Science & Academia
Rankings are recomputed on the monthly poll cycle.
AI Consensus Ranking
- #1Demis Hassabis88.2
- #2Yoshua Bengio77.7
- #3Geoffrey Hinton71.0
- #4Daron Acemoglu59.5
- #5DeepMind54.6
- #6Michael Sandel51.3
- #7Jennifer Doudna49.6
- #8CRISPR-Cas944.0
- #9Walter C. Willett40.9
- #10AlphaFold40.2
- #11Harvard36.1
- #12Massachusetts Institute of Technology35.5
- #13Eric S. Lander33.4
- #14Martha Nussbaum33.2
- #15Turing Award32.2
- #16Ronald C. Kessler31.1
- #17Clarivate’s Highly Cited Researchers list30.0
- #18Clarivate26.3
- #19John Jumper24.9
- #20Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences (Sveriges Riksbank Prize)23.6
- #21David Baker23.5
- #22Emmanuelle Charpentier23.4
- #23research.com23.2
- #24nature.com23.1
- #25Eric Topol23.1
- #26stanford.edu22.9
- #27Esther Duflo22.7
- #28Robert Langer22.0
- #29Peter Singer20.3
- #30Christopher L. Eisgruber20.0
- #31Steven Pinker19.7
- #32Human Genome Project19.1
- #33Kwame Anthony Appiah18.7
- #34Yann LeCun18.7
- #35John Ioannidis18.7
- #36John Hopfield17.7
- #37Chinese Academy of Sciences17.7
- #38Danielle Allen17.7
- #39Canada CIFAR AI Chair16.9
- #40AlphaGo16.9
- #41BBC Radio 416.9
- #42CRISPR16.9
- #43Wendy Brown16.9
- #44OpenAlex16.3
- #45National Institutes of Health16.3
- #46Nature Index’s 2025–2026 Research Leaders tables15.8
- #47Nobel Prizes15.7
- #48The Public Philosopher15.6
- #49Royal Society of London15.6
- #50Clarivate’s annual Highly Cited Researchers list15.4