Geoffrey Hinton: The Citation Record

Computer scientist — 'Godfather of AI' · Turing Award 2018 · Nobel Prize in Physics 2024

H-Index & i10-Index

Database (snapshot October 27, 2026) h-indexi10-indexCited by
OpenAlex A5108093963 ↗
562 works indexed
150327530,050
Google Scholar profile ↗2095511,098,284

One of the largest Scholar–OpenAlex gaps we measured: Scholar credits ~1.1M citations, OpenAlex ~530k. OpenAlex counts journal-era output conservatively; Scholar also indexes books, theses, preprints and grey literature — Scholar figures typically run higher.

Top-cited works in OpenAlex

Used for identity verification — the landmark papers you would expect to be here are.

Work (top-cited first)YearCited by
ImageNet classification with deep convolutional neural networks ↗2017112,142
Deep learning ↗201584,018
Dropout: a simple way to prevent neural networks from overfitting ↗201433,412
Visualizing Data using t-SNE ↗200833,046
Learning representations by back-propagating errors ↗198631,855
Reducing the Dimensionality of Data with Neural Networks ↗200620,922
Learning Internal Representations by Error Propagation ↗198516,521
A Fast Learning Algorithm for Deep Belief Nets ↗200616,331

Identity & disambiguation

  • OpenAlex author ID: A5108093963
  • ORCID: — (record predates or lacks an ORCID)
  • Google Scholar: public profile (verified owner e-mail)
  • Verification: Top works: AlexNet (2012), the Nature 'Deep learning' review, Dropout, t-SNE, and the 1986 backpropagation paper — the expected canon.
// Context

How does 150 compare to the field? The OpenAlex benchmark dataset (63,665 authors) puts a senior computer science researcher's median h-index far below these numbers — profiles like Hinton's sit in the extreme tail of the distribution. Compare against field × career-stage benchmarks.