Simons Foundation 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).
31
researchers on the list
596
rank in United States
1,847
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blei, David M. | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 22 / 517,648 | 24 / 517,648 |
| Spergel, David N. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 21 / 58,202 | 46 / 58,202 |
| Simoncelli, Eero P. | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 98 / 517,648 | 226 / 517,648 |
| Somerville, Rachel S. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 139 / 58,202 | 88 / 58,202 |
| Price-Whelan, Adrian M. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | — | 90 / 58,202 |
| Isi, Maximiliano | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 2,339 / 164,120 | 182 / 164,120 |
| Foreman-Mackey, Daniel T. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | — | 256 / 58,202 |
| Jiang, Yanfei | Astronomy & Astrophysics | — | 276 / 58,202 |
| Farr, Will M. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | — | 341 / 58,202 |
| Genel, Shy | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 1,320 / 58,202 | 397 / 58,202 |
| Hogg, David W. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 332 / 58,202 | 455 / 58,202 |
| Greengard, Leslie F. | Applied Mathematics | 83 / 23,982 | 145 / 23,982 |
| Shelley, Michael J. | Fluids & Plasmas | 337 / 58,297 | 231 / 58,297 |
| Dalcanton, Julianne J. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 560 / 58,202 | 1,004 / 58,202 |
| Zhang, Shiwei | General Physics | 790 / 87,024 | 288 / 87,024 |
| Chklovskii, Dmitri Mitya | Neurology & Neurosurgery | 3,094 / 379,830 | 3,827 / 379,830 |
| Berger, Marsha J. | Aerospace & Aeronautics | 60 / 66,382 | 128 / 66,382 |
| Burkhart, Blakesley | Astronomy & Astrophysics | — | 1,000 / 58,202 |
| Saul, Lawrence K. | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 1,335 / 517,648 | 4,015 / 517,648 |
| Nidever, David L. | Astronomy & Astrophysics | — | 1,137 / 58,202 |
| Stoudenmire, Edwin Miles | Applied Physics | 6,293 / 323,282 | 1,367 / 323,282 |
| Villaescusa-Navarro, Francisco | Astronomy & Astrophysics | — | 1,306 / 58,202 |
| Cantiello, Matteo | Astronomy & Astrophysics | — | 1,320 / 58,202 |
| Fischbach, Gerald D. | Neurology & Neurosurgery | 5,197 / 379,830 | — |
| Barnett, Alex H. | Numerical & Computational Mathematics | — | 186 / 17,431 |
| Carpenter, Bob | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 9,817 / 517,648 | 5,778 / 517,648 |
| Mulligan, Vikram Khipple | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | — | 2,564 / 216,826 |
| Epstein, Charles L. | General Mathematics | 1,383 / 76,268 | — |
| Gluscevic, Vera | Nuclear & Particle Physics | — | 2,983 / 164,120 |
| Chandra, Premala | Applied Physics | 6,274 / 323,282 | 7,036 / 323,282 |
| Pixley, Jedediah H. | Applied Physics | — | 4,473 / 323,282 |
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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