Independent Scientist 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
1,519
rank in United States
5,717
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boretti, Alberto A. | Energy | 117 / 371,959 | 19 / 371,959 |
| Cook, Robert F. | Materials | 603 / 330,896 | 1,786 / 330,896 |
| Fitzgerald, Paul J. | Neurology & Neurosurgery | 6,510 / 379,830 | 3,263 / 379,830 |
| Aro, Antti R. | General & Internal Medicine | 1,064 / 360,081 | 7,569 / 360,081 |
| Narushin, Valeriy G. | Dairy & Animal Science | 1,230 / 78,455 | 256 / 78,455 |
| Elgersma, Anjo | Agronomy & Agriculture | 851 / 95,377 | — |
| Mihok, Steve | Tropical Medicine | 744 / 39,335 | — |
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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