Department of Materials Science & Engineering 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).
21
researchers on the list
757
rank in United States
2,543
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virkar, Anil V. | Energy | 274 / 371,959 | 1,631 / 371,959 |
| Sohn, Hong Yong | Materials | 566 / 330,896 | 552 / 330,896 |
| Stringfellow, Gerald B. | Applied Physics | 794 / 323,282 | 5,996 / 323,282 |
| Fang, Zhigang | Materials | 709 / 330,896 | 853 / 330,896 |
| Zang, Ling | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | 689 / 177,859 | — |
| Ravi Chandran, Kakkaveri S. | Materials | 772 / 330,896 | 2,191 / 330,896 |
| Boyd, Richard Hays | Polymers | 526 / 133,253 | 2,295 / 133,253 |
| Chaudhuri, Reaz A. | Materials | 1,126 / 330,896 | — |
| Free, Michael L. | Materials | 1,439 / 330,896 | 2,528 / 330,896 |
| Bedrov, Dmitry A. | Chemical Physics | — | 1,301 / 121,889 |
| Shetty, Dinesh K. | Materials | 2,125 / 330,896 | — |
| Sparks, Taylor D. | Materials | — | 5,179 / 330,896 |
| Ji, Huiwen | Applied Physics | — | 4,738 / 323,282 |
| Misra, Manoranjan | Energy | 4,866 / 371,959 | — |
| King, R. Peter | Mining & Metallurgy | 152 / 37,230 | 848 / 37,230 |
| Bascom, Willard D. | Polymers | 2,950 / 133,253 | — |
| Simpson, Michael F. | Energy | 6,280 / 371,959 | — |
| Sarswat, Prashant Kumar | Applied Physics | — | 7,345 / 323,282 |
| Cutler, Ivan B. | Materials | 6,460 / 330,896 | — |
| Rajamani, Raj K. | Mining & Metallurgy | 262 / 37,230 | — |
| Lin, Chenluh | Mining & Metallurgy | 442 / 37,230 | — |
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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