Subfield · Software
Top Software Researchers
Xiangyu Zhang ranks first, out of 4,324 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 Xiangyu Zhang ?? · #282 worldwide 6.9k citations · 114 works
- 2 Dawn Song United States · #303 worldwide 3.8k citations · 150 works
- 3 Wil M. P. van der Aalst Netherlands · #736 worldwide 5.5k citations · 408 works
- 4 Brad A. Myers United States · #2,321 worldwide 1.6k citations · 124 works
- 5 Marlon Dumas Estonia · #2,716 worldwide 1.5k citations · 128 works
- 6 Christopher Kruegel United States · #2,771 worldwide 1.7k citations · 89 works
- 7 Amir Pnueli Israel · #2,994 worldwide 1.8k citations · 86 works
- 8 Brian Randell United Kingdom · #3,006 worldwide 1.4k citations · 77 works
- 9 Reinhard Wilhelm Germany · #3,146 worldwide 864 citations · 95 works
- 10 Giovanni Vigna United States · #3,168 worldwide 1.5k citations · 90 works
- 11 Raymond J. Mooney United States · #3,197 worldwide 2k citations · 91 works
- 12 Jiawei Han United States · #3,305 worldwide 1.9k citations · 72 works
- 13 Thomas A. Henzinger United States · #3,611 worldwide 2.4k citations · 156 works
- 14 Rajeev Alur United States · #3,664 worldwide 1.9k citations · 117 works
- 15 David Powers Australia · #3,796 worldwide 1.3k citations · 112 works
- 16 Thomas Zimmermann United States · #3,896 worldwide 1.5k citations · 133 works
- 17 Nenad Medvidović United States · #4,112 worldwide 1.4k citations · 72 works
- 18 Jeff Kramer United Kingdom · #4,244 worldwide 971 citations · 74 works
- 19 David L. Dill United States · #4,272 worldwide 1.8k citations · 64 works
- 20 Mark Harman United Kingdom · #4,293 worldwide 2.3k citations · 177 works
- 21 Barbara Kitchenham United Kingdom · #4,380 worldwide 1.7k citations · 67 works
- 22 Elliot Soloway United States · #4,658 worldwide 1.1k citations · 85 works
- 23 John B. Goodenough United States · #4,875 worldwide 6.2k citations · 309 works
- 24 Edmund M. Clarke United States · #5,734 worldwide 2.2k citations · 57 works
- 25 Victor R. Basili United States · #6,034 worldwide 1.4k citations · 121 works
- 26 Mihalis Yannakakis United States · #6,077 worldwide 1.3k citations · 69 works
- 27 Nancy G. Leveson United States · #6,144 worldwide 1k citations · 77 works
- 28 Edward A. Lee United States · #6,150 worldwide 2k citations · 166 works
- 29 Thorsten Holz Germany · #6,207 worldwide 1.1k citations · 81 works
- 30 Leslie Lamport United States · #6,243 worldwide 1.2k citations · 75 works
- 31 Somesh Jha United States · #6,314 worldwide 1.6k citations · 92 works
- 32 Michael Wagner Austria · #6,359 worldwide 1k citations · 77 works
- 33 Eric B. Larson United States · #6,733 worldwide 1.1k citations · 98 works
- 34 Richard N. Taylor United States · #6,906 worldwide 2.4k citations · 54 works
- 35 David W. Coit United States · #7,060 worldwide 1.5k citations · 66 works
- 36 Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar United States · #7,101 worldwide 2.3k citations · 176 works
- 37 Christof Fetzer Germany · #7,110 worldwide 1.4k citations · 111 works
- 38 Barry Boehm United States · #7,585 worldwide 1.2k citations · 119 works
- 39 Mary Shaw United States · #7,977 worldwide 1k citations · 104 works
- 40 David Lorge Parnas Canada · #8,066 worldwide 752 citations · 68 works
- 41 Gregg Rothermel United States · #8,170 worldwide 1.3k citations · 57 works
- 42 Sharad Malik United States · #8,801 worldwide 976 citations · 106 works
- 43 Brian W. Matthews United States · #9,263 worldwide 1.5k citations · 151 works
- 44 Stephanie Forrest United States · #9,329 worldwide 1.1k citations · 66 works
- 45 Alex Aiken United States · #9,477 worldwide 1.1k citations · 89 works
- 46 Mary Jean Harrold United States · #9,496 worldwide 1.3k citations · 55 works
- 47 Gail C. Murphy Canada · #9,528 worldwide 816 citations · 62 works
- 48 Oded Maler France · #9,529 worldwide 1.2k citations · 53 works
- 49 Ben Shneiderman United States · #9,541 worldwide 1.9k citations · 205 works
