Nature 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
1,399
rank in United States
5,247
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mallapaty, Smriti | Virology | 243 / 79,508 | 17 / 79,508 |
| Butler, Declan M. | General & Internal Medicine | 260 / 360,081 | 1,096 / 360,081 |
| Ledford, Heidi K. | Plant Biology & Botany | 303 / 204,373 | 451 / 204,373 |
| Waldrop, Mitch Mitchell | Education | 1,033 / 115,687 | 932 / 115,687 |
| Pearson, Helen J.L. | Developmental Biology | 3,195 / 167,121 | — |
| Maddox, John | General & Internal Medicine | 1,565 / 360,081 | — |
| Hodson, Richard | General & Internal Medicine | 4,444 / 360,081 | 1,913 / 360,081 |
| Brumfiel, Geoff | Energy | 2,728 / 371,959 | — |
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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