Carnegie Observatories 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).
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researchers on the list
1,219
rank in United States
4,523
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Simon, Joshua D. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 446 / 58,202 | 145 / 58,202 |
| Piro, Anthony L. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 561 / 58,202 | 291 / 58,202 |
| Benson, Andrew J. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 294 / 58,202 | 357 / 58,202 |
| McWilliam, Andrew | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 786 / 58,202 | — |
| Mulchaey, John Scott | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 814 / 58,202 | — |
| Kelson, Daniel D. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 948 / 58,202 | 1,682 / 58,202 |
| Dressler, Alan M. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 1,077 / 58,202 | — |
| Sandage, Allan Rex | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 1,142 / 58,202 | — |
| Rauch, Michael | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 1,174 / 58,202 | — |
| Sten Delos, M. | Nuclear & Particle Physics | — | 3,274 / 164,120 |
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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