Washington State University Spokane 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).
14
researchers on the list
994
rank in United States
3,525
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Niazi, Sarfaraz Khan | Pharmacology & Pharmacy | 2,004 / 166,116 | 61 / 166,116 |
| Van Dongen, Hans P.A. | Neurology & Neurosurgery | 1,849 / 379,830 | 1,074 / 379,830 |
| Neumiller, Joshua J. | Endocrinology & Metabolism | — | 771 / 100,693 |
| Gibson, Kenneth Michael | Genetics & Heredity | 425 / 42,273 | — |
| Massey, Linda K. | Nutrition & Dietetics | 731 / 59,506 | — |
| Paine, Mary F. | Pharmacology & Pharmacy | 950 / 166,116 | 892 / 166,116 |
| White, John Raymond | Pharmacology & Pharmacy | 1,200 / 166,116 | 2,049 / 166,116 |
| Baker, Danial E. | Pharmacology & Pharmacy | 1,606 / 166,116 | 2,531 / 166,116 |
| Skaer, Tracy L. | Pharmacology & Pharmacy | 1,846 / 166,116 | — |
| Franck, Carbonero G. | Microbiology | — | 3,826 / 232,186 |
| Wang, Zhenjia | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | 2,959 / 177,859 | — |
| Gao, Jin | Pharmacology & Pharmacy | — | 2,180 / 166,116 |
| Pollack, Gary M. | Pharmacology & Pharmacy | 3,241 / 166,116 | — |
| Michels, Thomas C. | General & Internal Medicine | — | 4,262 / 360,081 |
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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