2026 Gerhard Weikum: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	107	264	256	13	13	1054	47655

Gerhard Weikum 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 Gerhard Weikum sits on this spectrum.

32 publications 991+

This scientist: 1,054 publications — 99th percentile

99% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Gerhard Weikum 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 Gerhard Weikum sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 107 D-Index — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Germany Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Computer Science in Germany Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Germany Leader Award
2018 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Informatics
2011 - Member of Academia Europaea
2005 - ACM Fellow For contributions to distributed database systems.

Overview

Gerhard Weikum is affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Germany. Their research primarily spans the field of Computer Science, with a significant focus on Artificial Intelligence, Information Systems, Communication, Management Science and Operations Research, as well as Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.

The scientist's work covers various main topics, which include:

Topic Modeling
Natural Language Processing Techniques
Semantic Web and Ontologies
Advanced Graph Neural Networks
Speech and dialogue systems
Wikis in Education and Collaboration
Information Retrieval and Search Behavior

Gerhard Weikum has contributed extensively to academic literature, with frequent publications in the following venues:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Journal of Web Semantics
Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
UC Irvine

Some of the recent papers published by Weikum include:

"Machine Knowledge: Creation and Curation of Comprehensive Knowledge Bases," 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
"Machine Knowledge: Creation and Curation of Comprehensive Knowledge Bases," 2021, Foundations and Trends in Databases
"Conversational Question Answering on Heterogeneous Sources," 2022, Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
"Enriching Knowledge Bases with Interesting Negative Statements," 2020, UC Irvine
"Negative Knowledge for Open-world Wikidata," 2021, Companion Proceedings of the Web Conference 2021

Frequent collaborators who have co-authored work with Weikum include:

Simon Razniewski
Hiba Arnaout
Rishiraj Saha Roy
Jeff Z. Pan
Andrew Yates

Recognition for Weikum's contributions includes being named an ACM Fellow in 2005 for work in distributed database systems.

Weikum is also a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina since 2018, specifically in the informatics division, and has been a Member of Academia Europaea since 2011.

Best Publications

Yago: a core of semantic knowledge

Fabian M. Suchanek;Gjergji Kasneci;Gerhard Weikum

5173
Citations
YAGO2: A spatially and temporally enhanced knowledge base from Wikipedia

Johannes Hoffart;Fabian M. Suchanek;Klaus Berberich;Gerhard Weikum

1607
Citations
The LRU-K page replacement algorithm for database disk buffering

Elizabeth J. O'Neil;Patrick E. O'Neil;Gerhard Weikum

1447
Citations
YAGO: A Large Ontology from Wikipedia and WordNet

Fabian M. Suchanek;Gjergji Kasneci;Gerhard Weikum

1258
Citations
Robust Disambiguation of Named Entities in Text

Johannes Hoffart;Mohamed Amir Yosef;Ilaria Bordino;Hagen Fürstenau

1161
Citations
RDF-3X: a RISC-style engine for RDF

Thomas Neumann;Gerhard Weikum

802
Citations
The RDF-3X engine for scalable management of RDF data

Thomas Neumann;Gerhard Weikum

802
Citations
The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems

Jim Gray;Mamdouh Refaat;Jim Melton;Stephen Buxton

549
Citations
PATTY: A Taxonomy of Relational Patterns with Semantic Types

Ndapandula Nakashole;Gerhard Weikum;Fabian Suchanek

480
Citations
YAGO2: exploring and querying world knowledge in time, space, context, and many languages

Johannes Hoffart;Fabian M. Suchanek;Klaus Berberich;Edwin Lewis-Kelham

465
Citations
Equity of Attention: Amortizing Individual Fairness in Rankings

Asia J. Biega;Krishna P. Gummadi;Gerhard Weikum

430
Citations
Concepts and applications of multilevel transactions and open nested transactions

Gerhard Weikum;Hans-J. Schek

413
Citations
Rethinking Database System Architecture: Towards a Self-Tuning RISC-Style Database System

Surajit Chaudhuri;Gerhard Weikum

386
Citations
Principles and realization strategies of multilevel transaction management

Gerhard Weikum

385
Citations
Data partitioning and load balancing in parallel disk systems

Peter Scheuermann;Gerhard Weikum;Peter Zabback

372
Citations
The Claremont report on database research

Rakesh Agrawal;Anastasia Ailamaki;Philip A. Bernstein;Eric A. Brewer

342
Citations
KLEE: a framework for distributed top-k query algorithms

Sebastian Michel;Peter Triantafillou;Gerhard Weikum

340
Citations
Top-k query evaluation with probabilistic guarantees

Martin Theobald;Gerhard Weikum;Ralf Schenkel

340
Citations
Foundations of statistical natural language processing

Gerhard Weikum

123
Citations
Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE 2010

Feifei Li;Mirella M. Moro;Shahram Ghandeharizadeh;Jayant R. Haritsa

64
Citations
YAGO2: a spatially and temporally enhanced knowledge base from wikipedia (extended abstract)

Johannes Hoffart;Fabian M. Suchanek;Klaus Berberich;Gerhard Weikum

20
Citations
ACM Transactions on Database Systems

Dan Suciu;Gerhard Weikum

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Ralf Schenkel University of Trier

Fabian M. Suchanek Télécom ParisTech

Gerard de Melo Hasso Plattner Institute

Surajit Chaudhuri Microsoft (United States)

Thomas Neumann Technical University of Munich

Hans-Jörg Schek ETH Zurich

David B. Lomet Microsoft (United States)

Martin L. Kersten Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica

Jilles Vreeken Max Planck Society

Alon Halevy Facebook (United States)

External Links

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