Independent Consultant 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).
49
researchers on the list
11
rank in South Africa
1,269
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shaikh, Masood Ali A. | General & Internal Medicine | 953 / 360,081 | 215 / 360,081 |
| Pierce, Glenn F. | Cardiovascular System & Hematology | 1,228 / 249,410 | 1,112 / 249,410 |
| Brinkmann, Volker | Immunology | 958 / 176,292 | 2,158 / 176,292 |
| Ceccarelli, Salvatore | Plant Biology & Botany | 523 / 204,373 | 967 / 204,373 |
| Kostoff, Ronald Neil | Science Studies | 31 / 5,303 | — |
| Blevins, Robert D. | Mechanical Engineering & Transports | 375 / 157,792 | 452 / 157,792 |
| Zalipsky, Samuel | Polymers | 460 / 133,253 | 2,709 / 133,253 |
| Steketee, Richard W. | Tropical Medicine | 90 / 39,335 | 674 / 39,335 |
| Clerc, Maurice | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 1,173 / 517,648 | 3,448 / 517,648 |
| Blake, Terence D. | Chemical Physics | 1,220 / 121,889 | 961 / 121,889 |
| Guiso, Nicole | Microbiology | 1,514 / 232,186 | 3,506 / 232,186 |
| Boyce, Peter R. | Building & Construction | 215 / 56,454 | 558 / 56,454 |
| Hsieh, Jianghsieh | Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging | 503 / 129,561 | 975 / 129,561 |
| Lambert, John M. | Immunology | 2,030 / 176,292 | 1,813 / 176,292 |
| Friedman, Lawrence M. | Cardiovascular System & Hematology | 2,660 / 249,410 | 3,294 / 249,410 |
| Katz, Barry Jay | Geochemistry & Geophysics | 2,231 / 108,013 | 1,222 / 108,013 |
| Lipper, Leslie | Agricultural Economics & Policy | — | 115 / 6,741 |
| Bell, David M. | General & Internal Medicine | 1,309 / 360,081 | — |
| Wongsrichanalai, Chansuda | Tropical Medicine | 250 / 39,335 | — |
| Conole, Gráinne | Education | 801 / 115,687 | — |
| Sutcliffe, John V. | Environmental Engineering | 618 / 68,664 | 1,409 / 68,664 |
| Weers, Jeffry G. | Chemical Physics | 2,354 / 121,889 | 1,932 / 121,889 |
| Frazier, Kendall S. | Toxicology | 562 / 69,049 | 520 / 69,049 |
| Mayne, John | Cultural Studies | — | 46 / 8,723 |
| Lindstrom, Andrew B. | Environmental Sciences | — | 3,042 / 140,934 |
| Combes, Robert David | Toxicology | 656 / 69,049 | — |
| Shenker, Andrew | Pharmacology & Pharmacy | 1,429 / 166,116 | — |
| Bierman, Arlene S. | Health Policy & Services | 410 / 23,941 | 367 / 23,941 |
| Koblinsky, Marge A. | Tropical Medicine | 375 / 39,335 | — |
| Schein, Lawrence B. | Applied Physics | 4,481 / 323,282 | — |
| Meslin, François Xavier | Tropical Medicine | 377 / 39,335 | 818 / 39,335 |
| Ali, Akhter | Energy | — | 5,654 / 371,959 |
| Searls, David B. | Bioinformatics | 389 / 24,357 | — |
| Carter, Stephen K. | Oncology & Carcinogenesis | 6,499 / 377,791 | — |
| Krause, P. R. | Virology | 1,509 / 79,508 | — |
| Ullah, Aman | Agronomy & Agriculture | — | 1,520 / 95,377 |
| Kosen, Soewarta | General & Internal Medicine | 6,752 / 360,081 | 2,448 / 360,081 |
| Feller, Liviu L. | Dentistry | — | 1,112 / 101,728 |
| Dellarco, Vicki L. | Toxicology | 1,409 / 69,049 | — |
| Maffini, Maricel V. | Toxicology | — | 1,086 / 69,049 |
| Post, Rory James | Tropical Medicine | 734 / 39,335 | — |
| Mallick, Mahendra K. | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 7,867 / 517,648 | — |
| Bell, David R. | Tropical Medicine | 793 / 39,335 | — |
| Dice, Dave | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 8,551 / 517,648 | — |
| Hutchings, Catherine J. | Pharmacology & Pharmacy | — | 3,273 / 166,116 |
| Pulford, Graham W. | Networking & Telecommunications | 4,434 / 228,312 | — |
| Babić, Slobodan I. | Networking & Telecommunications | 4,469 / 228,312 | — |
| Kansy, Manfred | Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry | 2,171 / 120,621 | 2,673 / 120,621 |
| Hirschhorn, Norbert H. | General & Internal Medicine | 5,328 / 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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