- 50 Nachiappan Nagappan United States · #9,592 worldwide 928 citations · 56 works
- 51 Rastislav Bodík United States · #10,022 worldwide 1k citations · 51 works
- 52 Tian Zhang China · #10,062 worldwide 979 citations · 57 works
- 53 Martin Vechev Switzerland · #10,108 worldwide 965 citations · 77 works
- 54 Daniela Rus United States · #10,137 worldwide 3.2k citations · 304 works
- 55 Antonio Ruiz–Cortés Spain · #10,390 worldwide 888 citations · 94 works
- 56 Orna Grümberg Israel · #10,413 worldwide 2.5k citations · 47 works
- 57 James R. Cordy Canada · #10,422 worldwide 943 citations · 64 works
- 58 Prémkumar Dévanbu United States · #10,432 worldwide 1.1k citations · 78 works
- 59 Kang G. Shin United States · #10,447 worldwide 2.7k citations · 258 works
- 60 Juliana Freire United States · #10,626 worldwide 779 citations · 96 works
- 61 M. J. S. Lowe United Kingdom · #10,772 worldwide 895 citations · 101 works
- 62 Jean Bézivín France · #11,220 worldwide 477 citations · 56 works
- 63 Edmund Burke United Kingdom · #11,259 worldwide 1.4k citations · 272 works
- 64 Michael D. Ernst United States · #11,710 worldwide 1k citations · 76 works
- 65 Dietmar Jannach Austria · #11,851 worldwide 808 citations · 105 works
- 66 Fei–Yue Wang China · #12,170 worldwide 4.2k citations · 408 works
- 67 Margaret Burnett United States · #12,380 worldwide 773 citations · 87 works
- 68 José Meseguer United States · #12,926 worldwide 1.7k citations · 151 works
- 69 Kenneth L. McMillan United States · #12,988 worldwide 1.3k citations · 46 works
- 70 Marjan Mernik Slovenia · #13,098 worldwide 885 citations · 64 works
- 71 Henry Kautz United States · #13,200 worldwide 924 citations · 55 works
- 72 David Gries United States · #13,374 worldwide 565 citations · 63 works
- 73 Zibin Zheng China · #13,470 worldwide 1.7k citations · 151 works
- 74 Robert Feldt Sweden · #13,592 worldwide 1.1k citations · 105 works
- 75 William G. Griswold United States · #13,885 worldwide 730 citations · 65 works
- 76 Bruno Courcelle France · #13,913 worldwide 921 citations · 66 works
- 77 Sencun Zhu United States · #14,146 worldwide 835 citations · 53 works
- 78 Ahmed H. Yousef Egypt · #14,247 worldwide 852 citations · 49 works
- 79 George J. Pappas United States · #14,301 worldwide 2.5k citations · 234 works
- 80 Douglas C. Schmidt United States · #14,474 worldwide 1.1k citations · 141 works
- 81 Dragan Gašević Australia · #14,519 worldwide 1.9k citations · 221 works
- 82 Xiangyu Zhang United States · #14,626 worldwide 743 citations · 65 works
- 83 Raymond A. DeCarlo United States · #14,944 worldwide 1.1k citations · 46 works
- 84 David Notkin United States · #15,300 worldwide 939 citations · 59 works
- 85 Jeannette M. Wing United States · #15,427 worldwide 1.1k citations · 44 works
- 86 Ákos Lédeczi United States · #15,461 worldwide 756 citations · 53 works
- 87 E. Allen Emerson United States · #15,494 worldwide 1.4k citations · 42 works
- 88 James H. Cross United States · #15,785 worldwide 621 citations · 50 works
- 89 Luis Fernández Sanz Spain · #15,894 worldwide 428 citations · 66 works
- 90 Bruce H. Krogh United States · #16,072 worldwide 882 citations · 71 works
- 91 Eric Bodden Germany · #16,372 worldwide 891 citations · 87 works
- 92 Ahmed E. Hassan Canada · #16,377 worldwide 1.4k citations · 140 works
- 93 Paul Denny New Zealand · #16,592 worldwide 530 citations · 58 works
- 94 Miodrag Potkonjak United States · #17,097 worldwide 1.5k citations · 147 works
- 95 Clark Barrett United States · #17,184 worldwide 770 citations · 67 works
- 96 Vikram Adve United States · #17,187 worldwide 523 citations · 51 works
- 97 Azer Bestavros United States · #17,246 worldwide 1k citations · 98 works
- 98 Bran Selić France · #17,839 worldwide 454 citations · 50 works
- 99 Kishor S. Trivedi United States · #18,203 worldwide 1.8k citations · 181 works
- 100 Andrea De Lucia Italy · #18,221 worldwide 1.1k citations · 114 works
authors from the 6,000 highest-output in Software, 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.