Citation-Ranked List of Top 50 Most Influential AI Researchers Circulates

A Reddit post shares a chart ranking the top 50 most influential AI researchers by academic citations. The landmark paper "Attention is All You Need" alone has about 278,000 citations, placing all of its authors on the list.

2026-10-05 ~ 2026-10-05 · 3 related posts

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