Harvard Faculty of Arts and 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).
81
researchers on the list
303
rank in United States
821
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whitesides, G. M. | General Chemistry | 1 / 57,505 | 2 / 57,505 |
| Schacter, Daniel L. L. | Experimental Psychology | 5 / 37,808 | 16 / 37,808 |
| Schreiber, Stuart L. | Organic Chemistry | 4 / 188,664 | 5 / 188,664 |
| Corey, Elias James | Organic Chemistry | 5 / 188,664 | 81 / 188,664 |
| Nock, Matthew K. | Psychiatry | 49 / 90,846 | 9 / 90,846 |
| Hatzenbuehler, Mark L. | Public Health | 37 / 82,273 | 7 / 82,273 |
| Sampson, Robert J. | Criminology | 2 / 14,394 | 2 / 14,394 |
| Nocera, Daniel G. | General Chemistry | 20 / 57,505 | 8 / 57,505 |
| Evans, David A. | Organic Chemistry | 49 / 188,664 | 607 / 188,664 |
| Stock, James H. | Economics | 41 / 54,592 | 44 / 54,592 |
| Jacobsen, Eric N. | Organic Chemistry | 56 / 188,664 | 124 / 188,664 |
| Imai, Kosuke | Statistics & Probability | 78 / 24,695 | 30 / 24,695 |
| Gershman, Samuel J. | Experimental Psychology | 222 / 37,808 | 36 / 37,808 |
| Caramazza, Alfonso | Experimental Psychology | 37 / 37,808 | 237 / 37,808 |
| Loeb, Abraham Avi | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 19 / 58,202 | 53 / 58,202 |
| Spelke, Elizabeth S. | Experimental Psychology | 55 / 37,808 | 90 / 37,808 |
| Zhuang, Xiaowei | Developmental Biology | 285 / 167,121 | 83 / 167,121 |
| Kosslyn, Stephen Michael | Experimental Psychology | 70 / 37,808 | 198 / 37,808 |
| Weisz, John R. | Clinical Psychology | 35 / 19,306 | 64 / 19,306 |
| Carey, Susan E. | Experimental Psychology | 97 / 37,808 | 150 / 37,808 |
| Lamont, Michèle | Sociology | 64 / 12,471 | 31 / 12,471 |
| Shakhnovich, Eugene I. | Biophysics | 9 / 21,025 | 68 / 21,025 |
| Cushman, Fiery A. | Experimental Psychology | 379 / 37,808 | 147 / 37,808 |
| Mankiw, N. Gregory | Economics | 72 / 54,592 | 178 / 54,592 |
| Liu, David R. | Developmental Biology | 1,122 / 167,121 | 243 / 167,121 |
| Langer, Ellen J. | Social Psychology | 168 / 27,908 | 229 / 27,908 |
| Somerville, Leah H. | Experimental Psychology | 532 / 37,808 | 168 / 37,808 |
| Hackman, J. Richard | Business & Management | 246 / 68,786 | 353 / 68,786 |
| Gilbert, Daniel T. | Social Psychology | 165 / 27,908 | 263 / 27,908 |
| Pager, Devah | Sociology | 116 / 12,471 | 63 / 12,471 |
| Rabin, Matthew | Economics | 139 / 54,592 | 191 / 54,592 |
| Hart, Oliver D. | Economics | 239 / 54,592 | 231 / 54,592 |
| Banaji, Mahzarin R. | Social Psychology | 399 / 27,908 | 344 / 27,908 |
| Knowles, Jeremy R. | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | 870 / 216,826 | 2,123 / 216,826 |
| Carpenter, Daniel P. | Political Science & Public Administration | 116 / 27,183 | 162 / 27,183 |
| Cikara, Mina | Experimental Psychology | 1,108 / 37,808 | 287 / 37,808 |
| Feldstein, Martin S. | Economics | 179 / 54,592 | 789 / 54,592 |
| Williamson, Jeffrey G. | History of Social Sciences | 3 / 2,425 | 12 / 2,425 |
| Kishi, Yoshito | Organic Chemistry | 503 / 188,664 | — |
| DeCaprio, James A. | Developmental Biology | 895 / 167,121 | 887 / 167,121 |
