University of Alaska Fairbanks 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chapin, F. Stuart | Ecology | 13 / 82,882 | 56 / 82,882 |
| Hock, Regine | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 353 / 84,638 | 151 / 84,638 |
| Walsh, J. E. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 278 / 84,638 | 467 / 84,638 |
| Sassen, Kenneth | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 402 / 84,638 | 1,861 / 84,638 |
| W Scott Armbruster, W. Scott | Evolutionary Biology | 257 / 31,128 | 229 / 31,128 |
| Walker, Donald A. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 602 / 84,638 | 1,140 / 84,638 |
| Eicken, H. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 635 / 84,638 | 1,258 / 84,638 |
| Akasofu, Syunichi | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 605 / 58,202 | 1,329 / 58,202 |
| Sturm, Matthew | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 794 / 84,638 | 900 / 84,638 |
| Bowyer, R. Terry | Ecology | 848 / 82,882 | — |
| McGuire, Anthony David | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 923 / 84,638 | 1,249 / 84,638 |
| Romanovsky, Vladimir E. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | — | 1,163 / 84,638 |
| Huettmann, Falk H. | Ecology | 1,720 / 82,882 | 1,396 / 82,882 |
| Polyakov, Igor V. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | — | 1,399 / 84,638 |
| Johnstone, Jill F. | Ecology | 1,596 / 82,882 | 1,459 / 82,882 |
| Shaw, Glenn E. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 1,256 / 84,638 | — |
| Bryant, John P. | Ecology | 1,454 / 82,882 | — |
| Kielland, Knut K. | Ecology | 1,483 / 82,882 | — |
| Grant, William Stewart | Evolutionary Biology | 768 / 31,128 | — |
| Barnes, Brian M. | Physiology | 436 / 26,472 | 309 / 26,472 |
| Meyer, Franz Josef | Geological & Geomatics Engineering | 877 / 82,760 | 1,184 / 82,760 |
| Zwieback, Simon | Geological & Geomatics Engineering | — | 1,323 / 82,760 |
| Layer, Paul William | Geochemistry & Geophysics | 2,128 / 108,013 | — |
| Wipfli, Mark S. | Fisheries | 367 / 47,614 | — |
| Abdelhamid, Magdi Tawfik | Plant Biology & Botany | — | 2,353 / 204,373 |
| Verbyla, David L. | Geological & Geomatics Engineering | 779 / 82,760 | — |
| Boone, Richard D. | Agronomy & Agriculture | 856 / 95,377 | — |
| O'Brien, Diane M. | Nutrition & Dietetics | 1,000 / 59,506 | 1,040 / 59,506 |
| Button, Don K. | Microbiology | 4,106 / 232,186 | — |
| Ping, Chienlu | Agronomy & Agriculture | 1,162 / 95,377 | — |
| Mueter, Franz Josef | Fisheries | 772 / 47,614 | 674 / 47,614 |
| Hughes, Nicholas F. | Fisheries | 791 / 47,614 | — |
| Carothers, Courtney | Fisheries | — | 835 / 47,614 |
| Westley, Peter A.H. | Fisheries | — | 853 / 47,614 |
| Prakash, Anupma | Geological & Geomatics Engineering | 1,654 / 82,760 | — |
| Hueffer, Karsten | Veterinary Sciences | — | 1,148 / 72,388 |
| Bandopadhyay, Sukumar | Mining & Metallurgy | 724 / 37,230 | — |
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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