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OpenAlex-indexed citations

Total citations to the works in a researcher’s OpenAlex record.

At a glance

ScienceDex researchers with papers in OpenAlex, an open index of published research, as of September 23, 2026. Profiles that mix papers from different people with the same name are left out.

Researchers
50,136
Median
3,234
Half are at or below
Middle half
1,303 to 7,608
25th to 75th percentile
90th percentile
17,346
9 in 10 are at or below

Researchers by OpenAlex-indexed citations

Each bar counts the researchers in one range. Each range starts about three times higher than the one before (30, 100, 300 and so on). Select a bar to list them below.

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Researchers in each range of OpenAlex-indexed citations
RangeResearchersShare of researchers
Under 301510.3%
30 to 995011%
100 to 2991,9143.8%
300 to 9997,18214.3%
1,000 to 2,99914,13128.2%
3,000 to 9,99916,70133.3%
10,000 to 29,9997,21914.4%
30,000 to 99,9992,1034.2%
100,000 or more2340.5%

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Showing 234 researchers with OpenAlex-indexed citations 100,000 or more.Show all researchers

234 researchers · Page 1. Table bars compare sizes within this page.

Researchers sorted by OpenAlex-indexed citations, descending
ResearcherOpenAlex-indexed citations
Murray, Christopher J.l.
582,213
Rob Knight
467,716
Kahneman, Daniel
395,573
Egger, Matthias
326,112
Kivimaki, Mika J
305,957
Elaine R. Mardis
283,189
Miller, Ted R
279,487
Chris Sander
271,162
Louisa Degenhardt
269,426
Dandona, Lalit
268,006
Charles M Perou
257,778
Gordon B. Mills
252,297
McCarthy, Mark Ian
246,602
Marra, Marco Antonio
244,231
Jill P. Mesirov
239,746
Hardy, John A.
238,411
Richard A Flavell
237,373
Salomon, Joshua A
235,566
Graham A. Colditz
232,861
Wong, Tien Y
231,603
Martin, Nicholas G
226,886
Lozano, Rafael
224,285
Barabasi, Albert-Laszlo
223,040
Mozaffarian, Dariush
218,557
Marc Ladanyi
216,804

Agreement with other citation measures

How closely each measure below puts researchers in the same order as OpenAlex-indexed citations, among researchers who have both (Spearman rank correlation). 1 means the same order, 0 means no relation, and −1 means the reverse order.