School of 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
187
rank in China
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fu, Junwei | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | 2,252 / 177,859 | 538 / 177,859 |
| Foot, Robert | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 297 / 164,120 | 1,249 / 164,120 |
| Yuan, Yongbo | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | 1,611 / 177,859 | 1,073 / 177,859 |
| Wyithe, J. S.B. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 608 / 58,202 | 1,220 / 58,202 |
| Prawer, S. D. | Applied Physics | 1,269 / 323,282 | 2,043 / 323,282 |
| Hollenberg, Lloyd C.L. | Applied Physics | 1,407 / 323,282 | 1,279 / 323,282 |
| Yang, Junliang | Applied Physics | 5,341 / 323,282 | 1,145 / 323,282 |
| Sun, Keihui | Fluids & Plasmas | 1,268 / 58,297 | 429 / 58,297 |
| Trenti, Michele | Astronomy & Astrophysics | — | 1,206 / 58,202 |
| Yin, Kai | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | — | 2,693 / 177,859 |
| Zhou, Shiqi | Chemical Physics | 1,575 / 121,889 | — |
| Lei, Hechang | Applied Physics | 6,646 / 323,282 | 1,469 / 323,282 |
| Liu, Kang | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | — | 2,961 / 177,859 |
| Chantler, Christopher Thomas | General Physics | 544 / 87,024 | 1,343 / 87,024 |
| Hu, Xunxiang | Energy | 7,308 / 371,959 | 2,470 / 371,959 |
| He, Jun | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | 3,041 / 177,859 | 3,219 / 177,859 |
| Rachel, Stephan | Applied Physics | 3,422 / 323,282 | 1,596 / 323,282 |
| Gureyev, Timur E. | Optics | 401 / 83,504 | 1,241 / 83,504 |
| Davis, Timothy J. | Optics | 429 / 83,504 | 704 / 83,504 |
| Allen, L. J. | Microscopy | 28 / 4,178 | 63 / 4,178 |
| Awais, Muhammad | Mechanical Engineering & Transports | 2,412 / 157,792 | 1,034 / 157,792 |
| Roberts, Ann N. | Optics | 458 / 83,504 | 1,643 / 83,504 |
| Volkas, Raymond Robert | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 2,090 / 164,120 | — |
| Raghunathan, Srinivasan Raghu | Aerospace & Aeronautics | 218 / 66,382 | 1,080 / 66,382 |
| Bell, Nicole F. | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 2,407 / 164,120 | 2,395 / 164,120 |
| Ni, Xiang | Optoelectronics & Photonics | — | 380 / 140,272 |
| Quiney, Harry M. | General Physics | 936 / 87,024 | — |
| Jamieson, DN N. | Applied Physics | 3,923 / 323,282 | — |
| Jiang, Laiming | Materials | — | 3,812 / 330,896 |
| Lu, Zhongyi | Applied Physics | — | 4,293 / 323,282 |
| Deng, Lianwen Wen | Applied Physics | — | 4,358 / 323,282 |
| Yao, Zhao | Acoustics | — | 512 / 38,987 |
| Xie, Ruihua | General Physics | 1,646 / 87,024 | — |
| Sun, Liangling | Organic Chemistry | — | 3,214 / 188,664 |
| McKinley, Bruce A. | Emergency & Critical Care Medicine | 805 / 44,281 | — |
| Yin, Qiangwei | Applied Physics | — | 5,992 / 323,282 |
| Gao, Xiaohui | Applied Physics | — | 6,375 / 323,282 |
| Wang, Shaowei | Optics | — | 2,019 / 83,504 |
| Meng, Jiajun | Optoelectronics & Photonics | — | 2,375 / 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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