Citations: the top 100

Kaiming He has the most citations among the people shaping AI, with 553,703. All citations to a person’s papers in OpenAlex.

Rank	Person	Citations	Badges
1	Kaiming HeMassachusetts Institute of Technology	553,703	Rising Bridge
2	Yoshua BengioUniversité de Montréal	527,773	Laureate Centurion Founder Bridge Boomerang Wayfarer Loyal
3	Geoffrey HintonUniversity of Toronto	501,550	Laureate Centurion Bridge Boomerang Wayfarer Loyal
4	Ross Girshick	399,065	Rising Bridge
5	Shaoqing RenNIO	334,634	Rising Founder Bridge
6	Xiangyu ZhangStepFun	313,751	Rising Bridge Wayfarer Loyal
7	Andrew ZissermanUniversity of Oxford	271,079	Centurion Bridge Wayfarer Loyal
8	David HausslerUniversity of California, Santa Cruz	238,041	Laureate Centurion Wayfarer Loyal
9	Piotr DollárThinking Machines Lab	215,321	Rising Founder Bridge Wayfarer
10	Fei-Fei LiStanford University	213,900	Centurion Founder Bridge Wayfarer
11	Vladimir Vapnik	213,116	Bridge Pioneer
12	Trevor DarrellUniversity of California, Berkeley	210,188	Centurion Founder Bridge Wayfarer Loyal
13	Yann LeCunNew York University	198,202	Laureate Centurion Bridge Wayfarer Loyal
14	Demis HassabisGoogle DeepMind	189,880	Laureate Rising Founder Bridge
15	Michael I. JordanInria	187,799	Centurion Wayfarer Loyal
16	Jürgen SchmidhuberKing Abdullah University of Science and Technology	186,124	Rising Founder Bridge Loyal
17	Kalyanmoy DebUniversity of Alabama	183,193	Centurion Bridge Boomerang Wayfarer Loyal
18	Christopher D. ManningStanford University	180,078	Laureate Centurion Loyal
19	Daron AcemogluMassachusetts Institute of Technology	179,609	Laureate Centurion Wayfarer Loyal
20	Herbert A. Simon	179,180	Laureate Centurion Loyal Pioneer
21	Olaf RonnebergerUniversity of Freiburg	178,814	Rising Bridge Loyal
22	Alex KrizhevskyTwo Bear Capital	174,669	Bridge
23	Edward Wittenindependent group	173,848	Laureate Centurion Founder Wayfarer Loyal
24	Jitendra MalikUniversity of California, Berkeley	171,748	Centurion Bridge Loyal
25	Christian SzegedyMorph Labs	168,012	Rising Founder Bridge
26	Oriol Vinyals	163,034	Rising Bridge
27	Anil K. JainMichigan State University	160,655	Centurion Wayfarer Loyal Pioneer
28	Koray KavukcuogluGoogle DeepMind	156,513	Rising Bridge
29	David SilverIneffable Intelligence	155,863	Rising Bridge Boomerang
30	David DonohoStanford University	150,927	Centurion Loyal
31	Quoc Le	149,364	Centurion Rising Bridge
32	Alan Conrad BovikUniversity of Colorado Boulder	149,247	Centurion Loyal
33	Bernhard SchölkopfMax Planck Society	148,100	Centurion Bridge Wayfarer Loyal
34	Thomas BroxUniversity of Freiburg	143,710	Rising Bridge Wayfarer
35	Andrew NgLandingAI	142,080	Centurion Founder Bridge Wayfarer Loyal
36	Lotfi A. Zadeh	141,125	Loyal Pioneer
37	Francisco HerreraAndalusian Interuniversity Institute in Data Science and Computational Intelligence	140,882	Centurion Loyal
38	Serge BelongiePioneer Centre for AI	139,171	Centurion Rising Bridge Wayfarer
39	Philip S. YuUniversity of Illinois Chicago	138,869	Centurion Bridge Wayfarer Loyal
40	Richard SocherYou.com	138,104	Rising Founder Bridge
41	Michael TomaselloDuke University	135,987	Laureate Centurion Loyal Pioneer
42	Léon BottouSimons Foundation	126,893	Founder Wayfarer
43	Sepp HochreiterJohannes Kepler University of Linz	126,064	Rising Bridge Wayfarer Loyal
44	Terrence SejnowskiSalk Institute for Biological Studies	124,931	Laureate Centurion Wayfarer Loyal Pioneer
45	Tsung-Yi LinNVIDIA	124,915	Rising Bridge
46	Jia DengPrinceton University	124,507
47	Karen SimonyanMicrosoft	124,260	Founder Bridge
48	Vincent VanhouckeWaymo	123,573	Founder
49	Pushmeet KohliGoogle DeepMind	121,315	Centurion Rising Bridge
50	Stanley OsherUniversity of California, Los Angeles	119,327	Centurion Bridge Wayfarer Loyal Pioneer
