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Which institutions in the United States have the most top-cited scientists in Bioinformatics?

216 researchers in the United States whose main subfield is Bioinformatics are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 0.3% of all listed authors in the United States, and 1st of 35 countries in the subfield. 132 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) has the most (5), followed by University of Michigan Medical School (5) and Johns Hopkins University (4). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors
216
0.3% of all in the United States
In the global top 100,000
132
61.1% of them
Country rank in the subfield
#1
of 35 countries in Bioinformatics
Highest-ranked
#17
Li, Heng
#InstitutionListed authorsTop 100kRank worldwideHighest-ranked author
1National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)54#2Koren, Sergey #15,135
2University of Michigan Medical School54#4Kirschner, Denise E. #50,244
3Johns Hopkins University44#5Salzberg, Steven L. #364
4Department of Computer Science43#7Patro, Rob #36,415
5Georgia Institute of Technology44#8Skolnick’, Jeffrey #43,961
6University of California, Berkeley42#9Brenner, Steven E. #59,919
7Baskin School of Engineering32#10Haussler, David H. #1,573
8Stanford University31#12Altman, Russ B. #13,987
9University of Maryland, College Park33#19Gumel, Abba B. #34,646
10School of Computer Science33#21Bar-Joseph, Ziv #55,026
11University of California, San Diego31#22Hwa, Terence T. #85,621

