I'm not remotely a cryptographer. And I'm not saying there is anything wrong with his algos obviously. But I remember when the algos designed by Bruce Schneier

I'm not remotely a cryptographer. And I'm not saying there is anything wrong with his algos obviously. But I remember when the algos designed by Bruce Schneier were all the rage, and I think it was similarly based on some sort of guru status. If I look at Bernstein's most cited papers, they are all about performance, aside from what appears to be a survey on post-quantum crypto and what does seem to be like a well-cited paper on AES cache timing attacks. So my genuine question is: does he really have an unusual academic standing as a cryptographer? This ranking by citation (which appears to be up-to-date/live) puts him in position 62: https://kodu.ut.ee/~lipmaa/cites/cites.php?data=crypto https://kodu.ut.ee/~lipmaa/cites/cites.php?data=crypto Granted, it's just a ranking by citation, and this definitely puts him in the top 100, which is nothing to scoff at, but I'm still wondering if there is a similar effect, and if in ten years we won't be using algos all written by some other guy because he's the new cool kid.