Plant & Food Research, New Zealand 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).
17
researchers on the list
17
rank in New Zealand
3,014
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Espley, Richard V. | Plant Biology & Botany | — | 1,352 / 204,373 |
| Pinu, Farhana R. | Analytical Chemistry | 2,404 / 137,328 | 601 / 137,328 |
| Varkonyi-Gasic, Erika | Plant Biology & Botany | 4,176 / 204,373 | 1,758 / 204,373 |
| McGhie, Tony K. | Plant Biology & Botany | 1,708 / 204,373 | 3,911 / 204,373 |
| Green, Steven R. | Agronomy & Agriculture | 687 / 95,377 | — |
| Harker, Frederick Roger | Horticulture | 16 / 5,982 | 84 / 5,982 |
| Curtin, Denis | Agronomy & Agriculture | 776 / 95,377 | 1,236 / 95,377 |
| Vanneste, Joël L. | Plant Biology & Botany | 3,256 / 204,373 | 2,538 / 204,373 |
| Rowan, Daryl D. | Plant Biology & Botany | 2,206 / 204,373 | 4,471 / 204,373 |
| Andre, Christelle M. | Plant Biology & Botany | — | 2,965 / 204,373 |
| Christeller, John Tane | Entomology | 672 / 40,595 | — |
| Lin-Wang, Kui | Plant Biology & Botany | — | 3,515 / 204,373 |
| Ferguson, A. Ross | Plant Biology & Botany | 3,645 / 204,373 | — |
| Clark, Christopher J. | Horticulture | 72 / 5,982 | — |
| Bieleski, Roderick L. | Plant Biology & Botany | 4,201 / 204,373 | — |
| Woolf, Allan B. | Horticulture | 73 / 5,982 | — |
| Stevenson, David E. | Biotechnology | 1,275 / 69,700 | — |
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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