Institute for Systems Biology 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).
12
researchers on the list
1,100
rank in United States
3,968
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Heath, James R. | Chemical Physics | 89 / 121,889 | 283 / 121,889 |
| Kauffman, Stuart Alan | Evolutionary Biology | 64 / 31,128 | 59 / 31,128 |
| Huang, Sui | Developmental Biology | 324 / 167,121 | 406 / 167,121 |
| Smit, Arian F.A. | Developmental Biology | 1,284 / 167,121 | 865 / 167,121 |
| Shannon, Paul T. | Bioinformatics | 358 / 24,357 | 117 / 24,357 |
| Shmulevich, Ilya | Developmental Biology | 1,334 / 167,121 | 881 / 167,121 |
| Trask, Barbara J. | Genetics & Heredity | 221 / 42,273 | 926 / 42,273 |
| Thorsson, Vesteinn | Developmental Biology | — | 1,060 / 167,121 |
| Baliga, Nitin S. | Microbiology | 3,057 / 232,186 | 3,226 / 232,186 |
| Knijnenburg, Theo A. | Developmental Biology | — | 2,923 / 167,121 |
| Deutsch, Eric W. | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | — | 2,090 / 216,826 |
| Roach, Jared C. | Bioinformatics | 442 / 24,357 | — |
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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