The World Bank Group 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).
9
researchers on the list
1,308
rank in United States
4,872
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kraay, Aart C. | Economics | 484 / 54,592 | 317 / 54,592 |
| Woolcock, Michael J.V. | Development Studies | 27 / 5,287 | 35 / 5,287 |
| Khandker, Shahidur R. | Development Studies | 65 / 5,287 | 50 / 5,287 |
| Shiferaw, Bekele | Agricultural Economics & Policy | — | 74 / 6,741 |
| Wheeler, David M. | Development Studies | 52 / 5,287 | 75 / 5,287 |
| Chopra, Mickey | General & Internal Medicine | 977 / 360,081 | 2,521 / 360,081 |
| Dasgupta, Susmita | Agricultural Economics & Policy | — | 109 / 6,741 |
| Setyowati, Abidah | Energy | — | 4,193 / 371,959 |
| Evans, David B. | Health Policy & Services | 383 / 23,941 | — |
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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