School of Science 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).
28
researchers on the list
643
rank in United States
2,020
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Watson, E. Bruce | Geochemistry & Geophysics | 15 / 108,013 | 49 / 108,013 |
| Relyea, Rick A. | Ecology | 101 / 82,882 | 219 / 82,882 |
| Crivello, James Vincent | Polymers | 75 / 133,253 | 2,010 / 133,253 |
| Zhang, Shengbai | Applied Physics | 274 / 323,282 | 426 / 323,282 |
| Spear, Frank Shaw | Geochemistry & Geophysics | 183 / 108,013 | 361 / 108,013 |
| Terrones, Humberto | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | 438 / 177,859 | 2,364 / 177,859 |
| Cyders, Melíssa Anne | Substance Abuse | 227 / 18,209 | 57 / 18,209 |
| Ferris, James P. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 646 / 58,202 | — |
| Montelione, Gaetano Thomas | Biophysics | 82 / 21,025 | 270 / 21,025 |
| Drew, Donald A. | Mechanical Engineering & Transports | 433 / 157,792 | 2,285 / 157,792 |
| Xu, Yangyang | Operations Research | — | 237 / 31,951 |
| Potts, Kevin T. | Organic Chemistry | 1,626 / 188,664 | — |
| Rose, Kevin C. | Marine Biology & Hydrobiology | — | 566 / 54,545 |
| Schultz, Arthur G. | Organic Chemistry | 2,135 / 188,664 | — |
| Henshaw, William D. | Applied Mathematics | 396 / 23,982 | — |
| Gaines, George L. | Chemical Physics | 2,881 / 121,889 | — |
| Ye, Tingqing | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | — | 7,743 / 517,648 |
| Giedt, Joel | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 3,479 / 164,120 | — |
| Wang, Gwoching | Applied Physics | 5,614 / 323,282 | — |
| Interrante, Leonard V. | Materials | 3,490 / 330,896 | — |
| Bedard, Donna L. | Environmental Sciences | 2,131 / 140,934 | — |
| Breneman, Curt M. | Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry | 1,025 / 120,621 | 2,492 / 120,621 |
| McGown, Linda B. | Analytical Chemistry | 2,079 / 137,328 | — |
| Krause, Sonja | Polymers | 2,957 / 133,253 | — |
| Holmes, Mark H. | Biomedical Engineering | 1,481 / 74,543 | — |
| Peng, Zhijiang Jian | Materials | 6,139 / 330,896 | — |
| Archer, Sydney | General Chemistry | 874 / 57,505 | — |
| Cioffi, Christopher L. | Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry | — | 2,801 / 120,621 |
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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