University of St. Gallen 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
30
rank in Switzerland
2,653
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Byron, Kris | Business & Management | 709 / 68,786 | 423 / 68,786 |
| Wincent, Joakim | Business & Management | 529 / 68,786 | 470 / 68,786 |
| Gassmann, Oliver | Business & Management | 208 / 68,786 | 553 / 68,786 |
| Eling, Martin | Finance | 109 / 16,367 | 123 / 16,367 |
| Steyaert, Chris | Business & Management | 565 / 68,786 | 833 / 68,786 |
| Hofmann, Erik | Business & Management | 1,242 / 68,786 | 943 / 68,786 |
| Emmenegger, Patrick | Political Science & Public Administration | — | 425 / 27,183 |
| Heidegger, Martin | Philosophy | 214 / 14,569 | 83 / 14,569 |
| Eppler, Martin J. | Software Engineering | 123 / 24,083 | 96 / 24,083 |
| Janson, Andreas | Information Systems | — | 209 / 19,463 |
| Wüstenhagen, Rolf | Energy | 2,068 / 371,959 | 2,098 / 371,959 |
| Wettstein, Florian | Applied Ethics | — | 71 / 6,701 |
| Laamanen, Tomi | Business & Management | — | 1,959 / 68,786 |
| Winter, Robert | Information Systems | 223 / 19,463 | — |
| Hodler, Roland | Economics | — | 1,072 / 54,592 |
| von Zedtwitz, Max Joachim | Business & Management | 1,373 / 68,786 | — |
| Borth, Damian S. | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | — | 6,159 / 517,648 |
| Zimmermann, Olaf | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 4,958 / 517,648 | — |
| Weber, Barbara | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 7,121 / 517,648 | 9,694 / 517,648 |
| Gonon, Lukas | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | — | 9,746 / 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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