Department of Microbiology & Immunology 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).
17
researchers on the list
69
rank in Australia
3,014
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seemann, Torsten | Microbiology | 187 / 232,186 | 20 / 232,186 |
| Heath, William Ross | Immunology | 689 / 176,292 | 1,537 / 176,292 |
| Kallies, Axel | Immunology | 1,567 / 176,292 | 407 / 176,292 |
| Carbone, Francis Francis R. | Immunology | 981 / 176,292 | 1,126 / 176,292 |
| Torresi, Joseph | Virology | 771 / 79,508 | 1,349 / 79,508 |
| Stinear, Timothy Paul | Microbiology | 4,456 / 232,186 | 1,897 / 232,186 |
| Wille, Michelle | Virology | — | 343 / 79,508 |
| Gebhardt, Thomas | Immunology | — | 2,222 / 176,292 |
| Wheatley, Adam Kenneth | Immunology | — | 2,353 / 176,292 |
| Bedoui, Sammy | Immunology | — | 2,386 / 176,292 |
| Karagiannis, Tom C. | Oncology & Carcinogenesis | 5,225 / 377,791 | 6,485 / 377,791 |
| Gilson, Paul R. | Microbiology | 3,750 / 232,186 | — |
| Strugnell, Richard A. | Microbiology | 3,984 / 232,186 | 3,143 / 232,186 |
| Coulson, Barbara S. | Virology | 1,375 / 79,508 | — |
| Wakim, Linda M. | Immunology | — | 3,815 / 176,292 |
| McKay, Matthew R. | Networking & Telecommunications | 3,171 / 228,312 | 4,074 / 228,312 |
| Reading, Patrick C. | Virology | — | 1,505 / 79,508 |
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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