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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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50,136 researchers · Page 144. Table bars compare sizes within this page.

Researchers sorted by OpenAlex-indexed citations, descending
ResearcherOpenAlex-indexed citations
Besim Ogretmen
22,370
Major, Eugene O.
22,369
Wen Jiang
22,366
Lafaille, Juan
22,348
Lim, Megan S.
22,342
Klein, Donald F
22,324
Dell, Gary S
22,318
Huso, David L
22,313
Aaron Dinner
22,308
Emmanuelle Passegue
22,295
Kathryn Jean Ruddy
22,287
Jose Luis Millan
22,280
Amir Alavi
22,276
Hershey, John W
22,275
Johnson, Amy Jo
22,271
Eby, Lillian T
22,270
Kapikian, Albert Z
22,269
Wendy Frankel
22,266
Spicer, Paul G
22,265
Lee, Brendan
22,255
Horton, Edward Schurr
22,234
Wells, William M
22,230
Stern, Claudio D
22,227
Oefner, Peter J
22,221
Baroody, Fuad M
22,219

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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