Yoshua Bengio: The Citation Record

Computer scientist — most-cited living researcher · Turing Award 2018 · >1M Scholar citations

H-Index & i10-Index

Database (snapshot October 27, 2026) h-indexi10-indexCited by
OpenAlex A5086198262 ↗
1,579 works indexed
201714577,836
Google Scholar profile ↗25410381,171,518

First living scientist past 1 million Google Scholar citations (announced by Mila, October 2025). 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
Gradient-based learning applied to document recognition ↗199858,742
Learning Phrase Representations using RNN Encoder–Decoder for Statistical Machine Translation ↗201425,509
Generative adversarial networks ↗202018,328
Neural Machine Translation by Jointly Learning to Align and Translate ↗201416,221
Understanding the difficulty of training deep feedforward neural networks ↗201014,136
Representation Learning: A Review and New Perspectives ↗201312,997
Graph Attention Networks ↗201712,103

Identity & disambiguation

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How does 201 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 Bengio's sit in the extreme tail of the distribution. Compare against field × career-stage benchmarks.