NASA Johnson Space Center 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).
22
researchers on the list
736
rank in United States
2,443
rank worldwide, of 38,384
Ranks by number of people on the list; we calculate them from the same data.
Share it with your department
The full list, with each person's rank, subfield, c-score, h-index and citations, in a file for Excel.
Click a name to see the full record. The columns give each person’s rank in their subfield on each list.
| Name | Subfield | Career | Single-year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Morris, Richard V. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 482 / 58,202 | 619 / 58,202 |
| Zolensky, Michael Ewing | Geochemistry & Geophysics | 687 / 108,013 | 779 / 108,013 |
| Messenger, Scott R. | Applied Physics | 1,662 / 323,282 | 2,440 / 323,282 |
| Keller, Lindsay P. | Geochemistry & Geophysics | 2,083 / 108,013 | 1,168 / 108,013 |
| Filiberto, Justin R. | Geochemistry & Geophysics | — | 1,181 / 108,013 |
| McCubbin, Francis M. | Geochemistry & Geophysics | — | 1,245 / 108,013 |
| Bell, Suzanne T. | Business & Management | — | 2,012 / 68,786 |
| Smith, Scott M. | Nutrition & Dietetics | 633 / 59,506 | 758 / 59,506 |
| Badhwar, Gautam D. | Applied Physics | 2,723 / 323,282 | — |
| Pierson, Duane L. | Microbiology | 2,574 / 232,186 | 3,881 / 232,186 |
| Crucian, Brian E. | Immunology | — | 1,773 / 176,292 |
| Liou, Jer Chyi | Aerospace & Aeronautics | 204 / 66,382 | 167 / 66,382 |
| Norsk, Peter | Physiology | 515 / 26,472 | 459 / 26,472 |
| Peslier, Anne H. | Geochemistry & Geophysics | — | 1,764 / 108,013 |
| Thomas, Daniel J. | Materials | 5,629 / 330,896 | 3,828 / 330,896 |
| Simon, Justin Ibrahim | Geochemistry & Geophysics | — | 2,127 / 108,013 |
| Ross, D. Keith | Materials | 2,725 / 330,896 | — |
| Christiansen, Eric L. | Aerospace & Aeronautics | 374 / 66,382 | 366 / 66,382 |
| James, John T. | Energy | 3,311 / 371,959 | — |
| Leach, Carolyns S. | Aerospace & Aeronautics | 600 / 66,382 | — |
| Sanders, Gerald B. | Aerospace & Aeronautics | — | 660 / 66,382 |
| Hatamleh, Omar | Materials | 6,614 / 330,896 | — |
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
Explore Labs is not affiliated with Stanford University or Elsevier. This tool is free.