Virginia Mason Medical Center 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kozarek, Richard A. | Gastroenterology & Hepatology | 193 / 113,536 | 1,060 / 113,536 |
| Low, Donald E. | Microbiology | 363 / 232,186 | 3,471 / 232,186 |
| Low, Donald Edward | Surgery | 526 / 146,713 | 306 / 146,713 |
| Aboulafia, David M. | Oncology & Carcinogenesis | 3,112 / 377,791 | — |
| Plsek, Paul E. | Health Policy & Services | 310 / 23,941 | — |
| Thirlby, Richard C. | Surgery | 1,054 / 146,713 | — |
| Mulroy, Michael F. | Anesthesiology | 610 / 59,383 | — |
| Helton, William Scott | Surgery | 1,365 / 146,713 | — |
| Moore, Daniel C. | Anesthesiology | 771 / 59,383 | — |
| Irani, Shayan S. | Gastroenterology & Hepatology | — | 2,125 / 113,536 |
| Lin, Eugene C. | Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging | 2,765 / 129,561 | — |
| Ryan, John A. | Surgery | 2,901 / 146,713 | — |
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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