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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Computer Science 77 1225 1184 648 622 124 184969

Demis Hassabis publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Demis Hassabis between 2007 and 2026, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Demis Hassabis published across 20 years, from 2007 to 2026, averaging 8 papers a year. Output peaked at 17 publications in 2018. 5 of the 160 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 2007 to 2026. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 17. Peak 17 publications in 2018. 2007: 5 publications 2008: 0 publications 2009: 8 publications 2010: 4 publications 2011: 2 publications 2012: 7 publications 2013: 3 publications 2014: 1 publication 2015: 8 publications 2016: 11 publications 2017: 14 publications 2018: 17 publications 2019: 8 publications 2020: 12 publications 2021: 17 publications 2022: 14 publications 2023: 13 publications 2024: 11 publications 2025: 4 publications 2026: 1 publication
2007 2026

160 publications in total across all disciplines

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Demis Hassabis: publications per year, 2007 to 2026
Year Publications
2007 5
2008 0
2009 8
2010 4
2011 2
2012 7
2013 3
2014 1
2015 8
2016 11
2017 14
2018 17
2019 8
2020 12
2021 17
2022 14
2023 13
2024 11
2025 4
2026 1
Total 160
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Demis Hassabis publication distribution in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Computer Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Demis Hassabis sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
200 400 600
Bar chart with 97 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 32–41 to 991+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 609. Most scientists, 609, have 142–151 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 991 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 122–131 publications, is where this scientist sits. 32–41 publications: 7 scientists 42–51 publications: 22 scientists 52–61 publications: 82 scientists 62–71 publications: 134 scientists 72–81 publications: 249 scientists 82–91 publications: 324 scientists 92–101 publications: 421 scientists 102–111 publications: 420 scientists 112–121 publications: 497 scientists 122–131 publications: 544 scientists 132–141 publications: 555 scientists 142–151 publications: 609 scientists 152–161 publications: 559 scientists 162–171 publications: 534 scientists 172–181 publications: 556 scientists 182–191 publications: 583 scientists 192–201 publications: 519 scientists 202–211 publications: 508 scientists 212–221 publications: 490 scientists 222–231 publications: 437 scientists 232–241 publications: 423 scientists 242–251 publications: 408 scientists 252–261 publications: 377 scientists 262–271 publications: 301 scientists 272–281 publications: 335 scientists 282–291 publications: 320 scientists 292–301 publications: 293 scientists 302–311 publications: 250 scientists 312–321 publications: 238 scientists 322–331 publications: 206 scientists 332–341 publications: 209 scientists 342–351 publications: 208 scientists 352–361 publications: 162 scientists 362–371 publications: 176 scientists 372–381 publications: 127 scientists 382–391 publications: 158 scientists 392–401 publications: 128 scientists 402–411 publications: 104 scientists 412–421 publications: 94 scientists 422–431 publications: 99 scientists 432–441 publications: 83 scientists 442–451 publications: 108 scientists 452–461 publications: 73 scientists 462–471 publications: 77 scientists 472–481 publications: 69 scientists 482–491 publications: 84 scientists 492–501 publications: 62 scientists 502–511 publications: 54 scientists 512–521 publications: 57 scientists 522–531 publications: 51 scientists 532–541 publications: 51 scientists 542–551 publications: 32 scientists 552–561 publications: 38 scientists 562–571 publications: 28 scientists 572–581 publications: 43 scientists 582–591 publications: 33 scientists 592–601 publications: 41 scientists 602–611 publications: 32 scientists 612–621 publications: 28 scientists 622–631 publications: 25 scientists 632–641 publications: 27 scientists 642–651 publications: 17 scientists 652–661 publications: 20 scientists 662–671 publications: 17 scientists 672–681 publications: 15 scientists 682–691 publications: 14 scientists 692–701 publications: 21 scientists 702–711 publications: 13 scientists 712–721 publications: 12 scientists 722–731 publications: 19 scientists 732–741 publications: 14 scientists 742–751 publications: 12 scientists 752–761 publications: 10 scientists 762–771 publications: 10 scientists 772–781 publications: 11 scientists 782–791 publications: 10 scientists 792–801 publications: 11 scientists 802–811 publications: 8 scientists 812–821 publications: 8 scientists 822–831 publications: 7 scientists 832–841 publications: 11 scientists 842–851 publications: 10 scientists 852–861 publications: 5 scientists 862–871 publications: 9 scientists 872–881 publications: 4 scientists 882–891 publications: 6 scientists 892–901 publications: 3 scientists 902–911 publications: 6 scientists 912–921 publications: 3 scientists 922–931 publications: 2 scientists 932–941 publications: 2 scientists 942–951 publications: 2 scientists 952–961 publications: 3 scientists 962–971 publications: 3 scientists 972–981 publications: 3 scientists 982–990 publications: 5 scientists 991+ publications: 100 scientists
32–41 publications 991+

This scientist: 124 publications — 16th percentile

16% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 991 publications or more.

