Western Washington University 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).
12
researchers on the list
1,100
rank in United States
3,968
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| McLean, Kate C. | Social Psychology | 487 / 27,908 | 306 / 27,908 |
| Purcell, Jennifer E. | Marine Biology & Hydrobiology | 98 / 54,545 | 221 / 54,545 |
| Bunn, Andrew G. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 1,181 / 84,638 | 593 / 84,638 |
| Hooper, David U. | Ecology | 954 / 82,882 | 651 / 82,882 |
| Mallinckrodt, Brent S. | General Psychology & Cognitive Sciences | 15 / 4,120 | 35 / 4,120 |
| Donovan, Todd | Political Science & Public Administration | — | 751 / 27,183 |
| Rusk, Brian G. | Geochemistry & Geophysics | — | 1,288 / 108,013 |
| Gardner, Richard J. | General Mathematics | 781 / 76,268 | 731 / 76,268 |
| Anderson, Kristin L. | Family Studies | 69 / 4,074 | 55 / 4,074 |
| Landis, Wayne G. | Environmental Sciences | 1,112 / 140,934 | — |
| Howard-Snyder, Daniel | Philosophy | — | 246 / 14,569 |
| Earle, Timothy C. | Strategic, Defence & Security Studies | 266 / 32,161 | 334 / 32,161 |
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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