Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 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).
101
researchers on the list
244
rank in United States
678
rank worldwide, of 38,384
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| Name | Subfield | Career | Single-year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hart, Stanley R. | Geochemistry & Geophysics | 29 / 108,013 | 144 / 108,013 |
| Anderson, Donald M. | Marine Biology & Hydrobiology | 15 / 54,545 | 27 / 54,545 |
| Buesseler, Ken O. | Oceanography | 4 / 16,622 | 8 / 16,622 |
| Caswell, Hal | Ecology | 216 / 82,882 | 612 / 82,882 |
| Hayes, John M. | Geochemistry & Geophysics | 202 / 108,013 | 453 / 108,013 |
| Keigwin, Lloyd D. | Paleontology | 30 / 23,292 | 241 / 23,292 |
| deMenocal, Peter B. | Geochemistry & Geophysics | 308 / 108,013 | 250 / 108,013 |
| Sholkovitz, Edward R. | Geochemistry & Geophysics | 332 / 108,013 | 476 / 108,013 |
| Apprill, Amy M. | Marine Biology & Hydrobiology | 807 / 54,545 | 101 / 54,545 |
| Stegeman, John J. | Toxicology | 100 / 69,049 | 1,067 / 69,049 |
| Mahadevan, Amala | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 1,123 / 84,638 | 526 / 84,638 |
| McGillicuddy, Dennis J. | Oceanography | 42 / 16,622 | 21 / 16,622 |
| Geyer, Wayne Rockwell | Oceanography | 26 / 16,622 | 28 / 16,622 |
| German, Christopher R. | Geochemistry & Geophysics | 501 / 108,013 | 396 / 108,013 |
| Seewald, Jeffrey S. | Geochemistry & Geophysics | 696 / 108,013 | 418 / 108,013 |
| Lentz, Steven J. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 500 / 84,638 | 940 / 84,638 |
| Solow, Andrew R. | Ecology | 619 / 82,882 | — |
| Yu, Lisan | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 964 / 84,638 | 676 / 84,638 |
| Hansel, Colleen M. | Geochemistry & Geophysics | 1,459 / 108,013 | 522 / 108,013 |
| Pickart, Robert S. | Oceanography | 40 / 16,622 | 64 / 16,622 |
| Jannasch, Holger Windekilde | Microbiology | 974 / 232,186 | — |
| Bernhard, Joan M. | Paleontology | 128 / 23,292 | 416 / 23,292 |
| Pedlosky, Joseph | Oceanography | 44 / 16,622 | — |
| Kujawinski, Elizabeth B. | Marine Biology & Hydrobiology | 609 / 54,545 | 200 / 54,545 |
| Spall, Michael A. | Oceanography | 47 / 16,622 | 104 / 16,622 |
| Kurz, Mark David | Geochemistry & Geophysics | 699 / 108,013 | 1,782 / 108,013 |
| Price, James F. | Oceanography | 92 / 16,622 | 43 / 16,622 |
| Waterbury, John B. | Microbiology | 1,161 / 232,186 | 1,544 / 232,186 |
| Honjo, Susumu | Oceanography | 62 / 16,622 | 164 / 16,622 |
| Thorrold, Simon R. | Marine Biology & Hydrobiology | 345 / 54,545 | 539 / 54,545 |
| Schmitt, Raymond W. | Oceanography | 87 / 16,622 | 65 / 16,622 |
| Murray, Richard W. | Geochemistry & Geophysics | 1,214 / 108,013 | 769 / 108,013 |
| Shimizu, Nobumichi | Geochemistry & Geophysics | 991 / 108,013 | — |
| Elgar, Steve | Oceanography | 95 / 16,622 | 125 / 16,622 |
| Chave, Alan D. | Geochemistry & Geophysics | 1,014 / 108,013 | 1,650 / 108,013 |
| Charette, Matthew A. | Oceanography | 96 / 16,622 | 77 / 16,622 |
| Reddy, Christoper M. | Environmental Sciences | 478 / 140,934 | 2,018 / 140,934 |
| Polzin, Kurt L. | Oceanography | 141 / 16,622 | 61 / 16,622 |
| Fogarty, Michael J. | Fisheries | 148 / 47,614 | 292 / 47,614 |
| Frankignoul, Claude J. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 1,132 / 84,638 | — |
| Beardsley, Robert C. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 1,138 / 84,638 | — |
| Weller, Robert Andrew | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | 1,139 / 84,638 | — |
| Steele, John H. | Oceanography | 123 / 16,622 | 353 / 16,622 |
| Repeta, Daniel James | Geochemistry & Geophysics | 1,265 / 108,013 | 1,151 / 108,013 |
| Peucker-Ehrenbrink, Bernhard | Geochemistry & Geophysics | 1,344 / 108,013 | 1,082 / 108,013 |
| Galy, Valier V. | Geochemistry & Geophysics | — | 1,134 / 108,013 |
