Best Computer Science Scientists

The 9th edition of Research.com ranking of the best researchers in the arena of Computer Science relies os data consolidated from various data sources including OpenAlex and CrossRef. The bibliometric data for devising the citation-based metrics were collected on 21-12-2022. Position in the ranking is based on a scientist's D-index (Discipline H-index), which takes into account only publications and citation data for an examined discipline.
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The range of our Computer Science research
Our best scientists ranking is a reliable lineup of leading scholars from the field of Computer Science, established by means of a detailed analysis of 166,880 scientists determined from a variety of bibliometric data sources. For the discipline of Computer Science, more than 14402 researchers were examined.

What is D-index acceptance threshold for Computer Science
The D-index threshold for accepting a scientist to be considered is placed at 30 if the majority of of their publications are in the field of Computer Science. The acceptance requirements for scientists to be considered into the ranking of top scholars are based on the D-index, ratio of the publications made within the specific field of study in addition to the awards and achievements of the researchers. The D-index threshold for listing best scholars is set as an increment of 10 depending on the overall number of scholars projected for each discipline whilst ensuring that the top 1% of best scholars are incorporated into the ranking. We expect a proximity of 30% or less between a researcher’s general H-index and their D-index.

Other verification rules
Because our leading aim is to ensure that only genuine scientists are listed in the ranking we believe that metrics are never supposed to be a full means to evaluate the work of scholars. For that reason we manually check every profile and cross-correlate it against publications in a wide range of reliable sources. While it’s not a factor impacting a scholar’s position in Research.com ranking, the amount of documents published in prominent journals and conference proceedings should form a reliable secondary signal of their contribution to research in a specific area of science. Position in the ranking is based on each scholar’s D-index with the help of metrics compiled from OpenAlex and CrossRef, which are the most credible and well-known bibliometric databases of this kind open to the scientific community. A detailed overview of our research process can be found on our methodology page.

Our agenda
Our mission is to inspire scholars, entrepreneurs and decision-makers around the world to examine where leading experts are heading and to provide a way for the entire research community to get to know who the leading experts in specific areas of study, in various countries, or even within research institutions are.
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Key findings for Computer Science
As far as institutions are concerned, the affiliation with the highest number of top scholars in the world is Microsoft (United States) with 248 scholars affiliated with it being present in our Computer Science ranking. It is followed by Google (United States) with 240 researchers. Ranking thirds is Carnegie Mellon University with 168 researchers.

Prominent researchers ranking in the world are representing Michigan State University, University of California, Berkeley, University of Illinois at Chicago, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Walker Digital (United States), University of Chicago, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Technology Innovation Institute, Sichuan University, University of Tennessee at Knoxville.

Professor Anil K. Jain from Michigan State University is featured as the best researcher in the world in our ranking with a D-index of 203. Ranking on the second place in the world is Yoshua Bengio from University of Montreal with a D-index of 200. The third position in the world is occupied by Jiawei Han from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a D-index of 186.

The average D-index for the top 3% scholars is 112 against an average of 48 for all researchers listed in our ranking.

The average number of published articles within the discipline of Computer Science for the top 1% of researchers in the ranking is 769 against an average of 243 for all scientists.

The average number of citations for the top 10% scientists is 46199 against an average of 15106 for all researchers.

Useful resources:

