OpenAI 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).
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researchers on the list
1,673
rank in United States
6,287
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Strominger, Andrew | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 11 / 164,120 | 16 / 164,120 |
| Wei, Jason | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 5,809 / 517,648 | 468 / 517,648 |
| Chung, Hyung-won | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | — | 4,090 / 517,648 |
| Kaiser, Łukasz | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 4,309 / 517,648 | 4,142 / 517,648 |
| Schoenholz, Samuel S. | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 7,287 / 517,648 | 5,396 / 517,648 |
| Brown, Noam | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | — | 9,477 / 517,648 |
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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