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Top Physical Sciences Researchers

Andrew Zisserman ranks first, out of 5,773 ranked researchers.

Composite score: field-normalised excellence, output and total citations weighted 50 / 30 / 20, each as a percentile so no single heavy-tailed measure dominates. Floor: 15 works, and an institution the snapshot can resolve.

The ranking

  1. 1 Andrew Zisserman United Kingdom · #3 worldwide 25k citations · 241 works
  2. 2 Yoshua Bengio Canada · #4 worldwide 17k citations · 298 works
  3. 3 E. L. Wright United States · #13 worldwide 9.3k citations · 228 works
  4. 4 Jitendra Malik United States · #39 worldwide 12k citations · 179 works
  5. 5 Edward J. Wollack United States · #83 worldwide 7.2k citations · 212 works
  6. 6 Wolfram Burgard Germany · #103 worldwide 6.3k citations · 232 works
  7. 7 David N. Spergel United States · #104 worldwide 7.9k citations · 198 works
  8. 8 George Em Karniadakis United States · #151 worldwide 6.3k citations · 268 works
  9. 9 Leonidas Guibas United States · #165 worldwide 6.3k citations · 229 works
  10. 10 Anil K. Jain United States · #178 worldwide 6.3k citations · 275 works
  11. 11 Rajkumar Buyya Australia · #240 worldwide 7.8k citations · 379 works
  12. 12 Alan Yuille United States · #243 worldwide 8.4k citations · 313 works
  13. 13 Donald G. Truhlar United States · #255 worldwide 8.4k citations · 315 works
  14. 14 N. Anjos France · #264 worldwide 6.1k citations · 214 works
  15. 15 Wei Liu China · #275 worldwide 9.7k citations · 371 works
  16. 16 S. Cheatham Germany · #289 worldwide 5.8k citations · 188 works
  17. 17 S. Henrot–Versillé France · #300 worldwide 7.5k citations · 239 works
  18. 18 A. Di Simone France · #360 worldwide 5.7k citations · 207 works
  19. 19 M. Fincke-Keeler Israel · #376 worldwide 5.6k citations · 188 works
  20. 20 F. J. Wickens United Kingdom · #379 worldwide 5.9k citations · 232 works
  21. 21 A. K. Çiftçi Azerbaijan · #384 worldwide 5.8k citations · 207 works
  22. 22 M. A. Chelstowska Germany · #393 worldwide 5.9k citations · 213 works
  23. 23 F. Marroquim Germany · #397 worldwide 6.2k citations · 222 works
  24. 24 C. Galea Germany · #400 worldwide 5.6k citations · 192 works
  25. 25 M. Curatolo Germany · #401 worldwide 6.3k citations · 229 works
  26. 26 G. Siragusa Germany · #404 worldwide 6k citations · 215 works
  27. 27 M. Caprini Germany · #407 worldwide 6.2k citations · 241 works
  28. 28 A. Mengarelli Germany · #420 worldwide 6k citations · 216 works
  29. 29 L. March Germany · #423 worldwide 6.1k citations · 224 works
  30. 30 A. Chafaq Germany · #442 worldwide 5.6k citations · 195 works
  31. 31 W. Davey Germany · #456 worldwide 6.4k citations · 237 works
  32. 32 M. Backes Germany · #457 worldwide 5.9k citations · 208 works
  33. 33 D. Casadei Germany · #459 worldwide 5.8k citations · 221 works
  34. 34 E. Simioni Germany · #474 worldwide 5.3k citations · 200 works
  35. 35 L. Heelan Germany · #477 worldwide 6.4k citations · 230 works
  36. 36 E. Coniavitis Germany · #479 worldwide 6.4k citations · 233 works
  37. 37 R. Zaidan Germany · #489 worldwide 6k citations · 219 works
  38. 38 P. Laurelli Germany · #492 worldwide 5.5k citations · 177 works
  39. 39 R. Hertenberger Germany · #493 worldwide 5.5k citations · 188 works
  40. 40 J. Glatzer Germany · #506 worldwide 5.7k citations · 199 works
  41. 41 J. Searcy Germany · #507 worldwide 5.8k citations · 210 works
  42. 42 O. Biebel Israel · #511 worldwide 5.8k citations · 198 works
  43. 43 F. M. Giorgi Germany · #515 worldwide 5.5k citations · 227 works
  44. 44 Francisco Herrera Spain · #517 worldwide 6.5k citations · 311 works
  45. 45 C. F. Anders Germany · #526 worldwide 6.4k citations · 240 works
  46. 46 J. E. M. Robinson Germany · #531 worldwide 6.2k citations · 259 works
  47. 47 T. Kubota Germany · #537 worldwide 5.6k citations · 195 works
  48. 48 A. Alonso Germany · #538 worldwide 6.4k citations · 245 works
  49. 49 A. J. Armbruster Germany · #550 worldwide 5.5k citations · 187 works
  50. 50 W. Blum Switzerland · #553 worldwide 5.3k citations · 204 works
  51. 51 B. Esposito Germany · #554 worldwide 5.8k citations · 198 works
  52. 52 A. Catinaccio United States · #557 worldwide 5.5k citations · 202 works
