Waksman Institute of Microbiology 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).
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researchers on the list
1,519
rank in United States
5,717
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Messing, J. W. | Plant Biology & Botany | 159 / 204,373 | 1,134 / 204,373 |
| Irvine, Kenneth D. | Developmental Biology | 1,149 / 167,121 | 2,929 / 167,121 |
| Ebright, Richard H. | Developmental Biology | 1,243 / 167,121 | — |
| Gallavotti, Andrea | Plant Biology & Botany | 3,545 / 204,373 | 1,050 / 204,373 |
| Dooner, Hugo K. | Plant Biology & Botany | 1,844 / 204,373 | — |
| Gerber, Nancy Nichols | Organic Chemistry | 2,940 / 188,664 | — |
| Yale, Harry L. | General Chemistry | 610 / 57,505 | — |
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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