Biozentrum, Universität Basel 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).
40
researchers on the list
21
rank in Switzerland
1,493
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigg, Erich A. | Developmental Biology | 77 / 167,121 | 404 / 167,121 |
| Gehring, Walter Jakob | Developmental Biology | 391 / 167,121 | 2,177 / 167,121 |
| Seelig, Joachim | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | 479 / 216,826 | 1,217 / 216,826 |
| Meyer, Urs A. | Pharmacology & Pharmacy | 73 / 166,116 | 1,818 / 166,116 |
| Schwede, Torsten F. | Bioinformatics | 58 / 24,357 | 43 / 24,357 |
| Hall, Michael N. | Developmental Biology | 596 / 167,121 | 1,014 / 167,121 |
| Engel, Jürgen | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | 998 / 216,826 | 3,794 / 216,826 |
| Handschin, Christoph | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | 1,303 / 216,826 | 428 / 216,826 |
| Doetsch, Fiona K. | Neurology & Neurosurgery | 2,357 / 379,830 | 4,110 / 379,830 |
| Dehio, Christoph | Microbiology | 857 / 232,186 | 2,796 / 232,186 |
| Neher, Richard A. | Microbiology | 1,951 / 232,186 | 719 / 232,186 |
| Arber, Silvia | Neurology & Neurosurgery | 2,723 / 379,830 | 2,878 / 379,830 |
| Jenal, Urs | Microbiology | 1,242 / 232,186 | 1,314 / 232,186 |
| Seelig, Anna | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | 1,910 / 216,826 | 2,379 / 216,826 |
| Pieters, Jean | Immunology | 1,507 / 176,292 | 2,832 / 176,292 |
| Scheiffele, Peter | Neurology & Neurosurgery | 3,741 / 379,830 | 4,654 / 379,830 |
| Spang, Anne | Developmental Biology | 1,831 / 167,121 | 2,463 / 167,121 |
| Schirmer, Tilman | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | 2,253 / 216,826 | 3,822 / 216,826 |
| Bumann, Dirk | Microbiology | 1,669 / 232,186 | 2,114 / 232,186 |
| Abrahams, Jan Pieter | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | 2,549 / 216,826 | — |
| Drescher, Knut | Microbiology | — | 1,354 / 232,186 |
| Waterhouse, Andrew Mark | Bioinformatics | — | 210 / 24,357 |
| van Nimwegen, Erik | Developmental Biology | 2,146 / 167,121 | — |
| Keller, Walter E. | Developmental Biology | 2,172 / 167,121 | — |
| Robin, Xavier | Bioinformatics | — | 236 / 24,357 |
| Schwarz, Gerhard | Biophysics | 154 / 21,025 | — |
| Aebí, Ueli | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | 3,406 / 216,826 | — |
| Rosenbusch, Jürg P. | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | 3,424 / 216,826 | — |
| Spiess, Martin | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | 3,451 / 216,826 | — |
| Eberhardt, Jérôme | Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry | — | 388 / 120,621 |
| Camp, Jarrett Gray | Developmental Biology | — | 2,038 / 167,121 |
| Arber, Werner | Microbiology | 2,514 / 232,186 | — |
| Hauri, Hans Peter | Developmental Biology | 2,994 / 167,121 | — |
| Reichert, Heinrich | Developmental Biology | 3,087 / 167,121 | — |
| Hiller, Sebastian | Biophysics | 232 / 21,025 | 85 / 21,025 |
| Jansonius, Johan N. | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | 4,596 / 216,826 | — |
| Basler, Marek | Microbiology | 4,255 / 232,186 | 2,818 / 232,186 |
| Schmidt, Alexander Mareike | Developmental Biology | — | 3,273 / 167,121 |
| Studer, Gabriel | Bioinformatics | — | 502 / 24,357 |
| Maier, Timm | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | — | 2,978 / 216,826 |
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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