American Museum of Natural History in the Stanford/Elsevier 2026 list
The Stanford/Elsevier list covers the top 2% most-cited scientists in each subfield. These are the people from this institution on at least one of its two rankings: career-long and single-year (citations from 2025).
36
researchers on the list
533
rank in United States
1,636
rank worldwide, of 38,384
Ranks by number of people on the list; we calculate them from the same data.
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| Name | Subfield | Career | Single-year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jackson, Jeremy B.C. | Marine Biology & Hydrobiology | 36 / 54,545 | 81 / 54,545 |
| Phillips, Steven J. | Ecology | 362 / 82,882 | 212 / 82,882 |
| Wheeler, Ward C. | Evolutionary Biology | 123 / 31,128 | 245 / 31,128 |
| Engel, Michael S. | Paleontology | 42 / 23,292 | 13 / 23,292 |
| DeSalle, Rób | Evolutionary Biology | 158 / 31,128 | 288 / 31,128 |
| Cracraft, Joel L. | Evolutionary Biology | 212 / 31,128 | 377 / 31,128 |
| Webster, James D. | Geochemistry & Geophysics | 593 / 108,013 | 411 / 108,013 |
| Brower, A. V.Z. | Evolutionary Biology | 346 / 31,128 | — |
| Siddall, Mark Edward | Evolutionary Biology | 360 / 31,128 | — |
| Norell, Mark A. | Paleontology | 152 / 23,292 | 236 / 23,292 |
| Carpenter, James M. | Zoology | 7 / 19,073 | 177 / 19,073 |
| Grimaldi, David A. | Paleontology | 174 / 23,292 | 124 / 23,292 |
| Gatesy, John E. | Evolutionary Biology | 531 / 31,128 | 622 / 31,128 |
| Morrison, David A. | Mycology & Parasitology | 137 / 29,175 | 410 / 29,175 |
| Burbrink, Frank Thomas | Evolutionary Biology | 573 / 31,128 | 528 / 31,128 |
| Tattersall, Ian M. | Anthropology | 85 / 10,039 | — |
| Novacek, Michael J. | Paleontology | 328 / 23,292 | — |
| Shara, Michael M. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 1,381 / 58,202 | — |
| Prendini, Lorenzo | Evolutionary Biology | 700 / 31,128 | — |
| Harlow, George E. | Geochemistry & Geophysics | 1,741 / 108,013 | 1,590 / 108,013 |
| Mathez, Edmonda A. | Geochemistry & Geophysics | 1,774 / 108,013 | — |
| Platnick, Norman I. | Paleontology | 479 / 23,292 | — |
| Flynn, John Joseph | Paleontology | 481 / 23,292 | — |
| Voss, Robert S. | Paleontology | — | 354 / 23,292 |
| Borkent, Art | Zoology | 147 / 19,073 | 59 / 19,073 |
| Rosenberger, Alfred L. | Anthropology | 200 / 10,039 | — |
| Hammerness, Karen M. | Education | 2,270 / 115,687 | 2,000 / 115,687 |
| Stiassny, Melanie L.J. | Zoology | 82 / 19,073 | 107 / 19,073 |
| Sparks, John S. | Zoology | 208 / 19,073 | — |
| Spencer, Charles S. | Archaeology | 401 / 21,336 | — |
| Schaefer, Scott A. | Zoology | 246 / 19,073 | 369 / 19,073 |
| Padial, José Manuel | Zoology | 247 / 19,073 | 215 / 19,073 |
| Thomas, David Hurst | Archaeology | 422 / 21,336 | — |
| Dupérré, Nadine | Zoology | — | 229 / 19,073 |
| Le, Minh Duc | Zoology | — | 238 / 19,073 |
| Yasunaga, Tomohide | Zoology | — | 295 / 19,073 |
Source: Ioannidis JPA, Elsevier (2026). August 2026 data-update for "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators". Mendeley Data, version 9. Licence CC BY-NC 3.0. doi:10.17632/btchxktzyw.9
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