Howard Hughes Medical Institute 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).
31
researchers on the list
596
rank in United States
1,847
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bassler, Bonnie L. | Microbiology | 83 / 232,186 | 74 / 232,186 |
| Ecker, Joseph R. | Developmental Biology | 189 / 167,121 | 185 / 167,121 |
| Chory, Joanne | Plant Biology & Botany | 36 / 204,373 | 152 / 204,373 |
| Parker, Roy R. | Developmental Biology | 247 / 167,121 | 257 / 167,121 |
| Rapoport, Tom A. | Developmental Biology | 273 / 167,121 | 516 / 167,121 |
| Walker, Bruce D. | Virology | 40 / 79,508 | 119 / 79,508 |
| Martienssen, Robert A. | Developmental Biology | 365 / 167,121 | 728 / 167,121 |
| Spradling, Allan C. | Developmental Biology | 381 / 167,121 | 704 / 167,121 |
| Luger, Karolin | Developmental Biology | 520 / 167,121 | 579 / 167,121 |
| Siliciano, Robert F. | Virology | 114 / 79,508 | 212 / 79,508 |
| Page, David C. | Developmental Biology | 709 / 167,121 | 2,607 / 167,121 |
| Gustafsson, Mats G.L. | Microscopy | 13 / 4,178 | 4 / 4,178 |
| Patapoutian, Ardem | Neurology & Neurosurgery | 2,360 / 379,830 | 1,050 / 379,830 |
| Jarvis, Erich D. | Neurology & Neurosurgery | 1,968 / 379,830 | 2,540 / 379,830 |
| Stone, Richard | General & Internal Medicine | 408 / 360,081 | 1,333 / 360,081 |
| Ayres, Janelle S. | Developmental Biology | 3,346 / 167,121 | 969 / 167,121 |
| Seydoux, Géraldine | Developmental Biology | 1,598 / 167,121 | 2,283 / 167,121 |
| Bardwell, James C.A. | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | 1,985 / 216,826 | — |
| Cowan, William Maxwell | Neurology & Neurosurgery | 3,764 / 379,830 | — |
| Walter, Johannes C. | Developmental Biology | 1,768 / 167,121 | — |
| King, Nicole | Developmental Biology | 1,877 / 167,121 | 1,544 / 167,121 |
| Shapiro, Mikhail G. | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | — | 3,220 / 177,859 |
| Bergmann, Dominique C. | Developmental Biology | 2,498 / 167,121 | 1,913 / 167,121 |
| Nathans, Daniel | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | 3,872 / 216,826 | — |
| Biggins, Sue | Developmental Biology | 3,021 / 167,121 | — |
| O'Shea, Erin K. | Developmental Biology | 3,107 / 167,121 | — |
| Dubin, Adrienne E. | Neurology & Neurosurgery | — | 6,413 / 379,830 |
| Talbert, Paul B. | Developmental Biology | — | 3,346 / 167,121 |
| Scheffer, Louis K. | Computer Hardware & Architecture | 250 / 21,014 | — |
| Sahoo, Bikash Ranjan | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | — | 3,393 / 216,826 |
| Zimmer, Jochen | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | — | 4,212 / 216,826 |
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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