The James Franck Institute 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).
16
researchers on the list
905
rank in United States
3,173
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kadanoff, Leo P. | Fluids & Plasmas | 87 / 58,297 | 208 / 58,297 |
| Mazziotti, David A. | Chemical Physics | 325 / 121,889 | 220 / 121,889 |
| Witten, Thomas A. | Fluids & Plasmas | 106 / 58,297 | 357 / 58,297 |
| Jaeger, Heinrich M. | Fluids & Plasmas | 132 / 58,297 | 128 / 58,297 |
| Littlewood, Peter B. | Applied Physics | 501 / 323,282 | 1,144 / 323,282 |
| Light, John C. | Chemical Physics | 1,082 / 121,889 | — |
| Kleppa, Ole Jakob | Materials | 745 / 330,896 | 7,295 / 330,896 |
| Gomer, Robert | Chemical Physics | 1,399 / 121,889 | — |
| Vitelli, Vincenzo | Fluids & Plasmas | — | 521 / 58,297 |
| Dinner, Aaron R. | Chemical Physics | 1,869 / 121,889 | — |
| Lee, Kayee C. | Chemical Physics | 1,943 / 121,889 | — |
| Park, Ji Woong | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | 2,132 / 177,859 | 3,825 / 177,859 |
| Chin, Cheng | General Physics | 654 / 87,024 | 688 / 87,024 |
| Mazenko, Gene F. | Applied Physics | 3,109 / 323,282 | — |
| Irvine, William T.M. | Fluids & Plasmas | — | 851 / 58,297 |
| Shevchenko, Elena V. | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | 1,843 / 177,859 | — |
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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