UIUC 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).
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researchers on the list
1,673
rank in United States
6,287
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forsyth, David Alexander | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 347 / 517,648 | 1,322 / 517,648 |
| Tong, Hanghang | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 1,726 / 517,648 | 1,742 / 517,648 |
| Veeravalli, Venugopal V. | Networking & Telecommunications | 388 / 228,312 | 2,688 / 228,312 |
| Rehg, James Matthew | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 1,241 / 517,648 | 3,845 / 517,648 |
| Wang, Gang | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 10,495 / 517,648 | 5,674 / 517,648 |
| Hou, Jennifer C. | Networking & Telecommunications | 5,075 / 228,312 | — |
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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