Virginia Tech, Pamplin College of Business 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
1,673
rank in United States
6,287
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sirgy, Joseph M. | Social Psychology | 110 / 27,908 | 74 / 27,908 |
| Xiang, Zheng | Sport, Leisure & Tourism | 103 / 11,605 | 67 / 11,605 |
| Nicolau, Juan Luis | Sport, Leisure & Tourism | 104 / 11,605 | 101 / 11,605 |
| McGehee, Nancy Gard | Sport, Leisure & Tourism | 117 / 11,605 | 175 / 11,605 |
| Singal, Manisha | Sport, Leisure & Tourism | — | 330 / 11,605 |
| Pittman, Jeffrey A. | Accounting | — | 183 / 7,240 |
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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