Institute of Biology Leiden 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).
21
researchers on the list
38
rank in Netherlands
2,543
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Raaijmakers, Jos M. | Microbiology | 703 / 232,186 | 151 / 232,186 |
| Slabbekoorn, Hans | Behavioral Science & Comparative Psychology | 90 / 13,044 | 23 / 13,044 |
| Kovács, Ákos T. | Microbiology | 3,531 / 232,186 | 459 / 232,186 |
| Balazadeh, Salma | Plant Biology & Botany | 1,934 / 204,373 | 622 / 204,373 |
| Choi, Y. H. | Plant Biology & Botany | 1,761 / 204,373 | 626 / 204,373 |
| Meijer, Alfred J. | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | 1,707 / 216,826 | 2,003 / 216,826 |
| Bezemer, T. Martijn | Ecology | — | 1,158 / 82,882 |
| Richardson, Michael Keith | Developmental Biology | 1,739 / 167,121 | 2,247 / 167,121 |
| Ten Cate, Carel J. | Behavioral Science & Comparative Psychology | 259 / 13,044 | 281 / 13,044 |
| Memelink, Johan | Plant Biology & Botany | 1,056 / 204,373 | 3,099 / 204,373 |
| Hooykaas, Paul J.J. | Plant Biology & Botany | 1,081 / 204,373 | — |
| Meijer, Annemarie H. | Developmental Biology | 2,257 / 167,121 | 2,403 / 167,121 |
| Van Wezel, Gilles P. | Microbiology | 4,401 / 232,186 | 1,679 / 232,186 |
| Linthorst, Huub J.M. | Plant Biology & Botany | 1,822 / 204,373 | — |
| Ding, Pingtao | Plant Biology & Botany | — | 2,237 / 204,373 |
| Lens, Frederic | Plant Biology & Botany | — | 2,553 / 204,373 |
| Witte, Frans | Zoology | 116 / 19,073 | — |
| Visser, Jaap | Microbiology | 4,239 / 232,186 | — |
| Udo de Haes, Helias A. | Environmental Sciences | 2,021 / 140,934 | — |
| Martin, Nathaniel I. | Organic Chemistry | — | 3,593 / 188,664 |
| Kijne, Jan Willem | Plant Biology & Botany | 4,318 / 204,373 | — |
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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