Virginia Institute of Marine Science 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
788
rank in United States
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Milliman, John D. | Geology | 9 / 17,936 | 13 / 17,936 |
| Johnson, David Stifler | Computation Theory & Mathematics | 30 / 20,721 | 36 / 20,721 |
| Orth, Robert J.W. | Marine Biology & Hydrobiology | 147 / 54,545 | 230 / 54,545 |
| Kirwan, Matthew L. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | — | 825 / 84,638 |
| Steinberg, Deborah K. | Marine Biology & Hydrobiology | 509 / 54,545 | 277 / 54,545 |
| Musick, John A.Jack | Fisheries | 120 / 47,614 | 422 / 47,614 |
| Hale, Robert C. | Environmental Sciences | 709 / 140,934 | 1,469 / 140,934 |
| Friedrichs, Carl T. | Oceanography | 136 / 16,622 | 121 / 16,622 |
| Brill, Richard W. | Fisheries | 191 / 47,614 | 662 / 47,614 |
| Shields, Jeffrey D. | Marine Biology & Hydrobiology | 666 / 54,545 | 501 / 54,545 |
| Mann, Roger L. | Marine Biology & Hydrobiology | 728 / 54,545 | — |
| Canuel, Elizabeth A. | Marine Biology & Hydrobiology | 803 / 54,545 | 1,082 / 54,545 |
| Burreson, Eugene M. | Mycology & Parasitology | 217 / 29,175 | 587 / 29,175 |
| Wright, Lynn Donelson | Oceanography | 223 / 16,622 | 326 / 16,622 |
| Allen, Standish K. | Fisheries | 298 / 47,614 | 390 / 47,614 |
| Moore, Kenneth A. | Marine Biology & Hydrobiology | 1,016 / 54,545 | — |
| Graves, John E. | Fisheries | 323 / 47,614 | — |
| Zhang, Yinglong Joseph | Oceanography | — | 192 / 16,622 |
| Hoenig, John Maurice | Fisheries | 662 / 47,614 | 1,075 / 47,614 |
| Hilton, Eric J. | Zoology | 319 / 19,073 | 455 / 19,073 |
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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