Prof. Schubert improves in the "most influential scientists"

The Stanford statistician John Ioannidis publishes a list of the 100,000 most influential scientists (science-wide).

In the single-year ranking of the current version (based on the data for the year 2024, published October 2025), Prof. Schubert improves to rank 28047 across all disciplines, 1284 within the huge field of AI and Computer Vision and 39 if you only consider AI/CV researchers in Germany.

This is a substantial improvement from 41274 (2023), 62210 (2022) and 92735 (2021).

The ranking is based on Elsevier's Scopus data and the composite citation index (c-score) developed by the Stanford statistician John Ioannidis. The index combines scaled citation numbers (without self-citations), h-index and hm-index, but also uses the author order. Nevertheless, any such ranking is based on design choices and data that may be biased, e.g., the Elsevier Scopus data use to be journal-oriented and not value compute science conferences as much.

In the career-long ranking, that considers the entire available data since 1996, this is now rank 208716 (2023: 274627, both top 2% in AI/CV).