| Richardson, Philip L. | Oceanography | 140 / 16,622 | 167 / 16,622 |
| Saito, Mak A. | Marine Biology & Hydrobiology | 643 / 54,545 | 440 / 54,545 |
| Oppo, Delia W. | Paleontology | 376 / 23,292 | — |
| Stanton, Timothy K. | Acoustics | 191 / 38,987 | 544 / 38,987 |
| Wiebe, Peter Howard | Oceanography | 147 / 16,622 | 322 / 16,622 |
| Foote, Kenneth G. | Oceanography | 151 / 16,622 | 367 / 16,622 |
| Chapman, David C. | Oceanography | 153 / 16,622 | 320 / 16,622 |
| Donnelly, Jeffrey P. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | — | 1,707 / 84,638 |
| Whitehead, John A. | Fluids & Plasmas | 841 / 58,297 | — |
| Pineda, Jesús | Marine Biology & Hydrobiology | 726 / 54,545 | — |
| Helfrich, Karl R. | Fluids & Plasmas | 853 / 58,297 | — |
| Gaetani, Glenn A. | Geochemistry & Geophysics | 1,670 / 108,013 | 1,845 / 108,013 |
| Brink, Kenneth H. | Oceanography | 178 / 16,622 | 217 / 16,622 |
| Ummenhofer, Caroline C. | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | — | 1,908 / 84,638 |
| Klein, Frieder | Geochemistry & Geophysics | — | 1,392 / 108,013 |
| Humphris, Susan E. | Geochemistry & Geophysics | 1,836 / 108,013 | — |
| Toole, John M. | Oceanography | 196 / 16,622 | 235 / 16,622 |
| Deuser, Werner G. | Oceanography | 203 / 16,622 | — |
| Nowacek, Douglas P. | Marine Biology & Hydrobiology | 1,028 / 54,545 | 575 / 54,545 |
| Jayne, Steven R. | Oceanography | 215 / 16,622 | 132 / 16,622 |
| Huang, Ruixin | Oceanography | 219 / 16,622 | 157 / 16,622 |
| Stommel, Henry M. | Oceanography | 220 / 16,622 | 366 / 16,622 |
| Tucholke, Brian E. | Geochemistry & Geophysics | 2,100 / 108,013 | — |
| Moore, Michael John | Marine Biology & Hydrobiology | — | 644 / 54,545 |
| Bacon, Michael P. | Geochemistry & Geophysics | 2,161 / 108,013 | — |
| Mullineaux, Lauren S. | Marine Biology & Hydrobiology | 1,041 / 54,545 | — |
| Baumgartner, Mark F. | Marine Biology & Hydrobiology | — | 701 / 54,545 |
| Madin, Laurence P. | Marine Biology & Hydrobiology | 1,138 / 54,545 | — |
| Davis, Cabell S. | Oceanography | 254 / 16,622 | — |
| Tivey, Margaret Kingston | Geochemistry & Geophysics | 2,351 / 108,013 | — |
| Barry, Peter H. | Geochemistry & Geophysics | — | 1,889 / 108,013 |
| Edgcomb, Virginia P. | Microbiology | 3,420 / 232,186 | 3,103 / 232,186 |
| Hunt, John M. | Geochemistry & Geophysics | — | 2,092 / 108,013 |
| Gawarkiewicz, Glen G. | Oceanography | 300 / 16,622 | 209 / 16,622 |
| Emery, Kenneth O. | Geology | 260 / 17,936 | — |
| Hogg, Nelson G. | Oceanography | 328 / 16,622 | — |
| Blumer, Max | Analytical Chemistry | 1,257 / 137,328 | — |
| Van Mooy, Benjamin A.S. | Marine Biology & Hydrobiology | — | 907 / 54,545 |
| Weinstein, Ehud | Networking & Telecommunications | 1,726 / 228,312 | — |
| McCartney, Michael S. | Oceanography | 368 / 16,622 | — |
| Gast, Rebecca J. | Microbiology | 4,273 / 232,186 | — |
| Sayigh, Laela S. | Marine Biology & Hydrobiology | — | 1,043 / 54,545 |
| Mooney, T. Aran | Marine Biology & Hydrobiology | — | 1,064 / 54,545 |
| Braun, Camrin D. | Marine Biology & Hydrobiology | — | 1,065 / 54,545 |
| Jin, Di | Fisheries | 690 / 47,614 | 544 / 47,614 |
| Lynch, James F. | Acoustics | 605 / 38,987 | — |
| Goldstone, Jared V. | Toxicology | 1,071 / 69,049 | 1,372 / 69,049 |
| Todd, Robert E. | Oceanography | — | 269 / 16,622 |
| Colosi, John A. | Acoustics | 656 / 38,987 | 672 / 38,987 |
| Arostegui, Martin C. | Fisheries | — | 784 / 47,614 |
| Lin, Yingtsong | Acoustics | — | 652 / 38,987 |
| Scully, Malcolm E. | Oceanography | — | 338 / 16,622 |
| Aluru, Neelakanteswar | Toxicology | — | 1,325 / 69,049 |
| Grosenbaugh, Mark A. | Civil Engineering | 1,391 / 67,736 | — |
| Michel, Anna Pauline Miranda | Optics | 1,821 / 83,504 | — |
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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