California State University, Los Angeles 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
Ranks by number of people on the list; we calculate them from the same data.
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| Name | Subfield | Career | Single-year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aruoma, Okezie I. | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | 199 / 216,826 | 405 / 216,826 |
| Phinney, Jean S. | Developmental & Child Psychology | 76 / 25,365 | 53 / 25,365 |
| Rezayi, Edward H. | Applied Physics | 1,813 / 323,282 | 3,070 / 323,282 |
| Scoffoni, Christine | Plant Biology & Botany | 3,671 / 204,373 | 1,396 / 204,373 |
| Jishi, Radi A. | Applied Physics | 4,109 / 323,282 | — |
| Beer, Gerald A. | General Mathematics | 1,099 / 76,268 | — |
| Wittenberg-Lyles, Elaine M. | Gerontology | 259 / 13,096 | — |
| Perrott, David R. | Acoustics | 765 / 38,987 | — |
| Oring, Elliott | Folklore | 6 / 762 | 15 / 762 |
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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