Salk Institute for Biological Studies 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).
42
researchers on the list
470
rank in United States
1,430
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gage, Fred H. | Neurology & Neurosurgery | 13 / 379,830 | 69 / 379,830 |
| Hunter, Tony R. | Developmental Biology | 12 / 167,121 | 70 / 167,121 |
| Evans, Ronald M. | Developmental Biology | 19 / 167,121 | 80 / 167,121 |
| Panda, Satchidananda | Neurology & Neurosurgery | 939 / 379,830 | 127 / 379,830 |
| Verma, Inder M. | Developmental Biology | 152 / 167,121 | 481 / 167,121 |
| Shaw, Reuben J. | Developmental Biology | 456 / 167,121 | 134 / 167,121 |
| Orgel, Leslie E. | Evolutionary Biology | 85 / 31,128 | 169 / 31,128 |
| Sawchenko, Paul E. | Neurology & Neurosurgery | 776 / 379,830 | 7,107 / 379,830 |
| Maher, Pamela A. | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | 421 / 216,826 | 193 / 216,826 |
| Montminy, Marc R. | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | 438 / 216,826 | 1,213 / 216,826 |
| Tye, Katie M. | Neurology & Neurosurgery | 3,566 / 379,830 | 565 / 379,830 |
| Lemke, Greg E. | Neurology & Neurosurgery | 925 / 379,830 | 747 / 379,830 |
| Callaway, Edward M. | Neurology & Neurosurgery | 929 / 379,830 | 819 / 379,830 |
| Allen, Nicola J. | Neurology & Neurosurgery | 4,734 / 379,830 | 600 / 379,830 |
| Joyce, Gerald F. | Developmental Biology | 562 / 167,121 | 1,017 / 167,121 |
| O'Leary, Dennis D.M. | Neurology & Neurosurgery | 1,300 / 379,830 | — |
| Schubert, David R. | Neurology & Neurosurgery | 1,534 / 379,830 | 3,260 / 379,830 |
| Kaech, Susan M. | Immunology | 1,390 / 176,292 | 368 / 176,292 |
| Belmonte, Juan Carlos | Developmental Biology | 792 / 167,121 | 790 / 167,121 |
| Shadel, Gerald S. | Developmental Biology | 909 / 167,121 | 524 / 167,121 |
| Wahl, Geoffrey M. | Developmental Biology | 1,048 / 167,121 | 2,034 / 167,121 |
| Albright, Thomas D. | Neurology & Neurosurgery | 2,209 / 379,830 | 2,778 / 379,830 |
| Michael, Todd P. | Plant Biology & Botany | 1,202 / 204,373 | 538 / 204,373 |
| Goulding, Martyn D. | Neurology & Neurosurgery | 2,913 / 379,830 | 4,240 / 379,830 |
| Kintner, Chris R. | Developmental Biology | 1,384 / 167,121 | — |
| Dixon, Jesse R. | Developmental Biology | — | 1,184 / 167,121 |
| Hetzer, Martin W. | Developmental Biology | 1,759 / 167,121 | 1,616 / 167,121 |
| Guillemin, Roger C.L.M.J. | Endocrinology & Metabolism | 1,287 / 100,693 | — |
| Noel, Joseph Patrick | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | 2,291 / 216,826 | 1,988 / 216,826 |
| Cohn, Melvin | Immunology | 1,751 / 176,292 | — |
| Trowbridge, Ian Stuart | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | 2,543 / 216,826 | — |
| Jones, Katherine A. | Developmental Biology | 2,087 / 167,121 | — |
| Lyumkis, Dmitry | Developmental Biology | — | 1,794 / 167,121 |
| Karlseder, Jan | Developmental Biology | 2,615 / 167,121 | 3,169 / 167,121 |
| Nimmerjahn, Axel | Neurology & Neurosurgery | 6,019 / 379,830 | 5,040 / 379,830 |
| Poizner, Howard H. | Neurology & Neurosurgery | 6,991 / 379,830 | — |
| LeVay, Simon | Neurology & Neurosurgery | 7,598 / 379,830 | — |
| Sefton, Bartholomew M. | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | 4,714 / 216,826 | — |
| Hargreaves, Diana C. | Developmental Biology | — | 3,606 / 167,121 |
| Busch, Wolfgang | Plant Biology & Botany | — | 3,655 / 204,373 |
| Zheng, Ye | Immunology | — | 3,599 / 176,292 |
| Salk, Jonas E. | General & Internal Medicine | 2,819 / 360,081 | — |
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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