Naval Postgraduate School 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).
26
researchers on the list
673
rank in United States
2,133
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Denning, Peter J. | Information Systems | 43 / 19,463 | 132 / 19,463 |
| Denning, Dorothy Elizabeth | Information Systems | 81 / 19,463 | 354 / 19,463 |
| Kruse, Fred A. | Geological & Geomatics Engineering | 356 / 82,760 | 714 / 82,760 |
| Michael Ross, I. Michael | Aerospace & Aeronautics | 90 / 66,382 | 188 / 66,382 |
| Montgomery, Michael T. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 1,134 / 84,638 | — |
| Chu, Peter Cheng | Oceanography | 125 / 16,622 | 211 / 16,622 |
| Dew, Nicholas | Business & Management | — | 1,842 / 68,786 |
| Neta, Beny | Numerical & Computational Mathematics | 174 / 17,431 | — |
| Hamming, Richard W. | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 3,482 / 517,648 | 4,811 / 517,648 |
| Godin, Oleg A. | Acoustics | 262 / 38,987 | 437 / 38,987 |
| Thornton, Edward B. | Oceanography | 211 / 16,622 | — |
| Kang, Wei | Industrial Engineering & Automation | 934 / 131,085 | — |
| Radko, Timour | Fluids & Plasmas | — | 922 / 58,297 |
| Giraldo, Francis X. | Applied Mathematics | 368 / 23,982 | — |
| Franke, Richard | Numerical & Computational Mathematics | 342 / 17,431 | — |
| McGhee, Robert B. | Industrial Engineering & Automation | 1,258 / 131,085 | — |
| Schneidewind, Norman F. | Software Engineering | 355 / 24,083 | — |
| Wood, R. Kevin | Operations Research | 651 / 31,951 | — |
| Ferrer, Geraldo | Operations Research | 695 / 31,951 | — |
| McNab, Ian R. | Applied Physics | 6,249 / 323,282 | 5,893 / 323,282 |
| Medwin, Herman | Acoustics | 625 / 38,987 | — |
| Rowe, Neil C. | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 5,665 / 517,648 | — |
| Phillips, Jonathan A. | Materials | 4,256 / 330,896 | — |
| Hafez, Mohammed M. | Strategic, Defence & Security Studies | 374 / 32,161 | — |
| Alderson, David L. | Networking & Telecommunications | 3,676 / 228,312 | 4,361 / 228,312 |
| Netzer, David W. | Aerospace & Aeronautics | 1,461 / 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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