Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History 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).
33
researchers on the list
563
rank in United States
1,759
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zeder, Melinda A. | Archaeology | 13 / 21,336 | 5 / 21,336 |
| Piperno, Dolores R. | Archaeology | 5 / 21,336 | 6 / 21,336 |
| Wen, Jun | Evolutionary Biology | 194 / 31,128 | 127 / 31,128 |
| Labandeira, Conrad C. | Paleontology | 52 / 23,292 | 62 / 23,292 |
| Potts, Richard | Anthropology | 33 / 10,039 | 35 / 10,039 |
| Meyer, Christopher P. | Evolutionary Biology | 673 / 31,128 | 279 / 31,128 |
| Agnarsson, Ingi | Evolutionary Biology | 434 / 31,128 | 334 / 31,128 |
| Carrano, Matthew T. | Paleontology | 319 / 23,292 | 122 / 23,292 |
| Coddington, Jonathan A. | Evolutionary Biology | 500 / 31,128 | 662 / 31,128 |
| Sues, Hans Dieter | Paleontology | 220 / 23,292 | 196 / 23,292 |
| Adey, Walter H. | Marine Biology & Hydrobiology | 441 / 54,545 | 898 / 54,545 |
| Cairns, Stephen Douglas | Zoology | 20 / 19,073 | 21 / 19,073 |
| Bambach, Richard K. | Paleontology | 309 / 23,292 | 405 / 23,292 |
| Rick, Torben C. | Archaeology | 86 / 21,336 | 57 / 21,336 |
| Cottrell, Elizabeth | Geochemistry & Geophysics | — | 1,052 / 108,013 |
| Collins, Allen G. | Evolutionary Biology | 665 / 31,128 | — |
| Hunt, Gene | Paleontology | 457 / 23,292 | 209 / 23,292 |
| Gastaldo, Robert A. | Paleontology | 392 / 23,292 | — |
| Domning, Daryl Paul | Paleontology | 404 / 23,292 | — |
| Littler, Mark M. | Marine Biology & Hydrobiology | 733 / 54,545 | — |
| MacIntyre, Ian G. | Marine Biology & Hydrobiology | 764 / 54,545 | — |
| McCoy, Timothy J. | Geochemistry & Geophysics | 1,807 / 108,013 | 1,344 / 108,013 |
| MacPherson, Glenn J. | Geochemistry & Geophysics | 1,796 / 108,013 | 1,802 / 108,013 |
| Olson, Storrs L. | Ornithology | 30 / 5,121 | 68 / 5,121 |
| Faust, Maria A. | Marine Biology & Hydrobiology | 1,008 / 54,545 | — |
| Felder, Darryl L.L. | Zoology | 94 / 19,073 | 250 / 19,073 |
| Johnson, Kirk R. | Paleontology | — | 527 / 23,292 |
| Parenti, Lynne R. | Zoology | 119 / 19,073 | 174 / 19,073 |
| Robinson, Harold E. | Plant Biology & Botany | 3,008 / 204,373 | — |
| Wilkerson, Richard Charles | Tropical Medicine | 515 / 39,335 | — |
| Mulcahy, Daniel G. | Zoology | 259 / 19,073 | — |
| Zug, George R. | Zoology | 304 / 19,073 | 418 / 19,073 |
| Baldwin, Carole C. | Zoology | 355 / 19,073 | 235 / 19,073 |
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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