MD 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).
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researchers on the list
1,519
rank in United States
5,717
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geronemus, Roy G. | Dermatology & Venereal Diseases | 141 / 64,751 | 419 / 64,751 |
| Jencks, Stephen F. | General & Internal Medicine | 912 / 360,081 | 7,352 / 360,081 |
| Prince, Gregory A. | Virology | 803 / 79,508 | — |
| Pert, Candace B. | Neurology & Neurosurgery | 8,091 / 379,830 | — |
| Akhtar, Salman | Psychoanalysis | 26 / 3,511 | 33 / 3,511 |
| Shelton, James D. | Tropical Medicine | 423 / 39,335 | — |
| Pitman, Karen T. | Otorhinolaryngology | 1,049 / 54,521 | — |
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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