William & Mary 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).
41
researchers on the list
479
rank in United States
1,457
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tschannen-Moran, Megan | Education | 221 / 115,687 | 138 / 115,687 |
| Gosden, Roger G. | Obstetrics & Reproductive Medicine | 81 / 105,735 | 917 / 105,735 |
| Schmidt, Douglas C. | Software Engineering | 28 / 24,083 | 136 / 24,083 |
| Shi, Junping | General Mathematics | 275 / 76,268 | 103 / 76,268 |
| Thrash, Todd M. | Social Psychology | — | 707 / 27,908 |
| Carlson, Carl Edwin | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 1,022 / 164,120 | 2,859 / 164,120 |
| Carone, Christopher D. | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 1,146 / 164,120 | — |
| Gross, Franz | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 1,154 / 164,120 | — |
| Sher, Marc A. | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 1,162 / 164,120 | 3,466 / 164,120 |
| Deschenes, Michael R. | Sport Sciences | 265 / 41,112 | 345 / 41,112 |
| Orginos, Kostas N. | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 1,235 / 164,120 | 3,010 / 164,120 |
| Swaddle, John P. | Behavioral Science & Comparative Psychology | 253 / 13,044 | — |
| Johnson, Charles Royal | Numerical & Computational Mathematics | 116 / 17,431 | 235 / 17,431 |
| Li, Chikwong | Numerical & Computational Mathematics | 131 / 17,431 | 248 / 17,431 |
| Locke, Karen | Business & Management | — | 1,887 / 68,786 |
| Dudek, Jozef J. | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 1,954 / 164,120 | 1,289 / 164,120 |
| Poshyvanyk, Denys | Software Engineering | 179 / 24,083 | 209 / 24,083 |
| Kim, Kyung-hee | Social Psychology | — | 1,007 / 27,908 |
| Kirkpatrick, Lee A. | Social Psychology | 804 / 27,908 | — |
| Blakey, Michael L. | Anthropology | — | 111 / 10,039 |
| Settle, Jaime E. | Political Science & Public Administration | — | 839 / 27,183 |
| VanTassel-Baska, Joyce L. | Education | 791 / 115,687 | 2,215 / 115,687 |
| Walecka, John Dirk | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 2,124 / 164,120 | 2,577 / 164,120 |
| Cristol, Daniel Aaron | Environmental Sciences | 1,210 / 140,934 | — |
| Torczon, Virginia J. | Operations Research | 538 / 31,951 | — |
| Rossi, Enrico | Applied Physics | 5,502 / 323,282 | 2,754 / 323,282 |
| Forestell, Catherine A. | Nutrition & Dietetics | — | 932 / 59,506 |
| Krakauer, Henry | Applied Physics | 4,141 / 323,282 | — |
| Conrad, Zach | Nutrition & Dietetics | — | 954 / 59,506 |
| Bosted, Peter E. | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 3,104 / 164,120 | — |
| McKeown, Robert D. | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 3,242 / 164,120 | — |
| Stárnes, William H. | Polymers | 2,173 / 133,253 | — |
| Smith, Gregory Douglas Conradi | Biophysics | 363 / 21,025 | — |
| Lüpke, Gunter | Applied Physics | 6,838 / 323,282 | — |
| Lewis, Robert Michael | Aerospace & Aeronautics | 531 / 66,382 | 1,622 / 66,382 |
| Mikhailov, Eugeniy E. | Nuclear & Particle Physics | — | 3,347 / 164,120 |
| Bracken, Bruce A. | Education | 2,146 / 115,687 | — |
| Pike, Robert D. | Inorganic & Nuclear Chemistry | 1,696 / 86,991 | — |
| Zhou, Gang | Networking & Telecommunications | 2,902 / 228,312 | 4,687 / 228,312 |
| Wilcox, Emily E. | Cultural Studies | — | 148 / 8,723 |
| Shellman, Stephen M. | Strategic, Defence & Security Studies | 521 / 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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