National Renewable Energy Laboratory 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).
13
researchers on the list
1,049
rank in United States
3,749
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ghirardi, Maria Lucia | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | 3,036 / 216,826 | 2,987 / 216,826 |
| Branz, Howard M. | Applied Physics | 2,315 / 323,282 | — |
| Froyen, Sverre | Applied Physics | 4,206 / 323,282 | — |
| Mahan, A. Harv | Applied Physics | 4,212 / 323,282 | — |
| Neises, Ty W. | Energy | — | 5,811 / 371,959 |
| McMillan, James D. | Biotechnology | 674 / 69,700 | — |
| Czernik, Stefan R. | Energy | 3,615 / 371,959 | — |
| Osterwald, Carl R. | Applied Physics | 6,308 / 323,282 | — |
| Schuler, Tobias | Energy | — | 8,156 / 371,959 |
| Czanderna, Alvin W. | Applied Physics | 7,016 / 323,282 | — |
| Chamas, Ali | Analytical Chemistry | — | 2,064 / 137,328 |
| Stickel, Jonathan J. | Chemical Engineering | 1,623 / 97,821 | — |
| Schell, Daniel J. | Biotechnology | 1,146 / 69,700 | — |
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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