Top Computer Science Applications Researchers
Deborah Estrin ranks first, out of 4,357 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 Deborah Estrin United States · #60 worldwide 5.9k citations · 183 works
- 2 Alex Pentland United States · #100 worldwide 6k citations · 219 works
- 3 Serge Belongie United States · #143 worldwide 14k citations · 117 works
- 4 Ramesh Govindan United States · #571 worldwide 3.5k citations · 144 works
- 5 Jeroen J. G. van Merriënboer Netherlands · #645 worldwide 2.2k citations · 128 works
- 6 David R. Karger United States · #696 worldwide 5.2k citations · 98 works
- 7 Richard E. Mayer United States · #706 worldwide 4.7k citations · 233 works
- 8 Richard G. Baraniuk United States · #1,264 worldwide 4.4k citations · 213 works
- 9 Héctor García-Molina United States · #1,612 worldwide 3.1k citations · 156 works
- 10 George Karypis United States · #1,667 worldwide 2.7k citations · 152 works
- 11 Samuel Madden United States · #1,949 worldwide 2k citations · 110 works
- 12 Thorsten Joachims United States · #1,964 worldwide 4.2k citations · 78 works
- 13 John R. Anderson United States · #2,214 worldwide 2.3k citations · 124 works
- 14 Brad A. Myers United States · #2,321 worldwide 1.6k citations · 124 works
- 15 Enrique Herrera‐Viedma Spain · #2,571 worldwide 3.3k citations · 225 works
- 16 Armando Fox United States · #2,686 worldwide 4.2k citations · 68 works
- 17 Xing Xie China · #2,863 worldwide 2.5k citations · 188 works
- 18 Brian Randell United Kingdom · #3,006 worldwide 1.4k citations · 77 works
- 19 Pattie Maes United States · #3,144 worldwide 2.2k citations · 155 works
- 20 Chin‐Chung Tsai Taiwan · #3,597 worldwide 1.8k citations · 116 works
- 21 Thomas Zimmermann United States · #3,896 worldwide 1.5k citations · 133 works
- 22 Frank Fischer Germany · #4,027 worldwide 1.7k citations · 134 works
- 23 Mark Harman United Kingdom · #4,293 worldwide 2.3k citations · 177 works
- 24 Paul A. David United States · #4,344 worldwide 2.3k citations · 61 works
- 25 Michael S. Bernstein United States · #4,449 worldwide 10k citations · 59 works
- 26 Cynthia Breazeal United States · #4,651 worldwide 1.2k citations · 93 works
- 27 Elliot Soloway United States · #4,658 worldwide 1.1k citations · 85 works
- 28 Hermann Maurer Austria · #4,737 worldwide 963 citations · 126 works
- 29 Robert E. Kraut United States · #4,946 worldwide 1.1k citations · 77 works
- 30 John Riedl United States · #5,004 worldwide 3.9k citations · 58 works
- 31 James Paul Gee United States · #5,037 worldwide 797 citations · 72 works
- 32 Michael I. Jordan United States · #5,436 worldwide 4.8k citations · 288 works
- 33 Joseph Krajcik United States · #5,533 worldwide 1.4k citations · 65 works
- 34 Marti A. Hearst United States · #5,762 worldwide 1.2k citations · 75 works
- 35 Jie Tang China · #5,857 worldwide 2.1k citations · 151 works
- 36 Kenneth L. Kraemer United States · #5,867 worldwide 1k citations · 113 works
- 37 Loren Terveen United States · #5,990 worldwide 1.9k citations · 58 works
- 38 Victor R. Basili United States · #6,034 worldwide 1.4k citations · 121 works
- 39 Mark Hansen United States · #6,137 worldwide 1.5k citations · 69 works
- 40 Leslie Lamport United States · #6,243 worldwide 1.2k citations · 75 works
- 41 Jian Pei Canada · #6,265 worldwide 2.4k citations · 190 works
- 42 Peter Shirley United States · #6,477 worldwide 1.3k citations · 58 works
- 43 Mike Sharples United Kingdom · #6,505 worldwide 905 citations · 96 works
- 44 Sameer Singh United States · #6,531 worldwide 1.8k citations · 116 works
- 45 Ed H. United States · #6,661 worldwide 1.5k citations · 103 works
- 46 Eric von Hippel United States · #6,710 worldwide 2.1k citations · 55 works
- 47 Thore Graepel United Kingdom · #6,727 worldwide 1.7k citations · 60 works
- 48 Charles B. Hodges United States · #6,813 worldwide 1k citations · 58 works
- 49 Georg von Krogh Switzerland · #7,027 worldwide 1.1k citations · 76 works
- 50 Konrad Zuse Germany · #7,166 worldwide 4.3k citations · 52 works
