U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs 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).
16
researchers on the list
905
rank in United States
3,173
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kurtzke, John F. | Neurology & Neurosurgery | 221 / 379,830 | 1,157 / 379,830 |
| Sher, Leo M.D. | Psychiatry | 374 / 90,846 | 281 / 90,846 |
| Friedman, Matthew J. | Psychiatry | 445 / 90,846 | 584 / 90,846 |
| Wallin, Mitchell Taylor | Neurology & Neurosurgery | — | 2,251 / 379,830 |
| Hyams, Kenneth Craig | Tropical Medicine | 157 / 39,335 | — |
| Tsan, Minfu | Immunology | 2,087 / 176,292 | — |
| Weinman, Edward J. | Urology & Nephrology | 1,124 / 96,288 | — |
| Dahl, Doris C. | Neurology & Neurosurgery | 7,192 / 379,830 | — |
| Deykin, Daniel | General & Internal Medicine | 1,448 / 360,081 | — |
| Smith, Jeffrey L. | Agronomy & Agriculture | 697 / 95,377 | 2,139 / 95,377 |
| Ersek, M. T. | Nursing | 285 / 73,697 | 1,193 / 73,697 |
| DePalma, Ralph George | Surgery | 1,234 / 146,713 | 2,268 / 146,713 |
| Au, David H. | Respiratory System | 1,427 / 71,926 | 1,301 / 71,926 |
| Johnson, Eric Egan | Orthopedics | 1,375 / 98,781 | — |
| Huang, Grant D. | General & Internal Medicine | 6,303 / 360,081 | 2,750 / 360,081 |
| Guagliardo, Mark F. | Pediatrics | — | 1,034 / 81,129 |
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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