Oct 27, 2025
Three GSO faculty members are among the two dozen from URI who have been recognized by Stanford/Elsevier as being among the world’s top scientists and most influential researchers.
Stanford University’s Top 2% Scientists list is considered the most prestigious in the world. The listing is based on bibliometric factors contained in the Scopus database provided by Elsevier, a global information analytics company and academic publisher.
“It’s a wonderful honor to see so many members of our URI community included among Stanford’s list of top scientists and researchers,” said URI Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Barbara Wolfe. “Their scholarship reflects the impact of URI and the exceptional opportunities our students have to learn alongside the best in their fields.”
The rankings consider scholars who have published multiple highly cited papers and use various metrics to evaluate the citation impact of researchers’ work over their career and a single year. The rankings are based on citations from 2024.
Among the GSO faculty members recognized are:
- Steven L. D’Hondt, interim dean and professor, oceanography
- Katherine Kelley, professor, oceanography
- Rainer Lohmann, professor, oceanography
This story was written by Kiera Wrage, a senior majoring in public relations at the University of Rhode Island. Kiera is interning in URI’s Department of Communications and Marketing.