The University of North Carolina at Charlotte 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).
55
researchers on the list
380
rank in United States
1,131
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oliver, James D. | Microbiology | 253 / 232,186 | 366 / 232,186 |
| Banks, George Christopher | Business & Management | — | 511 / 68,786 |
| Calhoun, Lawrence G. | Social Psychology | 569 / 27,908 | 450 / 27,908 |
| Khouja, Moutaz J. | Operations Research | 128 / 31,951 | 663 / 31,951 |
| Klibanov, Michael Victor | Applied Mathematics | 124 / 23,982 | 124 / 23,982 |
| Zhou, Lina | Information Systems | 127 / 19,463 | 155 / 19,463 |
| Webb, Justin W. | Business & Management | — | 1,151 / 68,786 |
| Gbur, Greg J. | Optics | 230 / 83,504 | 204 / 83,504 |
| Cartwright, Kelly Branam | Education | 2,080 / 115,687 | 746 / 115,687 |
| Langhinrichsen-Rohling, Jennifer | Criminology | 101 / 14,394 | — |
| Miller, Elizabeth R. | Languages & Linguistics | — | 352 / 25,930 |
| Zhang, Dongsong | Information Systems | 160 / 19,463 | 383 / 19,463 |
| Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, Pilar | Languages & Linguistics | 507 / 25,930 | 388 / 25,930 |
| Marriott, Ian | Neurology & Neurosurgery | 5,066 / 379,830 | 6,401 / 379,830 |
| Bertz, Steven H. | Organic Chemistry | 1,577 / 188,664 | — |
| Chu, Yongqiang | Finance | — | 339 / 16,367 |
| Fried, Nathaniel M. | Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging | 697 / 129,561 | 685 / 129,561 |
| Fan, Wei (David) | Logistics & Transportation | 384 / 32,287 | 342 / 32,287 |
| Thill, Jean Claude | Geography | 369 / 21,559 | 535 / 21,559 |
| Cann, Arnie | Social Psychology | — | 1,041 / 27,908 |
| Bost, Kenneth L. | Immunology | 2,704 / 176,292 | — |
| Mickelson, Roslyn Arlin | Education | 1,143 / 115,687 | 1,495 / 115,687 |
| Evans, Chris J. | Industrial Engineering & Automation | 942 / 131,085 | 2,133 / 131,085 |
| Clemens, Mark G. | Emergency & Critical Care Medicine | 396 / 44,281 | — |
| Helmy, Ahmed A.G. | Networking & Telecommunications | 1,182 / 228,312 | — |
| Astratov, V. N. | Optoelectronics & Photonics | 493 / 140,272 | 2,504 / 140,272 |
| Tyson, Robert K. | Optoelectronics & Photonics | 894 / 140,272 | 427 / 140,272 |
| Browder, Diane M. | Education | 1,127 / 115,687 | — |
| Bai, Lingquan | Energy | — | 5,000 / 371,959 |
| Laditka, James N. | Gerontology | 243 / 13,096 | — |
| Jacobs, Donald J. | Bioinformatics | 365 / 24,357 | — |
| Test, David W. | Rehabilitation | 369 / 31,889 | 504 / 31,889 |
| Oliveira, Paulo Tarso S. | Environmental Engineering | — | 1,041 / 68,664 |
| Bunescu, Rǎzvan C. | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 4,347 / 517,648 | 10,053 / 517,648 |
| Boreman, Glenn D. | Optics | 830 / 83,504 | — |
| Ribarsky, William | Software Engineering | 433 / 24,083 | — |
| Walter, Michael G. | General Chemistry | 818 / 57,505 | 374 / 57,505 |
| Algozzine, Bob | Education | 1,671 / 115,687 | — |
| Hubbard-Turner, Tricia J. | Sport Sciences | 824 / 41,112 | — |
| Reynolds, Thomas L. | Plant Biology & Botany | 3,599 / 204,373 | — |
| Vivero-Escoto, Juan Luis | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | 3,404 / 177,859 | — |
| VanSledright, Bruce A. | Education | 2,241 / 115,687 | — |
| Tang, Wenwu | Geological & Geomatics Engineering | 1,651 / 82,760 | — |
| Xie, Jiang Linda | Networking & Telecommunications | 3,344 / 228,312 | — |
| Powers, Kelly A. | Nursing | — | 1,110 / 73,697 |
| Whitaker, Beth Elise | Cultural Studies | 161 / 8,723 | 187 / 8,723 |
| Raś, Zbigniew W. | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 8,572 / 517,648 | — |
| Her, Tsinghua | Optoelectronics & Photonics | 1,725 / 140,272 | — |
| Slawson, David C. | General & Internal Medicine | 5,065 / 360,081 | — |
| Aggarwal, Ishwar D. | Optoelectronics & Photonics | 2,110 / 140,272 | — |
| Sawhney, Monika S. | General & Internal Medicine | — | 5,173 / 360,081 |
| Fiddy, Michael A. | Optoelectronics & Photonics | 2,699 / 140,272 | — |
| Farahi, Faramarz | Optoelectronics & Photonics | 2,770 / 140,272 | — |
| Mochalov, Leonid Alexandrovich | Optoelectronics & Photonics | — | 2,280 / 140,272 |
| Holleman, Jeremy H. | Electrical & Electronic Engineering | 2,637 / 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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