Cited papers: the top 100

Witold Pedrycz has the most cited papers among the people shaping AI, with 2,541. Works in a person’s OpenAlex record with at least one citation: papers, preprints, chapters and books. Uncited items are left out, because OpenAlex also lists letters, dataset entries and other items that are not papers.

Rank	Person	Cited papers	Badges
1	Witold PedryczUniversity of Alberta	2,541	Centurion Wayfarer Loyal
2	Philip S. YuUniversity of Illinois Chicago	2,055	Centurion Bridge Wayfarer Loyal
3	Dacheng TaoNanyang Technological University	1,763	Centurion Rising Bridge Wayfarer
4	Dinggang ShenShanghaiTech University	1,707	Centurion Bridge Wayfarer
5	Guang‐Can GuoUniversity of Science and Technology of China	1,633	Centurion Founder Bridge Wayfarer Loyal Pioneer
6	Xuelong LiChina Telecom	1,471	Centurion Bridge Wayfarer
7	Guang-Zhong YangShanghai Jiao Tong University	1,386	Rising Wayfarer Loyal
8	Ajith AbrahamSai University	1,371	Centurion Bridge Wayfarer
9	Thomas Huang	1,340	Centurion Founder Wayfarer Loyal Pioneer
10	Björn SchulleraudEERING	1,334	Centurion Founder Bridge Wayfarer Loyal
11	C.-C. Jay KuoUniversity of Southern California	1,302	Wayfarer Loyal
12	Sebastien OurselinKing's College London	1,267	Centurion Rising Wayfarer Loyal
13	C. L. Philip ChenSouth China University of Technology	1,223	Centurion Rising Wayfarer
14	Elisa BertinoPurdue University	1,220	Wayfarer Loyal
15	Moshe Y. VardiRice University	1,219	Laureate Bridge Wayfarer Loyal
16	Takeo Kanade	1,196	Centurion Loyal Pioneer
17	Tingwen HuangShenzhen University of Advanced Technology	1,186	Centurion Rising Boomerang Wayfarer Loyal
18	Oscar CastilloHAFSA	1,166	Bridge Wayfarer Loyal
19	Mérouane DebbahTechnology Innovation Institute	1,141	Centurion Rising Founder Bridge Wayfarer Loyal
20	Roland SiegwartETH Zurich	1,134	Centurion Founder Bridge Loyal
21	Rama ChellappaJohns Hopkins University	1,104	Centurion Loyal
22	Shrikanth NarayananUniversity of Southern California	1,100	Founder Bridge Loyal
23	Francisco HerreraAndalusian Interuniversity Institute in Data Science and Computational Intelligence	1,084	Centurion Loyal
24	Franco NoriUniversity of Michigan	1,080	Centurion Wayfarer Loyal
25	Hiroshi IshiguroOsaka University	1,077	Wayfarer Loyal
26	Bernhard SchölkopfMax Planck Society	1,075	Centurion Bridge Wayfarer Loyal
27	Henri PradeCNRS	1,073	Centurion Bridge Wayfarer Loyal
28	Haizhou LiChinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen	1,068	Wayfarer
29	Dinesh ManochaUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	1,024	Founder Wayfarer Loyal
30	Yoshua BengioUniversité de Montréal	1,020	Laureate Centurion Founder Bridge Boomerang Wayfarer Loyal
31	Didier DuboisInstitute for Research in Computer Science of Toulouse	1,018	Centurion Wayfarer Loyal
32	Jose C. PrincipeUniversity of Florida	1,015	Loyal
33	Hui XiongHKUST (Guangzhou)	1,006	Rising Bridge Wayfarer Loyal
34	Ronald R. YagerIona University	1,000	Laureate Centurion Loyal
35	Aggelos K KatsaggelosNorthwestern University	996	Bridge Loyal
36	Jiawei HanUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	992	Centurion Loyal
=36	Maarten de RijkeUniversity of Amsterdam	992	Boomerang Loyal
38	Xin YaoLingnan University	988	Laureate Centurion Boomerang Wayfarer Loyal
39	Daniela RusMassachusetts Institute of Technology	965	Centurion Loyal
40	Josef KittlerUniversity of Surrey	958	Founder Bridge Wayfarer Loyal Pioneer
41	Anil K. JainMichigan State University	950	Centurion Wayfarer Loyal Pioneer
42	Tat-Seng ChuaNational University of Singapore	944	Centurion Rising Wayfarer Loyal
43	Hermann NeyRWTH Aachen University	923	Bridge Loyal
44	Yiannis KompatsiarisInfalia	918	Founder Bridge Loyal
45	Alex PentlandMassachusetts Institute of Technology	913	Centurion Boomerang Loyal
