National Library of Medicine (NLM) 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).
34
researchers on the list
553
rank in United States
1,715
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Galperin, Michael Y. | Microbiology | 139 / 232,186 | 134 / 232,186 |
| Makarova, Kira S. | Developmental Biology | 1,056 / 167,121 | 224 / 167,121 |
| McDonald, Clement Joseph | Medical Informatics | 12 / 22,436 | 134 / 22,436 |
| Bodenreider, Olivier | Medical Informatics | 24 / 22,436 | 39 / 22,436 |
| Lu, Zhiyong | Bioinformatics | 94 / 24,357 | 2,600 / 517,648 |
| Chiang, Michael F. | Ophthalmology & Optometry | 582 / 86,157 | 179 / 86,157 |
| Demner-Fushman, Dina | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 4,710 / 517,648 | 2,403 / 517,648 |
| Nawrocki, Eric P. | Developmental Biology | — | 1,173 / 167,121 |
| Schuler, Gregory D. | Developmental Biology | 2,049 / 167,121 | — |
| Aronson, Alan R. | Medical Informatics | 62 / 22,436 | 421 / 22,436 |
| Wootton, John C. | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | 2,889 / 216,826 | — |
| Wilbur, W. John | Information & Library Sciences | 52 / 15,996 | — |
| Rajaraman, Sivaramakrishnan Krishnan | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | — | 4,135 / 517,648 |
| Landsman, David | Developmental Biology | 2,740 / 167,121 | — |
| Brennan, Patricia Flatley | Medical Informatics | 104 / 22,436 | — |
| Kuivaniemi, Helena S. | Cardiovascular System & Hematology | 3,397 / 249,410 | 4,935 / 249,410 |
| Jin, Qiao | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | — | 5,372 / 517,648 |
| Iyer, Lakshminarayan M. | Developmental Biology | 3,182 / 167,121 | 2,425 / 167,121 |
| Smirniotopoulos, James G. | Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging | 1,034 / 129,561 | — |
| Nelson, Martha Irene | Virology | — | 434 / 79,508 |
| Chen, Qingyu | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | — | 5,757 / 517,648 |
| Yutin, Natalya | Microbiology | 4,643 / 232,186 | 2,591 / 232,186 |
| Przytycka, Teresa M. | Bioinformatics | 342 / 24,357 | — |
| Bolton, Evan E. | Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry | 1,384 / 120,621 | 660 / 120,621 |
| Antani, Sameer K. | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 6,441 / 517,648 | 6,871 / 517,648 |
| Thierry-Mieg, Jean | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 2,921 / 164,120 | — |
| Ostell, James M. | Developmental Biology | — | 3,688 / 167,121 |
| Jaeger, Stefan | Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging | — | 1,227 / 129,561 |
| Scheuermann, Richard H. | Immunology | — | 3,642 / 176,292 |
| Keselman, Alla | Medical Informatics | 292 / 22,436 | 452 / 22,436 |
| Fontelo, Paul A. | Medical Informatics | 429 / 22,436 | 391 / 22,436 |
| Thoma, George R. | Medical Informatics | 367 / 22,436 | — |
| Federer, Lisa M. | Information & Library Sciences | — | 286 / 15,996 |
| Islamaj, Rezarta | Information & Library Sciences | — | 326 / 15,996 |
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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