Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur 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).
18
researchers on the list
78
rank in France
2,890
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christensen, Nelson L. | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 433 / 164,120 | 129 / 164,120 |
| Benoist, Christophe O. | Immunology | 359 / 176,292 | 423 / 176,292 |
| Nolet, Guust | Geochemistry & Geophysics | 478 / 108,013 | 1,472 / 108,013 |
| Carry, Benoît | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 1,412 / 58,202 | 503 / 58,202 |
| Michel, Patrick | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 956 / 58,202 | 785 / 58,202 |
| Vinet, Jean Yves | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 1,613 / 164,120 | 762 / 164,120 |
| Recio-Blanco, Alejandra | Astronomy & Astrophysics | — | 913 / 58,202 |
| Frisch, Uriel | Fluids & Plasmas | 489 / 58,297 | — |
| Ampuero, Jean Paul | Geochemistry & Geophysics | — | 865 / 108,013 |
| Mignard, François | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 1,222 / 58,202 | 1,418 / 58,202 |
| Hill, Vanessa | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 1,294 / 58,202 | — |
| Hénon, Michel | General Mathematics | 478 / 76,268 | 616 / 76,268 |
| Delbo’, Marco | Astronomy & Astrophysics | — | 1,769 / 58,202 |
| Chauvin, Gaël | Astronomy & Astrophysics | — | 1,772 / 58,202 |
| Libourel, Guy | Geochemistry & Geophysics | 1,930 / 108,013 | — |
| Martinache, Frantz | Optoelectronics & Photonics | 686 / 140,272 | 1,001 / 140,272 |
| Watson, William A. | Emergency & Critical Care Medicine | 740 / 44,281 | — |
| Carbillet, Marcel | Optoelectronics & Photonics | 2,420 / 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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