Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences 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
416
rank in United States
1,248
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Regev, Oded | Computation Theory & Mathematics | 29 / 20,721 | 5 / 20,721 |
| Peskin, Charles S. | Applied Mathematics | 17 / 23,982 | 26 / 23,982 |
| Lax, Peter D. | General Mathematics | 37 / 76,268 | 31 / 76,268 |
| Lutwak, E. | General Mathematics | 76 / 76,268 | 41 / 76,268 |
| Masmoudi, Nader | General Mathematics | 94 / 76,268 | 44 / 76,268 |
| Lin, Fanghua | General Mathematics | 40 / 76,268 | 55 / 76,268 |
| Peherstorfer, Benjamin | Numerical & Computational Mathematics | 319 / 17,431 | 28 / 17,431 |
| Cousot, Patrick | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 519 / 517,648 | 1,622 / 517,648 |
| Mogilner, Alex I. | Developmental Biology | 937 / 167,121 | 1,796 / 167,121 |
| Nirenberg, Louis | General Mathematics | 108 / 76,268 | 148 / 76,268 |
| Cheeger, Jeff | General Mathematics | 150 / 76,268 | 150 / 76,268 |
| Bella, Peter | General Mathematics | 133 / 76,268 | 906 / 76,268 |
| Goodman, Jonathan B. | General Mathematics | 223 / 76,268 | 191 / 76,268 |
| Young, Laisang | General Mathematics | 169 / 76,268 | 449 / 76,268 |
| Bruna, Joan | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 4,934 / 517,648 | 2,010 / 517,648 |
| Caflisch, Russel E. | Applied Mathematics | 112 / 23,982 | 139 / 23,982 |
| Zhang, Gaoyong | General Mathematics | 396 / 76,268 | 224 / 76,268 |
| Cole, Richard John | Computation Theory & Mathematics | 117 / 20,721 | 226 / 20,721 |
| Percus, Jerrome K. | Fluids & Plasmas | 418 / 58,297 | 1,075 / 58,297 |
| Spencer, Joel H. | Computation Theory & Mathematics | 135 / 20,721 | 154 / 20,721 |
| McKean, Henry P. | General Mathematics | 251 / 76,268 | 261 / 76,268 |
| Francfort, Gilles A. | General Mathematics | 685 / 76,268 | 304 / 76,268 |
| John, Fritz F. | General Mathematics | 310 / 76,268 | 305 / 76,268 |
| Varadhan, Srinivasa R.Srinivasa | General Mathematics | 334 / 76,268 | 317 / 76,268 |
| Deift, Percy A. | General Mathematics | 320 / 76,268 | 513 / 76,268 |
| Zanna, Laure | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | — | 1,554 / 84,638 |
| Kleeman, Richard | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 1,353 / 84,638 | — |
| Shatah, Jalal | General Mathematics | 551 / 76,268 | 409 / 76,268 |
| Jacot, Arthur | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | — | 3,860 / 517,648 |
| Ben-Arous, Gérard | Statistics & Probability | — | 406 / 24,695 |
| Wu, Hau Tieng | Biomedical Engineering | 534 / 74,543 | 354 / 74,543 |
| Grad, Harold | Fluids & Plasmas | 899 / 58,297 | 816 / 58,297 |
| Buckmaster, Tristan | General Mathematics | — | 487 / 76,268 |
| Hoppensteadt, Frank Charles | General Mathematics | 569 / 76,268 | 1,757 / 76,268 |
| Niles-Weed, Jonathan | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | — | 4,706 / 517,648 |
| Serfaty, Sylvia | General Mathematics | 688 / 76,268 | 708 / 76,268 |
| Kalos, Malvin H. | General Physics | 864 / 87,024 | — |
| Schwartz, Jacob T. | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 3,064 / 517,648 | — |
| Morawetz, Cathleen Synge | General Mathematics | 956 / 76,268 | — |
| Kleiner, Bruce | General Mathematics | 969 / 76,268 | 951 / 76,268 |
| Yang, Yisong | Mathematical Physics | 124 / 6,761 | — |
| Tosatti, Valentino | General Mathematics | 1,315 / 76,268 | 890 / 76,268 |
| Zhu, Guangxian | General Mathematics | — | 933 / 76,268 |
| Mao, Anqi | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | — | 7,684 / 517,648 |
| Wang, Alex | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | — | 7,765 / 517,648 |
| Friedrichs, Kurt O. | General Mathematics | 1,195 / 76,268 | — |
| Stadler, Georg | Applied Mathematics | 524 / 23,982 | — |
| Bünz, Benedikt | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | — | 8,609 / 517,648 |
| Ok, Efe A. | Economic Theory | — | 33 / 1,802 |
| Fouhey, David Ford | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | — | 10,647 / 517,648 |
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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