Departement Microbiologie, Immunologie en Transplantatie 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).
23
researchers on the list
20
rank in Belgium
2,348
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maertens, Johan A. | Microbiology | 290 / 232,186 | 140 / 232,186 |
| Hellings, Peter William | Allergy | 154 / 19,768 | 26 / 19,768 |
| Naesens, M. | Surgery | 401 / 146,713 | 49 / 146,713 |
| Neyts, Johan H. | Virology | 189 / 79,508 | 187 / 79,508 |
| Lemey, Philippe | Virology | 870 / 79,508 | 109 / 79,508 |
| Kuypers, Dirk R.J. | Urology & Nephrology | — | 523 / 96,288 |
| Lagrou, Katrien | Microbiology | — | 1,612 / 232,186 |
| Vandamme, Anne Mieke | Virology | 695 / 79,508 | — |
| Baele, Guy | Evolutionary Biology | — | 537 / 31,128 |
| Economou, Anastassios | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | 3,530 / 216,826 | — |
| Bossuyt, Xavier | Immunology | — | 1,852 / 176,292 |
| Pirenne, Jacques P. | Surgery | 990 / 146,713 | 2,595 / 146,713 |
| Jacobs, Jan Adriaan | Microbiology | 3,391 / 232,186 | 2,743 / 232,186 |
| Wilmer, Alexander P. | Emergency & Critical Care Medicine | 486 / 44,281 | 919 / 44,281 |
| Peetermans, Willy Eduard C. | General & Internal Medicine | 1,985 / 360,081 | — |
| Struyf, Sofie | Immunology | — | 2,863 / 176,292 |
| Diamant, Zuzana | Allergy | — | 375 / 19,768 |
| Naesens, Lieve M.J. | Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry | 966 / 120,621 | 2,214 / 120,621 |
| Hill, Verity | Microbiology | — | 4,532 / 232,186 |
| Tito, Raúl Yhossef | Microbiology | — | 4,595 / 232,186 |
| Vanderschueren, Steven M.F. | General & Internal Medicine | 3,785 / 360,081 | 3,899 / 360,081 |
| Leyssen, Pieter | Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry | 1,998 / 120,621 | — |
| van Hoovels, Lieve | General Clinical Medicine | — | 320 / 24,038 |
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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