Whitehead Institute 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lindquist, Susan L. | Developmental Biology | 40 / 167,121 | 228 / 167,121 |
| Young, Richard A. | Developmental Biology | 72 / 167,121 | 97 / 167,121 |
| Fink, Gerald R. | Developmental Biology | 496 / 167,121 | 2,441 / 167,121 |
| Mahowald, Anthony P. | Developmental Biology | 2,012 / 167,121 | — |
| Erlich, Yaniv | Developmental Biology | — | 1,565 / 167,121 |
| Timberlake, William E. | Developmental Biology | 2,837 / 167,121 | — |
| Lee, Tongihn | Developmental Biology | — | 2,292 / 167,121 |
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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