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Top Computational Mathematics Researchers

M. Hashem Pesaran ranks first, out of 2,349 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 M. Hashem Pesaran United States · #64 worldwide 9.1k citations · 161 works
  2. 2 Simon Baron‐Cohen United Kingdom · #719 worldwide 3.8k citations · 212 works
  3. 3 Richard E. Petty United States · #851 worldwide 4.2k citations · 116 works
  4. 4 Chunhua Shen Australia · #859 worldwide 5.9k citations · 217 works
  5. 5 Max Welling Netherlands · #893 worldwide 3.4k citations · 135 works
  6. 6 Thomas Brox Germany · #1,178 worldwide 3.3k citations · 106 works
  7. 7 Susan Dumais United States · #1,245 worldwide 4.8k citations · 85 works
  8. 8 Geoffrey E. Hinton Canada · #1,487 worldwide 22k citations · 79 works
  9. 9 Jan Kautz United Kingdom · #1,558 worldwide 3.2k citations · 138 works
  10. 10 George Karypis United States · #1,667 worldwide 2.7k citations · 152 works
  11. 11 Thomas Pock Austria · #1,687 worldwide 2.3k citations · 92 works
  12. 12 Emmanuel J. Candès United States · #1,843 worldwide 5.2k citations · 77 works
  13. 13 Christos Faloutsos United States · #2,094 worldwide 4.5k citations · 253 works
  14. 14 J. I. Cirac Germany · #2,143 worldwide 4.3k citations · 190 works
  15. 15 Yu Zheng China · #2,339 worldwide 2.5k citations · 78 works
  16. 16 Gene H. Golub United States · #2,459 worldwide 1.8k citations · 90 works
  17. 17 Terence Tao United States · #2,469 worldwide 3.1k citations · 215 works
  18. 18 U. Fano United States · #2,488 worldwide 3.3k citations · 72 works
  19. 19 Lieven De Lathauwer Belgium · #2,579 worldwide 1.9k citations · 113 works
  20. 20 Jyh‐Shing Roger Jang Taiwan · #2,659 worldwide 4.5k citations · 69 works
  21. 21 Brian Kingsbury United States · #2,729 worldwide 2.6k citations · 70 works
  22. 22 Gilbert Strang United States · #2,821 worldwide 1k citations · 99 works
  23. 23 Cho‐Jui Hsieh United States · #2,900 worldwide 2.2k citations · 127 works
  24. 24 Richard J. Davidson United States · #3,176 worldwide 2.5k citations · 150 works
  25. 25 Carlos Guestrin United States · #3,220 worldwide 3.4k citations · 67 works
  26. 26 Ming Yuan United States · #3,273 worldwide 1.9k citations · 79 works
  27. 27 Lionel M. Ni Hong Kong · #3,673 worldwide 2.4k citations · 149 works
  28. 28 Inderjit S. Dhillon United States · #3,853 worldwide 1.9k citations · 107 works
  29. 29 Gert Kwakkel Netherlands · #4,146 worldwide 942 citations · 73 works
  30. 30 Cristopher Moore United States · #4,176 worldwide 2k citations · 82 works
  31. 31 Qingfu Zhang Hong Kong · #4,311 worldwide 2.6k citations · 138 works
  32. 32 Ron Kikinis United States · #4,516 worldwide 874 citations · 88 works
  33. 33 David M. Blei United States · #4,796 worldwide 1.9k citations · 95 works
  34. 34 Шун-ичи Амари Japan · #4,828 worldwide 1.6k citations · 113 works
  35. 35 Jianhui Wang United States · #4,842 worldwide 2.5k citations · 164 works
  36. 36 Frédo Durand United States · #4,905 worldwide 1.8k citations · 104 works
  37. 37 Persi Diaconis United States · #5,021 worldwide 1.5k citations · 100 works
  38. 38 Razvan Pascanu United States · #5,805 worldwide 2.3k citations · 58 works
  39. 39 Erkki Oja Finland · #5,887 worldwide 1.5k citations · 81 works
  40. 40 Kurt Keutzer United States · #6,086 worldwide 2.7k citations · 184 works
  41. 41 Huazhu Fu Singapore · #7,392 worldwide 1.4k citations · 131 works
  42. 42 Rasmus Bro Denmark · #7,503 worldwide 1.4k citations · 63 works
  43. 43 Joos Vandewalle Belgium · #7,894 worldwide 2.9k citations · 249 works
  44. 44 Sham M. Kakade United States · #8,023 worldwide 1.6k citations · 93 works
  45. 45 Jinjun Chen Australia · #8,494 worldwide 1.2k citations · 111 works
  46. 46 Maja Pantić United Kingdom · #8,830 worldwide 2.2k citations · 135 works
  47. 47 T. Kailath United States · #8,837 worldwide 2.1k citations · 175 works
  48. 48 Yinpeng Dong China · #8,851 worldwide 1.3k citations · 54 works
  49. 49 Dahua Lin Hong Kong · #8,861 worldwide 2.5k citations · 188 works
  50. 50 Anoop Gupta United States · #9,065 worldwide 1.8k citations · 50 works
  51. 51 Steven R. White United States · #9,078 worldwide 2k citations · 110 works
