Table 13.
A total of 20 most cited authors up to 2020.
| Rank 2020 | Previous rank 2015 | Name | #Citations | Nb of papers written by this author | Ratio #citations/nb of papers written by this author | Percentage of self-citations |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | Christopher D. Manning | 13,195 | 152 | 86.809 | 2.145 |
| 2 | 1 | Hermann Ney | 7,109 | 388 | 18.322 | 16.205 |
| 3 | >20 | Christopher Dyer | 5,372 | 114 | 47.123 | 3.984 |
| 4 | >20 | Richard Socher | 5,175 | 37 | 139.865 | 1.198 |
| 5 | 2 | Franz Josef Och | 5,041 | 42 | 120.024 | 1.825 |
| 6 | 5 | Dan Klein | 4,945 | 130 | 38.038 | 6.249 |
| 7 | 4 | Philipp Koehn | 4,726 | 59 | 80.102 | 2.412 |
| 8 | >20 | Noah A. Smith | 4,648 | 160 | 29.05 | 6.713 |
| 9 | 7 | Andreas Stolcke | 4,532 | 145 | 31.255 | 6.355 |
| 10 | 6 | Michael John Collins | 4,256 | 69 | 61.681 | 3.195 |
| 11 | >20 | Kenton Lee | 4,251 | 21 | 202.429 | 0.729 |
| 12 | >20 | Luke S. Zettlemoyer | 4,158 | 92 | 45.196 | 5.075 |
| 13 | 9 | Salim Roukos | 4,132 | 71 | 58.197 | 1.5 |
| 14 | 18 | Daniel Jurafsky | 4,056 | 118 | 34.373 | 2.342 |
| 15 | >20 | Kristina Toutanova | 4,055 | 47 | 86.277 | 0.764 |
| 16 | >20 | Sanjeev Khudanpur | 4,051 | 135 | 30.007 | 6.492 |
| 17 | >20 | Daniel Povey | 3,796 | 112 | 33.893 | 7.929 |
| 18 | 16 | Li Deng | 3,672 | 201 | 18.269 | 14.842 |
| 19 | >20 | Dong Yu | 3,653 | 177 | 20.638 | 10.895 |
| 20 | >20 | Mirella Lapata | 3,578 | 138 | 25.928 | 6.987 |