Department of Physics and Astronomy 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Butler, William H. | Applied Physics | 955 / 323,282 | 2,231 / 323,282 |
| Sun, Ming | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 996 / 58,202 | 1,201 / 58,202 |
| Matchev, Konstantin T. | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 1,270 / 164,120 | — |
| Buta, Ronald James | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 1,286 / 58,202 | — |
| Okada, Nobuchika | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 1,758 / 164,120 | — |
| Friedan, Daniel Harry | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 2,013 / 164,120 | 1,481 / 164,120 |
| Sadeghi, Seyed M. | Applied Physics | 4,011 / 323,282 | — |
| Mryasov, Oleg N. | Applied Physics | 4,370 / 323,282 | — |
| Fuller, Kirk A. | Optics | 1,106 / 83,504 | — |
| Tran, Phuc G. | Optics | 1,448 / 83,504 | — |
| Gregory, Don A. | Optoelectronics & Photonics | 2,080 / 140,272 | — |
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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