| Mair, Patrick | Statistics & Probability | — | 144 / 24,695 |
| Myers, Andrew G. | Organic Chemistry | 572 / 188,664 | 3,673 / 188,664 |
| Thompson, Dennis F. | Political Science & Public Administration | 164 / 27,183 | 222 / 27,183 |
| Jorgenson, Dale W. | Economics | 236 / 54,592 | 798 / 54,592 |
| Alvarez, George A. | Experimental Psychology | 583 / 37,808 | 367 / 37,808 |
| Hooley, Jill M. | Clinical Psychology | 140 / 19,306 | 150 / 19,306 |
| Westheimer, Frank H. | General Chemistry | 131 / 57,505 | 364 / 57,505 |
| Sasselov, Dimitar D. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 544 / 58,202 | 919 / 58,202 |
| Monk, Ellis P. | Sociology | — | 165 / 12,471 |
| Kahne, Daniel E. | General Chemistry | 139 / 57,505 | 191 / 57,505 |
| Herschbach, Dudley R. | Chemical Physics | 822 / 121,889 | — |
| Waters, Mary C. | Sociology | 175 / 12,471 | 192 / 12,471 |
| Shephard, Neil G. | Econometrics | 49 / 1,427 | 49 / 1,427 |
| McMullen, Curtis T. | General Mathematics | 189 / 76,268 | 445 / 76,268 |
| Balskus, Emily P. | Organic Chemistry | 1,631 / 188,664 | 499 / 188,664 |
| Lamont, Owen A. | Finance | 142 / 16,367 | 192 / 16,367 |
| Bergelson, Elika | Experimental Psychology | — | 579 / 37,808 |
| Lee, Joonho | Chemical Physics | — | 661 / 121,889 |
| Nibert, Max L. | Virology | 398 / 79,508 | 592 / 79,508 |
| Beckfield, Jason | Public Health | 812 / 82,273 | 544 / 82,273 |
| Park, Hongkun | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | 740 / 177,859 | 2,376 / 177,859 |
| Jones, Payton J. | Clinical Psychology | — | 233 / 19,306 |
| Cohen, Adam E. | Developmental Biology | 1,901 / 167,121 | 2,010 / 167,121 |
| Mason, Jarad A. | General Chemistry | 644 / 57,505 | 141 / 57,505 |
| Bloch, Konrad E. | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | 2,529 / 216,826 | — |
| Keto, Eric R. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 1,207 / 58,202 | — |
| Stubbs, Christopher W. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 1,210 / 58,202 | — |
| Pakes, Ariél | Economics | 800 / 54,592 | 909 / 54,592 |
| Brinton, Mary C. | Sociology | — | 399 / 12,471 |
| Chen, Peter J. | Mechanical Engineering & Transports | 1,654 / 157,792 | 930 / 157,792 |
| Klemperer, William A. | Chemical Physics | 2,002 / 121,889 | — |
| Lei, Yawen | Sociology | — | 434 / 12,471 |
| Dempster, Arthur P. | Statistics & Probability | — | 485 / 24,695 |
| Elliott, Maxwell L. | Neurology & Neurosurgery | — | 5,457 / 379,830 |
| Tate, John T. | General Mathematics | 1,106 / 76,268 | 1,575 / 76,268 |
| Anzalone, Andrew V. | Biotechnology | — | 693 / 69,700 |
| Kim, Enoch | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | 2,774 / 177,859 | — |
| Liu, Richard Y. | Organic Chemistry | — | 3,154 / 188,664 |
| Betley, Theodore A. | General Chemistry | 631 / 57,505 | 641 / 57,505 |
| von Doering, William E. | General Chemistry | 734 / 57,505 | — |
| Pritchett-Corning, Kathleen R. | Veterinary Sciences | — | 1,336 / 72,388 |
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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