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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 8. Table bars compare sizes within this page.

Researchers sorted by OpenAlex-indexed citations, descending
ResearcherOpenAlex-indexed citations
Weigel, Detlef
109,964
Ruoslahti, Erkki
109,810
Scott W. Lowe
109,529
Aldons Jake Lusis
108,977
Duan, Xiangfeng
108,957
Ira Pastan
108,898
Rasmus Nielsen
108,323
Fehr, Ernst
108,096
Mayeux, Richard P
107,818
Sharpless, Karl Barry
107,415
Harvey Ira Pass
107,091
Gill, Michael
107,060
Jianjiong Gao
106,977
Frechet, Jean M
106,704
Latz, Eicke
106,660
Graca Graca Raposo
106,656
Charles Nicholas Serhan
106,508
Levin, Simon A
106,501
Korsmeyer, Stanley J
106,407
Gary D. Bader
106,317
Hughes, Thomas J.
106,240
Timothy An-Thy Chan
106,095
Andrew David Cherniack
105,796
Huntsman, David
105,777
Charles L. Sawyers
105,720

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.

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