The top 50 AI researchers ranked by citations, Attention authors all on the list
ksprdk · reddit · 2026-10-05
A citation-based ranking of the top 50 AI researchers is circulating on Reddit. The authors of "Attention is All You Need" (278k citations) all make the list, highlighting which researchers have shaped the field most by raw citation counts.
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