Stanford study lists NMSU professors among top 2% worldwide for research citations Minerva Baumann LAS CRUCES - New Mexico State University professors in a number of fields including chemistry and biochemistry, physics, psychology, agriculture and engineering have been listed in a worldwide database of top scientists created by Stanford University and recently published in the journal Public Library of Science Biology. The Stanford study measured scientists’ career-long citation impact up until the end of 2019 and separately for citation impact during the single calendar year of 2019. It lists the top 100,000 scientists in all fields and includes those who are not in the top 100,000 of all research disciplines, but are within the top 2% of scientists of their main subfield discipline.