ORNL Environmental Sciences Division 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).
14
researchers on the list
994
rank in United States
3,525
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Norby, Richard J. | Plant Biology & Botany | 117 / 204,373 | 190 / 204,373 |
| Gu, Lianhong | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 1,240 / 84,638 | 562 / 84,638 |
| Iversen, Colleen M. | Ecology | — | 792 / 82,882 |
| Thornton, Peter E. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | — | 1,267 / 84,638 |
| Walker, Anthony P. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | — | 1,433 / 84,638 |
| Zhao, Xianhui | Materials | — | 1,933 / 330,896 |
| Hanson, Paul J. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | — | 1,925 / 84,638 |
| Painter, S. L. | Environmental Engineering | 488 / 68,664 | 1,028 / 68,664 |
| Dale, Virginia H. | Ecology | 1,779 / 82,882 | — |
| Adams, S. Marshall | Fisheries | 316 / 47,614 | — |
| Shugart, Lee R. | Toxicology | 836 / 69,049 | — |
| Warren, Jeffrey M. | Plant Biology & Botany | — | 3,477 / 204,373 |
| Edwards, Nelson T. | Plant Biology & Botany | 3,112 / 204,373 | — |
| Sorensen, John H. | Strategic, Defence & Security Studies | 443 / 32,161 | — |
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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