  52. 52 Shengcai Liao China · #9,291 worldwide 1.2k citations · 55 works
  53. 53 Larry V. Hedges United States · #9,497 worldwide 1.1k citations · 86 works
  54. 54 Yinyu Ye United States · #9,657 worldwide 1.8k citations · 117 works
  55. 55 Saman Amarasinghe United States · #9,816 worldwide 969 citations · 77 works
  56. 56 Baba C. Vemuri United States · #10,281 worldwide 927 citations · 72 works
  57. 57 Jiashi Feng Singapore · #10,605 worldwide 3.1k citations · 197 works
  58. 58 Shuicheng Yan Singapore · #10,671 worldwide 4.6k citations · 295 works
  59. 59 H. V. Jagadish United States · #10,796 worldwide 835 citations · 61 works
  60. 60 MengChu Zhou United States · #10,903 worldwide 4.4k citations · 420 works
  61. 61 Tamara G. Kolda United States · #11,036 worldwide 2.6k citations · 46 works
  62. 62 Georgios B. Giannakis United States · #11,748 worldwide 4.6k citations · 365 works
  63. 63 Ingwer Borg Germany · #11,831 worldwide 1k citations · 54 works
  64. 64 Shuzhong Zhang United States · #11,880 worldwide 1.2k citations · 59 works
  65. 65 Marc Nerlove United States · #12,073 worldwide 985 citations · 60 works
  66. 66 Wen-tau Yih United States · #12,203 worldwide 1.3k citations · 53 works
  67. 67 Vladimir Rokhlin United States · #12,256 worldwide 1.4k citations · 46 works
  68. 68 Per‐Gunnar Martinsson United States · #12,289 worldwide 1.1k citations · 49 works
  69. 69 Antonio Plaza Spain · #12,339 worldwide 3.5k citations · 247 works
  70. 70 David A. Huse United States · #12,378 worldwide 1.8k citations · 119 works
  71. 71 Nicholas G. Martin Australia · #12,700 worldwide 3.5k citations · 361 works
  72. 72 Susan Holmes United States · #13,161 worldwide 906 citations · 61 works
  73. 73 James Demmel United States · #13,182 worldwide 1.3k citations · 136 works
  74. 74 Richard Hartley Australia · #13,573 worldwide 1.5k citations · 121 works
  75. 75 Andreas Krause Switzerland · #13,877 worldwide 2.2k citations · 162 works
  76. 76 Andrea Montanari United States · #13,953 worldwide 1.5k citations · 105 works
  77. 77 Bart De Moor Belgium · #14,240 worldwide 2.5k citations · 262 works
  78. 78 David González Spain · #14,706 worldwide 966 citations · 60 works
  79. 79 Anton van den Hengel Australia · #14,745 worldwide 2k citations · 139 works
  80. 80 Jerrold E. Marsden United States · #14,934 worldwide 1.8k citations · 169 works
  81. 81 F.C.T. van der Helm Netherlands · #15,186 worldwide 603 citations · 48 works
  82. 82 Robin Pemantle United States · #15,274 worldwide 824 citations · 76 works
  83. 83 Donald Goldfarb United States · #15,362 worldwide 1.4k citations · 43 works
  84. 84 Jens Eisert Germany · #15,777 worldwide 1.8k citations · 130 works
  85. 85 Richard M. Leahy United States · #16,396 worldwide 924 citations · 110 works
  86. 86 Christian Lubich Germany · #16,546 worldwide 735 citations · 65 works
  87. 87 Xindong Wu China · #16,942 worldwide 2k citations · 197 works
  88. 88 Xiaochun Cao China · #17,033 worldwide 1.3k citations · 163 works
  89. 89 Yuxiao Dong China · #17,140 worldwide 850 citations · 70 works
  90. 90 Stephen P. Borgatti United States · #17,332 worldwide 1.9k citations · 40 works
  91. 91 John Wright United States · #17,406 worldwide 1.9k citations · 40 works
  92. 92 Stephan Günnemann Germany · #17,535 worldwide 1.5k citations · 109 works
  93. 93 Adam Smith United States · #17,824 worldwide 965 citations · 71 works
  94. 94 Qian Du United States · #17,850 worldwide 2.6k citations · 239 works
  95. 95 Cliff Young United States · #18,578 worldwide 1.8k citations · 39 works
  96. 96 P. H. A. Sneath United Kingdom · #18,688 worldwide 611 citations · 52 works
  97. 97 Kim‐Kwang Raymond Choo United States · #19,261 worldwide 3.8k citations · 382 works
  98. 98 Steffen Staab Germany · #19,751 worldwide 1.5k citations · 197 works
  99. 99 Qinfeng Shi Australia · #19,781 worldwide 898 citations · 67 works
  100. 100 Jimeng Sun United States · #19,830 worldwide 1.3k citations · 134 works

authors from the 6,000 highest-output in Computational Mathematics, 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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