Desert Research Institute 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
1,673
rank in United States
6,287
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chow, Judith C. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 84 / 84,638 | 496 / 84,638 |
| Watson, John G. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 97 / 84,638 | 552 / 84,638 |
| Hoekman, S. Kent | Energy | 1,492 / 371,959 | 1,849 / 371,959 |
| McConnell, Joseph Robert | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 1,294 / 84,638 | 1,484 / 84,638 |
| Marion, Giles M. | Geochemistry & Geophysics | 1,419 / 108,013 | — |
| Huntington, Justin L. | Environmental Engineering | — | 1,333 / 68,664 |
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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