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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 3. Table bars compare sizes within this page.

Researchers sorted by OpenAlex-indexed citations, descending
ResearcherOpenAlex-indexed citations
Kevin William Eliceiri
183,925
Goddard, William Andrew
182,583
Joan Massague
178,673
Ley, Ruth Emily
177,353
Holtzman, David M
176,068
Ezzati, Majid
174,927
Stephen B. Baylin
171,115
Drew M. Pardoll
170,797
David L. Kaplan
170,580
Peter James Turnbaugh
167,729
Antoni Ribas
167,369
Hotez, Peter J
165,789
De Vos, Willem M.
165,591
Chad A. Mirkin
165,120
Virginia M Lee
162,831
Benjamin Levine Ebert
161,327
Steven Andrew McCarroll
160,801
Josep M Llovet
159,333
Wilson, Peter Wyman
159,287
Palotie, Aarno
158,956
Donna Muzny
157,770
Holt, Robert Andrew
155,574
Arun J Sanyal
153,254
Banks, Eric
153,034
Geschwind, Daniel H
152,898

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.