  53. 53 K. Rosbach Germany · #560 worldwide 5.9k citations · 217 works
  54. 54 G. Costa United States · #563 worldwide 6k citations · 237 works
  55. 55 B. Osculati Germany · #567 worldwide 6.3k citations · 234 works
  56. 56 O. Benary Israel · #568 worldwide 5.3k citations · 184 works
  57. 57 C. Bélanger-Champagne Germany · #580 worldwide 5.7k citations · 209 works
  58. 58 D. E. Ferreira de Lima Germany · #584 worldwide 5.7k citations · 212 works
  59. 59 I. Caprini Germany · #594 worldwide 6.4k citations · 251 works
  60. 60 K. J. Anderson Israel · #634 worldwide 5.7k citations · 199 works
  61. 61 V. Kouskoura Germany · #644 worldwide 6.2k citations · 236 works
  62. 62 M. A. B. do Vale Germany · #650 worldwide 6.4k citations · 243 works
  63. 63 N. Besson France · #655 worldwide 6.8k citations · 262 works
  64. 64 H. Takai United States · #659 worldwide 6.4k citations · 264 works
  65. 65 M. Nozaki Israel · #660 worldwide 6.3k citations · 264 works
  66. 66 K. Gregersen Germany · #663 worldwide 6k citations · 230 works
  67. 67 S. Viel Germany · #665 worldwide 5.8k citations · 221 works
  68. 68 K. Jon-And Germany · #674 worldwide 6.4k citations · 250 works
  69. 69 S. Bürke France · #679 worldwide 6.9k citations · 275 works
  70. 70 D. Cinca Germany · #703 worldwide 6.3k citations · 242 works
  71. 71 Ming–Hsuan Yang United States · #714 worldwide 7.4k citations · 304 works
  72. 72 L. La Rotonda Germany · #723 worldwide 6.4k citations · 247 works
  73. 73 A. Bingul United States · #732 worldwide 5.3k citations · 180 works
  74. 74 Wil M. P. van der Aalst Netherlands · #736 worldwide 5.5k citations · 408 works
  75. 75 A. La Rosa Germany · #741 worldwide 6.2k citations · 257 works
  76. 76 J. Carvalho Germany · #747 worldwide 5.9k citations · 240 works
  77. 77 J. Maneira United States · #748 worldwide 6.4k citations · 245 works
  78. 78 E. Pueschel United States · #750 worldwide 5k citations · 195 works
  79. 79 D. Lynn United States · #751 worldwide 6.3k citations · 228 works
  80. 80 A. Kugel Germany · #758 worldwide 6.5k citations · 276 works
  81. 81 D. L. Adams United States · #773 worldwide 5.3k citations · 181 works
  82. 82 P. Fleischmann United States · #780 worldwide 5.3k citations · 179 works
  83. 83 P. Fassnacht France · #796 worldwide 5.9k citations · 236 works
  84. 84 J. Monk Germany · #800 worldwide 6.5k citations · 245 works
  85. 85 P. M. Watkins Israel · #807 worldwide 6.6k citations · 283 works
  86. 86 A. A. Korol Germany · #813 worldwide 6.1k citations · 222 works
  87. 87 M. Cooke Germany · #816 worldwide 5.8k citations · 220 works
  88. 88 A. Salvucci Germany · #822 worldwide 6.2k citations · 241 works
  89. 89 Chunhua Shen Australia · #859 worldwide 5.9k citations · 217 works
  90. 90 C. Dionisi Switzerland · #862 worldwide 5.4k citations · 210 works
  91. 91 J. Godlewski United States · #867 worldwide 6.3k citations · 252 works
  92. 92 A. Ferrer France · #871 worldwide 6.6k citations · 294 works
  93. 93 M. Thomson Israel · #882 worldwide 5.8k citations · 239 works
  94. 94 Y. Makida Japan · #885 worldwide 8.1k citations · 349 works
  95. 95 D. Iliadis United States · #890 worldwide 6.4k citations · 255 works
  96. 96 D. R. Wardrope France · #902 worldwide 5.6k citations · 225 works
  97. 97 Á. Salamon Germany · #905 worldwide 5.4k citations · 202 works
  98. 98 W. Bhimji United States · #919 worldwide 5.9k citations · 211 works
  99. 99 V. Vercesi Germany · #925 worldwide 6.4k citations · 268 works
  100. 100 M. D. M. Capeans Garrido France · #937 worldwide 6.6k citations · 262 works

authors from the 6,000 highest-output in Physical Sciences, re-ranked on the composite score. Author identities come from OpenAlex disambiguation and inherit its errors: a merged record can put one name over two people’s work, and a split one can halve a career. Every row links out to the OpenAlex record so the underlying claim is checkable, and anything that looks wrong can be reported from the row. That report files a correction against the bibliographic record for a human to review — it is not a removal or delisting request, and no such route exists yet.

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