University of Colorado at Colorado Springs 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).
17
researchers on the list
869
rank in United States
3,014
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pyszczynski, Tom A. | Social Psychology | 289 / 27,908 | 414 / 27,908 |
| Okun, Michele L. | Neurology & Neurosurgery | 6,721 / 379,830 | 1,972 / 379,830 |
| Camley, Robert E. | Applied Physics | 1,135 / 323,282 | 2,353 / 323,282 |
| Bingham, Andrea Jean | Education | — | 914 / 115,687 |
| Ashkarran, Ali Akbar | Applied Physics | 3,745 / 323,282 | 1,320 / 323,282 |
| Boult, Terrance | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 1,685 / 517,648 | 3,757 / 517,648 |
| Cheney, George E. | Communication & Media Studies | 133 / 16,468 | 468 / 16,468 |
| Coakley, Jay J. | Sport, Leisure & Tourism | — | 362 / 11,605 |
| Benight, Charles C. | Psychiatry | — | 1,314 / 90,846 |
| Littleton, Heather L. | Criminology | 200 / 14,394 | 205 / 14,394 |
| Elsberry, Russell L. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 1,788 / 84,638 | — |
| Knize, David Maurice | Surgery | 1,510 / 146,713 | 2,374 / 146,713 |
| Schmidt, David K. | Aerospace & Aeronautics | 376 / 66,382 | 876 / 66,382 |
| Kalita, Jugal Kumar | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 8,875 / 517,648 | 8,703 / 517,648 |
| Davis, Alan M. | Software Engineering | 473 / 24,083 | — |
| Morris, Nathan B. | Physiology | — | 533 / 26,472 |
| Prinari, Barbara | Mathematical Physics | — | 134 / 6,761 |
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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