Institute of Astronomy 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).
13
researchers on the list
270
rank in United Kingdom
3,749
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fabian, Andrew C. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 3 / 58,202 | 10 / 58,202 |
| Rees, Martin J. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 26 / 58,202 | 26 / 58,202 |
| Efstathiou, George P. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 58 / 58,202 | 40 / 58,202 |
| Madhusudhan, Nikku | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 324 / 58,202 | 63 / 58,202 |
| Belokurov, Vasily A. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 268 / 58,202 | 130 / 58,202 |
| Wyatt, Mark C. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 235 / 58,202 | 427 / 58,202 |
| van Leeuwen, Floor | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 313 / 58,202 | 323 / 58,202 |
| Clarke, Cathie J. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 403 / 58,202 | 616 / 58,202 |
| Gilmore, Gerard F. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 428 / 58,202 | 541 / 58,202 |
| Evans, N. Wyn | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 509 / 58,202 | — |
| Pettini, Max | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 676 / 58,202 | — |
| Irwin, Michael J. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 908 / 58,202 | 1,121 / 58,202 |
| Tout, Christopher A. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 1,351 / 58,202 | 1,518 / 58,202 |
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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