The top 50 most-cited AI researchers, where one paper carries 278k citations
ksprdk · reddit · 2026-10-05
A Reddit post shares a ranking of the top 50 AI researchers by citations.
Highlights:
- Attention Is All You Need alone has 278k citations, enough to place all of its authors on the list
- The ranking illustrates the enormous citation leverage of foundational Transformer-era work
The poster asks how many names readers recognize.
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