Two Databases, Ten Records
Every record below was resolved by hand: we matched OpenAlex author IDs against top-cited works and ORCID — never name search alone. Einstein's first candidate ID, for example, turned out to be a one-paper yogurt researcher. Marie Curie's record is shown with a data-integrity warning.
| Researcher | OpenAlex | Google Scholar |
|---|---|---|
| Albert Einstein 1879–1955 · Physics | h 111 · i10 328 | h 128 · i10 383 · 192,137 cites auto-profile † |
| Stephen Hawking 1942–2018 · Physics | h 105 · i10 203 | h 133 · i10 423 · 154,897 cites auto-profile † |
| Yann LeCun b. 1960 · Computer Science | h 129 · i10 314 | h 177 · i10 513 · 506,380 cites |
| Geoffrey Hinton b. 1947 · Computer Science | h 150 · i10 327 | h 209 · i10 551 · 1,098,284 cites |
| Yoshua Bengio b. 1964 · Computer Science | h 201 · i10 714 | h 254 · i10 1038 · 1,171,518 cites |
| Terence Tao b. 1975 · Mathematics | h 97 · i10 326 | no public profile |
| Marie Curie 1867–1934 · Physics & Chemistry | h 6* · i10 4* | no public profile |
| Richard Feynman 1918–1988 · Physics | h 82 · i10 139 | h 62 · i10 102 · 125,020 cites auto-profile † |
| Jennifer Doudna b. 1964 · Biochemistry | h 149 · i10 386 | h 167 · i10 488 · 161,435 cites |
| Tim Berners-Lee b. 1955 · Computer Science | h 51 · i10 84 | no public profile |
* Marie Curie — record incomplete/contaminated; see profile. † auto-generated Google Scholar profile — maintained by third parties, not the researcher.
Browse the Records
Theoretical physicist
OpenAlex h-index 111 · i10 328
Theoretical physicist & cosmologist
OpenAlex h-index 105 · i10 203
Computer scientist — deep learning pioneer
OpenAlex h-index 129 · i10 314
Computer scientist — 'Godfather of AI'
OpenAlex h-index 150 · i10 327
Computer scientist — most-cited living researcher
OpenAlex h-index 201 · i10 714
Mathematician — Fields Medalist
OpenAlex h-index 97 · i10 326
Physicist & chemist — two Nobel Prizes
OpenAlex h-index 6 · i10 4
Theoretical physicist — QED
OpenAlex h-index 82 · i10 139
Biochemist — CRISPR gene editing
OpenAlex h-index 149 · i10 386
Computer scientist — inventor of the Web
OpenAlex h-index 51 · i10 84
Methodology: single-author lookups on the OpenAlex API (October 27, 2026 snapshot), top works cross-checked against known landmarks, Scholar values read from public profiles October 2026. The field × career-stage benchmark dataset provides the comparison baseline.