Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science 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).
11
researchers on the list
1,148
rank in United States
4,213
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lai, Dong | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 135 / 58,202 | 100 / 58,202 |
| Cordes, James M. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 178 / 58,202 | 125 / 58,202 |
| Teukolsky, Saul A. | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 382 / 164,120 | 215 / 164,120 |
| Thomas, Peter C. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 198 / 58,202 | 725 / 58,202 |
| Kidder, Lawrence E. | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 780 / 164,120 | 331 / 164,120 |
| Boyle, Michael | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 2,131 / 164,120 | 427 / 164,120 |
| Salpeter, Edwin E. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 464 / 58,202 | 1,515 / 58,202 |
| Chatterjee, S. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | — | 650 / 58,202 |
| Mellon, Michael T. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 954 / 58,202 | — |
| Veverka, Joseph F. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 1,085 / 58,202 | — |
| Haynes, Martha P. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 1,371 / 58,202 | — |
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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