- 51 Ann Majchrzak United States · #7,224 worldwide 1k citations · 68 works
- 52 Terry Anderson Canada · #7,271 worldwide 1.4k citations · 55 works
- 53 Kalle Lyytinen United States · #7,320 worldwide 2.1k citations · 173 works
- 54 Kui Ren United States · #7,557 worldwide 1.8k citations · 130 works
- 55 Barry Boehm United States · #7,585 worldwide 1.2k citations · 119 works
- 56 Charles Oppenheim United Kingdom · #7,795 worldwide 344 citations · 122 works
- 57 Mary Shaw United States · #7,977 worldwide 1k citations · 104 works
- 58 Wenbin Liu China · #8,516 worldwide 831 citations · 60 works
- 59 Gwo‐Jen Hwang Taiwan · #8,549 worldwide 1.2k citations · 117 works
- 60 Mark Warschauer United States · #9,102 worldwide 844 citations · 86 works
- 61 David C. Mowery United States · #9,121 worldwide 947 citations · 71 works
- 62 Andrew A. Hicks Italy · #9,384 worldwide 1.2k citations · 55 works
- 63 Mark Guzdial United States · #9,523 worldwide 908 citations · 98 works
- 64 Gail C. Murphy Canada · #9,528 worldwide 816 citations · 62 works
- 65 Ben Shneiderman United States · #9,541 worldwide 1.9k citations · 205 works
- 66 Eric Horvitz United States · #9,674 worldwide 2.2k citations · 182 works
- 67 Juho Hamari Finland · #9,757 worldwide 1.3k citations · 114 works
- 68 Min‐You Wu China · #9,906 worldwide 1.1k citations · 86 works
- 69 Timothy A. McKay United States · #10,006 worldwide 1.4k citations · 63 works
- 70 Kurt VanLehn United States · #10,068 worldwide 1.1k citations · 68 works
- 71 Henry Chesbrough United States · #10,131 worldwide 2k citations · 48 works
- 72 Richard Baskerville United States · #10,199 worldwide 1.1k citations · 91 works
- 73 Shazia Sadiq Australia · #10,291 worldwide 548 citations · 86 works
- 74 Prémkumar Dévanbu United States · #10,432 worldwide 1.1k citations · 78 works
- 75 Marlene Scardamalia Canada · #10,537 worldwide 1.1k citations · 53 works
- 76 Ching Sing Chai Singapore · #10,567 worldwide 946 citations · 75 works
- 77 Karim R. Lakhani United States · #10,664 worldwide 796 citations · 60 works
- 78 Kobbi Nissim Israel · #10,904 worldwide 1.3k citations · 49 works
- 79 Philippe Kruchten Canada · #10,942 worldwide 992 citations · 52 works
- 80 Uri Wilensky United States · #10,989 worldwide 784 citations · 78 works
- 81 Philip C. Abrami Canada · #11,268 worldwide 942 citations · 57 works
- 82 Alfred D. Chandler United States · #11,463 worldwide 841 citations · 47 works
- 83 Karen Swan United States · #11,544 worldwide 936 citations · 48 works
- 84 Richard T. Watson United States · #11,590 worldwide 1k citations · 118 works
- 85 Jaime Teevan United States · #11,643 worldwide 1.2k citations · 56 works
- 86 Youngjin Yoo United States · #11,768 worldwide 911 citations · 65 works
- 87 Robert E. Slavin United States · #11,834 worldwide 1.5k citations · 140 works
- 88 Fei–Yue Wang China · #12,170 worldwide 4.2k citations · 408 works
- 89 Christoph Studer United States · #12,296 worldwide 1.1k citations · 133 works
- 90 Margaret Burnett United States · #12,380 worldwide 773 citations · 87 works
- 91 Shane Dawson Australia · #12,819 worldwide 704 citations · 50 works
- 92 Seymour Papert United States · #12,945 worldwide 936 citations · 45 works
- 93 Caroline Haythornthwaite United States · #13,283 worldwide 872 citations · 47 works
- 94 David Gries United States · #13,374 worldwide 565 citations · 63 works
- 95 Sanna Järvelä Finland · #13,424 worldwide 876 citations · 65 works
- 96 Punya Mishra United States · #13,729 worldwide 685 citations · 61 works
- 97 Andreas Krause Switzerland · #13,877 worldwide 2.2k citations · 162 works
- 98 William G. Griswold United States · #13,885 worldwide 730 citations · 65 works
- 99 Ryan S. Baker United States · #14,064 worldwide 1.3k citations · 158 works
- 100 Andreas Holzinger Austria · #14,097 worldwide 1.4k citations · 190 works
authors from the 6,000 highest-output in Computer Science Applications, 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.