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Top Computational Theory and Mathematics Researchers

Stanley Osher ranks first, out of 5,683 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 Stanley Osher United States · #48 worldwide 8k citations · 207 works
  2. 2 Dan Boneh United States · #95 worldwide 7.5k citations · 143 works
  3. 3 Seyedali Mirjalili Australia · #98 worldwide 7.6k citations · 164 works
  4. 4 Stephan Ramon Garcia United States · #107 worldwide 4k citations · 136 works
  5. 5 Robert E. Tarjan United States · #193 worldwide 3.9k citations · 141 works
  6. 6 Steven J. Miller United States · #283 worldwide 3.8k citations · 110 works
  7. 7 Kalyanmoy Deb United States · #287 worldwide 6.7k citations · 218 works
  8. 8 Ted Belytschko United States · #315 worldwide 4.1k citations · 139 works
  9. 9 Donald E. Knuth United States · #357 worldwide 4k citations · 107 works
  10. 10 Ronald L. Rivest United States · #425 worldwide 7.3k citations · 103 works
  11. 11 Jürgen Schmidhuber Switzerland · #468 worldwide 4.3k citations · 146 works
  12. 12 Francisco Herrera Spain · #517 worldwide 6.5k citations · 311 works
  13. 13 Thomas J.R. Hughes United States · #636 worldwide 3.7k citations · 163 works
  14. 14 Wil M. P. van der Aalst Netherlands · #736 worldwide 5.5k citations · 408 works
  15. 15 N. J. A. Sloane United States · #887 worldwide 2.8k citations · 116 works
  16. 16 Ivo Babuška United States · #975 worldwide 2.7k citations · 110 works
  17. 17 Frank Hutter Germany · #1,078 worldwide 3.8k citations · 105 works
  18. 18 W.M. Wonham Canada · #1,218 worldwide 2.4k citations · 96 works
  19. 19 Douglas C. Montgomery United States · #1,223 worldwide 2.7k citations · 133 works
  20. 20 Lotfi A. Zadeh United States · #1,413 worldwide 3.3k citations · 85 works
  21. 21 Raymond W. Yeung Hong Kong · #1,466 worldwide 2.6k citations · 95 works
  22. 22 Shankar Sastry United States · #1,525 worldwide 2.5k citations · 113 works
  23. 23 Ole Sigmund Denmark · #1,557 worldwide 2.9k citations · 137 works
  24. 24 Ran Canetti Israel · #1,623 worldwide 3.1k citations · 90 works
  25. 25 George Karypis United States · #1,667 worldwide 2.7k citations · 152 works
  26. 26 Dimitris Bertsimas United States · #1,832 worldwide 2.5k citations · 129 works
  27. 27 Richard M. Karp United States · #1,888 worldwide 2.6k citations · 79 works
  28. 28 Martı́n Abadi United States · #1,899 worldwide 3.2k citations · 78 works
  29. 29 Paulo Tabuada United States · #2,028 worldwide 2k citations · 91 works
  30. 30 Brent Waters United States · #2,083 worldwide 2.8k citations · 80 works
  31. 31 Vincent D. Blondel Belgium · #2,099 worldwide 4.4k citations · 74 works
  32. 32 Jeffrey C. Lagarias United States · #2,191 worldwide 1.9k citations · 76 works
  33. 33 Maurice Herlihy United States · #2,401 worldwide 2.1k citations · 121 works
  34. 34 Zdzisław Pawlak Poland · #2,409 worldwide 1.8k citations · 80 works
  35. 35 Gene H. Golub United States · #2,459 worldwide 1.8k citations · 90 works
  36. 36 Rudolf Ahlswede Germany · #2,461 worldwide 2.3k citations · 113 works
  37. 37 Luca Cardelli United Kingdom · #2,467 worldwide 1.6k citations · 88 works
  38. 38 Terence Tao United States · #2,469 worldwide 3.1k citations · 215 works
  39. 39 Enrique Herrera‐Viedma Spain · #2,571 worldwide 3.3k citations · 225 works
  40. 40 Cynthia Dwork United States · #2,678 worldwide 2.4k citations · 73 works
  41. 41 Adi Shamir Israel · #2,794 worldwide 6.3k citations · 67 works
  42. 42 Gilbert Strang United States · #2,821 worldwide 1k citations · 99 works
  43. 43 Amir Pnueli Israel · #2,994 worldwide 1.8k citations · 86 works
  44. 44 Brian Randell United Kingdom · #3,006 worldwide 1.4k citations · 77 works
  45. 45 Oded Goldreich Israel · #3,019 worldwide 2.7k citations · 130 works
  46. 46 Leon O. Chua United States · #3,026 worldwide 4.1k citations · 243 works
  47. 47 Jeffrey D. Ullman United States · #3,285 worldwide 1.8k citations · 97 works
  48. 48 J. H. van Lint Netherlands · #3,370 worldwide 980 citations · 102 works
  49. 49 Ioannis G. Kevrekidis United States · #3,412 worldwide 2.4k citations · 142 works
  50. 50 Moni Naor Israel · #3,421 worldwide 2.1k citations · 76 works
