National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) 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).
29
researchers on the list
628
rank in United States
1,953
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Koonin, Eugene V. | Developmental Biology | 3 / 167,121 | 8 / 167,121 |
| Aravind, L. | Developmental Biology | 89 / 167,121 | 242 / 167,121 |
| Altschul, Stephen F. | Bioinformatics | 13 / 24,357 | 23 / 24,357 |
| Kim, Sunghwan | Chemical Physics | 1,047 / 121,889 | 59 / 121,889 |
| Schoch, Conrad L. | Mycology & Parasitology | 156 / 29,175 | 38 / 29,175 |
| Haft, Daniel H. | Microbiology | 1,239 / 232,186 | 508 / 232,186 |
| Wolf, Yuri I. | Developmental Biology | 976 / 167,121 | 643 / 167,121 |
| Boguski, Mark S. | Developmental Biology | 1,060 / 167,121 | — |
| Sayers, Eric W. | Developmental Biology | — | 676 / 167,121 |
| Sherry, Stephen T. | Developmental Biology | 3,448 / 167,121 | 686 / 167,121 |
| Marchler-Bauer, Aron | Developmental Biology | 3,412 / 167,121 | 908 / 167,121 |
| Bryant, Stephen H. | Developmental Biology | 1,390 / 167,121 | — |
| Pruitt, Kim D. | Developmental Biology | 2,184 / 167,121 | 1,216 / 167,121 |
| Barrett, Tanya | Developmental Biology | — | 1,240 / 167,121 |
| Agarwala, Richa | Bioinformatics | 190 / 24,357 | 290 / 24,357 |
| Landrum, Melissa J. | Developmental Biology | — | 1,589 / 167,121 |
| Madden, Thomas L. | Developmental Biology | — | 1,902 / 167,121 |
| Karsch-Mizrachi, Ilene | Developmental Biology | — | 1,952 / 167,121 |
| Wang, Jiyao | Developmental Biology | — | 2,420 / 167,121 |
| Spouge, John L. | Bioinformatics | 282 / 24,357 | — |
| Feldgarden, Michael | Microbiology | — | 2,419 / 232,186 |
| Cheng, Tiejun | Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry | 2,778 / 120,621 | 597 / 120,621 |
| Edgar, Ron | Developmental Biology | — | 3,132 / 167,121 |
| Clark, Karen L. | Developmental Biology | — | 3,484 / 167,121 |
| Ye, Jian | Developmental Biology | — | 3,565 / 167,121 |
| Brister, James Rodney | Virology | — | 874 / 79,508 |
| Leipe, Detlef D. | Mycology & Parasitology | 647 / 29,175 | — |
| Li, Qingliang | Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry | — | 2,131 / 120,621 |
| Chakravarty, Devlina | Biophysics | — | 382 / 21,025 |
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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