In collaboration with Elsevier, Stanford University releases an annual ranking of the world’s most-cited scientists across various disciplines. In 2024, this list showcases the Top 100 Scientists in Information & Communication Technologies (ICT)– Stanford/Elsevier’s 2024 List, highlighting the global leaders whose research has profoundly impacted Information & Communication Technologies (ICT). These rankings are determined based on multiple metrics that reflect each scientist’s contributions and influence. Each scientist on this list is recognized for prolific research output and lasting impact on the global scientific community. These metrics provide a holistic view of their influence and ensure that well-established and up-and-coming scholars are credited for their contributions to the field.
| Rank | Name | Institute | Country | Subfield 1 | Subfield 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mirjalili, Seyedali | Torrens University Australia | Australia | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | Networking & Telecommunications |
| 2 | BENGIO, YOSHUA | University of Montreal | Canada | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | Experimental Psychology |
| 3 | Girshick, Ross | FAIR | United States | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | Experimental Psychology |
| 4 | Hinton, Geoffrey | University of Toronto | Canada | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | Experimental Psychology |
| 5 | Zadeh, Lotfi A. | University of California, Berkeley | United States | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | Networking & Telecommunications |
| 6 | Schmidhuber, Jürgen | IDSIA Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence | Switzerland | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | Experimental Psychology |
| 7 | Venkatesh, Viswanath | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | United States | Information Systems | Business & Management |
| 8 | Yang, Xin She | Middlesex University | United Kingdom | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | Networking & Telecommunications |
| 9 | Yager, Ronald R. | Machine Intelligence Institute | United States | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | Networking & Telecommunications |
| 10 | LeCun, Yann | New York University | United States | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | Experimental Psychology |
| 11 | Xu, Zeshui | Sichuan University | China | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | Operations Research |
| 12 | He, Kaiming | FAIR | United States | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | Experimental Psychology |
| 13 | Deb, Kalyanmoy | Michigan State University | United States | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | Operations Research |
| 14 | Zhou, Zhi Hua | Nanjing University | China | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | Software Engineering |
| 15 | Donoho, David | Stanford University | United States | Networking & Telecommunications | Statistics & Probability |
| 16 | Hochreiter, Sepp | Johannes Kepler University Linz | Austria | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | Bioinformatics |
| 17 | Jordan, Michael I. | University of California, Berkeley | United States | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | Experimental Psychology |
| 18 | Shannon, Claude E. | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | United States | Networking & Telecommunications | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing |
| 19 | Davis, Fred | Texas Tech University | United States | Information Systems | Social Psychology |
| 20 | Stamatakis, Alexandros | Karlsruher Institut für Technologie | Germany | Bioinformatics | Evolutionary Biology |
| 21 | Jain, Anil K. | Michigan State University | United States | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | Strategic, Defence & Security Studies |
| 22 | Garg, Harish | Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology | India | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | Applied Mathematics |
| 23 | Blei, David | Columbia University | United States | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | Experimental Psychology |
| 24 | Le, Quoc V. | DeepMind Technologies Limited | United States | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | Experimental Psychology |
| 25 | van der Maaten, Laurens | Meta | United States | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | Experimental Psychology |
| 26 | Wang, Fei Yue | Chinese Academy of Sciences | China | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | Industrial Engineering & Automation |
| 27 | Dwork, Cynthia | Harvard University | United States | Computation Theory & Mathematics | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing |
| 28 | Manning, Christopher D. | Stanford University | United States | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | Experimental Psychology |
| 29 | van der Aalst, Wil M.P. | Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen | Germany | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | Business & Management |
| 30 | Gandomi, Amir | University of Technology Sydney | Australia | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | Civil Engineering |
| 31 | Liu, Bing | University of Illinois at Chicago | United States | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | Information Systems |
| 32 | Yao, Yiyu | University of Regina | Canada | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | Software Engineering |
| 33 | Silver, David | DeepMind Technologies Limited | United Kingdom | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | Industrial Engineering & Automation |
| 34 | Kock, Ned | Texas A and M International University | United States | Information Systems | Business & Management |
| 35 | Schapire, Robert E. | Microsoft Research | United States | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | Computation Theory & Mathematics |
| 36 | Eysenbach, Gunther | JMIR Publications | Canada | Medical Informatics | General & Internal Medicine |
| 37 | Slater, Mel | Universitat de Barcelona | Spain | Software Engineering | Experimental Psychology |
| 38 | Herrera, Francisco | Universidad de Granada | Spain | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | Operations Research |
| 39 | Jin, Yaochu | Westlake University | China | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | Industrial Engineering & Automation |
| 40 | Pearl, Judea | University of California, Los Angeles | United States | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | Statistics & Probability |
| 41 | Cambria, Erik | Nanyang Technological University | Singapore | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | Information & Library Sciences |
| 42 | Kleinberg, Jon | Cornell University | United States | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | Computation Theory & Mathematics |
| 43 | Leskovec, Jure | Stanford University | United States | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | Experimental Psychology |
| 44 | Schölkopf, Bernhard | Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems | Germany | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | Experimental Psychology |
| 45 | Lowe, David G. | Google LLC | United States | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | Industrial Engineering & Automation |
| 46 | Shor, Peter | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | United States | Computation Theory & Mathematics | General Physics |
| 47 | Abualigah, Laith | Middle East University, Jordan | Jordan | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | Applied Mathematics |
