Science & Academia

Rankings are recomputed on the monthly poll cycle.

AI Consensus Ranking

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

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