Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences 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
1,519
rank in United States
5,717
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Emerson, David Frederic | Microbiology | 975 / 232,186 | 658 / 232,186 |
| Stepanauskas, Ramunas | Microbiology | 1,522 / 232,186 | 1,023 / 232,186 |
| Lomas, Michael W. | Marine Biology & Hydrobiology | 605 / 54,545 | 694 / 54,545 |
| Balch, William Mc Kay | Marine Biology & Hydrobiology | 634 / 54,545 | 463 / 54,545 |
| Guillard, Robert R.L. | Marine Biology & Hydrobiology | 672 / 54,545 | — |
| Yentsch, Charles S. | Marine Biology & Hydrobiology | 1,156 / 54,545 | — |
| Orcutt, Beth N. | Microbiology | — | 4,400 / 232,186 |
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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