College of Earth, Ocean and Environment 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).
12
researchers on the list
1,100
rank in United States
3,968
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kirchman, David L. | Marine Biology & Hydrobiology | 18 / 54,545 | 96 / 54,545 |
| Cai, Wei Jun | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 219 / 84,638 | 141 / 84,638 |
| Kempton, Willett M. | Energy | 472 / 371,959 | 1,380 / 371,959 |
| Michael, Holly A. | Environmental Engineering | 580 / 68,664 | 256 / 68,664 |
| Church, Thomas M. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 968 / 84,638 | — |
| Corbett, James J. | Neurology & Neurosurgery | 3,947 / 379,830 | — |
| Legates, David R. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 1,083 / 84,638 | 2,013 / 84,638 |
| Sturchio, Neil C. | Geochemistry & Geophysics | 1,184 / 108,013 | — |
| Garvine, Richard W. | Oceanography | 149 / 16,622 | — |
| Epifanio, Charles E. | Marine Biology & Hydrobiology | 996 / 54,545 | — |
| Veron, Fabrice | Fluids & Plasmas | — | 903 / 58,297 |
| Dexter, Stephen C. | Energy | 4,795 / 371,959 | — |
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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