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Top Aerospace Engineering Researchers

David R. Smith ranks first, out of 2,304 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 David R. Smith United States · #94 worldwide 6.3k citations · 145 works
  2. 2 Wolfram Burgard Germany · #103 worldwide 6.3k citations · 232 works
  3. 3 Robert W. Heath United States · #1,109 worldwide 7.1k citations · 352 works
  4. 4 A. Yamamoto Japan · #1,169 worldwide 3.3k citations · 184 works
  5. 5 Petre Stoica Sweden · #1,382 worldwide 3.8k citations · 215 works
  6. 6 Davide Scaramuzza Switzerland · #2,330 worldwide 2.5k citations · 142 works
  7. 7 Rui Zhang Singapore · #2,460 worldwide 6k citations · 374 works
  8. 8 F. Rocca Italy · #3,262 worldwide 1.8k citations · 105 works
  9. 9 Zhiguo Ding United Kingdom · #3,266 worldwide 4.4k citations · 315 works
  10. 10 Luc Van Gool Switzerland · #4,439 worldwide 8.5k citations · 527 works
  11. 11 Davide Dardari Italy · #5,704 worldwide 1.7k citations · 124 works
  12. 12 Sanjiva K. Lele United States · #6,249 worldwide 1.9k citations · 136 works
  13. 13 Richard Bamler Germany · #8,539 worldwide 1.1k citations · 98 works
  14. 14 Arye Nehorai United States · #9,561 worldwide 1.6k citations · 130 works
  15. 15 D.M. Pozar United States · #11,806 worldwide 1.4k citations · 48 works
  16. 16 Kin‐Lu Wong Taiwan · #11,976 worldwide 1.4k citations · 166 works
  17. 17 Wolfgang Menzel Germany · #12,463 worldwide 844 citations · 94 works
  18. 18 Randy L. Haupt United States · #12,611 worldwide 844 citations · 100 works
  19. 19 Marco Di Renzo France · #12,636 worldwide 3.6k citations · 306 works
  20. 20 Qingqing Wu China · #12,865 worldwide 2.5k citations · 246 works
  21. 21 Gabriel M. Rebeiz United States · #13,232 worldwide 1.8k citations · 231 works
  22. 22 Ping Lu United States · #13,719 worldwide 720 citations · 73 works
  23. 23 H. A. Zebker United States · #14,881 worldwide 1.7k citations · 158 works
  24. 24 Yonina C. Eldar Israel · #15,902 worldwide 4k citations · 376 works
  25. 25 P. A. Rosen United States · #16,275 worldwide 904 citations · 100 works
  26. 26 Jens Nørkær Sørensen Denmark · #17,981 worldwide 1.1k citations · 110 works
  27. 27 Miguel R. Visbal United States · #18,074 worldwide 1.3k citations · 124 works
  28. 28 H. Vincent Poor United States · #18,633 worldwide 9.5k citations · 1,006 works
  29. 29 Yongmei Pan China · #18,750 worldwide 619 citations · 59 works
  30. 30 Thomas Corke United States · #18,954 worldwide 818 citations · 91 works
  31. 31 Ronold W. P. King United States · #19,263 worldwide 578 citations · 84 works
  32. 32 Yaakov Bar‐Shalom United States · #19,700 worldwide 2.1k citations · 202 works
  33. 33 Daniel J. Inman United States · #20,326 worldwide 2.3k citations · 237 works
  34. 34 R. Capote Austria · #22,634 worldwide 981 citations · 100 works
  35. 35 Fred Y. Hadaegh United States · #23,604 worldwide 690 citations · 75 works
  36. 36 Marc Pollefeys Switzerland · #23,634 worldwide 3k citations · 276 works
  37. 37 Ying‐Chang Liang China · #23,946 worldwide 2.6k citations · 278 works
  38. 38 Mérouane Debbah France · #25,730 worldwide 4.3k citations · 488 works
  39. 39 Nan Zhao China · #25,799 worldwide 1.5k citations · 176 works
  40. 40 Tao Zhou China · #26,167 worldwide 2.1k citations · 304 works
  41. 41 D. W. Miller United States · #26,808 worldwide 3.7k citations · 399 works
  42. 42 F.T. Ulaby United States · #28,300 worldwide 1.3k citations · 118 works
  43. 43 Shannon D. Blunt United States · #28,308 worldwide 589 citations · 64 works
  44. 44 Kwai‐Man Luk Hong Kong · #28,519 worldwide 1.5k citations · 183 works
  45. 45 Yin Zhang China · #28,708 worldwide 662 citations · 76 works
  46. 46 Yahya Rahmat‐Samii United States · #29,667 worldwide 1.8k citations · 234 works
  47. 47 Christos Masouros United Kingdom · #30,145 worldwide 1.5k citations · 172 works
  48. 48 Mark L. Psiaki United States · #30,609 worldwide 395 citations · 62 works
  49. 49 Xianming Qing Singapore · #31,153 worldwide 644 citations · 71 works
  50. 50 Cyrill Stachniss Germany · #31,155 worldwide 1.3k citations · 121 works
