United States Air Force Academy 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
1,219
rank in United States
4,523
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stewart, James J.P. | Chemical Physics | 217 / 121,889 | 802 / 121,889 |
| Hallenbeck, Patrick Clark | Biotechnology | 100 / 69,700 | 158 / 69,700 |
| Wilkes, John S. | Energy | 571 / 371,959 | 2,904 / 371,959 |
| de Visser, Ewart Jan | Human Factors | — | 239 / 16,381 |
| Dekker, Travis J. | Orthopedics | — | 932 / 98,781 |
| Cook, Richard J. | General Physics | 1,454 / 87,024 | — |
| Knize, Randall James | Optics | 904 / 83,504 | — |
| Baird, Leemon C. | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 8,170 / 517,648 | — |
| Font, Gabriel I. | Aerospace & Aeronautics | 1,166 / 66,382 | — |
| Andersen, Geoff P. | Optoelectronics & Photonics | 2,705 / 140,272 | — |
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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