Royal Observatory of Belgium 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
60
rank in Belgium
8,008
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Groenewegen, Martin A.T. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 397 / 58,202 | 868 / 58,202 |
| Dehant, Véronique | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 1,544 / 58,202 | — |
| Defraigne, Pascale | Acoustics | 769 / 38,987 | 866 / 38,987 |
| Dewitte, Steven | Optoelectronics & Photonics | — | 2,300 / 140,272 |
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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