AWS Center for Quantum Computing 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).
9
researchers on the list
1,308
rank in United States
4,872
rank worldwide, of 38,384
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| Name | Subfield | Career | Single-year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Preskill, John P. | General Physics | 21 / 87,024 | 1 / 87,024 |
| Painter, Oskar Jon | Optics | 289 / 83,504 | 221 / 83,504 |
| Evenbly, Glen | General Physics | 1,281 / 87,024 | 655 / 87,024 |
| Lieu, Simon | Applied Physics | — | 2,923 / 323,282 |
| McArdle, Sam | General Physics | — | 1,146 / 87,024 |
| Torlai, Giacomo | General Physics | — | 1,234 / 87,024 |
| Noh, Kyungjoo | General Physics | — | 1,549 / 87,024 |
| Pastawski, Fernando | General Physics | — | 1,877 / 87,024 |
| Ryan, Colm A. | General Physics | — | 2,105 / 87,024 |
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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