Division of Geological and Planetary 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).
37
researchers on the list
525
rank in United States
1,600
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kanamori, Hiroo M. | Geochemistry & Geophysics | 18 / 108,013 | 38 / 108,013 |
| Anderson, Don L. | Geochemistry & Geophysics | 66 / 108,013 | 548 / 108,013 |
| Avouac, Jean Philippe | Geochemistry & Geophysics | 110 / 108,013 | 71 / 108,013 |
| Kirschvink, Joseph L. | Geochemistry & Geophysics | 77 / 108,013 | 260 / 108,013 |
| Grotzinger, John P. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 44 / 58,202 | 109 / 58,202 |
| Stolper, Edward M.M. | Geochemistry & Geophysics | 85 / 108,013 | 280 / 108,013 |
| Stevenson, David J. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 62 / 58,202 | 194 / 58,202 |
| Zhan, Zhongwhen | Geochemistry & Geophysics | 1,596 / 108,013 | 109 / 108,013 |
| Gurnis, Michael C. | Geochemistry & Geophysics | 181 / 108,013 | 526 / 108,013 |
| Taylor, Hugh P. | Geochemistry & Geophysics | 275 / 108,013 | 872 / 108,013 |
| Skliarov, Volodymyr | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 823 / 58,202 | 294 / 58,202 |
| Rossman, George R. | Geochemistry & Geophysics | 327 / 108,013 | 1,061 / 108,013 |
| Brown, Michael E. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 510 / 58,202 | 374 / 58,202 |
| Wernicke, Brian P. | Geochemistry & Geophysics | 404 / 108,013 | 1,401 / 108,013 |
| Thompson, Andrew F. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 617 / 84,638 | 493 / 84,638 |
| Yung, Yukling | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 380 / 84,638 | 1,141 / 84,638 |
| Hauksson, Egill | Geochemistry & Geophysics | 451 / 108,013 | 562 / 108,013 |
| Fischer, Woodward W. | Geochemistry & Geophysics | 1,175 / 108,013 | 468 / 108,013 |
| Adkins, Jess F. | Geochemistry & Geophysics | 830 / 108,013 | 471 / 108,013 |
| Ehlmann, Bethany L. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | — | 626 / 58,202 |
| Asimow, Paul D. | Geochemistry & Geophysics | 689 / 108,013 | 693 / 108,013 |
| Saleeby, Jason B. | Geochemistry & Geophysics | 713 / 108,013 | 2,415 / 108,013 |
| Epstein, Samuel | Geochemistry & Geophysics | 789 / 108,013 | 1,568 / 108,013 |
| Sessions, Alex L. | Geochemistry & Geophysics | 1,022 / 108,013 | 945 / 108,013 |
| Helmberger, Don V. | Geochemistry & Geophysics | 1,111 / 108,013 | — |
| Knutson, Heather A. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 1,510 / 58,202 | 1,109 / 58,202 |
| Ross, Zachary E. | Geochemistry & Geophysics | — | 921 / 108,013 |
| Sturhahn, Wolfgang | General Physics | 432 / 87,024 | — |
| Lamb, Michael P. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | — | 1,429 / 84,638 |
| Lapusta, Nadia | Geochemistry & Geophysics | — | 1,235 / 108,013 |
| Stock, Joann Miriam | Geochemistry & Geophysics | 1,689 / 108,013 | — |
| Blake, Geoffrey A. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 1,606 / 58,202 | — |
| Wang, Yujie | Geological & Geomatics Engineering | — | 1,273 / 82,760 |
| Martin, Paul S. | Paleontology | 549 / 23,292 | — |
| Kamb, Barclay | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 1,955 / 84,638 | — |
| Lowenstam, Heinz A. | Geochemistry & Geophysics | 2,126 / 108,013 | — |
| Leadbetter, Jared Renton | Microbiology | 3,610 / 232,186 | — |
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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