University of North Carolina 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
1,844
rank in United States
7,046
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Curran, Patrick J. | Social Sciences Methods | 22 / 3,363 | 30 / 3,363 |
| Hostetter, Thomas H. | Urology & Nephrology | 102 / 96,288 | 442 / 96,288 |
| Mulligan, Neil W. | Experimental Psychology | 780 / 37,808 | — |
| Kupper, Lawrence L. | Statistics & Probability | 526 / 24,695 | — |
| Cannada, Lisa K. | Orthopedics | 1,827 / 98,781 | 646 / 98,781 |
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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