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249,310 authors in the 2026 list · ranked by c-score excluding self-citations
1
Wang, Zhong Lin
Chinese Academy of Sciences
🇨🇳 CHN
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
#1 · top <0.01%
5.27240,6537341.211.0%3,0261986–2026
2
Kresse, Georg
Universität Wien
🇦🇹 AUT
Applied Physics
#1 · top <0.01%
5.24738,3373215.90.7%4111992–2026
3
Mirjalili, Seyedali
Torrens University Australia
🇦🇺 AUS
Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing
#1 · top <0.01%
5.23526,7036230.93.7%6792010–2026
4
Bandura, Albert
Stanford University
🇺🇸 USA
Social Psychology
#1 · top <0.01%
5.22212,6684132.90.2%2101953–2024
5
Grimme, Stefan
Universität Bonn
🇩🇪 DEU
Chemical Physics
#1 · top <0.01%
5.17124,5553823.72.2%7491992–2026
6
Bengio, Yoshua
Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms
🇨🇦 CAN
Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing
#2 · top <0.01%
5.09956,6416726.40.5%6651988–2026
7
Ajzen, Icek
University of Massachusetts Amherst
🇺🇸 USA
Social Psychology
#2 · top <0.01%
5.06713,8623021.90.2%1041969–2026
8
Girshick, Ross B.
Vercept
🇺🇸 USA
Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing
#3 · top <0.01%
5.05561,3794013.80.0%922004–2025
9
Ryan, Richard M.
Australian Catholic University
🇦🇺 AUS
Social Psychology
#3 · top 0.01%
5.05325,0495833.61.3%3571980–2026
10
Altman, Douglas G.
University of Oxford Medical Sciences Division
🇬🇧 GBR
General & Internal Medicine
#1 · top <0.01%
5.03971,0898938.61.3%1,1161972–2025
11
Gross, James J.
Stanford University
🇺🇸 USA
Experimental Psychology
#1 · top <0.01%
5.02012,8745432.04.2%6441989–2026
12
Hinton, Geoffrey E.
University of TorontoNobel laureate
🇨🇦 CAN
Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing
#4 · top <0.01%
5.01152,7804524.60.1%2931979–2026
13
Perdew, John
Tulane University School of Science and Engineering
🇺🇸 USA
Applied Physics
#2 · top <0.01%
5.01030,3163718.60.6%3651970–2026
14
McClements, David Julian
University of Massachusetts Amherst
🇺🇸 USA
Food Science
#1 · top <0.01%
5.00423,1705236.95.9%1,8551987–2027
15
Lal, Rattan A.
The Ohio State University
🇺🇸 USA
Agronomy & Agriculture
#1 · top <0.01%
5.00311,2274433.94.0%1,4151922–2026
16
Breiman, Leo
University of California, Berkeley
🇺🇸 USA
Statistics & Probability
#1 · top <0.01%
5.00122,0151513.10.0%581960–2018
17
Li, Heng
Harvard Medical School
🇺🇸 USA
Bioinformatics
#1 · top <0.01%
4.98821,2394015.02.5%1342004–2026
18
Moher, David
Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
🇨🇦 CAN
General & Internal Medicine
#2 · top <0.01%
4.98688,3297519.91.0%9371984–2026
19
Higgins, Julian P.t.
Bristol Medical School
🇬🇧 GBR
General & Internal Medicine
#3 · top <0.01%
4.95654,5555823.30.8%4151996–2026
20
Neese, Frank
Max Planck Institute for Coal Research
🇩🇪 DEU
Chemical Physics
#2 · top <0.01%
4.95511,7203922.96.6%6731995–2026
21
Tibshirani, Robert John
Stanford University
🇺🇸 USA
Statistics & Probability
#2 · top <0.01%
4.95014,2904220.91.7%4321982–2026
22
Teece, David J.
University of California, Berkeley
🇺🇸 USA
Business & Management
#1 · top <0.01%
4.9389,3893125.90.5%3001971–2026
23
Friston, K. J.
UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
🇬🇧 GBR
Neurology & Neurosurgery
#1 · top <0.01%
4.93412,7944629.49.0%1,3731989–2026
24
Ioannidis, John P.A.
Stanford University School of Medicine
🇺🇸 USA
General & Internal Medicine
#4 · top <0.01%
4.92626,0125627.93.1%1,4881994–2026
25
Gogotsi, Yury G.
Drexel University
🇺🇸 USA
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
#2 · top <0.01%
4.89731,8608535.33.7%1,1701984–2026

# rank by c-score; Subfield rank rank and top % in main subfield; c-score composite citation score (0–6); Cites 2025 citations in 2025; h h-index; hm co-authorship-adjusted h-index; Self-cit. self-citation share; Active years of first and last paper.

