Applied Physics Laboratory 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).
19
researchers on the list
821
rank in United States
2,784
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kwok, Ron | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 81 / 84,638 | 103 / 84,638 |
| Joughin, Iań R. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 284 / 84,638 | 835 / 84,638 |
| Steele, Michael A. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 1,045 / 84,638 | 1,657 / 84,638 |
| Zhao, Zhongxiang | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | — | 1,330 / 84,638 |
| Zhang, Jinlun | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 1,537 / 84,638 | 1,460 / 84,638 |
| Smith, Benjamin E. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | — | 1,739 / 84,638 |
| Plant, William J. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 1,552 / 84,638 | — |
| Gregg, Michael C. | Oceanography | 174 / 16,622 | 241 / 16,622 |
| Kintner, Paul M.S. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 1,605 / 84,638 | — |
| Lindsay, Ronald W. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 1,905 / 84,638 | — |
| Jackson, Darrell R. | Acoustics | 321 / 38,987 | 749 / 38,987 |
| Aagaard, Knut | Oceanography | 296 / 16,622 | — |
| Thorsos, Eric I. | Oceanography | 301 / 16,622 | — |
| Matula, Thomas J. | Acoustics | 487 / 38,987 | — |
| Lee, Craig M. | Oceanography | — | 220 / 16,622 |
| Simmons, Harper Lightfoot | Oceanography | — | 249 / 16,622 |
| Williams, Kevin L. | Acoustics | 574 / 38,987 | — |
| St.Laurent, Louis C. | Oceanography | — | 259 / 16,622 |
| Dahl, Peter Hans | Acoustics | 704 / 38,987 | — |
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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