World
National
Scholar
D-Index D-index (Discipline H-index) only includes papers and citation values for an examined discipline in contrast to General H-index which accounts for publications across all disciplines.
Citations
Publications
1 World 1 National D-index 203 Citations 250,990 970
2 World 1 National D-index 200 Citations 491,250 909
3 World 2 National D-index 186 Citations 209,445 1,177
4 World 3 National D-index 176 Citations 220,056 776
5 World 1 National D-index 175 Citations 255,987 698
6 World 4 National D-index 166 Citations 131,899 1,814
7 World 5 National D-index 165 Citations 122,431 1,329
8 World 6 National D-index 161 Citations 125,670 751
9 World 1 National D-index 161 Citations 111,307 1,008
10 World 1 National D-index 157 Citations 118,010 1,038
11 World 1 National D-index 156 Citations 121,353 1,058
12 World 2 National D-index 155 Citations 174,596 1,129
13 World 2 National D-index 153 Citations 443,047 369
14 World 7 National D-index 152 Citations 122,976 410
15 World 8 National D-index 150 Citations 157,134 424
16 World 9 National D-index 148 Citations 82,342 1,189
17 World 10 National D-index 146 Citations 75,044 798
18 World 11 National D-index 145 Citations 177,214 470
19 World 12 National D-index 145 Citations 129,887 490
20 World 13 National D-index 145 Citations 67,184 359
21 World 14 National D-index 144 Citations 174,042 548
22 World 15 National D-index 143 Citations 99,214 774
23 World 3 National D-index 143 Citations 78,984 676
24 World 2 National D-index 142 Citations 74,454 1,217
25 World 16 National D-index 141 Citations 177,668 439
26 World 17 National D-index 140 Citations 85,110 582
27 World 3 National D-index 139 Citations 99,681 733
28 World 18 National D-index 137 Citations 129,256 880
29 World 19 National D-index 137 Citations 122,415 703
30 World 1 National D-index 136 Citations 98,459 2,320
32 World 2 National D-index 135 Citations 116,872 526
33 World 20 National D-index 135 Citations 80,050 905
34 World 1 National D-index 134 Citations 130,780 1,233
35 World 21 National D-index 134 Citations 73,955 852
36 World 22 National D-index 133 Citations 88,528 654
37 World 23 National D-index 132 Citations 101,126 554
38 World 1 National D-index 131 Citations 126,102 601
39 World 3 National D-index 131 Citations 78,194 390
40 World 4 National D-index 131 Citations 63,703 739
41 World 24 National D-index 130 Citations 89,348 520
42 World 25 National D-index 130 Citations 83,200 1,469
43 World 5 National D-index 130 Citations 81,718 1,065
44 World 4 National D-index 130 Citations 64,937 1,444
45 World 2 National D-index 130 Citations 52,986 852
46 World 3 National D-index 129 Citations 83,550 723
47 World 26 National D-index 129 Citations 75,670 982
48 World 27 National D-index 129 Citations 71,119 505
49 World 28 National D-index 129 Citations 65,635 290
50 World 29 National D-index 128 Citations 131,160 412
51 World 30 National D-index 128 Citations 84,455 928
52 World 4 National D-index 128 Citations 73,289 535
53 World 31 National D-index 127 Citations 237,431 273
54 World 32 National D-index 127 Citations 173,450 306
55 World 33 National D-index 127 Citations 127,999 608
56 World 1 National D-index 127 Citations 74,316 743
57 World 6 National D-index 127 Citations 63,526 479
58 World 34 National D-index 126 Citations 144,743 319
59 World 35 National D-index 126 Citations 94,972 377
60 World 7 National D-index 126 Citations 87,945 1,078
61 World 36 National D-index 126 Citations 78,871 428
62 World 37 National D-index 126 Citations 75,777 391
63 World 1 National D-index 126 Citations 51,875 695
64 World 38 National D-index 125 Citations 110,443 418
65 World 39 National D-index 125 Citations 99,977 705
66 World 40 National D-index 125 Citations 61,417 716
67 World 41 National D-index 124 Citations 200,335 704
68 World 42 National D-index 124 Citations 99,504 610
69 World 43 National D-index 124 Citations 86,241 341
70 World 8 National D-index 124 Citations 69,340 995
71 World 5 National D-index 123 Citations 76,187 1,873
72 World 2 National D-index 123 Citations 74,804 722
73 World 44 National D-index 122 Citations 160,524 387
74 World 45 National D-index 122 Citations 83,603 397
75 World 5 National D-index 122 Citations 77,825 670
76 World 46 National D-index 122 Citations 68,839 724
77 World 47 National D-index 122 Citations 58,673 394
78 World 9 National D-index 122 Citations 54,490 1,036
79 World 48 National D-index 121 Citations 72,802 693
80 World 49 National D-index 121 Citations 71,809 1,034
81 World 50 National D-index 121 Citations 64,158 573
82 World 51 National D-index 120 Citations 218,791 347
83 World 52 National D-index 120 Citations 88,232 328
84 World 53 National D-index 120 Citations 56,961 559
85 World 6 National D-index 120 Citations 50,965 1,027
86 World 54 National D-index 119 Citations 78,103 681
87 World 55 National D-index 119 Citations 70,724 592
88 World 56 National D-index 119 Citations 55,823 1,356
89 World 10 National D-index 119 Citations 55,083 1,248
90 World 57 National D-index 118 Citations 78,298 645
91 World 3 National D-index 118 Citations 74,006 871
92 World 58 National D-index 117 Citations 81,627 427
93 World 59 National D-index 117 Citations 62,682 528
94 World 2 National D-index 117 Citations 55,368 1,388
95 World 60 National D-index 116 Citations 97,115 408
96 World 61 National D-index 116 Citations 72,040 1,805
97 World 7 National D-index 116 Citations 64,645 801
98 World 11 National D-index 116 Citations 63,993 874
99 World 62 National D-index 116 Citations 47,202 1,150
100 World 3 National D-index 115 Citations 76,264 722

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