The Robotics 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Majidi, Carmel S. | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | 212 / 177,859 | 64 / 177,859 |
| Kanade, Takeo | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 99 / 517,648 | 1,560 / 517,648 |
| Choset, Howie M. | Industrial Engineering & Automation | 110 / 131,085 | 104 / 131,085 |
| Sycara, Katia P. | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 297 / 517,648 | 4,556 / 517,648 |
| Simmons, Reid G. | Industrial Engineering & Automation | 323 / 131,085 | 1,698 / 131,085 |
| Li, Jiaoyang | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | — | 3,549 / 517,648 |
| Tulsiani, Shubham | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | — | 4,122 / 517,648 |
| Held, David | Industrial Engineering & Automation | — | 1,361 / 131,085 |
| Narasimhan, Srinivasa G. | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 4,300 / 517,648 | 5,729 / 517,648 |
| Steinfeld, Aaron M. | Industrial Engineering & Automation | 1,613 / 131,085 | 2,088 / 131,085 |
| Nourbakhsh, Illah Reza | Industrial Engineering & Automation | 1,540 / 131,085 | — |
| Michael, Nathan | Industrial Engineering & Automation | 1,971 / 131,085 | 2,113 / 131,085 |
| Smith, Stephen Flint | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 5,361 / 517,648 | — |
| Moravec, Hans P. | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 7,594 / 517,648 | — |
| Urmson, Chris P. | Industrial Engineering & Automation | 2,769 / 131,085 | — |
| Shimoga, Karunakar B. | Industrial Engineering & Automation | 2,883 / 131,085 | — |
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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