51	Pietro PeronaCalifornia Institute of Technology	118,540	Bridge Loyal
52	Alexei A. EfrosUniversity of California, Berkeley	116,483	Centurion Rising
53	Ruslan SalakhutdinovCarnegie Mellon University	115,724	Founder Bridge Wayfarer
54	Stanislas DehaeneCollège de France	114,803	Laureate Centurion Wayfarer Loyal
55	Cordelia SchmidInria	113,268	Centurion Bridge Wayfarer Loyal
56	James Kennedy	113,055
57	Carlos GuestrinStanford University	112,837	Laureate Rising Founder Bridge
58	Takeo Kanade	112,289	Centurion Loyal Pioneer
59	Jure LeskovecStanford University	112,256	Centurion Bridge Wayfarer
60	Wang XiaogangSenseTime	111,351	Centurion Rising Founder Wayfarer Loyal
61	Sebastian ThrunStanford University	109,963	Centurion Loyal
62	J. I. CiracMax Planck Society	109,174	Laureate Centurion Wayfarer Loyal
63	Thomas Huang	109,074	Centurion Founder Wayfarer Loyal Pioneer
64	Robert E. SchapireMicrosoft	108,995	Bridge
65	Dacheng TaoNanyang Technological University	108,328	Centurion Rising Bridge Wayfarer
66	Qiang YangHong Kong University of Science and Technology	106,625	Centurion Founder Bridge Wayfarer Loyal
67	Dumitru ErhanGoogle DeepMind	105,240	Bridge
68	David Rumelhart	104,175	Loyal Pioneer
69	Antonio TorralbaMassachusetts Institute of Technology	102,102	Centurion Loyal
70	Alan L. YuilleJohns Hopkins University	102,039	Centurion Boomerang Wayfarer
71	Ali FarhadiMicrosoft	100,677	Rising Founder Bridge Wayfarer
72	Eero SimoncelliNew York University	100,192	Loyal
73	Alex PentlandMassachusetts Institute of Technology	99,891	Centurion Boomerang Loyal
74	Zhou WangUniversity of Waterloo	99,821	Founder Bridge Wayfarer Loyal
75	Markus ReichsteinMax Planck Society	99,564	Centurion Founder Bridge Wayfarer Loyal
76	Xiaoou Tang	99,379	Centurion Founder Bridge Wayfarer Loyal
77	Ion StoicaUniversity of California, Berkeley	99,061	Centurion Founder Bridge Boomerang Wayfarer Loyal
78	Laurens van der MaatenAnthropic	98,015	Rising Bridge
79	Witold PedryczUniversity of Alberta	97,922	Centurion Wayfarer Loyal
80	Leonidas GuibasStanford University	97,346	Laureate Centurion Bridge Wayfarer Loyal Pioneer
81	Franco NoriUniversity of Michigan	95,808	Centurion Wayfarer Loyal
82	Kyunghyun ChoNew York University	94,381	Founder Bridge Wayfarer
83	Dinggang ShenShanghaiTech University	94,228	Centurion Bridge Wayfarer
84	Greg S. CorradoGoogle Brain	93,877	Founder Bridge
85	Jiawei HanUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	93,589	Centurion Loyal
86	Andrew W. SeniorGoogle DeepMind	93,169	Rising Bridge
87	Dragomir AnguelovWaymo	92,908	Rising Bridge
88	John R. AndersonCarnegie Mellon University	92,764	Laureate Centurion Bridge Wayfarer Loyal Pioneer
=88	Simon Haykin	92,764	Bridge Loyal Pioneer
90	David M. BleiColumbia University	91,320	Wayfarer
91	Marco DorigoUniversité Libre de Bruxelles	91,228	Centurion Loyal
92	Stig Petersen	90,435	Rising
93	Thomas M. Cover	90,033	Loyal Pioneer
94	Jon KleinbergCornell University	90,022	Laureate Centurion Loyal
95	David CournapeauAmazon	89,987	Bridge
96	Alex Graves	89,767	Bridge
97	Ian Witten	89,131	Boomerang Loyal Pioneer
98	Eric WieserGoogle DeepMind	88,944	Rising Bridge
99	Bernt SchieleEuropean Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems	88,084	Centurion Founder Bridge Wayfarer
100	Ian Goodfellow	87,888	Rising Bridge

Ranked among 2,210 people with OpenAlex figures. People whose OpenAlex record may be incomplete or mix in other authors are left out, and so are the per-paper numbers of people whose OpenAlex works list does not agree with their OpenAlex totals. A person with split OpenAlex records counts with the records we merged. Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 17 October 2026.