Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics 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).
14
researchers on the list
994
rank in United States
3,525
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ho, Jonathan | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 7,983 / 517,648 | 721 / 517,648 |
| Tsai, Stephen W.L. | Materials | 1,374 / 330,896 | 655 / 330,896 |
| Christensen, Richard M. | Mechanical Engineering & Transports | 255 / 157,792 | 604 / 157,792 |
| Chang, Foukuo | Materials | 505 / 330,896 | 2,181 / 330,896 |
| Cantwell, Brian Joseph | Aerospace & Aeronautics | 83 / 66,382 | 103 / 66,382 |
| Springer, George S. | Materials | 969 / 330,896 | 4,803 / 330,896 |
| Kochenderfer, Mykel John | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 3,419 / 517,648 | 3,299 / 517,648 |
| Kroo, Ilan M. | Aerospace & Aeronautics | 160 / 66,382 | 696 / 66,382 |
| D’Amico, Simone | Aerospace & Aeronautics | 960 / 66,382 | 156 / 66,382 |
| Hara, Kentaro | Fluids & Plasmas | — | 780 / 58,297 |
| Alonso, Juan Jose | Aerospace & Aeronautics | 421 / 66,382 | 477 / 66,382 |
| MacCormack, Robert W. | Aerospace & Aeronautics | 491 / 66,382 | — |
| Zheng, Yao | Aerospace & Aeronautics | — | 791 / 66,382 |
| Chapman, Dean R. | Aerospace & Aeronautics | 1,149 / 66,382 | — |
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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