  51. 51 Jian Li United States · #31,559 worldwide 1.6k citations · 207 works
  52. 52 Yimin D. Zhang United States · #32,992 worldwide 1k citations · 106 works
  53. 53 Boya Di China · #33,269 worldwide 722 citations · 77 works
  54. 54 Masahiro Asada Japan · #33,667 worldwide 649 citations · 168 works
  55. 55 Roland Siegwart Switzerland · #34,709 worldwide 3.3k citations · 398 works
  56. 56 Ke Wu Canada · #34,783 worldwide 3.2k citations · 469 works
  57. 57 Graham V. Candler United States · #35,534 worldwide 1.2k citations · 150 works
  58. 58 S.R. Cloude Germany · #35,869 worldwide 845 citations · 84 works
  59. 59 Shuichi Wakimoto Japan · #36,227 worldwide 508 citations · 171 works
  60. 60 Earl H. Dowell United States · #37,544 worldwide 1.6k citations · 182 works
  61. 61 Y. Jay Guo Australia · #38,468 worldwide 1k citations · 153 works
  62. 62 M. Reiser United States · #40,027 worldwide 521 citations · 128 works
  63. 63 Zhang‐Cheng Hao China · #41,061 worldwide 555 citations · 71 works
  64. 64 Amin Abbosh Australia · #41,460 worldwide 838 citations · 141 works
  65. 65 Ferran Martı́n Spain · #41,984 worldwide 1k citations · 147 works
  66. 66 David Greenblatt Israel · #42,205 worldwide 481 citations · 46 works
  67. 67 Anthony Calise United States · #42,645 worldwide 872 citations · 108 works
  68. 68 I. Wygnanski United States · #43,106 worldwide 652 citations · 65 works
  69. 69 Joon-Sung Park South Korea · #46,065 worldwide 485 citations · 187 works
  70. 70 Zhongxiang Shen Singapore · #46,356 worldwide 974 citations · 131 works
  71. 71 Chris Baker United States · #47,627 worldwide 497 citations · 61 works
  72. 72 Dierk Raabe Germany · #49,567 worldwide 4.5k citations · 514 works
  73. 73 Hing Cheung So Hong Kong · #50,040 worldwide 1.1k citations · 179 works
  74. 74 Zhijun Zhang China · #50,449 worldwide 610 citations · 90 works
  75. 75 Éric Féron United States · #51,526 worldwide 849 citations · 139 works
  76. 76 P. R. Christensen United States · #51,762 worldwide 1.1k citations · 269 works
  77. 77 Manos M. Tentzeris United States · #53,657 worldwide 1.7k citations · 286 works
  78. 78 Mohamed‐Slim Alouini Saudi Arabia · #53,672 worldwide 5.9k citations · 789 works
  79. 79 Jonathan P. How United States · #53,693 worldwide 2k citations · 282 works
  80. 80 Clive Parini United Kingdom · #54,844 worldwide 575 citations · 116 works
  81. 81 Hugh Griffiths United Kingdom · #55,087 worldwide 519 citations · 99 works
  82. 82 Larry Matthies United States · #56,314 worldwide 603 citations · 86 works
  83. 83 P.S. Hall United Kingdom · #56,764 worldwide 725 citations · 117 works
  84. 84 Christopher K. W. Tam United States · #56,917 worldwide 635 citations · 73 works
  85. 85 Zhu Han United States · #57,684 worldwide 4.7k citations · 743 works
  86. 86 Björn Ottersten Luxembourg · #57,834 worldwide 2.9k citations · 391 works
  87. 87 Nader Engheta United States · #59,013 worldwide 1.5k citations · 195 works
  88. 88 Walid Saad United States · #60,557 worldwide 2.3k citations · 313 works
  89. 89 P. Vainikainen Finland · #60,820 worldwide 804 citations · 123 works
  90. 90 Sheng Sun China · #61,035 worldwide 552 citations · 70 works
  91. 91 Cheng‐Xiang Wang China · #61,593 worldwide 1.7k citations · 240 works
  92. 92 Gérard Lachapelle Canada · #61,727 worldwide 355 citations · 98 works
  93. 93 Arumugam Nallanathan United Kingdom · #62,736 worldwide 2.4k citations · 315 works
  94. 94 Chow‐Yen‐Desmond Sim Taiwan · #62,844 worldwide 461 citations · 72 works
  95. 95 Yunfei Chen United Kingdom · #63,507 worldwide 1.3k citations · 205 works
  96. 96 Ying Liu China · #65,230 worldwide 834 citations · 133 works
  97. 97 George Lauder United States · #65,250 worldwide 678 citations · 86 works
  98. 98 John Papapolymerou United States · #65,446 worldwide 890 citations · 149 works
  99. 99 Peter K. Liaw United States · #65,761 worldwide 2.3k citations · 270 works
  100. 100 Zhi Ning Chen Singapore · #65,919 worldwide 822 citations · 130 works

authors from the 6,000 highest-output in Aerospace Engineering, 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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