UC Merced 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).
33
researchers on the list
563
rank in United States
1,759
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hagger, Martin S. | Sport Sciences | 10 / 41,112 | 1 / 41,112 |
| Yang, Ming-Hsuan | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 46 / 517,648 | 127 / 517,648 |
| Chen, Yangquan | Industrial Engineering & Automation | 71 / 131,085 | 125 / 131,085 |
| Modest, Michael F. | Mechanical Engineering & Transports | 71 / 157,792 | 200 / 157,792 |
| Kolden, Crystal A. | Ecology | — | 405 / 82,882 |
| Westerling, Anthony L. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 789 / 84,638 | 386 / 84,638 |
| Shadish, William R. | Social Sciences Methods | 29 / 3,363 | 87 / 3,363 |
| Berhe, Asmeret Asefaw | Agronomy & Agriculture | 480 / 95,377 | 169 / 95,377 |
| Kelley, Anne Myers | Chemical Physics | 677 / 121,889 | — |
| Muñoz, Victor | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | 1,848 / 216,826 | 3,632 / 216,826 |
| Depaoli, Sarah A. | Social Sciences Methods | — | 93 / 3,363 |
| Golash-Boza, Tanya Maria | Sociology | 302 / 12,471 | 223 / 12,471 |
| Pett-Ridge, Jennifer | Microbiology | — | 1,121 / 232,186 |
| Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina | Economics | 692 / 54,592 | 804 / 54,592 |
| Cameron, Linda D. | Public Health | 663 / 82,273 | 1,240 / 82,273 |
| Thakur, Amrit Kumar | Energy | — | 2,337 / 371,959 |
| Dawson, Michael N. | Marine Biology & Hydrobiology | 624 / 54,545 | — |
| Tian, Lin | General Physics | 532 / 87,024 | 729 / 87,024 |
| Nobile, Clarissa J. | Microbiology | — | 1,534 / 232,186 |
| Dumont, Elizabeth Rachel | Evolutionary Biology | 765 / 31,128 | 520 / 31,128 |
| Vafapour, Zohreh | Optics | 796 / 83,504 | 388 / 83,504 |
| Ha, Sandie Uyen | Toxicology | 1,507 / 69,049 | 360 / 69,049 |
| Ghezzehei, Teamrat A. | Environmental Engineering | 1,035 / 68,664 | 652 / 68,664 |
| Innes, Robert D. | Economics | 890 / 54,592 | — |
| O'Day, Peggy A. | Environmental Sciences | 918 / 140,934 | — |
| Aldenderfer, Mark Steven | Archaeology | 146 / 21,336 | 113 / 21,336 |
| Bradman, Asa | Toxicology | 719 / 69,049 | 586 / 69,049 |
| Meza, J. C. | Numerical & Computational Mathematics | — | 315 / 17,431 |
| Du, Wan | Networking & Telecommunications | — | 3,941 / 228,312 |
| Kim, Arnold D. | Optics | 1,501 / 83,504 | — |
| Cerpa, Alberto E. | Networking & Telecommunications | 4,761 / 228,312 | — |
| Li, Dong | Distributed Computing | — | 118 / 9,369 |
| Ren, Jie | Distributed Computing | — | 144 / 9,369 |
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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