United States Department of Defense 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).
14
researchers on the list
994
rank in United States
3,525
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reynolds, Douglas A. | Speech-Language Pathology & Audiology | 5 / 13,500 | 44 / 13,500 |
| Ishak, Kamal G. | Gastroenterology & Hepatology | 190 / 113,536 | 1,356 / 113,536 |
| Enzinger, Franz M. | Oncology & Carcinogenesis | 594 / 377,791 | 3,119 / 377,791 |
| Zimmerman, Lorenz E. | Ophthalmology & Optometry | 239 / 86,157 | — |
| MacEra, Caroline A. | Public Health | 488 / 82,273 | — |
| Helwig, Elson B. | Dermatology & Venereal Diseases | 308 / 64,751 | — |
| Heffner, Dennis K. | Pathology | 306 / 26,003 | — |
| McLean, Ian W. | Ophthalmology & Optometry | 1,230 / 86,157 | — |
| Hyams, Vincent J. | Otorhinolaryngology | 612 / 54,521 | — |
| Davis, Charles J. | Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging | 1,910 / 129,561 | — |
| Meyers, Wayne M. | Tropical Medicine | 536 / 39,335 | — |
| Fine, Ben S. | Ophthalmology & Optometry | 1,748 / 86,157 | — |
| Majidi, Vahid | Analytical Chemistry | 2,906 / 137,328 | — |
| Nelson, Douglas J. | Optoelectronics & Photonics | 2,548 / 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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