Division of Vital Statistics 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
1,844
rank in United States
7,046
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Heron, Melonie P. | Obstetrics & Reproductive Medicine | 246 / 105,735 | 183 / 105,735 |
| Xu, Jiaquan | Obstetrics & Reproductive Medicine | 493 / 105,735 | 279 / 105,735 |
| Murphy, Sherry L. | Obstetrics & Reproductive Medicine | 893 / 105,735 | 1,575 / 105,735 |
| Anderson, Robert N. | Obstetrics & Reproductive Medicine | 2,057 / 105,735 | — |
| Kochanek, Kenneth D. | Obstetrics & Reproductive Medicine | 2,255 / 105,735 | 1,626 / 105,735 |
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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