Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics 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).
39
researchers on the list
50
rank in Canada
1,525
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rovelli, Carlo | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 61 / 164,120 | 42 / 164,120 |
| Myers, Robert Charles | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 70 / 164,120 | 217 / 164,120 |
| Gaiotto, Davide | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 223 / 164,120 | 88 / 164,120 |
| Burkov, A. T. | Applied Physics | 627 / 323,282 | 257 / 323,282 |
| Lang, Dustin A. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | — | 310 / 58,202 |
| Spekkens, Robert W. | General Physics | 246 / 87,024 | 145 / 87,024 |
| Turok, Neil G. | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 300 / 164,120 | 1,160 / 164,120 |
| East, William E. | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 2,167 / 164,120 | 380 / 164,120 |
| Mathur, Samir D. | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 440 / 164,120 | 576 / 164,120 |
| Moffat, John W. | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 624 / 164,120 | 409 / 164,120 |
| Smolin, Lee | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 463 / 164,120 | 954 / 164,120 |
| Freidel, Laurent | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 643 / 164,120 | 460 / 164,120 |
| Gregory, Ruth | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 636 / 164,120 | 1,214 / 164,120 |
| Kempf, Achim | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 698 / 164,120 | 638 / 164,120 |
| Yoshida, Beni | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 3,048 / 164,120 | 689 / 164,120 |
| Smith, Kendrick M. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 1,472 / 58,202 | 832 / 58,202 |
| Laflamme, Raymond | General Physics | 314 / 87,024 | 308 / 87,024 |
| Else, Dominic V. | Applied Physics | — | 967 / 323,282 |
| Pasterski, Sabrina | Nuclear & Particle Physics | — | 870 / 164,120 |
| Melko, Roger Gordon | Applied Physics | 2,801 / 323,282 | 1,181 / 323,282 |
| Kent, Adrian | General Physics | 420 / 87,024 | 435 / 87,024 |
| Lehner, Luis R. | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 1,321 / 164,120 | 1,143 / 164,120 |
| Gomis, Jaume | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 1,524 / 164,120 | 3,983 / 164,120 |
| Donnelly, William | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 3,224 / 164,120 | 1,281 / 164,120 |
| Costello, Kevin Joseph | Nuclear & Particle Physics | — | 1,390 / 164,120 |
| Dittrich, Bianca | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 1,727 / 164,120 | 3,278 / 164,120 |
| Arvanitaki, Asimina | Nuclear & Particle Physics | — | 1,558 / 164,120 |
| Ciambelli, Luca | Nuclear & Particle Physics | — | 1,613 / 164,120 |
| Takhtajan, Leon A. | General Mathematics | 677 / 76,268 | 891 / 76,268 |
| Schnetter, Erik | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 2,695 / 164,120 | 2,295 / 164,120 |
| Hardy, Lucién | General Physics | 1,052 / 87,024 | 1,375 / 87,024 |
| Zhang, Ming | Nuclear & Particle Physics | — | 2,175 / 164,120 |
| Dowker, Fay | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 3,051 / 164,120 | 2,774 / 164,120 |
| Wang, Chong | Applied Physics | — | 3,777 / 323,282 |
| Cachazo, Freddy | Nuclear & Particle Physics | — | 2,743 / 164,120 |
| Johnson-Freyd, Theo | General Mathematics | — | 1,127 / 76,268 |
| Zhou, Sisi | General Physics | — | 1,442 / 87,024 |
| He, Yinchen | General Physics | — | 1,538 / 87,024 |
| Gosset, David | General Physics | — | 1,950 / 87,024 |
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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