Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute 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).
32
researchers on the list
577
rank in United States
1,800
rank worldwide, of 38,384
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| Name | Subfield | Career | Single-year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Karin, Michael J. | Developmental Biology | 1 / 167,121 | 7 / 167,121 |
| Reed, John C. | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | 3 / 216,826 | 82 / 216,826 |
| Kaufman, Randal J. | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | 35 / 216,826 | 41 / 216,826 |
| Salvesen, Guy S. | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | 156 / 216,826 | 475 / 216,826 |
| Pasquale, Elena Bianca | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | 412 / 216,826 | 426 / 216,826 |
| Chun, Jerold J.M. | Neurology & Neurosurgery | 863 / 379,830 | 2,473 / 379,830 |
| Fukuda, Minoru N. | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | 474 / 216,826 | 2,418 / 216,826 |
| Freeze, Hudson H. | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | 741 / 216,826 | 630 / 216,826 |
| Duester, Gregg L. | Developmental Biology | 681 / 167,121 | 946 / 167,121 |
| Millán, José Luís | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | 791 / 216,826 | 394 / 216,826 |
| Ware, Carl F. | Immunology | 653 / 176,292 | 1,223 / 176,292 |
| Adams, P. D. | Developmental Biology | 998 / 167,121 | 511 / 167,121 |
| Ronai, Ze'ev A. | Oncology & Carcinogenesis | 1,167 / 377,791 | 2,691 / 377,791 |
| Yamaguchi, Yu | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | 1,370 / 216,826 | 2,321 / 216,826 |
| Bodmer, Rolf | Developmental Biology | 1,190 / 167,121 | — |
| Stallcup, William B. | Neurology & Neurosurgery | 2,615 / 379,830 | 6,398 / 379,830 |
| Rodionov, Dmitry A. | Microbiology | 1,200 / 232,186 | 1,030 / 232,186 |
| Strongin, Alex Ya | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | 1,858 / 216,826 | — |
| Liddington, Robert C. | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | 1,993 / 216,826 | 4,120 / 216,826 |
| Smith, Jeffrey W. | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | 2,614 / 216,826 | — |
| Scott, David A. | Anesthesiology | 467 / 59,383 | 200 / 59,383 |
| Vuori, Kristiina | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | 2,743 / 216,826 | — |
| Adamson, Eileen D. | Developmental Biology | 2,160 / 167,121 | — |
| Osterman, Andrei L. | Microbiology | 2,271 / 232,186 | 2,653 / 232,186 |
| Dawson, Marcia I. | Oncology & Carcinogenesis | 3,562 / 377,791 | — |
| Fukuda, Michiko N. | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | 3,557 / 216,826 | — |
| Ranscht, Barbara | Neurology & Neurosurgery | 6,271 / 379,830 | — |
| Oshima, Robert G. | Developmental Biology | 2,838 / 167,121 | — |
| Kitada, Shinichi | Oncology & Carcinogenesis | 7,262 / 377,791 | — |
| Spruck, Charles H.I. | Oncology & Carcinogenesis | 7,541 / 377,791 | — |
| Narisawa, Sonoko | Anatomy & Morphology | 80 / 8,297 | 112 / 8,297 |
| Cosford, Nicholas D.P. | Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry | 2,161 / 120,621 | — |
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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