  51. 51 J. Rissanen United States · #3,435 worldwide 2.4k citations · 66 works
  52. 52 Thomas A. Henzinger United States · #3,611 worldwide 2.4k citations · 156 works
  53. 53 Rajeev Alur United States · #3,664 worldwide 1.9k citations · 117 works
  54. 54 Gwo‐Hshiung Tzeng Taiwan · #3,715 worldwide 2.6k citations · 140 works
  55. 55 C. A. R. Hoare United Kingdom · #3,899 worldwide 1.6k citations · 68 works
  56. 56 Roman Słowiński Poland · #4,032 worldwide 2.3k citations · 133 works
  57. 57 J. L. Lions France · #4,041 worldwide 1.5k citations · 80 works
  58. 58 Étienne Pardoux France · #4,098 worldwide 1.5k citations · 75 works
  59. 59 Henry P. Wynn United Kingdom · #4,153 worldwide 2k citations · 67 works
  60. 60 P.J. Fleming United Kingdom · #4,154 worldwide 1.4k citations · 123 works
  61. 61 Cristopher Moore United States · #4,176 worldwide 2k citations · 82 works
  62. 62 Luis Caffarelli United States · #4,243 worldwide 1.5k citations · 92 works
  63. 63 David L. Dill United States · #4,272 worldwide 1.8k citations · 64 works
  64. 64 Qingfu Zhang Hong Kong · #4,311 worldwide 2.6k citations · 138 works
  65. 65 Joseph A. Goguen United States · #4,365 worldwide 2k citations · 62 works
  66. 66 Yaochu Jin United Kingdom · #4,440 worldwide 3.7k citations · 236 works
  67. 67 Albert Benveniste France · #4,507 worldwide 1.3k citations · 102 works
  68. 68 James B. Orlin United States · #4,510 worldwide 2.5k citations · 62 works
  69. 69 Jerzy W. Grzymala‐Busse United States · #4,581 worldwide 1.3k citations · 75 works
  70. 70 Qing‐Long Han Australia · #4,594 worldwide 3.8k citations · 244 works
  71. 71 Sergio Verdú United States · #4,599 worldwide 2.1k citations · 125 works
  72. 72 Robert M. Corless Canada · #4,613 worldwide 1.5k citations · 63 works
  73. 73 Hermann Maurer Austria · #4,737 worldwide 963 citations · 126 works
  74. 74 Kunal Talwar United States · #4,916 worldwide 2.8k citations · 60 works
  75. 75 Antonin Chambolle France · #4,963 worldwide 1.6k citations · 65 works
  76. 76 Persi Diaconis United States · #5,021 worldwide 1.5k citations · 100 works
  77. 77 Christos H. Papadimitriou United States · #5,045 worldwide 1.3k citations · 83 works
  78. 78 Nigel P. Smart United Kingdom · #5,109 worldwide 1.2k citations · 98 works
  79. 79 James Lam Hong Kong · #5,302 worldwide 2.4k citations · 166 works
  80. 80 Hamido Fujita Japan · #5,359 worldwide 1.5k citations · 145 works
  81. 81 Barry Simon United States · #5,405 worldwide 1.6k citations · 145 works
  82. 82 Michael I. Jordan United States · #5,436 worldwide 4.8k citations · 288 works
  83. 83 Horst D. Simon United States · #5,547 worldwide 1.1k citations · 73 works
  84. 84 Ingram Olkin United States · #5,677 worldwide 2k citations · 168 works
  85. 85 I. J. Schoenberg United States · #5,723 worldwide 1k citations · 87 works
  86. 86 Edmund M. Clarke United States · #5,734 worldwide 2.2k citations · 57 works
  87. 87 Claude Brezinski France · #5,795 worldwide 1.1k citations · 109 works
  88. 88 John E. Hopcroft United States · #5,923 worldwide 1.2k citations · 79 works
  89. 89 Barry C. Arnold United States · #5,950 worldwide 1.7k citations · 109 works
  90. 90 Mihalis Yannakakis United States · #6,077 worldwide 1.3k citations · 69 works
  91. 91 Joel A. Tropp United States · #6,113 worldwide 2.8k citations · 57 works
  92. 92 Stephen Boyd United States · #6,131 worldwide 2.2k citations · 181 works
  93. 93 Edward A. Lee United States · #6,150 worldwide 2k citations · 166 works
  94. 94 Leslie Lamport United States · #6,243 worldwide 1.2k citations · 75 works
  95. 95 Gábor T. Herman United States · #6,270 worldwide 1.3k citations · 131 works
  96. 96 Shafi Goldwasser United States · #6,614 worldwide 1.6k citations · 65 works
  97. 97 Amir H. Gandomi Australia · #6,687 worldwide 2.5k citations · 174 works
  98. 98 Solomon W. Golomb United States · #6,768 worldwide 776 citations · 89 works
  99. 99 Michael Mitzenmacher United States · #7,048 worldwide 2k citations · 96 works
  100. 100 Shai Halevi United States · #7,118 worldwide 1.6k citations · 71 works

authors from the 6,000 highest-output in Computational Theory and 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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