The World Bank, USA 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).
37
researchers on the list
525
rank in United States
1,600
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ravallion, Martin | Economics | 17 / 54,592 | 71 / 54,592 |
| Hallegatte, Stéphane | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 259 / 84,638 | 85 / 84,638 |
| Mckenzie, David J. | Economics | 155 / 54,592 | 110 / 54,592 |
| Wagstaff, Adam | Health Policy & Services | 18 / 23,941 | 7 / 23,941 |
| Deininger, Klaus W. | Development Studies | 8 / 5,287 | 11 / 5,287 |
| Knack, Stephen F. | Economics | 127 / 54,592 | 226 / 54,592 |
| Klapper, Leora F. | Finance | 121 / 16,367 | 94 / 16,367 |
| Mensah, Justice Tei | Environmental Sciences | 1,594 / 140,934 | 486 / 140,934 |
| Timilsina, Govinda R. | Energy | 1,059 / 371,959 | 609 / 371,959 |
| Jongman, Brenden | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | — | 612 / 84,638 |
| Loayza, Norman V. | Economics | 1,002 / 54,592 | 532 / 54,592 |
| Fischer, Carolyn | Agricultural Economics & Policy | 56 / 6,741 | 65 / 6,741 |
| Kose, M. Ayhan | Economics | 903 / 54,592 | 757 / 54,592 |
| Christiaensen, Luc J.M. | Agricultural Economics & Policy | — | 72 / 6,741 |
| Mercure, Jean François | Energy | 3,701 / 371,959 | 2,060 / 371,959 |
| Gnangnon, Sèna Kimm | Economics | — | 837 / 54,592 |
| Dang, Hai Anh H. | Economics | — | 888 / 54,592 |
| Rentschler, Jun E. | Environmental Sciences | — | 1,735 / 140,934 |
| Filmer, Deon P. | Economics | 699 / 54,592 | 1,124 / 54,592 |
| Goodland, Robert J.A. | Ecology | — | 1,784 / 82,882 |
| Semieniuk, Gregor | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | — | 1,907 / 84,638 |
| Carletto, Calogero | Development Studies | — | 104 / 5,287 |
| Jacoby, Hanan G. | Economics | 945 / 54,592 | — |
| Rao, Vijayendra | Development Studies | 89 / 5,287 | 108 / 5,287 |
| Cernea, Michael M. | Development Studies | 88 / 5,287 | — |
| Mattoo, Aaditya | Economics | 1,039 / 54,592 | — |
| Pagiola, Stefano | Agricultural Economics & Policy | 125 / 6,741 | — |
| Job, Raymond Franklin Soames | Logistics & Transportation | 267 / 32,287 | — |
| Azhar, Gulrez Shah | General & Internal Medicine | 7,180 / 360,081 | 1,906 / 360,081 |
| Heltberg, Rasmus | Agricultural Economics & Policy | 137 / 6,741 | — |
| de Walque, Damien | Public Health | 1,707 / 82,273 | — |
| Bose, Ranjan Kumar | Networking & Telecommunications | 2,123 / 228,312 | — |
| Braimoh, Ademola K. | Agronomy & Agriculture | 1,514 / 95,377 | — |
| Serageldin, Ismail | Environmental Engineering | 1,510 / 68,664 | — |
| Chattopadhyay, Deb Mrs | Energy | 5,322 / 371,959 | — |
| Barnes, Douglas F. | Energy | 6,478 / 371,959 | — |
| Requejo, Jennifer Harris | General & Internal Medicine | — | 4,372 / 360,081 |
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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