KU School of Engineering 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).
19
researchers on the list
821
rank in United States
2,784
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tao, Franklin (Feng) | Organic Chemistry | 512 / 188,664 | 164 / 188,664 |
| Branicky, Michael S. | Industrial Engineering & Automation | 221 / 131,085 | 1,025 / 131,085 |
| Chaudhari, Raghunath V. Vitthal | Chemical Engineering | 400 / 97,821 | — |
| Shiflett, Mark B. | Chemical Engineering | 942 / 97,821 | 844 / 97,821 |
| Liu, Lin | Energy | — | 3,839 / 371,959 |
| Katz, J. Lawrence | Biomedical Engineering | 610 / 74,543 | — |
| Hui, Rongqing | Optoelectronics & Photonics | 607 / 140,272 | 1,048 / 140,272 |
| Sterbenz, James P.G. | Networking & Telecommunications | 1,991 / 228,312 | — |
| Barati, Reza Ghahfarokhi | Energy | 4,218 / 371,959 | 6,757 / 371,959 |
| Gehrke, Stevin H. | Polymers | 1,940 / 133,253 | — |
| Spencer, Paulette | Dentistry | 1,245 / 101,728 | 1,863 / 101,728 |
| Weatherley, Laurence R. | Chemical Engineering | 1,895 / 97,821 | — |
| Frost, Victor S. | Networking & Telecommunications | 3,751 / 228,312 | — |
| Depcik, Christopher David | Energy | 6,435 / 371,959 | — |
| Salandrino, Alessandro | Optics | 1,551 / 83,504 | — |
| Perrins, Erik S. | Networking & Telecommunications | 4,233 / 228,312 | — |
| Walas, Stanley M. | Energy | 7,331 / 371,959 | — |
| Agah, Arvin | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 10,197 / 517,648 | — |
| Lan, Chuan Edward | Aerospace & Aeronautics | 1,368 / 66,382 | — |
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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