Vanderbilt University School of Nursing 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).
12
researchers on the list
1,100
rank in United States
3,968
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ridner, Sheila Hedden | Oncology & Carcinogenesis | 2,258 / 377,791 | 834 / 377,791 |
| Piano, Mariann R. | Cardiovascular System & Hematology | 2,812 / 249,410 | 939 / 249,410 |
| Kleinpell, Ruth M. | Nursing | 81 / 73,697 | 131 / 73,697 |
| Jeffries, Pamela R. | Nursing | 178 / 73,697 | 351 / 73,697 |
| Hazinski, Mary Fran | Cardiovascular System & Hematology | 3,153 / 249,410 | — |
| Barroso, Julie V. | Nursing | 202 / 73,697 | 1,140 / 73,697 |
| Dreifuerst, Kristina Thomas | Nursing | 1,191 / 73,697 | 713 / 73,697 |
| Chung, Misook Lee | Nursing | 1,030 / 73,697 | 1,269 / 73,697 |
| Goddard, Anna Tielsch | Pediatrics | — | 994 / 81,129 |
| Akard, Terrah Foster | Nursing | — | 1,133 / 73,697 |
| Dietrich, Mary S. | Nursing | — | 1,244 / 73,697 |
| Rhoten, Bethany Andrews | Nursing | — | 1,448 / 73,697 |
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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