University of Rhode Island 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).
44
researchers on the list
454
rank in United States
1,377
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prochaska, James O. | Public Health | 22 / 82,273 | 80 / 82,273 |
| Velicer, Wayne F. | Public Health | 47 / 82,273 | 102 / 82,273 |
| Xiao, Jing Jian | Marketing | 110 / 15,920 | 46 / 15,920 |
| Lohmann, Rainer | Environmental Sciences | 183 / 140,934 | 244 / 140,934 |
| Pürrer, Michael | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 1,388 / 164,120 | 194 / 164,120 |
| Kay, Steven M. | Networking & Telecommunications | 177 / 228,312 | 1,009 / 228,312 |
| Schilling, Jean Guy | Geochemistry & Geophysics | 555 / 108,013 | 1,686 / 108,013 |
| Carey, Steven N. | Geochemistry & Geophysics | 980 / 108,013 | 2,150 / 108,013 |
| Bidwell, David | Energy | 4,498 / 371,959 | 1,694 / 371,959 |
| Putnam, H. M. | Marine Biology & Hydrobiology | — | 298 / 54,545 |
| Hobbs, Renee | Education | 859 / 115,687 | 965 / 115,687 |
| Davis, Derek | Nuclear & Particle Physics | — | 1,148 / 164,120 |
| Kouhizadeh, Mahtab | Business & Management | — | 1,757 / 68,786 |
| Middleton, David | Networking & Telecommunications | 765 / 228,312 | 4,273 / 228,312 |
| van Nostrand, William E. | Neurology & Neurosurgery | 5,919 / 379,830 | — |
| Weiss, Nicole Holland | Psychiatry | — | 1,517 / 90,846 |
| Rossi, Joseph S. | Public Health | 950 / 82,273 | — |
| Coiro, Julie | Education | 1,184 / 115,687 | 1,459 / 115,687 |
| Vaccaro, Annemarie | Education | 2,276 / 115,687 | 1,524 / 115,687 |
| Yuan, Chengzhi | Industrial Engineering & Automation | 1,825 / 131,085 | 1,247 / 131,085 |
| Sonnenfeld, Gerald | Immunology | 2,908 / 176,292 | — |
| Durbin, Edward G. | Marine Biology & Hydrobiology | 1,001 / 54,545 | — |
| Snyder, Peter J. | Neurology & Neurosurgery | 7,225 / 379,830 | 6,174 / 379,830 |
| Clark, Phillip G. | Gerontology | 185 / 13,096 | — |
| Wang, Yeqiao | Geological & Geomatics Engineering | — | 1,473 / 82,760 |
| LaPlante, Kerry L. | Microbiology | 3,482 / 232,186 | 2,616 / 232,186 |
| Sadd, Martin H. | Mechanical Engineering & Transports | 1,323 / 157,792 | — |
| Collie, Jeremy S. | Fisheries | 641 / 47,614 | 609 / 47,614 |
| Buckley, Lawrence J. | Fisheries | 715 / 47,614 | — |
| Boothroyd, Geoffrey | Industrial Engineering & Automation | 1,838 / 131,085 | — |
| Pollnac, Richard B. | Fisheries | 795 / 47,614 | — |
| Greenfield, Michael L. | Chemical Physics | — | 2,712 / 121,889 |
| Webb, Jacqueline F. | Anatomy & Morphology | 57 / 8,297 | 148 / 8,297 |
| Willis, Danny Gaylon | Nursing | 1,251 / 73,697 | 856 / 73,697 |
| Rhodes, Christopher T. | Pharmacology & Pharmacy | 2,605 / 166,116 | — |
| Northby, Jan A. | General Physics | 1,979 / 87,024 | — |
| Ota, Yoshitaka | Fisheries | — | 893 / 47,614 |
| Brown, Phyllis R. | Analytical Chemistry | 2,748 / 137,328 | — |
| Menon, Jyothi U. | Biomedical Engineering | — | 1,593 / 74,543 |
| Mather, Thomas N. | Tropical Medicine | 790 / 39,335 | — |
| Reshetnyak, Yana K. | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | — | 4,714 / 216,826 |
| Shen, Jie | Pharmacology & Pharmacy | — | 3,416 / 166,116 |
| Yang, Qing | Distributed Computing | 181 / 9,369 | — |
| Méndez, Alexis | Optoelectronics & Photonics | 3,047 / 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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