46	Ali KavehIran University of Science and Technology	910	Loyal Pioneer
47	Michael I. JordanInria	909	Centurion Wayfarer Loyal
48	Willy SusiloUniversity of Wollongong	903	Loyal
49	Feiping NieNorthwestern Polytechnical University	896	Centurion Rising Wayfarer
50	Leon ChuaUniversity of California, Berkeley	865	Centurion Wayfarer Loyal Pioneer
51	Michael TomaselloDuke University	859	Laureate Centurion Loyal Pioneer
52	Shuicheng YanNational University of Singapore	858	Centurion Bridge Wayfarer
53	Alan Conrad BovikUniversity of Colorado Boulder	852	Centurion Loyal
54	Jiebo LuoUniversity of Rochester	838	Centurion Rising Bridge Loyal
55	Andrew ZissermanUniversity of Oxford	831	Centurion Bridge Wayfarer Loyal
=55	Qiang YangHong Kong University of Science and Technology	831	Centurion Founder Bridge Wayfarer Loyal
57	Terrence SejnowskiSalk Institute for Biological Studies	820	Laureate Centurion Wayfarer Loyal Pioneer
58	Mihaela van der SchaarUniversity of Cambridge	818	Bridge Wayfarer Loyal
59	Lorenzo BruzzoneUniversity of Trento	810	Centurion Loyal
60	Amit ShethUniversity of South Carolina	809	Loyal
61	Daron AcemogluMassachusetts Institute of Technology	807	Laureate Centurion Wayfarer Loyal
=61	Ling ShaoTerminus Group	807	Centurion Rising Bridge Wayfarer
63	Edwin Hancock	799	Wayfarer Loyal
=63	Jocelyn ChanussotInstitut polytechnique de Grenoble	799	Centurion Rising Boomerang Wayfarer Loyal
65	Kalyanmoy DebUniversity of Alabama	791	Centurion Bridge Boomerang Wayfarer Loyal
=65	Yao ZhaoBeijing Jiaotong University	791	Rising Bridge Wayfarer Loyal
67	Joshua B. TenenbaumMassachusetts Institute of Technology	788	Centurion Bridge Loyal
68	Michael A. UnserEPFL	783	Centurion Loyal
69	Alan L. YuilleJohns Hopkins University	779	Centurion Boomerang Wayfarer
=69	Svetha VenkateshDeakin University	779	Loyal
71	Abdulmotaleb El SaddikUniversity of Ottawa	777	Loyal
72	Yaochu JinWestlake University	774	Laureate Centurion Rising Bridge Wayfarer
73	Nicu SebeUniversity of Trento	772
74	Nicholas R. JenningsLoughborough University	760	Centurion Wayfarer Loyal
75	Lei ChenHKUST (Guangzhou)	758	Bridge Wayfarer Loyal
76	Dragan GaševićUniversity of Hong Kong	755	Rising Founder Wayfarer
77	Max A. ViergeverUtrecht University	754	Centurion Founder Loyal Pioneer
78	Edward J. DelpPurdue University	749	Loyal
79	Katia P. SycaraCarnegie Mellon University	744	Loyal
=79	Satoshi NakamuraChinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen	744	Wayfarer Loyal
81	Jian YangNanjing University of Science and Technology	736	Rising Wayfarer Loyal
82	Pheng‐Ann HengChinese University of Hong Kong	731	Centurion Rising Boomerang Loyal
83	Giancarlo FortinoUniversity of Calabria	721	Rising Founder Bridge Loyal
84	Byoungho Lee	719	Bridge Loyal
=84	J. I. CiracMax Planck Society	719	Laureate Centurion Wayfarer Loyal
=84	Weisi LinNanyang Technological University	719	Loyal
87	Wiro NiessenUniversity of Groningen	715	Founder Bridge Wayfarer Loyal
88	Laith AbualigahAl-Ahliyya Amman University	714	Rising Wayfarer
89	Changsheng XuChinese Academy of Sciences	713	Boomerang Wayfarer
=89	Peter WillettDARPA	713	Loyal
91	Taghi M. KhoshgoftaarFlorida Atlantic University	711	Rising Loyal
92	Ben ShneidermanUniversity of Maryland	708	Centurion Loyal Pioneer
=92	Pushpak Bhattacharyya	708	Bridge Wayfarer Loyal
94	Ron KikinisMass General Brigham	705	Centurion Founder Bridge Wayfarer Loyal
95	Janusz KacprzykPolish Academy of Sciences	704	Wayfarer Loyal Pioneer
96	Nicholas AyacheInria	702	Centurion Loyal
97	Jie LuUniversity of Technology Sydney	697	Bridge Loyal
98	Azriel Rosenfeld	696	Loyal Pioneer
99	John MylopoulosUniversity of Toronto	694	Loyal Pioneer
100	Tieniu TanNanjing University	693	Centurion Wayfarer Loyal

Ranked among 1,967 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.