King Abdullah University of Science and Technology 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).
197
researchers on the list
3
rank in Saudi Arabia
320
rank worldwide, of 38,384
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| Name | Subfield | Career | Single-year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Schmidhuber, Jürgen U. | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 10 / 517,648 | 6 / 517,648 |
| Duarte, C. M. | Marine Biology & Hydrobiology | 1 / 54,545 | 1 / 54,545 |
| Wada, Yoshihide | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 235 / 84,638 | 20 / 84,638 |
| Schmid, Peter J. | Fluids & Plasmas | 78 / 58,297 | 16 / 58,297 |
| Alouini, Mohamed Slim | Networking & Telecommunications | 18 / 228,312 | 31 / 228,312 |
| Maestre, Fernando T. | Ecology | 166 / 82,882 | 74 / 82,882 |
| Gascón, Jorge | Organic Chemistry | 185 / 188,664 | 30 / 188,664 |
| Emwas, Abdul-Hamid Hamid Mohammad | Organic Chemistry | 756 / 188,664 | 51 / 188,664 |
| Magistretti, Pierre J. | Neurology & Neurosurgery | 372 / 379,830 | 345 / 379,830 |
| Chan, Tony Fan Cheong | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 134 / 517,648 | 580 / 517,648 |
| Crowther, Thomas Ward | Ecology | 1,394 / 82,882 | 178 / 82,882 |
| Eddaoudi, M. | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | 220 / 177,859 | 219 / 177,859 |
| Alkhalifah, Tariq Ali | Geochemistry & Geophysics | 172 / 108,013 | 98 / 108,013 |
| Mohammed, Omar F. | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | 407 / 177,859 | 280 / 177,859 |
| Santamarina, Carlos J. | Geological & Geomatics Engineering | 100 / 82,760 | 94 / 82,760 |
| Wang, Peng | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | 474 / 177,859 | 297 / 177,859 |
| Hadjichristidis, Nikos | Polymers | 71 / 133,253 | 343 / 133,253 |
| Alshareef, Husam N. | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | 511 / 177,859 | 317 / 177,859 |
| Coelho, Victor Hugo R. | Environmental Engineering | 885 / 68,664 | 55 / 68,664 |
| Cavallo, Luigi | Organic Chemistry | 249 / 188,664 | 174 / 188,664 |
| Tester, Mark A. | Plant Biology & Botany | 106 / 204,373 | 173 / 204,373 |
| Moraga, P. | General & Internal Medicine | 1,850 / 360,081 | 200 / 360,081 |
| Rue, Håvard | Statistics & Probability | 121 / 24,695 | 78 / 24,695 |
| Zhang, Huabin | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | 1,482 / 177,859 | 359 / 177,859 |
| De Wolf, Stefaan | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | 709 / 177,859 | 381 / 177,859 |
| Hirt, Heribert | Plant Biology & Botany | 158 / 204,373 | 161 / 204,373 |
| Lai, Zhiping | Chemical Engineering | 195 / 97,821 | 72 / 97,821 |
| Rueping, Magnus A. | Organic Chemistry | 324 / 188,664 | 203 / 188,664 |
| Nunes, Suzana P. | Chemical Engineering | 106 / 97,821 | 88 / 97,821 |
| Mahfouz, Magdy M. | Plant Biology & Botany | 883 / 204,373 | 202 / 204,373 |
| Xu, Jinchao | Numerical & Computational Mathematics | 24 / 17,431 | 23 / 17,431 |
| Ghaffour, Noreddine | Chemical Engineering | 165 / 97,821 | 110 / 97,821 |
| Visbeck, Martin | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 359 / 84,638 | 352 / 84,638 |