The top 100 in Bioinformatics in the United States, in order

  1. 1
    Li, Heng
    Harvard Medical School
  2. 2
    Edgar, Robert C.
    Independent researcher
  3. 3
    Salzberg, Steven L.
    Johns Hopkins University
  4. 4
    Noble, William Stafford
    UW College of Engineering
  5. 5
    Langmead, Ben
    Whiting School of Engineering
  6. 6
    Haussler, David H.
    Baskin School of Engineering
  7. 7
    Bailey, Timothy L.
    University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine
  8. 8
    Palsson, Bernhard Ø.
    Shu Chien-Gene Lay Department of Bioengineering
  9. 9
    Altschul, Stephen F.
    National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
  10. 10
    Storey, John D.
    Princeton University
  11. 11
    Gerstein, Mark B.
    Yale University
  12. 12
    Pertea, Mihaela
    Johns Hopkins Department of Biomedical Engineering
  13. 13
    Irizarry, Rafael A.
    Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
  14. 14
    Butte, Atul Janardhan
    UCSF School of Medicine
  15. 15
    Leek, Jeffrey T.
    Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
  16. 16
    Schatz, Michael C.
    Johns Hopkins University
  17. 17
    Sanner, Michel F.
    Scripps Research Institute
  18. 18
    Pevzner, Pavel A.
    Department of Computer Science and Engineering
  19. 19
    Hethcote, Herbert W.
    University of Iowa
  20. 20
    Korf, Ian F.
    University of California, Davis
  21. 21
    Altman, Russ B.
    Stanford University
  22. 22
    Haas, Brian J.
    Broad Institute
  23. 23
    Allen, Linda J.S.
    Texas Tech University
  24. 24
    Koren, Sergey
    National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)
  25. 25
    Li, Weizhong
    Human Longevity, Inc.
  26. 26
    Langfelder, Peter
    David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
  27. 27
    Mirarab, Siavash
    Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
  28. 28
    Pachter, Lior S.
    California Institute of Technology
  29. 29
    Berger, Bonnie A.
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  30. 30
    Thieme, Horst R.
    Arizona State University
  31. 31
    Phillippy, Adam M.
    National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)
  32. 32
    Grishin, Nick Vyacheslavovich
    UT Southwestern Medical School
  33. 33
    Benson, Gary
    College of Arts & Sciences
  34. 34
    Bourne, Philip E.
    Department of Biomedical Engineering
  35. 35
  36. 36
  37. 37
    Schindelin, Johannes E.
    Morgridge Institute for Research
  38. 38
    Raphael, Benjamin J.
    School of Engineering and Applied Science
  39. 39
    Kim, Daehwan
    UT Southwestern Medical Center
  40. 40
    Pearson, William R.
    University of Virginia School of Medicine
  41. 41
    Stadler, Peter F.
    Santa Fe Institute
  42. 42
    Lu, Zhiyong
    National Library of Medicine (NLM)
  43. 43
    Quackenbush, John F.
    Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
  44. 44
    Bonneau, Richard A.
    Genentech, Inc
  45. 45
    Skinnider, Michael A.
    Princeton University
  46. 46
    Paten, Benedict J.
    Baskin School of Engineering
  47. 47
    Gray, Jeffrey J.
    Johns Hopkins University
  48. 48
    Sedlazeck, Fritz Joachim
    George R. Brown School of Engineering and Computing
  49. 49
    Gumel, Abba B.
    University of Maryland, College Park
  50. 50
    Zhao, Hongyu
    Yale University
  51. 51
    Miller, Webb C.
    Pennsylvania State University
  52. 52
    Dunbrack, Roland L.
    Fox Chase Cancer Center
  53. 53
    Green, Eric D.
    National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)
  54. 54
    Karp, Peter D.
    SRI International
  55. 55
    Patro, Rob
    Department of Computer Science
  56. 56
    Rhie, Arang
    National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)
  57. 57
    Shannon, Paul T.
    Institute for Systems Biology
  58. 58
    Wuchty, Stefan
    University of Miami
  59. 59
    Xu, Dong
    College of Engineering
  60. 60
    Darling, Aaron E.E.
    Illumina, Inc.
  61. 61
    Garrison, Erik P.
    University of Tennessee Health Science Center
  62. 62
    Sherman, Brad T.
    Leidos Inc.
  63. 63
    Skolnick’, Jeffrey
    Georgia Institute of Technology
  64. 64
    Kozakov, Dima V.
    Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences
  65. 65
    Cheng, Jianlin
    University of Missouri
  66. 66
    Warnow, Tandy J.
    Siebel School of Computing and Data Science
  67. 67
    Vajda, Sándor
    College of Arts & Sciences
  68. 68
    Zhao, Zhongming
    Vanderbilt University Medical Center
  69. 69
    Kirschner, Denise E.
    University of Michigan Medical School
  70. 70
  71. 71
    Furey, Terrence S.
    The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  72. 72
    Bradley, Philip H.
    Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
  73. 73
    Mungall, Christopher John
    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  74. 74
    Bar-Joseph, Ziv
    School of Computer Science
  75. 75
    Zimin, Aleksey V.
    Johns Hopkins Department of Biomedical Engineering
  76. 76
    Dudley, Joel T.
    Thorne Research, Inc.
  77. 77
    Qiu, Peng
    Georgia Institute of Technology
  78. 78
    Nayfach, Stephen
    Profluent Bio
  79. 79
    Kingsford, Carl L.
    School of Computer Science
  80. 80
    He, Yongqun Oliver
    University of Michigan Medical School
  81. 81
    Wang, Zhong
    U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute
  82. 82
    Cheng, Haoyu
    Yale School of Medicine
  83. 83
    Brenner, Steven E.
    University of California, Berkeley
  84. 84
    Halperin, Eran
    David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
  85. 85
    Borodovsky, Mark Yu
    Georgia Institute of Technology
  86. 86
    Pop, Mihai
    Department of Computer Science
  87. 87
    Johnson, William Evan
    Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
  88. 88
    Kolmogorov, Mikhail
    National Cancer Institute (NCI)
  89. 89
    Agusto, Folashade B.
    University of Kansas
  90. 90
    Xie, Xiaohui S.
    Department of Computer Science
  91. 91
    Treangen, Todd J.
    Rice University
  92. 92
    Godzik, Adam
    UCR School of Medicine
  93. 93
    Kurgan, Lukasz A.
    Virginia Commonwealth University
  94. 94
    Ruppin, Eytan
    National Cancer Institute (NCI), Cancer Data Science Laboratory
  95. 95
  96. 96
    Radivojac, Predrag
    Khoury College of Computer Sciences
  97. 97
    Zhou, Yingyao
    Novartis Corporation
  98. 98
    Almeida, Jonas S.
    National Cancer Institute (NCI)
  99. 99
    Greene, Casey S.
    Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation
  100. 100
    Chaisson, Mark J.P.
    University of Southern California

216 listed scientists in Bioinformatics in the United States

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Data: Ioannidis, John P.A. (2026), ‘August 2026 data-update for “Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators”’, Mendeley Data, v9, doi:10.17632/btchxktzyw.9. 2026 list, ranked by composite citation score (c) excluding self-citations.

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