OpenAI, Inc. 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
788
rank in United States
2,653
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sutskever, Ilya | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 675 / 517,648 | 198 / 517,648 |
| Bubeck, Sébastien | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 692 / 517,648 | 435 / 517,648 |
| Radford, Alec | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 7,599 / 517,648 | 555 / 517,648 |
| Dhariwal, Prafulla | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | — | 1,234 / 517,648 |
| Schulman, John D. | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 7,375 / 517,648 | 1,696 / 517,648 |
| Barak, Boaz | Computation Theory & Mathematics | 100 / 20,721 | 99 / 20,721 |
| Tian, Yonglong | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | — | 2,205 / 517,648 |
| Zellers, Rowan | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | — | 2,620 / 517,648 |
| Yosinski, Jason | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 7,978 / 517,648 | 3,055 / 517,648 |
| Handley, Mark James | Networking & Telecommunications | 617 / 228,312 | 758 / 228,312 |
| Eldan, Ronen | Statistics & Probability | — | 350 / 24,695 |
| Kalai, Adam Tauman | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 2,032 / 517,648 | 3,485 / 517,648 |
| Wallace, Eric | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | — | 4,686 / 517,648 |
| Fedus, William | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | — | 4,858 / 517,648 |
| Nachum, Ofir | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | — | 5,713 / 517,648 |
| Singhal, Karan | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | — | 6,008 / 517,648 |
| Beutel, Alex | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | — | 9,985 / 517,648 |
| Padhye, Jitendra D. | Networking & Telecommunications | 3,139 / 228,312 | 5,111 / 228,312 |
| Kalia, Anuj | Networking & Telecommunications | — | 4,507 / 228,312 |
| Tillet, Philippe | Distributed Computing | — | 187 / 9,369 |
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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