Nazarbayev University 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).
41
researchers on the list
1
rank in Kazakhstan
1,457
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memon, Shazim Ali | Building & Construction | 133 / 56,454 | 94 / 56,454 |
| Yagiz, Saffet | Geological & Geomatics Engineering | 347 / 82,760 | 201 / 82,760 |
| Akcil, Ata Utku | Mining & Metallurgy | 12 / 37,230 | 10 / 37,230 |
| Rai, Hari Mohan | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | — | 2,100 / 517,648 |
| Paunov, Vesselin N. | Chemical Physics | 1,123 / 121,889 | 1,315 / 121,889 |
| Hajar, Anas | Education | — | 735 / 115,687 |
| Manan, Syed Abdul | Languages & Linguistics | — | 314 / 25,930 |
| Kalendar, Ruslan N. | Plant Biology & Botany | 2,366 / 204,373 | 1,446 / 204,373 |
| Hernández-Torrano, Daniel | Education | — | 1,282 / 115,687 |
| Riazi, Masoud R. | Energy | 5,994 / 371,959 | 3,120 / 371,959 |
| Malafarina, Daniele | Nuclear & Particle Physics | — | 1,659 / 164,120 |
| Karaca, Ferhat | Environmental Sciences | 2,004 / 140,934 | 2,745 / 140,934 |
| Berman, Piotr | Computation Theory & Mathematics | 320 / 20,721 | — |
| Hazlett, Randy Doyle | Energy | 3,495 / 371,959 | 4,408 / 371,959 |
| Satyanaga, Alfrendo | Geological & Geomatics Engineering | — | 1,630 / 82,760 |
| Bakenov, Zhumabay B. | Energy | 4,572 / 371,959 | 4,662 / 371,959 |
| Gaipov, Abduzhappar E. | Urology & Nephrology | — | 921 / 96,288 |
| Araby, Sherif | Materials | — | 3,810 / 330,896 |
| Akhtar, Muhammad Tahir | Networking & Telecommunications | 2,189 / 228,312 | 1,873 / 228,312 |
| Jamwal, Prashant Kumar | Industrial Engineering & Automation | — | 1,974 / 131,085 |
| Salama, Amgad | Energy | 2,929 / 371,959 | 6,994 / 371,959 |
| Do, T. D. | Electrical & Electronic Engineering | 1,071 / 133,072 | 779 / 133,072 |
| Zorbas, Dimitrios | Networking & Telecommunications | 4,325 / 228,312 | 2,365 / 228,312 |
| Almazan, Joseph Uy | Nursing | — | 554 / 73,697 |
| Atabaev, Timur Sh. | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | 2,461 / 177,859 | — |
| Varol, Huseyin Atakan | Industrial Engineering & Automation | — | 2,206 / 131,085 |
| Ali, Md Hazrat | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | — | 9,057 / 517,648 |
| Desyatnikov, Anton S. | Optics | 882 / 83,504 | — |
| Lee, Woojin | Environmental Sciences | 1,941 / 140,934 | — |
| Zondy, J. J. | Optics | 910 / 83,504 | — |
| Bagheri, Mehdi | Energy | — | 7,224 / 371,959 |
| Shehab, Essam M. | Industrial Engineering & Automation | — | 2,668 / 131,085 |
| Leila, Mahmoud Lotfy | Geology | — | 265 / 17,936 |
| Valentine, Scott Victor | Energy | 4,725 / 371,959 | — |
| Maham, Behrouz | Networking & Telecommunications | 2,921 / 228,312 | — |
| Elkamhawy, Ahmed | Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry | — | 1,707 / 120,621 |
| Oh, Kyunghwan | Optoelectronics & Photonics | 1,543 / 140,272 | 2,181 / 140,272 |
| Bolla, Srinivasa Rao | General & Internal Medicine | — | 4,229 / 360,081 |
| Ruderman, Alex | Electrical & Electronic Engineering | 1,796 / 133,072 | — |
| Morrison, Alexander | History | — | 238 / 20,299 |
| Trueman, Robert | Mining & Metallurgy | 812 / 37,230 | — |
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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