Leuven Brain 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).
13
researchers on the list
31
rank in Belgium
3,749
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vancampfort, Davy | Psychiatry | 1,092 / 90,846 | 220 / 90,846 |
| Swinnen, S. Patrick | Neurology & Neurosurgery | 1,044 / 379,830 | 1,017 / 379,830 |
| Wagemans, Johan P. | Experimental Psychology | 305 / 37,808 | 364 / 37,808 |
| Vogels, Rufin | Neurology & Neurosurgery | 3,151 / 379,830 | — |
| van Hulle, Marc M. | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 1,800 / 517,648 | — |
| Op de Beeck, Hans P. | Neurology & Neurosurgery | 5,506 / 379,830 | 6,250 / 379,830 |
| Van Den Bergh, Bea R.H. | Experimental Psychology | 1,099 / 37,808 | 1,082 / 37,808 |
| Vanduffel, Wim | Neurology & Neurosurgery | 7,342 / 379,830 | — |
| Montaldo, Gabriel | Acoustics | — | 407 / 38,987 |
| Verheyden, Geert S.A.F. | Rehabilitation | — | 411 / 31,889 |
| de Vleeschouwer, Steven | Oncology & Carcinogenesis | — | 6,584 / 377,791 |
| Coppieters, Iris | Anesthesiology | — | 1,050 / 59,383 |
| van Laere, Koen | Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging | — | 2,573 / 129,561 |
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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