Richard Zhang: h-index, Total Citations, and Citation Map
Richard Zhang's h-index is 45 (66 i10-index, 47,143+ total citations across 4+ publications) according to Google Scholar as of June 2026. Richard Zhang is affiliated with Senior Research Scientist, Adobe.
Richard Zhang is a researcher affiliated with Senior Research Scientist, Adobe, specializing in Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Deep Learning. Their work has been cited 47,143 times. This profile visualizes their global influence, highlighting strong citation networks in United States.
Richard Zhang's Citation Metrics
Bibliometric impact based on 4 indexed publications.
- H-Index
- 45
- i10-Index
- 66
- Total Citations
- 47,143
- Citing Countries
- 11
As of June 2026.
Richard Zhang has an h-index of 45 and 47,143 total citations across 4 publications, with research cited by institutions in 11 countries.
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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Deep Features as a Perceptual Metric
201821,432
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The researcher established deep neural network features as a robust perceptual metric for image quality, fundamentally shifting how visual similarity is quantified in computer vision.
The researcher advanced image colorization by publishing a seminal 2016 ECCV paper that has garnered over 5,000 citations, establishing a foundational approach in computer vision.
The researcher established a foundational framework for detecting CNN-generated images, demonstrating their initial detectability and highlighting the evolving nature of synthetic media identification challenges.
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About Richard Zhang's research
Richard Zhang is a researcher in Computer Vision, Machine Learning and Deep Learning at Senior Research Scientist, Adobe. Their work has been cited 47,143 times across 4 publications (h-index 45), according to Google Scholar.
Their most-cited work, “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Deep Features as a Perceptual Metric” (2018), has accumulated 21,432 citations. Other influential works include “Colorful Image Colorization” (2016) with 5,076 citations and “Contrastive Learning for Unpaired Image-to-Image Translation” (2020) with 2,179 citations.
Citations of Richard Zhang's research come primarily from United States, China and Australia, reflecting international research impact across 5+ countries. The interactive citation map above shows the full geographic distribution of the institutions citing this work.
