Michael Smith Laboratories 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).
14
researchers on the list
105
rank in Canada
3,525
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finlay, B. Brett | Microbiology | 48 / 232,186 | 90 / 232,186 |
| WITHERS, Stephen G. | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | 616 / 216,826 | 1,535 / 216,826 |
| Bohlmann, Joerg | Plant Biology & Botany | 413 / 204,373 | 1,045 / 204,373 |
| Snutch, Terrance P. | Neurology & Neurosurgery | 2,822 / 379,830 | 7,547 / 379,830 |
| Miller, Freda D. | Neurology & Neurosurgery | 3,077 / 379,830 | — |
| Kronstad, James W. | Microbiology | 1,457 / 232,186 | 2,881 / 232,186 |
| Pavlidis, Paul | Bioinformatics | 152 / 24,357 | — |
| Hieter, Philip A. | Developmental Biology | 2,300 / 167,121 | — |
| Ellis, Brian E. | Plant Biology & Botany | 1,146 / 204,373 | — |
| Zandstra, Peter W. | Developmental Biology | 2,990 / 167,121 | — |
| Tokuriki, Nobuhiko | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | — | 1,923 / 216,826 |
| Li, Xin | Plant Biology & Botany | — | 3,318 / 204,373 |
| McAfee, Alison | Entomology | — | 641 / 40,595 |
| Kilburn, Douglas G. | Biotechnology | 1,428 / 69,700 | — |
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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