Dirk Weissenborn: h-index, Total Citations, and Citation Map
Dirk Weissenborn's h-index is 14 (17 i10-index, 109,553+ total citations across 20+ publications) according to Google Scholar as of August 2026. Dirk Weissenborn is affiliated with Google Research.
Dirk Weissenborn is a researcher affiliated with Google Research, specializing in various fields. Their work has been cited 109,553 times. This profile visualizes their global influence, highlighting strong citation networks in China.
Dirk Weissenborn's Citation Metrics
Bibliometric impact based on 20 indexed publications.
- H-Index
- 14
- i10-Index
- 17
- Total Citations
- 109,553
- Citing Countries
- 58
As of August 2026.
Dirk Weissenborn has an h-index of 14 and 109,553 total citations across 20 publications, with research cited by institutions in 58 countries.
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An Image is Worth 16x16 Words: Transformers for Image Recognition at Scale
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The researcher developed a streamlined neural question-answering framework and a subsequent machine reading system, establishing a simplified approach to natural language understanding that has garnered significant independent academic attention.
The researcher pioneered the application of transformer architectures to image recognition at scale, establishing a foundational vision-language framework that has become a standard reference in computer vision.
The researcher developed methods for answering factoid questions in the biomedical domain, establishing a foundational approach for information retrieval in specialized scientific contexts.
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About Dirk Weissenborn's research
Dirk Weissenborn is a researcher at Google Research. Their work has been cited 109,553 times across 20 publications (h-index 14), according to Google Scholar.
Their most-cited work, “An Image is Worth 16x16 Words: Transformers for Image Recognition at Scale” (2021), has accumulated 21,341 citations. Other influential works include “An overview of the BIOASQ large-scale biomedical semantic indexing and question answering competition” (2015) with 559 citations and “Axial Attention in Multidimensional Transformers” (2019) with 363 citations.
Citations of Dirk Weissenborn'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.