| 48 | Shin, Donghee | Texas Tech University | United States | Information Systems | Communication & Media Studies |
| 49 | Wang, Xiaogang | Chinese University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | Experimental Psychology |
| 50 | Bottou, Léon | New York University | United States | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | Experimental Psychology |
| 51 | Pedrycz, Witold | University of Alberta | Canada | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | Networking & Telecommunications |
| 52 | Mallat, Stéphane | Collège de France | France | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | Networking & Telecommunications |
| 53 | Salakhutdinov, Ruslan | Carnegie Mellon University | United States | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | Experimental Psychology |
| 54 | Torralba, Antonio | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | United States | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | Experimental Psychology |
| 55 | Poor, H. Vincent | Princeton University | United States | Networking & Telecommunications | Industrial Engineering & Automation |
| 56 | Atanassov, Krassimir | Institute of Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences | Bulgaria | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | General Mathematics |
| 57 | Zhang, Zhengyou | Tencent | China | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | Industrial Engineering & Automation |
| 58 | Hamari, Juho | Tampere University | Finland | Information Systems | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing |
| 59 | Wang, Zhou | University of Waterloo | Canada | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | Networking & Telecommunications |
| 60 | Pavlou, Paul A. | University of Houston | United States | Information Systems | Marketing |
| 61 | Coello Coello, Carlos A. | Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional | Mexico | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | Operations Research |
| 62 | Sarker, Iqbal H. | Edith Cowan University | Australia | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | Networking & Telecommunications |
| 63 | Rudin, Cynthia | Duke University | United States | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | Statistics & Probability |
| 64 | Cui, Tie Jun | Southeast University | China | Networking & Telecommunications | Applied Physics |
| 65 | Wei, Guiwu | Sichuan Normal University | China | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | Networking & Telecommunications |
| 66 | Welling, Max | Universiteit van Amsterdam | Netherlands | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | Experimental Psychology |
| 67 | Fosso Wamba, Samuel | TBS Business School | France | Information Systems | Operations Research |
| 68 | Kshetri, Nir | The University of North Carolina at Greensboro | United States | Information Systems | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing |
| 69 | Lv, Zhihan | Uppsala Universitet | Sweden | Networking & Telecommunications | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing |
| 70 | Zhang, Rui | National University of Singapore | Singapore | Networking & Telecommunications | Acoustics |
| 71 | Huang, Guang Bin | Nanyang Technological University | Singapore | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | Industrial Engineering & Automation |
| 72 | Ng, Andrew | Stanford University | United States | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | Industrial Engineering & Automation |
| 73 | Caruana, Rich | Microsoft Research | United States | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | Experimental Psychology |
| 74 | Liu, Peide | Shandong University of Finance and Economics | China | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | Civil Engineering |
| 75 | Vapnik, Vladimir | Columbia University | United States | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | Experimental Psychology |
| 76 | Choo, Kim Kwang Raymond | The University of Texas at San Antonio | United States | Networking & Telecommunications | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing |
| 77 | Ding, Zhiguo | Khalifa University of Science and Technology | United Arab Emirates | Networking & Telecommunications | Strategic, Defence & Security Studies |
| 78 | Shamir, Adi | Weizmann Institute of Science Israel | Israel | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | Computation Theory & Mathematics |
| 79 | Dwivedi, Yogesh K. | Swansea University | United Kingdom | Information Systems | Marketing |
| 80 | Sun, Jian | Beijing MEGVII Technology Co., Ltd. | China | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | Software Engineering |
| 81 | Chen, C. L.Philip | South China University of Technology | China | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | Industrial Engineering & Automation |
| 82 | Orlikowski, Wanda J. | MIT Sloan School of Management | United States | Information Systems | Business & Management |
| 83 | Graves, Alex | NNAISENSE | Switzerland | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | Experimental Psychology |
| 84 | Bovik, Alan C. | The University of Texas at Austin | United States | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | Networking & Telecommunications |
| 85 | Boneh, Dan | Stanford University | United States | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | Networking & Telecommunications |
| 86 | Tong, Shaocheng | Liaoning University of Technology | China | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | Industrial Engineering & Automation |
| 87 | Levine, Sergey | University of California, Berkeley | United States | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | Industrial Engineering & Automation |
| 88 | Onan, Aytug | Izmir Kâtip Çelebi Üniversitesi | Turkey | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | Networking & Telecommunications |
| 89 | Hamilton, William | Université McGill | Canada | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | Experimental Psychology |
| 90 | Wainwright, Martin J. | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | United States | Networking & Telecommunications | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing |
| 91 | Fei-Fei, Li | Stanford University | United States | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | Experimental Psychology |
| 92 | Tang, Xiaoou | Chinese University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | Acoustics |
| 93 | Schuller, Björn W. | Imperial College London | United Kingdom | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | Speech-Language Pathology & Audiology |
| 94 | Yao, Xin | Southern University of Science and Technology | China | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | Software Engineering |
| 95 | Dietterich, Thomas G. | Oregon State University | United States | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | Design Practice & Management |
| 96 | Acharya, U. R. | University of Southern Queensland | Australia | Biomedical Engineering | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing |
| 97 | Goodfellow, Ian | DeepMind Technologies Limited | United States | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | Experimental Psychology |
| 98 | Deng, Yong | University of Electronic Science and Technology of China | China | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | Industrial Engineering & Automation |
| 99 | Barron, Jonathan T. | Google LLC | United States | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | Software Engineering |
| 100 | Hyvärinen, Aapo | Helsingin Yliopisto | Finland | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | Neurology & Neurosurgery |