Freelance Journalist 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
1,673
rank in United States
6,287
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hunter, Philip | Developmental Biology | 3,040 / 167,121 | 996 / 167,121 |
| Zarocostas, John | General & Internal Medicine | 1,384 / 360,081 | 931 / 360,081 |
| Larkin, Howard D. | General & Internal Medicine | 5,966 / 360,081 | 1,042 / 360,081 |
| Hawkes, Nigel | General & Internal Medicine | 2,379 / 360,081 | 4,708 / 360,081 |
| Landhuis, Esther Wei Yun | General & Internal Medicine | 7,225 / 360,081 | 2,567 / 360,081 |
| Howard, Sally | General & Internal Medicine | — | 6,274 / 360,081 |
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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