Faculty of Medical and Health 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).
25
researchers on the list
12
rank in New Zealand
2,195
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ferguson, Lynnette R. | Oncology & Carcinogenesis | 421 / 377,791 | 1,000 / 377,791 |
| Asher, Innes Innes | Respiratory System | 214 / 71,926 | 342 / 71,926 |
| Petrie, Keith J. | Psychiatry | 793 / 90,846 | 1,089 / 90,846 |
| Lam, Lawrence T.M. | Emergency & Critical Care Medicine | 151 / 44,281 | 113 / 44,281 |
| Wiles, Janine L. | Gerontology | 97 / 13,096 | 72 / 13,096 |
| Hetrick, Sarah Elisabeth | Psychiatry | — | 914 / 90,846 |
| Sleigh, James Wallace | Anesthesiology | 245 / 59,383 | 174 / 59,383 |
| Braakhuis, Andrea Jane | Nutrition & Dietetics | 1,245 / 59,506 | 500 / 59,506 |
| Cornish, Jillian | Endocrinology & Metabolism | 1,586 / 100,693 | — |
| Lipski, Janusz | Neurology & Neurosurgery | 5,074 / 379,830 | — |
| Plank, Lindsay Dudley | Nutrition & Dietetics | 558 / 59,506 | 851 / 59,506 |
| Fisher, James P. | Physiology | — | 185 / 26,472 |
| Connolly, Martin J. | Geriatrics | 145 / 14,240 | — |
| Kerse, Ngaire M. | General & Internal Medicine | 1,402 / 360,081 | 2,118 / 360,081 |
| Searchfield, Grant D. | Otorhinolaryngology | 820 / 54,521 | 134 / 54,521 |
| Ramke, Jacqueline | Ophthalmology & Optometry | — | 700 / 86,157 |
| Ameratunga, Shanthi N. | Public Health | 1,475 / 82,273 | — |
| Mccall, John L. | Surgery | 1,489 / 146,713 | — |
| Paxton, J. W. | Pharmacology & Pharmacy | 1,764 / 166,116 | — |
| Swift, Simon | Microbiology | — | 4,052 / 232,186 |
| Reid, Papaarangi M.J. | General & Internal Medicine | 3,877 / 360,081 | 2,887 / 360,081 |
| McAvoy, Brian Ramsay | General & Internal Medicine | 3,004 / 360,081 | — |
| Niederer, Rachael Louise | Ophthalmology & Optometry | — | 1,570 / 86,157 |
| Thomas, Mark Greenslade | General & Internal Medicine | 4,069 / 360,081 | — |
| Alsweiler, Jane M. | Pediatrics | — | 1,490 / 81,129 |
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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