Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 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).
49
researchers on the list
424
rank in United States
1,269
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hernquist, Lars E. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 2 / 58,202 | 3 / 58,202 |
| Narayan, Ramesh | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 17 / 58,202 | 17 / 58,202 |
| Eisenstein, Daniel J. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 48 / 58,202 | 23 / 58,202 |
| Andrews, Sean M. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 289 / 58,202 | 79 / 58,202 |
| Kewley, Lisa J. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 434 / 58,202 | 135 / 58,202 |
| Öberg, Karin I. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 375 / 58,202 | 136 / 58,202 |
| Elvis, Martin S. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 123 / 58,202 | 311 / 58,202 |
| Finkbeiner, Douglas P. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 192 / 58,202 | 177 / 58,202 |
| Torres, Guillermo | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 155 / 58,202 | 262 / 58,202 |
| Reid, Mark J. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 217 / 58,202 | 428 / 58,202 |
| Lada, Charles J. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 291 / 58,202 | 885 / 58,202 |
| Rothman, L. S. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 314 / 84,638 | 433 / 84,638 |
| Chen, Xingang | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 703 / 164,120 | 345 / 164,120 |
| Johnson, Benjamin D. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | — | 401 / 58,202 |
| Raymond, John C. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 536 / 58,202 | — |
| Johnson, Michael D. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | — | 708 / 58,202 |
| Chance, Kelly V. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 654 / 84,638 | 1,080 / 84,638 |
| Holman, Matthew J. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 666 / 58,202 | 1,543 / 58,202 |
| Huchra, John P. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 810 / 58,202 | — |
| Charbonneau, David B. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 923 / 58,202 | 934 / 58,202 |
| Gordon, Iouli E. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | — | 1,075 / 84,638 |
| Fabbiano, Giuseppina F. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 905 / 58,202 | — |
| Brown, Warren R. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 1,287 / 58,202 | 1,006 / 58,202 |
| Latham, David W. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 963 / 58,202 | 1,358 / 58,202 |
| van Ballegooijen, Adriaan A. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 1,024 / 58,202 | — |
| Thaddeus, Patrick | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 1,065 / 58,202 | — |
| Johnson, John Asher | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 1,068 / 58,202 | 1,709 / 58,202 |
| Fazio, Giovanni G. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 1,143 / 58,202 | — |
| Wilner, David J. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 1,153 / 58,202 | — |
| Shapiro, Irwin I. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 1,266 / 58,202 | — |
| Tsuna, Daichi | Astronomy & Astrophysics | — | 1,377 / 58,202 |
| Grindlay, Jonathan E. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 1,301 / 58,202 | — |
| Smith, Randall K. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | — | 1,436 / 58,202 |
| Sun, Fengwu | Astronomy & Astrophysics | — | 1,474 / 58,202 |
| Pacucci, Fabio | Astronomy & Astrophysics | — | 1,503 / 58,202 |
| Cameron, A. G.W. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 1,439 / 58,202 | — |
| Goodman, Alyssa A. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 1,475 / 58,202 | — |
| Soderberg, Alicia M. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 1,499 / 58,202 | — |
| Sadler, Philip Michael | Education | 846 / 115,687 | 1,235 / 115,687 |
| Caldwell, Nelson | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 1,594 / 58,202 | — |
| Ricarte, Angelo | Astronomy & Astrophysics | — | 1,728 / 58,202 |
| Pesce, Dominic W. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | — | 1,763 / 58,202 |
| Palumbo, Daniel C.M. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | — | 1,771 / 58,202 |
| McClintock, Jeffrey E. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | — | 1,892 / 58,202 |
| McCarthy, Michael C. | Chemical Physics | 2,282 / 121,889 | 1,423 / 121,889 |
| Schwartz, Daniel A. | Optoelectronics & Photonics | 1,628 / 140,272 | — |
| Gorenstein, Paul C. | Optoelectronics & Photonics | 2,162 / 140,272 | — |
| Davis, John E. | Optoelectronics & Photonics | 2,263 / 140,272 | — |
| van Speybroeck, Leon P. | Optoelectronics & Photonics | 2,576 / 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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