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2026 list · citations received in 2025

Vale, Ronald D.

UCSF School of Medicine · 🇺🇸 United States
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Ronald D. Vale is ranked #7,241 of 249,310 in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% list, which counts citations received during 2025. In the career-long list (citations 1996–2025) the rank is #1,612 of 243,949.

Ranking

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Global rank
#7,241
Within the top 100,000 · with self-cites: #8,185
Subfield rank
#179
top 0.11% of 167,121 authors in Developmental Biology
Rank in country
#3,084
of 73,724 listed in United States
Rank in institution
#18
of 453 listed at UCSF School of Medicine
Rank in career stage
#3,853
of 73,304 listed authors who first published before 1992 (first paper 1978)
Global and subfield ranks come from the dataset and are computed across all Scopus authors, not just this list. Country, institution and career-stage ranks are positions among authors in this list.

Across years

Each year's single-year list, excluding self-citations; each counts the citations of the year before it
YearRankc-scoreCitationsh-index
2026 this page#7,2413.5441,99121
2025#6,4373.5642,05420
2024#5,4083.6172,06619
The data has no author ID, so years are matched by name and year of first publication. Each year is a new Scopus snapshot, so a big jump can come from Scopus splitting or merging author profiles. “Not found” means the author was below that year's threshold or is listed under a different name.

Composite score (c)

3.544out of a theoretical 6 · excluding self-citations
Total citationsNC = 1,991
0.667
h-indexH = 21
0.661
hm-index (co-authorship adjusted)Hm = 10.0
0.640
Cites to single-authored papersNCS = 82
0.445
Cites to single + first-authoredNCSF = 192
0.483
Cites to single + first + last-authoredNCSFL = 1,276
0.648
Each indicator is scaled as log(1+x) ÷ log(1+max x) across all authors, so 1.0 equals the highest value in Scopus. c is the sum of the six.

2025 impact vs career impact

2025 impact 2025 onlyCareer impact 1996–2025
Global rank#7,241#1,612
c-score3.5444.546
Citations1,99142,131
h-index21110
hm-index10.049.4
Self-citations2.5%6.4%
Subfield rank#179 (top 0.11%)#97 (top 0.06%)

Benchmarks in Developmental Biology

P25P50P75P90P95P99This author
Citations22541403767492,7182,041
c-score0.861.201.602.002.272.833.53
Percentiles across all 167,121 Scopus authors in this subfield (all citations). Citations: above 95th percentile; c-score: top 1%. Among listed authors here, 99% have self-citation below 23.2% (this author: 2.5%).

All indicators

IndicatorAll citationsExcl. self-citations
Papers (1960–2025)293
Self-citation share2.45%
Rank (c-score)8,1857,241
c-score3.5293.544
Citations2,0411,991
h-index2121
hm-index9.989.96
Single-authored papers21—
   ↳ cites to them8282
Single + first-authored papers53—
   ↳ cites to them192192
Single + first + last-authored papers200—
   ↳ cites to them1,3001,276
Distinct citing papers1,5661,541
Citations per citing paper1.301.29
Papers cited at least once191191
Subfield rank195179

Subject profile

Main fieldBiomedical Research90.3% of papers
Main subfieldDevelopmental Biology63.3%
Second subfieldBiochemistry & Molecular Biology15.6%

Countries of publication

Most frequent country🇺🇸 United States · 99.7% of papers
Countries with ≥10% of papers🇺🇸 United States
Multi-country careerNo (country data covers 96% of papers)

Retractions (Retraction Watch)

Retracted papers⚠ 1
Citations to their retracted papers0
Citations received from retracted papers (any author)0
Retraction counts come from linking Scopus to the Retraction Watch database; a retraction is not by itself evidence of misconduct.

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This page online: https://topcitedscientists.com/scientist/ronald-d-vale/

Data: Ioannidis, John P.A. (2026), ‘August 2026 data-update for “Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators”’, Mendeley Data, v9, doi:10.17632/btchxktzyw.9. 2026 list, ranked by composite citation score (c) excluding self-citations.

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