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Number of Computer Science scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 14,188 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
32–41 7
42–51 22
52–61 82
62–71 134
72–81 249
82–91 324
92–101 421
102–111 420
112–121 497
122–131 544 124
132–141 555
142–151 609
152–161 559
162–171 534
172–181 556
182–191 583
192–201 519
202–211 508
212–221 490
222–231 437
232–241 423
242–251 408
252–261 377
262–271 301
272–281 335
282–291 320
292–301 293
302–311 250
312–321 238
322–331 206
332–341 209
342–351 208
352–361 162
362–371 176
372–381 127
382–391 158
392–401 128
402–411 104
412–421 94
422–431 99
432–441 83
442–451 108
452–461 73
462–471 77
472–481 69
482–491 84
492–501 62
502–511 54
512–521 57
522–531 51
532–541 51
542–551 32
552–561 38
562–571 28
572–581 43
582–591 33
592–601 41
602–611 32
612–621 28
622–631 25
632–641 27
642–651 17
652–661 20
662–671 17
672–681 15
682–691 14
692–701 21
702–711 13
712–721 12
722–731 19
732–741 14
742–751 12
752–761 10
762–771 10
772–781 11
782–791 10
792–801 11
802–811 8
812–821 8
822–831 7
832–841 11
842–851 10
852–861 5
862–871 9
872–881 4
882–891 6
892–901 3
902–911 6
912–921 3
922–931 2
932–941 2
942–951 2
952–961 3
962–971 3
972–981 3
982–990 5
991+ 100
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Demis Hassabis D-index placement in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Computer Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Demis Hassabis sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
200 400 600 800
Bar chart with 52 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30–31 to 131+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 990. Most scientists, 990, have 36–37 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 131 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 76–77 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30–31 D-Index: 879 scientists 32–33 D-Index: 983 scientists 34–35 D-Index: 918 scientists 36–37 D-Index: 990 scientists 38–39 D-Index: 968 scientists 40–41 D-Index: 907 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 821 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 763 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 689 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 543 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 543 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 518 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 500 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 458 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 400 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 337 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 308 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 292 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 249 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 213 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 192 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 189 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 165 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 139 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 119 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 121 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 113 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 88 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 87 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 75 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 69 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 57 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 46 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 38 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 34 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 36 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 27 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 37 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 18 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 31 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 19 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 16 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 12 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 20 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 15 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 5 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 20 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 8 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 5 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 7 scientists 130 D-Index: 3 scientists 131+ D-Index: 98 scientists
30–31 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 77 D-Index — 91st percentile

91% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 131 D-Index or more.

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Number of Computer Science scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 14,188 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30–31 879
32–33 983
34–35 918
36–37 990
38–39 968
40–41 907
42–43 821
44–45 763
46–47 689
48–49 543
50–51 543
52–53 518
54–55 500
56–57 458
58–59 400
60–61 337
62–63 308
64–65 292
66–67 249
68–69 213
70–71 192
72–73 189
74–75 165
76–77 139 77
78–79 119
80–81 121
82–83 113
84–85 88
86–87 87
88–89 75
90–91 69
92–93 57
94–95 46
96–97 38
98–99 34
100–101 36
102–103 27
104–105 37
106–107 18
108–109 31
110–111 19
112–113 16
114–115 12
116–117 20
118–119 15
120–121 5
122–123 20
124–125 8
126–127 5
128–129 7
130 3
131+ 98
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
  • 2017 - Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK)

Overview

Demis Hassabis is affiliated with Google in the United States and has a research focus concentrated primarily within Computer Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their scholarly output encompasses significant contributions to the fields of Artificial Intelligence and Molecular Biology, among various other interdisciplinary domains.

Their research spans several subfields of study, including:

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Molecular Biology
  • Materials Chemistry
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Cognitive Neuroscience

Within these domains, Hassabis has engaged extensively with topics such as:

  • Protein Structure and Dynamics
  • Sports Analytics and Performance
  • Artificial Intelligence in Games
  • Machine Learning in Bioinformatics
  • Enzyme Structure and Function
  • Reinforcement Learning in Robotics
  • Topic Modeling

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Hassabis include Pushmeet Kohli, John Jumper, Andrew Senior, Nenad Tomašev, and Tim Green, reflecting teamwork in varied research efforts.