| Hoteit, Hussein A. | Energy | 1,306 / 371,959 | 526 / 371,959 |
| Inal, Sahika | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | 1,762 / 177,859 | 639 / 177,859 |
| Bakr, Osman M. | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | 1,086 / 177,859 | 690 / 177,859 |
| Anthopoulos, Thomas D. | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | 338 / 177,859 | 1,438 / 177,859 |
| Sarathy, S. Mani | Energy | 859 / 371,959 | 622 / 371,959 |
| Shekhah, Osama | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | 646 / 177,859 | 773 / 177,859 |
| Roberts, William Lafayette | Energy | 320 / 371,959 | 670 / 371,959 |
| Poland, Jesse | Plant Biology & Botany | 613 / 204,373 | 344 / 204,373 |
| Ali, Muhammad | Energy | 5,487 / 371,959 | 810 / 371,959 |
| Sun, Minglei | Applied Physics | 2,453 / 323,282 | 564 / 323,282 |
| Al-Ghamdi, Sami G. | Energy | 5,536 / 371,959 | 887 / 371,959 |
| Li, Lainjong Jong | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | 865 / 177,859 | 1,086 / 177,859 |
| Zhang, Xixiang | Applied Physics | 1,875 / 323,282 | 587 / 323,282 |
| Genton, Marc G. | Statistics & Probability | 148 / 24,695 | 273 / 24,695 |
| Gao, Xin | Bioinformatics | 400 / 24,357 | 90 / 24,357 |
| Harrou, Fouzi | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 6,146 / 517,648 | 1,610 / 517,648 |
| Patzek, Tadeusz Wiktor | Energy | 510 / 371,959 | 2,327 / 371,959 |
| Young, Iain M. | Agronomy & Agriculture | 179 / 95,377 | 452 / 95,377 |
| Sun, Shuyu | Energy | 1,152 / 371,959 | 1,181 / 371,959 |
| Thoroddsen, Sigurdur T. | Fluids & Plasmas | 374 / 58,297 | 286 / 58,297 |
| Richtárik, Peter | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 3,294 / 517,648 | 1,977 / 517,648 |
| Gojobori, Takashi | Developmental Biology | 1,341 / 167,121 | — |
| Chung, Suk-ho | Energy | 584 / 371,959 | 2,199 / 371,959 |
| Grande, Carlos A. | Chemical Engineering | 529 / 97,821 | 313 / 97,821 |
| Peixoto, Raquel Silva | Microbiology | — | 808 / 232,186 |
| Yavuz, Cafer Tayyar | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | 1,413 / 177,859 | 1,536 / 177,859 |
| Feng, Chengyang | Physical Chemistry | — | 134 / 44,088 |
| Pinnau, Ingo | Chemical Engineering | 187 / 97,821 | 369 / 97,821 |
| Schwingenschlögl, Udo Erich | Applied Physics | 1,082 / 323,282 | 882 / 323,282 |
| McCabe, M. F. | Geological & Geomatics Engineering | 885 / 82,760 | 492 / 82,760 |
| Ng, Yun Hau | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | 1,486 / 177,859 | 1,586 / 177,859 |
| Ghanem, Bernard S. | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 4,384 / 517,648 | 2,169 / 517,648 |
| Al-Babili, Salim | Plant Biology & Botany | 2,417 / 204,373 | 704 / 204,373 |
| Ng, Kim Choon | Mechanical Engineering & Transports | 348 / 157,792 | 704 / 157,792 |
| Konstantinou, Charalambos | Energy | 4,930 / 371,959 | 1,443 / 371,959 |
| Sun, Ying | Statistics & Probability | — | 246 / 24,695 |
| Condat, Laurent | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 2,391 / 517,648 | 2,320 / 517,648 |
| Zhu, Yunpei | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | 3,155 / 177,859 | 1,969 / 177,859 |
