National Center for Atmospheric Research 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
349
rank in United States
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bonan, Gordon B. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 22 / 84,638 | 18 / 84,638 |
| Meehl, Gerald A. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 15 / 84,638 | 38 / 84,638 |
| Deser, Clara | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 75 / 84,638 | 44 / 84,638 |
| Dudhia, Jimy | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 80 / 84,638 | 77 / 84,638 |
| Wigley, Tom M.L. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 68 / 84,638 | 489 / 84,638 |
| Morrison, Hugh C. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 292 / 84,638 | 159 / 84,638 |
| Heymsfield, Andrew J. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 120 / 84,638 | 555 / 84,638 |
| Holland, Greg J. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 201 / 84,638 | 233 / 84,638 |
| Anderson, Jeffrey L. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 211 / 84,638 | 266 / 84,638 |
| Fasullo, John T. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 546 / 84,638 | 269 / 84,638 |
| Lawrence, David M. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 1,483 / 84,638 | 292 / 84,638 |
| Hong, Songyou | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 285 / 84,638 | 307 / 84,638 |
| Grabowski, Wojciech W. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 255 / 84,638 | 668 / 84,638 |
| Randel, William J. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 262 / 84,638 | 663 / 84,638 |
| Yeager, Stephen G. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 1,363 / 84,638 | 363 / 84,638 |
| Rotunno, Richard | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 290 / 84,638 | 577 / 84,638 |
| Brunner, Manuela Irene | Environmental Engineering | 1,278 / 68,664 | 104 / 68,664 |
| Danabasoglu, Gökhan | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 644 / 84,638 | 397 / 84,638 |
| Otto-Bliesner, Bette L. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 370 / 84,638 | 441 / 84,638 |
| Schneider, Stephen H. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 338 / 84,638 | 1,096 / 84,638 |
| Smolarkiewicz, Piotr K. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 346 / 84,638 | — |
| Oleson, Keith W. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 1,205 / 84,638 | 480 / 84,638 |
| Weisman, Morris L. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 770 / 84,638 | 497 / 84,638 |
| Davis, Christopher A. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 394 / 84,638 | 689 / 84,638 |
| García, Rolando R. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 407 / 84,638 | 916 / 84,638 |
| Swenson, Sean Claude | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 1,243 / 84,638 | 547 / 84,638 |
| Katz, Richard W. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 499 / 84,638 | 1,165 / 84,638 |
| Wieder, William R. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | — | 641 / 84,638 |
| Lamarque, Jean François | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 541 / 84,638 | 645 / 84,638 |
| Simpson, Isla R. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | — | 679 / 84,638 |
| Klemp, Joseph B. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 561 / 84,638 | 742 / 84,638 |
| Skamarock, William C. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 586 / 84,638 | 951 / 84,638 |
| Rasmussen, Roy Martin | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 994 / 84,638 | 800 / 84,638 |
| Tilmes, Simone | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | — | 850 / 84,638 |
| Moncrieff, Mitchell W. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 768 / 84,638 | — |
| Richter, Jadwiga H. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | — | 959 / 84,638 |
| Mearns, Linda O. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 778 / 84,638 | 2,001 / 84,638 |
| Branstator, Grant W. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 800 / 84,638 | 1,352 / 84,638 |
| Large, William G. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 803 / 84,638 | 1,081 / 84,638 |
| Gent, Peter R. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 896 / 84,638 | — |
| Pouquet, Annick G. | Fluids & Plasmas | 505 / 58,297 | 959 / 58,297 |
| Snyder, Chris M. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 1,019 / 84,638 | 1,619 / 84,638 |
| Sun, Juanzhen | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 1,431 / 84,638 | 1,235 / 84,638 |
| Wood, Andrew W. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | — | 1,256 / 84,638 |
| Bryan, George H. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 1,401 / 84,638 | 1,271 / 84,638 |
| Moeng, Chin Hoh | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 1,079 / 84,638 | 1,779 / 84,638 |
| Smith, Anne K. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 1,097 / 84,638 | 1,666 / 84,638 |
| Calvert, Jack G. | Chemical Physics | 1,494 / 121,889 | — |
| He, Cenlin | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | — | 1,493 / 84,638 |
| Bacmeister, Julio T. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 1,315 / 84,638 | 1,774 / 84,638 |
| Williamson, David L. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 1,374 / 84,638 | — |
| Orlando, John J. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 1,391 / 84,638 | — |
| Torrence, Christopher | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | — | 1,615 / 84,638 |
| Lipscomb, William H. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | — | 1,644 / 84,638 |
| Knight, Charles A. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 1,470 / 84,638 | — |
| Sullivan, Peter P. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | — | 1,723 / 84,638 |
| Eisele, Fred L. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 1,510 / 84,638 | — |
| Emmons, Louisa K. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | — | 1,845 / 84,638 |
| LeMone, Margaret A. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 1,591 / 84,638 | — |
| Horst, Thomas W. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 1,862 / 84,638 | — |
| Mayernik, Matthew S. | Information & Library Sciences | — | 244 / 15,996 |
| Dennis, John M. | Distributed Computing | 160 / 9,369 | 108 / 9,369 |
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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