Yann LeCun: The Citation Record

Computer scientist — deep learning pioneer · Turing Award 2018 (with Hinton & Bengio)

H-Index & i10-Index

Database (snapshot October 27, 2026) h-indexi10-indexCited by
OpenAlex A5001226970 ↗
548 works indexed
129314210,521
Google Scholar profile ↗177513506,380

Conference papers (NeurIPS/CVPR) are indexed more completely by Scholar — typical for CS. 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
Deep learning ↗201584,018
Backpropagation Applied to Handwritten Zip Code Recognition ↗198911,889
Dimensionality Reduction by Learning an Invariant Mapping ↗20065,341
Convolutional networks for images, speech, and time series ↗19984,627
Character-level Convolutional Networks for Text Classification ↗20154,204
Learning a Similarity Metric Discriminatively, with Application to Face Verification ↗20054,035
Spectral Networks and Locally Connected Networks on Graphs ↗20133,820
Handwritten Digit Recognition with a Back-Propagation Network ↗19893,736

Identity & disambiguation

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How does 129 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 LeCun's sit in the extreme tail of the distribution. Compare against field × career-stage benchmarks.