MIT Media Lab 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).
17
researchers on the list
869
rank in United States
3,014
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Breazeal, Cynthia L. | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 154 / 517,648 | 120 / 517,648 |
| Zhang, Shuguang | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | 140 / 216,826 | 176 / 216,826 |
| Picard, Rosalind W. | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 114 / 517,648 | 231 / 517,648 |
| Ishii, Hiroshii Ishii | Human Factors | 23 / 16,381 | 50 / 16,381 |
| Paradiso, Joseph A. | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 883 / 517,648 | 6,122 / 517,648 |
| Resnick, Mitchel J. | Education | 228 / 115,687 | 595 / 115,687 |
| Esvelt, Kevin M. | Developmental Biology | — | 1,761 / 167,121 |
| Donath, Judith S. | Human Factors | 217 / 16,381 | — |
| Sarkar, Deblina | Applied Physics | — | 2,494 / 323,282 |
| Brown, Judith C. | Acoustics | 370 / 38,987 | 791 / 38,987 |
| Lippman, Andrew B. | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 4,403 / 517,648 | — |
| Zhan, Fangneng | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | — | 9,342 / 517,648 |
| Epstein, Ziv G. | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | — | 9,906 / 517,648 |
| Kamvar, Sepandar D. | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 8,874 / 517,648 | — |
| Ben-Ezra, Moshe | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 9,084 / 517,648 | — |
| Bove, V. Michael J. | Optoelectronics & Photonics | 1,730 / 140,272 | — |
| Wood, Danielle R. | Aerospace & Aeronautics | — | 764 / 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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