The University of Akron 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).
25
researchers on the list
686
rank in United States
2,195
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Goodell, John W. | Finance | 51 / 16,367 | 9 / 16,367 |
| Gent, Alan N. | Polymers | 108 / 133,253 | 232 / 133,253 |
| Isayev, Avraam I. | Polymers | 440 / 133,253 | 2,699 / 133,253 |
| Diefendorff, James M. | Business & Management | 1,033 / 68,786 | 1,246 / 68,786 |
| Levant, Ronald F. | Social Psychology | 624 / 27,908 | 710 / 27,908 |
| Fetters, Lewis J. | Polymers | 535 / 133,253 | 2,678 / 133,253 |
| Wesdemiotis, Chrys | Analytical Chemistry | 419 / 137,328 | 1,105 / 137,328 |
| Mukherjee, Debmalya | Business & Management | — | 1,473 / 68,786 |
| Blackledge, Todd A. | Polymers | 600 / 133,253 | 1,189 / 133,253 |
| Mitchell, Randall J. | Ecology | 1,275 / 82,882 | 2,045 / 82,882 |
| Reneker, Darrell H. | Polymers | 776 / 133,253 | 671 / 133,253 |
| Ramlo, Susan E. | Education | — | 1,254 / 115,687 |
| Shott, Michael J. | Archaeology | 106 / 21,336 | — |
| Ma, Laurence J.C. | Geography | 453 / 21,559 | — |
| Lim, Edward C.R.Y.H. | Chemical Physics | 2,342 / 121,889 | — |
| DellaCorte, Christopher | Mechanical Engineering & Transports | 1,159 / 157,792 | 1,330 / 157,792 |
| Kolcaba, Katharine Y. | Nursing | 499 / 73,697 | 394 / 73,697 |
| Koser, Gerald F. | Organic Chemistry | 2,581 / 188,664 | — |
| Sancaktar, Erol | Polymers | 1,449 / 133,253 | — |
| Youngs, Wiley J. | Organic Chemistry | 3,005 / 188,664 | — |
| von Meerwall, Ernst D. | Polymers | 1,681 / 133,253 | — |
| Rinaldi, Peter L. | Polymers | 1,904 / 133,253 | — |
| Gao, Xiaosheng | Mechanical Engineering & Transports | 2,234 / 157,792 | 3,472 / 157,792 |
| Chase, George G. | Chemical Engineering | 1,897 / 97,821 | — |
| Elrayyah, Ali Y. | Electrical & Electronic Engineering | 2,718 / 133,072 | — |
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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