Institute for Advanced Study 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).
42
researchers on the list
470
rank in United States
1,430
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Witten, Edward | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 1 / 164,120 | 1 / 164,120 |
| Maldacena, Juan M. | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 4 / 164,120 | 3 / 164,120 |
| Levine, Arnold J. | Developmental Biology | 20 / 167,121 | 1,100 / 377,791 |
| Seiberg, Nathan | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 9 / 164,120 | 35 / 164,120 |
| Einstein, Albert | General Physics | 9 / 87,024 | 8 / 87,024 |
| Bourgain, Jean | General Mathematics | 2 / 76,268 | 9 / 76,268 |
| Arkani-Hamed, Nima | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 44 / 164,120 | 70 / 164,120 |
| Fassin, Didier | Anthropology | 5 / 10,039 | 4 / 10,039 |
| Zaldarriaga, Matías | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 87 / 164,120 | 231 / 164,120 |
| Langacker, Paul G. | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 95 / 164,120 | 793 / 164,120 |
| Bahcall, John N. | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 98 / 164,120 | 980 / 164,120 |
| Adler, Stephen L. | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 178 / 164,120 | 457 / 164,120 |
| Stone, James M. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 238 / 58,202 | 436 / 58,202 |
| Wigderson, Avi | Computation Theory & Mathematics | 86 / 20,721 | 72 / 20,721 |
| Geertz, Clifford | Anthropology | 90 / 10,039 | 42 / 10,039 |
| Mummery, Andrew | Astronomy & Astrophysics | — | 1,105 / 58,202 |
| Walzer, Michael | Sociology | 213 / 12,471 | — |
| Dijkgraaf, Robbert | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 1,434 / 164,120 | 2,355 / 164,120 |
| Bombieri, Enrico | General Mathematics | 436 / 76,268 | 532 / 76,268 |
| Hofer, Helmut H.W. | General Mathematics | 442 / 76,268 | 1,276 / 76,268 |
| Dittmann, Alexander J. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | — | 1,573 / 58,202 |
| Brown, Wendy | Political Science & Public Administration | 385 / 27,183 | 836 / 27,183 |
| Borel, Armand | General Mathematics | 717 / 76,268 | 755 / 76,268 |
| Bhatt, Bhargav | General Mathematics | — | 783 / 76,268 |
| Israel, Jonathan I. | History | 26 / 20,299 | 33 / 20,299 |
| Trivellato, Francesca | History | 119 / 20,299 | 34 / 20,299 |
| Migdal, Alexander A. | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 2,835 / 164,120 | 3,020 / 164,120 |
| Blommaert, Andreas | Nuclear & Particle Physics | — | 2,219 / 164,120 |
| Naber, Aaron C. | General Mathematics | — | 927 / 76,268 |
| Kudler-Flam, Jonah | Nuclear & Particle Physics | — | 2,643 / 164,120 |
| Dehm, Julia | Law | — | 243 / 18,707 |
| Voevodsky, Vladimir | General Mathematics | 1,542 / 76,268 | — |
| Kruthoff, Jorrit | Nuclear & Particle Physics | — | 2,987 / 164,120 |
| Seifnashri, Sahand | Nuclear & Particle Physics | — | 2,991 / 164,120 |
| Guevara, Alfredo | Nuclear & Particle Physics | — | 3,006 / 164,120 |
| Crone, Patricia | Cultural Studies | 79 / 8,723 | 168 / 8,723 |
| Choi, Yichul | Nuclear & Particle Physics | — | 3,188 / 164,120 |
| Venkatesh, Akshay | General Mathematics | — | 1,598 / 76,268 |
| Scott, Joan Wallach | Education | 2,419 / 115,687 | — |
| Chia, Horngsheng | Nuclear & Particle Physics | — | 3,838 / 164,120 |
| Bowersock, Glen W. | Classics | 54 / 3,682 | — |
| Nirenberg, David | History | 158 / 20,299 | 393 / 20,299 |
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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