| Stenchikov, Georgiy L. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 1,642 / 84,638 | 1,113 / 84,638 |
| Wonka, Peter | Software Engineering | 360 / 24,083 | 90 / 24,083 |
| Chan, Chak K. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 944 / 84,638 | — |
| Suggett, David John | Marine Biology & Hydrobiology | — | 314 / 54,545 |
| Turner, James W.G. | Energy | 5,401 / 371,959 | 1,782 / 371,959 |
| Agustí, Susana | Marine Biology & Hydrobiology | 470 / 54,545 | 366 / 54,545 |
| Asif, Muhammad Bilal | Environmental Sciences | — | 1,353 / 140,934 |
| Tariq, Zeeshan Zeeshan | Energy | 3,834 / 371,959 | 1,950 / 371,959 |
| Hunt, Julian David | Energy | — | 1,963 / 371,959 |
| Lubineau, Gilles | Materials | 1,043 / 330,896 | 1,470 / 330,896 |
| Fischle, Wolfgang | Developmental Biology | 1,961 / 167,121 | 3,411 / 167,121 |
| Di Pietro, Roberto | Networking & Telecommunications | 1,870 / 228,312 | 752 / 228,312 |
| Basset, Jean Marie | Organic Chemistry | 1,318 / 188,664 | 1,261 / 188,664 |
| Frenzel, Max | Geology | — | 76 / 17,936 |
| Castaño, Pedro | Chemical Engineering | 1,212 / 97,821 | 599 / 97,821 |
| Bajic, Vladimir B. | Bioinformatics | 183 / 24,357 | 467 / 24,357 |
| Tian, Zhengnan | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | — | 2,746 / 177,859 |
| Wang, Yizhou | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | — | 2,772 / 177,859 |
| Lacoste, Deanna A. | Energy | 4,366 / 371,959 | 2,236 / 371,959 |
| Wing, Rod A. | Plant Biology & Botany | 1,256 / 204,373 | 1,169 / 204,373 |
| Cao, Li | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | — | 2,812 / 177,859 |
| Ketcheson, David I. | Numerical & Computational Mathematics | — | 121 / 17,431 |
| Chen, Cailing | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | — | 2,874 / 177,859 |
| Baran, Derya | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | 2,555 / 177,859 | 2,906 / 177,859 |
| Wu, Zhipeng | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | — | 2,912 / 177,859 |
| Jónsson, Sigurjón | Geochemistry & Geophysics | 2,094 / 108,013 | 1,139 / 108,013 |
| Kaartvedt, Stein | Marine Biology & Hydrobiology | 667 / 54,545 | — |
| Anker, Arthur | Zoology | 48 / 19,073 | 30 / 19,073 |
| Berumen, Michael L. | Marine Biology & Hydrobiology | 766 / 54,545 | 460 / 54,545 |
| Salama, Khaled Nabil | Electrical & Electronic Engineering | 281 / 133,072 | 336 / 133,072 |
| Orlando, Valerio | Developmental Biology | 2,407 / 167,121 | — |
| Lauersen, Kyle J. | Biotechnology | 1,210 / 69,700 | 319 / 69,700 |
| Isikgor, Furkan Halis | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | — | 3,445 / 177,859 |
| Ooi, Boon S. | Optoelectronics & Photonics | 525 / 140,272 | 234 / 140,272 |
| Al-Naffouri, Tareq Y. | Networking & Telecommunications | 794 / 228,312 | 1,189 / 228,312 |
| Feron, Eric | Aerospace & Aeronautics | 149 / 66,382 | 527 / 66,382 |
| Wu, Ying | Applied Physics | 4,665 / 323,282 | 1,747 / 323,282 |
| Elhoseiny, Mohamed | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | — | 4,263 / 517,648 |
| Gnanou, Yves | Polymers | 887 / 133,253 | — |
| Hoteit, Ibrahim | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | — | 1,851 / 84,638 |
