McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences 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).
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researchers on the list
1,673
rank in United States
6,287
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lodders, Katharina | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 114 / 58,202 | 93 / 58,202 |
| Phillips, Roger J. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 415 / 58,202 | 1,018 / 58,202 |
| Fegley, Bruce J. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 768 / 58,202 | 921 / 58,202 |
| Wiens, Douglas A. | Geochemistry & Geophysics | 909 / 108,013 | 1,307 / 108,013 |
| Catalano, Jeffrey G. | Geochemistry & Geophysics | 1,411 / 108,013 | 1,048 / 108,013 |
| Iyer, Sai | Nuclear & Particle Physics | — | 2,886 / 164,120 |
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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