University of North Carolina Wilmington 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).
18
researchers on the list
839
rank in United States
2,890
rank worldwide, of 38,384
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| Name | Subfield | Career | Single-year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pawlik, Joseph R. | Marine Biology & Hydrobiology | 138 / 54,545 | 641 / 54,545 |
| Halanych, Kenneth M. | Evolutionary Biology | 253 / 31,128 | 598 / 31,128 |
| Hancock, Robert D. | Inorganic & Nuclear Chemistry | 318 / 86,991 | 576 / 86,991 |
| Liu, Yan | Education | — | 807 / 115,687 |
| Szmant, Alina M. | Marine Biology & Hydrobiology | 537 / 54,545 | — |
| Mallin, Michael A. | Marine Biology & Hydrobiology | 544 / 54,545 | 813 / 54,545 |
| Baden, Daniel Gerald | Toxicology | 349 / 69,049 | — |
| Emslie, Steven D. | Marine Biology & Hydrobiology | 894 / 54,545 | — |
| Almeida, Paulo F.F. | Biophysics | 192 / 21,025 | 279 / 21,025 |
| Brudney, Jeffrey L. | Political Science & Public Administration | 524 / 27,183 | — |
| Mechling, Linda C. | Rehabilitation | 252 / 31,889 | — |
| Jayaram, Jayanth “Jay” | Operations Research | 452 / 31,951 | — |
| Wright, Jeffrey Lawson Cameron | Organic Chemistry | 2,678 / 188,664 | — |
| Erwin, Patrick M. | Microbiology | — | 4,137 / 232,186 |
| Winebrake, James J. | Energy | 4,215 / 371,959 | — |
| Kemppainen, Jeanne K. | Nursing | 1,348 / 73,697 | — |
| Lutz, Barbara J. | Nursing | 1,370 / 73,697 | 1,351 / 73,697 |
| Ricanek, Karl | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 10,447 / 517,648 | — |
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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