McMaster University, Faculty 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).
62
researchers on the list
33
rank in Canada
1,011
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Emadi, Ali N. | Electrical & Electronic Engineering | 10 / 133,072 | 7 / 133,072 |
| Johari, Gyan P. | Chemical Physics | 190 / 121,889 | 1,054 / 121,889 |
| Pelton, Robert H. | Chemical Physics | 225 / 121,889 | 450 / 121,889 |
| Zhitomirsky, Igor | Materials | 182 / 330,896 | 1,043 / 330,896 |
| MacGregor, John F. | Chemical Engineering | 81 / 97,821 | 2,158 / 97,821 |
| Parnas, David Lorge | Software Engineering | 24 / 24,083 | 152 / 24,083 |
| Hildebrandt, Niko | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | 905 / 177,859 | 1,285 / 177,859 |
| Coulibaly, Paulin | Environmental Engineering | 198 / 68,664 | 264 / 68,664 |
| Botton, Gianluigi A. | Applied Physics | 1,239 / 323,282 | 1,264 / 323,282 |
| Brash, John Law | Biomedical Engineering | 240 / 74,543 | 1,086 / 74,543 |
| Ghosh, Raja | Chemical Engineering | 315 / 97,821 | — |
| Hoyt, Jeffrey J. | Materials | 1,041 / 330,896 | 3,366 / 330,896 |
| El-Dakhakhni, Wael W. | Civil Engineering | 706 / 67,736 | 451 / 67,736 |
| Habibi, Saeid R. | Industrial Engineering & Automation | 877 / 131,085 | 918 / 131,085 |
| Wilkinson, David S. | Materials | 1,214 / 330,896 | 6,231 / 330,896 |
| Higgins, Drew C. | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | 3,029 / 177,859 | 3,196 / 177,859 |
| Elbestawi, Mohamed A.A. | Industrial Engineering & Automation | 1,373 / 131,085 | 971 / 131,085 |
| Gadsden, S. Andrew | Optoelectronics & Photonics | 957 / 140,272 | 227 / 140,272 |
| Wu, X. | Pharmacology & Pharmacy | 806 / 166,116 | 1,293 / 166,116 |
| Hoare, Todd R. | Polymers | 1,033 / 133,253 | 972 / 133,253 |
| Bilgin, Berker | Electrical & Electronic Engineering | 1,565 / 133,072 | 403 / 133,072 |
| Mhaskar, Prashant | Chemical Engineering | 512 / 97,821 | — |
| Pietruszczak, Stanislaw | Geological & Geomatics Engineering | 605 / 82,760 | — |
| Guo, Peijun | Geological & Geomatics Engineering | 1,009 / 82,760 | 1,482 / 82,760 |
| LaPierre, Ray R. | Applied Physics | 3,572 / 323,282 | — |
| Tait, Michael J. | Civil Engineering | 386 / 67,736 | 847 / 67,736 |
| Bassim, Nabil D. | Materials | 2,204 / 330,896 | — |
| Purdy, Gary Rush | Materials | 2,249 / 330,896 | — |
| Bakr, Mohamed H. | Networking & Telecommunications | 1,459 / 228,312 | 3,557 / 228,312 |
| Niéwczas, Marek | Materials | 2,584 / 330,896 | 5,644 / 330,896 |
| Guo, Yiping | Environmental Engineering | 1,031 / 68,664 | — |
| Zurob, Hatem S. | Materials | — | 5,590 / 330,896 |
| Howlader, Matiar M․r R. | Applied Physics | — | 4,251 / 323,282 |
| Kitai, Adrian H. | Applied Physics | 6,171 / 323,282 | — |
| Baetz, Brian W. | Environmental Engineering | 1,246 / 68,664 | — |
| Thompson, Michael R. | Polymers | 2,131 / 133,253 | 2,807 / 133,253 |
| Veldhuis, Stephen C. | Industrial Engineering & Automation | — | 2,605 / 131,085 |
| Cassidy, Daniel T. | Optoelectronics & Photonics | 955 / 140,272 | — |
| Cree, Duncan E. | Materials | — | 6,508 / 330,896 |
| Tso, Wai Keung | Civil Engineering | 749 / 67,736 | — |
| Vlachopoulos, John | Polymers | 2,400 / 133,253 | — |
| Wong, Kon Max | Networking & Telecommunications | 2,691 / 228,312 | — |
| Sheardown, Heather D. | Biomedical Engineering | 1,158 / 74,543 | — |
| Irons, Gordon A. | Mining & Metallurgy | 128 / 37,230 | — |
| Sirouspour, Shahin | Industrial Engineering & Automation | 2,303 / 131,085 | — |
| Kollmeyer, Phillip J. | Electrical & Electronic Engineering | — | 1,315 / 133,072 |
| Fox-Rabinovich, German Simonovich | Applied Physics | — | 5,673 / 323,282 |
| Ahmed, Syed Rahin | Analytical Chemistry | — | 2,473 / 137,328 |
| Chidiac, Samir E. | Building & Construction | 1,073 / 56,454 | — |
| Baird, Malcolm H.I. | Chemical Engineering | 1,907 / 97,821 | — |
| Chemali, Ephrem | Electrical & Electronic Engineering | — | 1,685 / 133,072 |
| Bone, Gary M. | Industrial Engineering & Automation | 2,995 / 131,085 | — |
| Weaver, David S. | Mechanical Engineering & Transports | 3,071 / 157,792 | — |
| Janicki, Ryszard | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 9,285 / 517,648 | — |
| Phillion, A. B. | Materials | 6,393 / 330,896 | — |
| Xu, Renjie | Forestry | — | 736 / 36,413 |
| Jain, Mukesh K. | Materials | 7,183 / 330,896 | — |
| Emadi, Ali | Electrical & Electronic Engineering | — | 2,190 / 133,072 |
| Ahmed, Ryan M. | Electrical & Electronic Engineering | — | 2,205 / 133,072 |
| Hilal, Waleed | Optoelectronics & Photonics | — | 1,830 / 140,272 |
| Poorfakhraei, Amirreza | Electrical & Electronic Engineering | — | 2,555 / 133,072 |
| Knights, Andrew P. | Optoelectronics & Photonics | 2,623 / 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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