Top 50 AI researchers by citations
Top 50 AI researchers by citationsSee which researchers are most cited in AI across subfields.
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Hacker News (AI / LLM) files mainly under ai. We currently carry 7,560 of its stories.
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Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | Turing Tree |
| Canonical URL | https://www.turingtree.com/top-50 |
| Publication time | Sun, 04 Oct 2026 17:49:27 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-10-04T18:04:54.878Z |
| Last seen | 2026-10-04T18:04:54.878Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | iJ3IZSurRC13 · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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Top 50 AI researchers by citationsSee which researchers are most cited in AI across subfields. Updated monthly based on Google Scholar.Get updates to the list in our free newsletterSubscribeNo spam. Unsubscribe anytime.Privacy policyUpdated October 1RankResearcherFieldsOctober 1September 1GainGrowth %Rank Change01Yoshua BengioUniversité de Montréal, LawZero, MilaMachine Learning · Deep Learning · Artificial Intelligence1,164,4071,149,112+15,295(+1.3%)Citations Sep 11,149,112Change since Sep 1+15,295 (+1.3%)+1.3%—02Geoffrey HintonUniversity of TorontoMachine Learning · Psychology · Artificial Intelligence · Cognitive Science · Computer Science1,092,0861,080,894+11,192(+1.0%)Citations Sep 11,080,894Change since Sep 1+11,192 (+1.0%)+1.0%—03Kaiming HeMIT, Google DeepMindComputer Vision ·…
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