International Peace Research Institute, Oslo 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).
11
researchers on the list
26
rank in Norway
4,213
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carling, Jørgen | Demography | 27 / 3,977 | 5 / 3,977 |
| Buhaug, Halvard | Strategic, Defence & Security Studies | 53 / 32,161 | 31 / 32,161 |
| Hegre, Håvard | Strategic, Defence & Security Studies | 79 / 32,161 | 71 / 32,161 |
| Gleditsch, Nils Petter | Strategic, Defence & Security Studies | 43 / 32,161 | 92 / 32,161 |
| Salter, Mark B. | International Relations | 78 / 9,646 | 91 / 9,646 |
| Erdal, Marta Bivand | Geography | — | 352 / 21,559 |
| Østby, Gudrun | Development Studies | — | 72 / 5,287 |
| Urdal, Henrik | International Relations | — | 168 / 9,646 |
| Gates, Scott | Strategic, Defence & Security Studies | 277 / 32,161 | 256 / 32,161 |
| Loyle, Cyanne E. | Strategic, Defence & Security Studies | — | 274 / 32,161 |
| Horst, Cindy | Strategic, Defence & Security Studies | 369 / 32,161 | 278 / 32,161 |
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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