Hassabis's work has appeared across several notable publication venues, with multiple papers featured in:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Nature
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Science

Among recent significant papers are the following:

  • Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold, 2021, Nature
  • Accurate structure prediction of biomolecular interactions with AlphaFold 3, 2024, Nature
  • AlphaFold Protein Structure Database: massively expanding the structural coverage of protein-sequence space with high-accuracy models, 2021, Nucleic Acids Research
  • Protein complex prediction with AlphaFold-Multimer, 2021, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Improved protein structure prediction using potentials from deep learning, 2020, Nature

Hassabis has received recognition including fellowships from distinguished bodies:

  • Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom, 2018
  • Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK), 2017

Best Publications

  • Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

    John M. Jumper;Richard O. Evans;Alexander Pritzel;Tim Green

  • Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning

    Volodymyr Mnih;Koray Kavukcuoglu;David Silver;Andrei A. Rusu

  • Mastering the game of Go with deep neural networks and tree search

    David Silver;Aja Huang;Christopher J. Maddison;Arthur Guez

  • Mastering the game of Go without human knowledge

    David Silver;Julian Schrittwieser;Karen Simonyan;Ioannis Antonoglou

  • Overcoming catastrophic forgetting in neural networks

    James Kirkpatrick;Razvan Pascanu;Neil C. Rabinowitz;Joel Veness

  • A general reinforcement learning algorithm that masters chess, shogi, and Go through self-play.

    David Silver;Thomas Hubert;Julian Schrittwieser;Ioannis Antonoglou

  • Protein complex prediction with AlphaFold-Multimer

    Richard Evans;Michael O'Neill;Alexander Pritzel;Natasha Antropova

  • Grandmaster level in StarCraft II using multi-agent reinforcement learning.

    Oriol Vinyals;Igor Babuschkin;Wojciech M. Czarnecki;Michaël Mathieu

  • Improved protein structure prediction using potentials from deep learning

    Andrew W. Senior;Richard Evans;John Jumper;James Kirkpatrick

  • International evaluation of an AI system for breast cancer screening.

    Scott Mayer McKinney;Marcin Sieniek;Varun Godbole;Jonathan Godwin

  • Highly accurate protein structure prediction for the human proteome

    Kathryn Tunyasuvunakool;Jonas Adler;Zachary Wu;Tim Green

  • Clinically applicable deep learning for diagnosis and referral in retinal disease

    Jeffrey De Fauw;Joseph R. Ledsam;Bernardino Romera-Paredes;Stanislav Nikolov

  • Mastering Atari, Go, chess and shogi by planning with a learned model

    Julian Schrittwieser;Ioannis Antonoglou;Thomas Hubert;Karen Simonyan

  • Hybrid computing using a neural network with dynamic external memory

    Alex Graves;Greg Wayne;Malcolm Reynolds;Tim Harley

  • Neuroscience-Inspired Artificial Intelligence.

    Demis Hassabis;Dharshan Kumaran;Christopher Summerfield;Matthew Botvinick

  • The Future of Memory: Remembering, Imagining, and the Brain

    Daniel L. Schacter;Donna Rose Addis;Demis Hassabis;Victoria C. Martin

  • Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with a General Reinforcement Learning Algorithm

    David Silver;Thomas Hubert;Julian Schrittwieser;Ioannis Antonoglou

  • Gemini 1.5: Unlocking multimodal understanding across millions of tokens of context

    Unknown

  • Using Imagination to Understand the Neural Basis of Episodic Memory

    Demis Hassabis;Dharshan Kumaran;Eleanor A. Maguire

  • Human-level performance in 3D multiplayer games with population-based reinforcement learning

    Max Jaderberg;Wojciech M. Czarnecki;Iain Dunning;Luke Marris

Frequent Co-Authors

Dharshan Kumaran
Dharshan Kumaran Google (United States)
Eleanor A. Maguire
Eleanor A. Maguire University College London
Matthew Botvinick
Matthew Botvinick Yale University
Koray Kavukcuoglu
Koray Kavukcuoglu DeepMind (United Kingdom)
David Silver
David Silver DeepMind (United Kingdom)
Charles Blundell
Charles Blundell DeepMind (United Kingdom)
Pushmeet Kohli
Pushmeet Kohli DeepMind (United Kingdom)
Oriol Vinyals
Oriol Vinyals DeepMind (United Kingdom)
Timothy P. Lillicrap
Timothy P. Lillicrap University College London
Joel Z. Leibo
Joel Z. Leibo DeepMind (United Kingdom)

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