Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory 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).
16
researchers on the list
905
rank in United States
3,173
rank worldwide, of 38,384
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| Name | Subfield | Career | Single-year |
|---|---|---|---|
| White, R.B B. | Fluids & Plasmas | 278 / 58,297 | 349 / 58,297 |
| Zweben, Stewart J. | Fluids & Plasmas | 553 / 58,297 | 873 / 58,297 |
| Jardin, Stephen C. | Fluids & Plasmas | 913 / 58,297 | 511 / 58,297 |
| Tang, William M. | Fluids & Plasmas | 771 / 58,297 | 829 / 58,297 |
| Yamada, Masaaki | Fluids & Plasmas | 806 / 58,297 | 868 / 58,297 |
| Kaganovich, Igor D. | Fluids & Plasmas | 845 / 58,297 | 833 / 58,297 |
| Davidson, Ronald C. | Fluids & Plasmas | 903 / 58,297 | — |
| Mazzucato, Ernesto | Fluids & Plasmas | 917 / 58,297 | — |
| Ji, Hantao | Fluids & Plasmas | 1,010 / 58,297 | 962 / 58,297 |
| Maingi, Rajesh | Fluids & Plasmas | 1,032 / 58,297 | 936 / 58,297 |
| Bell, Ronald E. | Fluids & Plasmas | 1,105 / 58,297 | — |
| Menard, Jonathan E. | Fluids & Plasmas | 1,162 / 58,297 | 852 / 58,297 |
| Cowley, Steven C. | Fluids & Plasmas | — | 1,168 / 58,297 |
| Martirez, John Mark P. | Chemical Physics | — | 2,371 / 121,889 |
| Comanescu, Mihai | Electrical & Electronic Engineering | 1,119 / 133,072 | — |
| Jha, Shantenu | Distributed Computing | — | 185 / 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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