National Science Foundation 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).
31
researchers on the list
596
rank in United States
1,847
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| He, Wu | Information Systems | 113 / 19,463 | 88 / 19,463 |
| Werbos, Paul J. | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 653 / 517,648 | 1,399 / 517,648 |
| Levey, Douglas J. | Ecology | 541 / 82,882 | 1,714 / 82,882 |
| Lauer, Tod R. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 441 / 58,202 | 563 / 58,202 |
| Roco, Mihail C. | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | 481 / 177,859 | 1,529 / 177,859 |
| Holland, Marika M. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 640 / 84,638 | 738 / 84,638 |
| Mushegian, Arcady R. | Virology | 271 / 79,508 | 162 / 79,508 |
| McLauchlan, Kendra K. | Ecology | — | 1,042 / 82,882 |
| Bryan, Frank O. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 928 / 84,638 | — |
| Lenschow, Donald H. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 1,074 / 84,638 | — |
| Baylor, Amy L. | Education | 811 / 115,687 | 938 / 115,687 |
| Nicholson, Richard S. | Analytical Chemistry | 651 / 137,328 | 561 / 137,328 |
| Gholz, Henry L. | Forestry | 100 / 36,413 | — |
| Torgersen, Thomas | Geochemistry & Geophysics | 1,738 / 108,013 | — |
| Feng, Zhilan | Bioinformatics | 235 / 24,357 | 373 / 24,357 |
| Wynn, Jonathan Guy | Paleontology | 478 / 23,292 | 407 / 23,292 |
| Ford, Michael J. | General & Internal Medicine | 1,385 / 360,081 | 2,549 / 360,081 |
| Garrison, David L. | Marine Biology & Hydrobiology | 1,244 / 54,545 | — |
| Bainbridge, William Sims | Religions & Theology | 24 / 11,748 | 101 / 11,748 |
| Weber, Thomas A. | Chemical Physics | 2,854 / 121,889 | — |
| Lautz, Laura | Environmental Engineering | 992 / 68,664 | — |
| Gillaspy, John D. | General Physics | 1,335 / 87,024 | — |
| Medhi, Deep | Networking & Telecommunications | 2,000 / 228,312 | — |
| Knuth, Eric J. | Education | 2,090 / 115,687 | 2,724 / 115,687 |
| Panchanathan, Sethuraman Panch | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 5,097 / 517,648 | — |
| Kearney, Maureen | Zoology | 221 / 19,073 | — |
| Plaku, Erion | Industrial Engineering & Automation | 2,409 / 131,085 | — |
| Kukich, Karen | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 7,265 / 517,648 | — |
| Esterowitz, Leon L. | Optoelectronics & Photonics | 1,399 / 140,272 | — |
| Larsen-Basse, Jorn | Mechanical Engineering & Transports | 3,439 / 157,792 | — |
| Bloemhof, Eric E. | Optoelectronics & Photonics | 2,710 / 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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