David Forsyth: h-index, Total Citations, and Citation Map
David Forsyth's h-index is 90 (243 i10-index, 46,556+ total citations across 472+ publications) according to Google Scholar as of July 2026. David Forsyth is affiliated with Professor of Computer Science, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign.
David Forsyth is a researcher affiliated with Professor of Computer Science, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, specializing in various fields. Their work has been cited 46,556 times. This profile visualizes their global influence, highlighting strong citation networks in China.
David Forsyth's Citation Metrics
Bibliometric impact based on 472 indexed publications.
- H-Index
- 90
- i10-Index
- 243
- Total Citations
- 46,556
- Citing Countries
- 42
As of July 2026.
David Forsyth has an h-index of 90 and 46,556 total citations across 472 publications, with research cited by institutions in 42 countries.
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Computer vision: a modern approach
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The researcher pioneered pose-based person tracking methods, establishing a foundational framework that significantly advanced computer vision capabilities for human activity analysis.
The researcher established a foundational framework for modern computer vision, as evidenced by the seminal 2002 text that has garnered over 8,000 citations.
The researcher pioneered a machine translation framework for object recognition, establishing a foundational lexicon-based approach that significantly influenced computer vision methodologies.
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About David Forsyth's research
David Forsyth is a researcher at Professor of Computer Science, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign. Their work has been cited 46,556 times across 472 publications (h-index 90), according to Google Scholar.
Their most-cited work, “Computer vision: a modern approach” (2002), has accumulated 8,112 citations. Other influential works include “Describing objects by their attributes” (2009) with 2,608 citations and “Object recognition as machine translation: Learning a lexicon for a fixed image vocabulary” (2002) with 2,334 citations.
Citations of David Forsyth's research come primarily from China, United States and United Kingdom, reflecting international research impact across 5+ countries. The interactive citation map above shows the full geographic distribution of the institutions citing this work.