| Wagih, Ahmed | Materials | 2,394 / 330,896 | 2,234 / 330,896 |
| Mai, Paul Martin | Geochemistry & Geophysics | — | 1,382 / 108,013 |
| Ming, Fangwang | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | — | 3,892 / 177,859 |
| Leiknes, TorOve Ove L. | Chemical Engineering | 483 / 97,821 | 1,053 / 97,821 |
| Vrouwenvelder, Johannes S. | Chemical Engineering | 979 / 97,821 | 886 / 97,821 |
| Zuo, Shouwei | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | — | 3,964 / 177,859 |
| Allen, Thomas G. | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | — | 4,060 / 177,859 |
| Markowich, Peter Alexander | Applied Mathematics | 255 / 23,982 | — |
| Farooq, Aamir | Energy | 4,448 / 371,959 | 3,331 / 371,959 |
| Ramirez, A. | Organic Chemistry | — | 1,333 / 188,664 |
| Aranda, Manuel | Developmental Biology | — | 2,263 / 167,121 |
| Im, Hong G. | Energy | 2,269 / 371,959 | 3,504 / 371,959 |
| Orabona, Francesco | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 3,522 / 517,648 | 5,146 / 517,648 |
| Li, Xiang | Geological & Geomatics Engineering | — | 1,306 / 82,760 |
| Wulff, Brande B.H. | Plant Biology & Botany | — | 2,022 / 204,373 |
| Yang, Yibo | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | — | 5,485 / 517,648 |
| Huang, Kuo Wei | Organic Chemistry | 3,575 / 188,664 | 1,561 / 188,664 |
| Ali, Zahir | Plant Biology & Botany | — | 2,152 / 204,373 |
| Lorz, Alexander | Applied Mathematics | — | 351 / 23,982 |
| Guillerm, Vincent | Organic Chemistry | — | 1,611 / 188,664 |
| Bavykina, Anastasiya V. | Organic Chemistry | — | 1,676 / 188,664 |
| Ghanem, Bader S. | Chemical Engineering | 927 / 97,821 | 1,216 / 97,821 |
| Hussain, Muhammad M. | Applied Physics | 5,740 / 323,282 | 2,485 / 323,282 |
| Kumar, Narendra | Energy | — | 4,281 / 371,959 |
| Guiberti, Thibault Frédéric | Energy | — | 4,377 / 371,959 |
| Zhou, Juexiao | General & Internal Medicine | — | 1,855 / 360,081 |
| Gomes, Diogo A. | General Mathematics | 1,078 / 76,268 | 788 / 76,268 |
| Dally, Bassam B. | Energy | 3,059 / 371,959 | 4,585 / 371,959 |
| Hoehndorf, Robert | Bioinformatics | — | 399 / 24,357 |
| Krattinger, Simon G. | Plant Biology & Botany | — | 2,556 / 204,373 |
| Yan, Bicheng | Energy | — | 4,771 / 371,959 |
| Vahrenkamp, Volker C. | Geochemistry & Geophysics | — | 2,059 / 108,013 |
| Elbaz, Ayman M. | Energy | 7,382 / 371,959 | 4,825 / 371,959 |
| Bhatt, Prashant M. | Organic Chemistry | — | 1,936 / 188,664 |
| Keyes, David E. | Distributed Computing | 42 / 9,369 | 35 / 9,369 |
| Heidrich, Wolfgang | Software Engineering | 338 / 24,083 | 282 / 24,083 |
| Gan, Qiaoqiang | Optoelectronics & Photonics | 871 / 140,272 | 463 / 140,272 |
| Cristian Picioreanu, Cristian | Environmental Engineering | 900 / 68,664 | 955 / 68,664 |
| Shamim, Atif | Networking & Telecommunications | 1,793 / 228,312 | 1,940 / 228,312 |
| Esteves-Verissimo, Paulo | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 3,739 / 517,648 | — |
| Snoeckx, Ramses | Applied Physics | — | 3,097 / 323,282 |
| Peinemann, Klaus Viktor | Chemical Engineering | 888 / 97,821 | 1,685 / 97,821 |
| Hong, Pei-Ying | Microbiology | — | 3,085 / 232,186 |
