Worcester Polytechnic Institute 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
607
rank in United States
1,896
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sarkis, Joseph | Business & Management | 8 / 68,786 | 8 / 68,786 |
| Sheller, Mimi | Geography | 31 / 21,559 | 17 / 21,559 |
| Mardani, Abbas | Energy | 1,602 / 371,959 | 227 / 371,959 |
| Zhu, Joe | Operations Research | 30 / 31,951 | 481 / 31,951 |
| Saberi, Sara | Business & Management | — | 1,061 / 68,786 |
| Sunar, Berk | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 1,634 / 517,648 | 3,304 / 517,648 |
| Abbasi, Tasneem | Environmental Sciences | 1,956 / 140,934 | 1,880 / 140,934 |
| Kordzadeh, Nima | Information Systems | — | 370 / 19,463 |
| Bursten, Bruce E. | Inorganic & Nuclear Chemistry | 712 / 86,991 | — |
| Weathers, Pamela J. | Plant Biology & Botany | 1,731 / 204,373 | 3,024 / 204,373 |
| Strong, Diane M. | Information Systems | 346 / 19,463 | — |
| Heffernan, Neil T. | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 4,607 / 517,648 | 6,332 / 517,648 |
| Seyed-Yagoobi, Jamal | Mechanical Engineering & Transports | 1,128 / 157,792 | 2,687 / 157,792 |
| Claypool, Mark | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 3,385 / 517,648 | — |
| Schaumont, Patrick Robert | Computer Hardware & Architecture | 140 / 21,014 | 257 / 21,014 |
| Mosco, Umberto | General Mathematics | 1,127 / 76,268 | — |
| Lados, Diana A. | Materials | 4,200 / 330,896 | 4,943 / 330,896 |
| Kazantzis, Nikolaos | Industrial Engineering & Automation | 1,693 / 131,085 | — |
| Wyglinski, Alexander M. | Networking & Telecommunications | 2,254 / 228,312 | — |
| Burnham, Nancy A. | Applied Physics | 6,205 / 323,282 | — |
| Timko, Michael T. | General Physics | 1,559 / 87,024 | 1,291 / 87,024 |
| Xiao, Jing | Industrial Engineering & Automation | 1,833 / 131,085 | — |
| Clements, Kevin A. | Energy | 3,853 / 371,959 | — |
| Tompsett, Geoffrey A. | Energy | 4,735 / 371,959 | — |
| Billiar, Kristen Lawrence | Biomedical Engineering | 1,327 / 74,543 | — |
| Mishra, Brajendra M. | Materials | 4,733 / 330,896 | — |
| Dimentberg, Mikkhail F. | Mechanical Engineering & Transports | 2,407 / 157,792 | — |
| Huang, Xinming | Networking & Telecommunications | — | 4,695 / 228,312 |
| Hyers, Robert W. | Materials | 6,496 / 330,896 | — |
| Sinha, Manish Kumar | Mining & Metallurgy | — | 763 / 37,230 |
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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