Academic Evidence Scientific Worth Index

Author Rank

Search and compare academic author profiles.

Inspect publication output, calculated contribution, citation contribution and self-citation evidence without reducing a researcher to one unexplained number.

CoreHighest visibility layer in the available author evidence.
IndexEstablished contribution and citation evidence.
RecordBroad author registry retained for transparent discovery.
Data updated: 08 Oct 2026 Author coverage: 3,569,209 profiles Journal coverage: 2,972 journals
Core Authors0
Index Authors0
Record Authors3,569,209

Evidence table

Record Authors

Broad monitored author registry.

RankAuthorORCIDAffiliationCountryPublicationsIndex ScoreCalculated ContributionCalculated CitationsSelf-Citation Rate
1Steven L Salzberg0000-0002-8859-7432the Institute for Genomic ResearchUnited States511,214.672.2812,123.9120.80%
2Guido Kroemer-the Institut Gustave RoussyUnited States5521,139.2132.6511,065.563.88%
3Zhong Lin Wang-Yonsei Frontier Lab Yonsei University Seoul 03722 Republic of KoreaUnited States675979.1122.768,563.416.99%
4Edgar Erdfelder0000-0003-1032-3981University of MannheimGermany6897.580.388,9722.90%
5Franz Faul0000-0002-7158-2920Kiel UniversityGermany3896.90.178,967.333.10%
6Kevin W Eliceiri0000-0001-8678-670XUniversity of Wisconsin–MadisonUnited States49813.862.398,114.6625.30%
7Ben Langmead0000-0003-2437-1976Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States13788.930.487,884.56.00%
8Axel Buchner0000-0003-4529-3444Heinrich-Heine-UniversitätGermany28743.111.527,415.858.30%
9Michael Gratzel-École Polytechnique Fédérale de LausanneUnited States214734.1618.637,155.32.90%
10Yi Cui0000-0002-6103-6352Stanford UniversityUnited States192678.0813.396,646.92.17%
11Matthias Mann0000-0003-1292-4799‡European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)Italy149646.984.926,420.581.34%
12Robert Langer-Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States151627.184.66,225.811.95%
13Zhenan Bao-Stanford University StanfordUnited States260588.9434.225,547.234.24%
14Yann LeCun0000-0002-1992-2684MetaUnited States3557.650.135,575.170.40%
15Xiong Wen (David) Lou-State Key Laboratory of Silicon Materials School of Materials Science and Engineering Zhejiang University Hangzhou 320027 P. R. ChinaSingapore132543.7728.755,150.213.91%
16K. S Novoselov0000-0003-4972-5371University of NijmegenUnited Kingdom47500.981.044,999.4962.80%
17Shizuo Akira0000-0001-7602-9617Osaka UniversityJapan111489.083.064,860.221.88%
18Michael Karin0000-0002-2758-6473University of CaliforniaUnited States96486.694.134,825.695.20%
19Yury Gogotsi-Drexel UniversityUnited States46478.432.244,761.931.67%
20Rob Knight0000-0002-0975-9019University of California San DiegoUnited States218468.954.94,640.522.60%
21A. K Geim0000-0003-2861-8331University of NijmegenUnited Kingdom84463.862.24,616.691.90%
22Daehwan Kim0000-0003-1182-629XUniversity of Texas Southwestern Medical CenterUnited States4461.50.164,613.393.60%
23Edward H Sargent-Western Caspian UniversityUnited States348443.1727.354,158.224.97%
24Hans Clevers0000-0002-3077-5582the Hubrecht Laboratory and Centre for Biomedical GeneticsUnited States164439.415.444,339.752.35%
25Benjamin J Callahan0000-0002-8752-117XStanford UniversityUnited States8424.140.184,239.6149.30%
26Yury Gogotsi-exel Nanomaterials Institute and the Materials Science and Engineering Department Drexel University Philadelphia PA USAUnited States140411.6317.973,936.655.73%
27Qiang Zhang-Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics School of Optical and Electronic Information Huazhong University of Science and Technology Wuhan 430074 P. R. ChinaUnited States250407.0931.293,757.947.96%
28Robert C Edgar0000-0001-7355-2541Independent InvestigatorUnited States5395.640.153,954.889.70%
29Manish Chhowalla0000-0002-8183-4044Rutgers UniversityUnited States65378.913.943,749.691.02%
30Pulickel M Ajayan-Smalley‐Curl Institute and The NanoCarbon Center Rice University 6100 Main St Houston TX 77005 USAUnited States287377.424.913,524.942.62%
31Peter Carmeliet0000-0001-7961-1821Flanders Interuniversitary Institute for BiotechnologyBelgium137375.725.033,706.841.20%
32Yoshua Bengio0000-0002-9322-3515Université de MontréalCanada13374.060.353,737.1911.60%
33Wei Huang-and School of Materials Science and Engineering Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications 9 Wenyuan Road Nanjing 210046 ChinaUnited Kingdom554373.4272.293,011.3110.19%
34Henry J. Snaith0000-0001-8511-790XUniversity of Oxford Parks Road Oxford OX1 3PU UKUnited Kingdom155367.8914.323,535.723.68%
35Lei Jiang-and International Research Institute for Multidisciplinary Science Beihang University No. 37 Xueyuan Road Haidian District 100191 Beijing P. R. ChinaUnited States501365.9265.913,000.0813.84%
36Jean Marie Tarascon0000-0002-7059-6845Sorbonne Universités–UPMC Universitesi Paris 06 4 Place Jussieu 75005 Paris FranceUnited States81365.828.063,577.561.29%
37Fred H Gage0000-0002-0938-4106professor at The Salk Institute for Biological StudiesUnited States127365.094.673,604.251.37%
38Robert O Ritchie-Robert O. Ritchie is in the Department of Materials Science & Engineering and the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of CaliforniaUnited States76365.086.53,585.832.69%
39Jiaguo Yu-Wuhan UniversityTaiwan80359.9612.473,474.894.77%
40David J Mooney0000-0001-6299-1194Harvard UniversityUnited States133354.5411.243,433.042.54%
41Jinsong Huang0000-0002-0509-8778Guangxi UniversityUnited States130351.1417.233,339.123.51%
42Yoshinobu Kanda0000-0002-4866-9307Jichi Medical UniversityJapan179348.693.073,456.272.75%
43Jennifer A. Lewis-Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and John A. PaulsonUnited States119347.419.583,278.193.08%
44Ruslan Medzhitov0000-0002-7021-2012Yale UniversityUnited States57345.223.373,418.5626.90%
45Andrew F Hayes0000-0002-8329-1696University of CalgaryUnited States5342.430.313,421.124.20%
46Gregory J Hannon0000-0003-4021-3898Howard Hughes Medical InstituteUnited States58341.461.963,394.9717.90%
47Joan Massague0000-0001-9324-8408Sloan Kettering InstituteUnited States57340.442.643,377.9593.70%
48Lorenzo Galluzzi0000-0003-2257-8500the Institut Gustave RoussyUnited States145335.957.553,283.953.37%
49Lior Pachter0000-0002-9164-6231Lior Pachter is in the Departments of Mathematics and Molecular & Cell Biology at the University of California BerkeleyUnited States37333.971.883,320.8474.50%
50Patrice Simon-Université Toulouse III - Paul SabatierJapan47329.373.493,258.791.48%
Showing 1-50 of 3,569,209 authors

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Calculated articles use fractional and authorship-position weighting. Calculated citations apply self-citation filtering and journal evidence weights. Raw counts remain visible beside them.

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