2026 Pierre-Yves Oudeyer: 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	58	3640	3538	65	64	325	13075

Pierre-Yves Oudeyer 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 Pierre-Yves Oudeyer sits on this spectrum.

32 publications 991+

This scientist: 325 publications — 78th percentile

78% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Pierre-Yves Oudeyer 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 Pierre-Yves Oudeyer sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 58 D-Index — 75th percentile

75% 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 France Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Computer Science in France Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Computer Science in France Leader Award

Overview

Pierre-Yves Oudeyer is affiliated with the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (INRIA) in France. Their research primarily belongs to the field of Computer Science, with a significant focus on Artificial Intelligence. Contributions span related subfields such as Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Cultural Studies, Computer Science Applications, and Control and Systems Engineering.

The scientist's main research topics include Reinforcement Learning in Robotics, Topic Modeling, Language and Cultural Evolution, Natural Language Processing Techniques, Multimodal Machine Learning Applications, Cellular Automata and Applications, and Speech and Dialogue Systems.

Frequent publication venues for Pierre-Yves Oudeyer are as follows:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Frontiers in Neurorobotics
Nature Machine Intelligence
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
Frontiers in Psychology

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Oudeyer include:

Autotelic Agents with Intrinsically Motivated Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning: A Short Survey, 2022, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
Grounding Large Language Models in Interactive Environments with Online Reinforcement Learning, 2023, arXiv (Cornell University)
Language and culture internalization for human-like autotelic AI, 2022, Nature Machine Intelligence
Editorial: Intrinsically Motivated Open-Ended Learning in Autonomous Robots, 2020, Frontiers in Neurorobotics
Causal Reinforcement Learning using Observational and Interventional Data, 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Pierre-Yves Oudeyer include:

Clément Moulin-Frier
Cédric Colas
Grgur Kovač
Rémy Portelas
Clément Romac

In addition to research articles, Oudeyer has contributed to academic books, notably publishing with Cambridge University Press. One such publication is The Drive for Knowledge, published in 2022.

Best Publications

Intrinsic Motivation Systems for Autonomous Mental Development

P.-Y. Oudeyer;F. Kaplan;V.V. Hafner

1449
Citations
What is Intrinsic Motivation? A Typology of Computational Approaches.

Pierre-Yves Oudeyer;Frederic Kaplan

1031
Citations
Information-seeking, curiosity, and attention: computational and neural mechanisms

Jacqueline Gottlieb;Pierre-Yves Oudeyer;Pierre-Yves Oudeyer;Manuel Lopes;Manuel Lopes;Adrien Baranes

1018
Citations
Active learning of inverse models with intrinsically motivated goal exploration in robots

Adrien Baranes;Pierre-Yves Oudeyer

598
Citations
Towards a neuroscience of active sampling and curiosity.

Jacqueline Gottlieb;Pierre-Yves Oudeyer;Pierre-Yves Oudeyer

488
Citations
Intrinsic motivation, curiosity, and learning: Theory and applications in educational technologies.

Pierre-Yves Oudeyer;Jacqueline Gottlieb;Manuel Lopes

429
Citations
The self-organization of speech sounds

Pierre-Yves Oudeyer

237
Citations
Intrinsically Motivated Goal Exploration Processes with Automatic Curriculum Learning

Sébastien Forestier;Yoan Mollard;Pierre-Yves Oudeyer

231
Citations
How Evolution May Work Through Curiosity-Driven Developmental Process

Pierre-Yves Oudeyer;Linda B. Smith

216
Citations
Self-Organization In The Evolution Of Speech

Pierre-Yves Oudeyer

210
Citations
Exploration in Model-based Reinforcement Learning by Empirically Estimating Learning Progress

Manuel Lopes;Tobias Lang;Marc Toussaint;Pierre-yves Oudeyer

197
Citations
In search of the neural circuits of intrinsic motivation

Frederic Kaplan;Pierre-Yves Oudeyer

184
Citations
Robotic clicker training

Frédéric Kaplan;Pierre Yves Oudeyer;Enikö Kubinyi;Adám Miklósi

183
Citations
R-IAC: Robust Intrinsically Motivated Exploration and Active Learning

A. Baranes;P.-Y. Oudeyer

181
Citations
Eye movements reveal epistemic curiosity in human observers.

Adrien Baranes;Pierre-Yves Oudeyer;Jacqueline Gottlieb

153
Citations
How can we define intrinsic motivation

Pierre-Yves Oudeyer;Frederic Kaplan

150
Citations
Intelligent Adaptive Curiosity: a source of Self-Development

Pierre-Yves Oudeyer

147
Citations
The Playground Experiment: Task-Independent Development of a Curious Robot

Pierre-Yves Oudeyer;Verena V. Hafner;Andrew Whyte

127
Citations
The effects of task difficulty, novelty and the size of the search space on intrinsically motivated exploration.

Adrien F. Baranes;Pierre-Yves Oudeyer;Jacqueline Gottlieb

127
Citations
Multi-Armed Bandits for Intelligent Tutoring Systems.

Benjamin Clement;Didier Roy;Pierre-Yves Oudeyer;Manuel Lopes

126
Citations
Automatic Curriculum Learning For Deep RL: A Short Survey

Rémy Portelas;Cédric Colas;Lilian Weng;Katja Hofmann

86
Citations
CURIOUS: Intrinsically Motivated Modular Multi-Goal Reinforcement Learning

Cédric Colas;Pierre Fournier;Olivier Sigaud;Mohamed Chetouani

73
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Frédéric Kaplan École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Manuel Lopes Instituto Superior Técnico

Olivier Sigaud Sorbonne University

Freek Stulp German Aerospace Center

Jacqueline Gottlieb Columbia University

Mohamed Chetouani Sorbonne University

Peter Ford Dominey Inserm

Katharina J. Rohlfing University of Paderborn

Fabien Lotte French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation - INRIA

Vittorio Loreto Sapienza University of Rome

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