiayi Wuhan University	CHN	#80 · top 0.02%	4.008	10,653	47	20.3	4.8%	452	2011–2026
81 #1,172 overall	Schuller, Björn W. Imperial College London	GBR	#81 · top 0.02%	4.007	5,521	32	16.0	10.2%	1,214	2001–2026
82 #1,197 overall	Bovik, Alan Conrad The University of Texas at Austin	USA	#82 · top 0.02%	4.001	16,062	34	16.6	1.5%	845	1982–2026
83 #1,243 overall	Bailenson, Jeremy N. Stanford University	USA	#83 · top 0.02%	3.994	3,325	28	15.7	4.2%	233	1996–2026
84 #1,258 overall	Roy, Vandana Gyan Ganga Institute of Technology and Sciences	IND	#84 · top 0.02%	3.991	2,351	29	12.7	4.8%	75	2015–2026
85 #1,273 overall	Ghahramani, Zoubin University of Cambridge	GBR	#85 · top 0.02%	3.989	3,123	24	15.4	0.9%	292	1992–2025
86 #1,294 overall	Hamilton, William L. Quebec AI Institute	CAN	#86 · top 0.02%	3.985	5,974	22	7.9	0.5%	57	2013–2024
87 #1,297 overall	Canny, John F. Google DeepMind	GBR	#87 · top 0.02%	3.985	2,564	15	7.6	0.6%	247	1983–2026
88 #1,320 overall	Gharehchopogh, Farhad Soleimanian Islamic Azad University	IRN	#88 · top 0.02%	3.982	3,103	29	16.9	7.2%	149	2010–2026
89 #1,341 overall	Lipton, Zachary Chase Abridge AI	USA	#89 · top 0.02%	3.980	2,242	20	11.5	1.4%	147	2014–2026
90 #1,403 overall	Sun, Jian Beijing MEGVII Technology Co., Ltd.	CHN	#90 · top 0.02%	3.970	64,440	46	17.9	0.1%	203	2002–2023
91 #1,453 overall	Goodfellow, Ian J. Google DeepMind	USA	#91 · top 0.02%	3.961	18,754	26	8.1	0.1%	57	2009–2024
92 #1,457 overall	Dietterich, Thomas G. Oregon State University	USA	#92 · top 0.02%	3.960	2,625	13	9.5	0.7%	215	1980–2026
93 #1,476 overall	Tong, Shaocheng Liaoning University of Technology	CHN	#93 · top 0.02%	3.957	5,120	34	21.5	6.9%	723	1990–2026
94 #1,502 overall	van Dijk, Jan Amg G.M. Universiteit Twente	NLD	#94 · top 0.02%	3.952	2,281	20	13.3	0.8%	77	2001–2026
95 #1,546 overall	Liu, Ziwei Nanyang Technological University	SGP	#95 · top 0.02%	3.945	12,976	48	17.8	2.8%	299	2014–2026
96 #1,576 overall	Deng, Jia School of Engineering and Applied Science	USA	#96 · top 0.02%	3.940	17,933	24	12.0	0.2%	106	2007–2026
97 #1,580 overall	Zheng, Yu Southwest Jiaotong University	CHN	#97 · top 0.02%	3.939	3,550	29	13.9	7.7%	286	2005–2026
98 #1,585 overall	He, Xiangnan University of Science and Technology of China	CHN	#98 · top 0.02%	3.939	11,527	47	18.4	3.7%	324	2010–2026
99 #1,594 overall	Wolpert, David H. Complexity Science Hub Vienna	AUT	#99 · top 0.02%	3.938	2,603	11	8.4	1.9%	191	1988–2026
100 #1,596 overall	Zhang, Xiangyu Beijing MEGVII Technology Co., Ltd.	CHN	#100 · top 0.02%	3.938	50,168	36	12.9	0.2%	123	2014–2026

# rank in the subfield by c-score (below: overall rank); Subfield rank rank and top % in main subfield; c-score composite citation score (0–6); Cites 2025 citations in 2025; h h-index; hm co-authorship-adjusted h-index; Self-cit. self-citation share; Active years of first and last paper.