| Jalal, Arshad | Plant Biology & Botany | — | 2,873 / 204,373 |
| Rastogi, Sanjay | Polymers | 2,260 / 133,253 | 1,786 / 133,253 |
| Truscott, Tadd T. | Fluids & Plasmas | — | 1,140 / 58,297 |
| Massoud, Yehia | Electrical & Electronic Engineering | 691 / 133,072 | 723 / 133,072 |
| Wang, Xiaoqian | Organic Chemistry | — | 2,484 / 188,664 |
| Giancola, Silvio | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | — | 8,428 / 517,648 |
| El-Atab, Nazek | Applied Physics | — | 3,662 / 323,282 |
| Lu, Xu | Energy | — | 6,548 / 371,959 |
| Beaujuge, Pierre M. | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | 2,739 / 177,859 | — |
| Shah, Syed Zulfiqar Hussain | Materials | — | 5,418 / 330,896 |
| Li, Xiaohang | Applied Physics | — | 4,079 / 323,282 |
| Murugesan, Kathiravan | Organic Chemistry | — | 2,829 / 188,664 |
| Moran, Brian | Mechanical Engineering & Transports | 1,777 / 157,792 | — |
| Fratalocchi, Andrea | Optics | 994 / 83,504 | — |
| Witkamp, Geert jan | Chemical Engineering | 1,814 / 97,821 | 2,272 / 97,821 |
| Hauser, Charlotte A.E. | Biomedical Engineering | — | 1,082 / 74,543 |
| Tung, Vincent C. | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | 3,320 / 177,859 | — |
| Ng, Tien Khee | Optoelectronics & Photonics | 2,606 / 140,272 | 802 / 140,272 |
| Marasco, Ramona | Microbiology | — | 4,851 / 232,186 |
| Sagadevan, Arunachalam | Organic Chemistry | — | 3,491 / 188,664 |
| Shinde, Digambar Balaji | Organic Chemistry | — | 3,498 / 188,664 |
| Shihada, Basem | Networking & Telecommunications | — | 3,238 / 228,312 |
| Farhat, Mohamed | Applied Physics | — | 5,127 / 323,282 |
| Eltawil, Ahmed M. | Networking & Telecommunications | — | 3,331 / 228,312 |
| Knio, Omar M. | Energy | 4,494 / 371,959 | — |
| Morlanés, Natalia | Organic Chemistry | — | 3,657 / 188,664 |
| Karthik, Peramaiah Siva | Applied Physics | — | 5,425 / 323,282 |
| Yuvaraja, Saravanan | Applied Physics | — | 5,427 / 323,282 |
| Pang, Xiaowei | Networking & Telecommunications | — | 3,528 / 228,312 |
| Wan, Yating | Optoelectronics & Photonics | — | 901 / 140,272 |
| Ahmad, Shakeel | Mechanical Engineering & Transports | — | 2,902 / 157,792 |
| Jiang, Hao | General Chemistry | — | 565 / 57,505 |
| Moshkov, Mikhail Ju | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 7,810 / 517,648 | — |
| Filippone, Maurizio | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 7,822 / 517,648 | — |
| Fahmy, Suhaib A. | Computer Hardware & Architecture | 362 / 21,014 | 414 / 21,014 |
| Ni, Tao | Networking & Telecommunications | — | 4,180 / 228,312 |
| Behar, Omar | Energy | 6,114 / 371,959 | — |
| Roqan, Iman S. | Applied Physics | — | 6,879 / 323,282 |
| Elnozahy, Elmootazbellah Mootaz | Computer Hardware & Architecture | 400 / 21,014 | — |
| Ahmed, Shehab | Electrical & Electronic Engineering | 1,501 / 133,072 | 2,117 / 133,072 |
| Kang, Chun Hong | Optoelectronics & Photonics | — | 1,754 / 140,272 |
| Oubei, Hassan Makine | Optoelectronics & Photonics | — | 2,189 / 140,272 |
| Sun, Xiaobin | Optoelectronics & Photonics | — | 3,197 / 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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