California NanoSystems Institute 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).
28
researchers on the list
643
rank in United States
2,020
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Balandin, Alexander A. | Applied Physics | 28 / 323,282 | 21 / 323,282 |
| Nel, André E. | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | 57 / 177,859 | 126 / 177,859 |
| Di Carlo, Dino | Analytical Chemistry | 45 / 137,328 | 23 / 137,328 |
| Weiss, Shimon | Optics | 46 / 83,504 | 259 / 83,504 |
| Zink, Jeffrey I. | General Chemistry | 64 / 57,505 | 131 / 57,505 |
| Miao, Jianwei John | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | 1,846 / 177,859 | 722 / 177,859 |
| Alexandrova, Anastassia N. | Chemical Physics | 1,284 / 121,889 | 448 / 121,889 |
| Zhou, Zhenghong | Developmental Biology | 1,217 / 167,121 | 1,900 / 167,121 |
| Tolbert, Sarah H. | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | 879 / 177,859 | 3,250 / 177,859 |
| Liu, Chong | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | 3,607 / 177,859 | 2,771 / 177,859 |
| Spokoyny, Alexander M. | Organic Chemistry | 2,025 / 188,664 | 960 / 188,664 |
| Sletten, Ellen M. | Organic Chemistry | — | 983 / 188,664 |
| Chatziioannou, Arion F. | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 1,480 / 164,120 | — |
| Jarrahi, Mona | Optoelectronics & Photonics | 414 / 140,272 | 233 / 140,272 |
| Maynard, Heather D. | Polymers | 943 / 133,253 | 2,768 / 133,253 |
| Miller, Jeff F. | Microbiology | 2,677 / 232,186 | — |
| Wong, Gerard C.L. | Microbiology | 2,730 / 232,186 | 2,811 / 232,186 |
| Li, Jingxi | Optoelectronics & Photonics | — | 407 / 140,272 |
| Mengu, Deniz | Optoelectronics & Photonics | — | 567 / 140,272 |
| Emaminejad, Sam | Analytical Chemistry | — | 1,408 / 137,328 |
| Ni, Ni | Applied Physics | 6,430 / 323,282 | 4,624 / 323,282 |
| Liu, Weiztai | Electrical & Electronic Engineering | 851 / 133,072 | — |
| Azzam, Shaimaa I.H. | Optoelectronics & Photonics | — | 961 / 140,272 |
| Wu, Yichen | Optics | — | 1,506 / 83,504 |
| Carbajo, Sergio | Optoelectronics & Photonics | — | 1,445 / 140,272 |
| Li, Yuhang | Optoelectronics & Photonics | — | 2,179 / 140,272 |
| Liu, Tairan | Optoelectronics & Photonics | — | 2,364 / 140,272 |
| Huang, Luzhe | Optoelectronics & Photonics | — | 2,424 / 140,272 |
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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