JILA 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).
21
researchers on the list
757
rank in United States
2,543
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Begelman, Mitchell C. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 41 / 58,202 | 127 / 58,202 |
| Dexter, Jason | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 1,183 / 58,202 | 224 / 58,202 |
| Nesbitt, David J. | Chemical Physics | 643 / 121,889 | 2,002 / 121,889 |
| Hall, John L. | Optoelectronics & Photonics | 70 / 140,272 | 269 / 140,272 |
| Kapteyn, Henry C. | Optics | 168 / 83,504 | 614 / 83,504 |
| Cooper, John W. | General Physics | 259 / 87,024 | 1,571 / 87,024 |
| Bohn, John L. | General Physics | 290 / 87,024 | 932 / 87,024 |
| Cornell, Eric A. | General Physics | 509 / 87,024 | 935 / 87,024 |
| Rey, Ana María | General Physics | 972 / 87,024 | 483 / 87,024 |
| Kaufman, Adam M. | General Physics | — | 627 / 87,024 |
| Holland, Murray J. | General Physics | 770 / 87,024 | 1,737 / 87,024 |
| Perkins, Thomas T. | Optics | 526 / 83,504 | — |
| Murnane, Margaret M. | Optics | 541 / 83,504 | 721 / 83,504 |
| Ye, Jun | General Physics | — | 816 / 87,024 |
| Anderson, Dana Z. | Optics | 637 / 83,504 | 1,536 / 83,504 |
| Regal, Cindy A. | General Physics | 1,248 / 87,024 | 967 / 87,024 |
| Becker, Andreas | General Physics | 1,619 / 87,024 | — |
| Gao, Xun | General Physics | — | 1,481 / 87,024 |
| Faller, James E.Jim | Optics | 1,665 / 83,504 | — |
| Jimenez, Ralph X. | Optics | 1,764 / 83,504 | — |
| Sun, Shuo | Optoelectronics & Photonics | — | 2,291 / 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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