Top institutions in the United States for Developmental Biology

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

1,841 researchers in the United States whose main subfield is Developmental Biology are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 2.5% of all listed authors in the United States, and 1st of 46 countries in the subfield. 1,141 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). Harvard Medical School has the most (69), followed by Broad Institute (43) and Stanford University School of Medicine (36). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors

1,841

2.5% of all in the United States

In the global top 100,000

1,141

62.0% of them

Country rank in the subfield

of 46 countries in Developmental Biology

Highest-ranked

#51

Stockwell, Brent R.

#	Institution	Listed authors	Top 100k	Rank worldwide	Highest-ranked author
1	Harvard Medical School	69	53	#1	Park, Peter J. #3,633
2	Broad Institute	43	23	#2	Lander, Eric S. #226
3	Stanford University School of Medicine	36	22	#3	Nüsse, Roel #3,585
4	University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School	32	20	#4	Dekker, Job #4,394
5	Stanford University	29	21	#5	Dixon, Scott James #563
6	UCSF School of Medicine	29	19	#6	Vale, Ronald D. #7,241
7	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	27	18	#8	Bartel, David P. #142
8	Rockefeller University	25	16	#10	Fuchs, Elaine V. #2,965
9	Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center	23	14	#12	Massagué, Joan #295
10	University of California, San Francisco	23	16	#13	Blackburn, Elizabeth Helen #4,656
11	UT Southwestern Medical Center	22	15	#14	DeBerardinis, Ralph J. #1,334
12	Harvard University	20	11	#16	Eddy, Sean R. #260
13	Yale School of Medicine	20	10	#17	Levine, Morgan E. #2,746
14	University of California, Berkeley	20	13	#19	Pollard, Thomas D. #6,678
15	Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis	20	12	#20	Ravichandran, Kodi S. #8,049
16	David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA	20	11	#21	Tontonoz, Peter J. #14,437
17	Columbia University	19	16	#22	Stockwell, Brent R. #51
18	University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine	19	14	#23	Lazar, Mitchell A. #7,532
19	Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	19	10	#24	Ma’ayan, Avi #8,487
20	The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center	18	13	#26	Gan, Boyi #1,507
21	Massachusetts General Hospital	18	12	#27	Neale, Benjamin M. #10,132
22	University of California, San Diego	18	9	#28	Cleveland, D. W. #10,285
23	Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine	16	9	#30	Feinberg, Andrew P. #4,138
24	University of Michigan Medical School	16	8	#31	Spence, Jason R. #36,221
25	Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine	15	7	#32	Chandel, Navdeep S. #158
26	National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)	15	11	#33	Koonin, Eugene V. #198
27	MIT School of Engineering	15	9	#34	Zhang, Feng #2,836
28	University of California, Los Angeles	15	9	#36	Hartenstein, Volker #19,685
29	Duke University School of Medicine	14	7	#37	Locasale, Jason Wei #2,221
30	Baylor College of Medicine	14	7	#38	Gibbs, Richard A.L. #4,538
31	Dana-Farber Cancer Institute	13	12	#42	Livak, Kenneth J. #792
32	Salk Institute for Biological Studies	13	11	#43	Hunter, Tony R. #2,557
33	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	13	8	#44	Zhou, Xiang #8,335
34	Division of Biology and Biological Engineering	12	8	#48	Chan, David C. #1,259
35	Genentech, Inc	12	6	#49	Mellman, Ira Seth #2,053
36	Princeton University	12	8	#51	Rabinowitz, Joshua D. #5,006
37	Columbia University Irving Medical Center	12	8	#53	Karsenty, Gerard #6,298
38	Howard Hughes Medical Institute	12	9	#54	Ecker, Joseph R. #6,993
39	National Cancer Institute (NCI)	12	7	#56	Misteli, Tom #7,366
40	The University of Chicago	11	6	#60	Stephens, Matthew K. #1,124
41	Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center	11	6	#61	Henikoff, Steven #2,838
42	Boston Children's Hospital	11	8	#62	Wu, Hao #3,715
43	St. Jude Children's Research Hospital	11	9	#63	Sherr, Charles J. #9,579
44	University of Wisconsin-Madison	11	6	#64	Lamming, Dudley W. #15,960
45	NYU Grossman School of Medicine	11	4	#65	Boeke, Jef D. #26,402
46	University of Washington School of Medicine	10	7	#66	Eichler, Evan E. #3,072
47	Howard Hughes Medical Institute Janelia Farm Research Campus	10	8	#70	Lavis, Luke D. #11,763
48	University of Utah School of Medicine	10	8	#73	Carroll, Dana #28,615
49	National Institutes of Health (NIH)	10	5	#75	Tatusova, Tatiana A. #34,801
50	The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia	9	7	#77	Wallace, Douglas C. #1,036
51	The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	9	5	#78	Escobar, Arturo #1,586
52	University of Washington	9	3	#79	Pritchard, Jonathan K. #1,991
53	Baskin School of Engineering	9	7	#80	Kent, William James #4,312
54	Yale University	9	8	#81	Breaker, Ronald R. #5,474
55	University of Colorado Boulder	9	6	#83	Mastronarde, David N. #8,053
56	Weill Cornell Medicine	9	6	#84	Jaffrey, Samie R. #11,837
57	Cornell University	9	6	#86	Clark, Andrew G. #13,990
58	The Jackson Laboratory	9	2	#88	Churchill, Gary A. #43,294
59	California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences	8	6	#89	Doudna, Jennifer A. #374
60	University of Pennsylvania	8	8	#92	Picard, Martin #4,175
61	University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences	8	5	#93	Berger, Shelley L. #4,308
62	UT Southwestern Medical School	8	8	#95	Pan, Duojia #9,453
63	National Institute on Aging (NIA)	8	6	#96	Bohr, Vilhelm A. #10,051
64	Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory	8	6	#98	Gingeras, Thomas R. #18,397
65	Mayo Clinic	8	3	#99	LeBrasseur, Nathan K. #24,848
66	UNC School of Medicine	8	4	#100	Hammond, Scott M. #34,735
67	National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)	7	5	#102	Collins, Francis S. #1,632
68	Albert Einstein College of Medicine	7	5	#103	Cuervo, Ana Maria #2,191
69	Keck School of Medicine of USC	7	6	#105	Thomas, Paul D. #5,306
70	New York Genome Cente	7	4	#106	Satija, Rahul #5,451
71	UCI School of Medicine	7	5	#108	Sassone-Corsi, Paolo #7,287
72	University of Minnesota Twin Cities	7	5	#110	Voytas, Daniel F. #12,311
73	Regeneron Genetics Center	7	5	#115	Marchini, Jonathan L. #22,793
74	Pennsylvania State University	7	4	#119	Hardison, Ross C. #34,852
75	National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)	7	5	#121	Puertollano, Rosa #50,502
76	University of Virginia School of Medicine	7	2	#122	Manichaikul, Ani W. #60,301
77	University of California, Davis	7	3	#123	Chédin, Frédéric L. L. #62,671
78	Buck Institute for Research on Aging	6	5	#124	Campisi, Judith #223
79	Johns Hopkins University	6	3	#125	Dang, Chi #1,048
80	Brigham and Women's Hospital	6	4	#126	Kaelin, William G. #2,525
81	Stanford Engineering	6	4	#127	Chaudhuri, Ovijit #4,319
82	Biohub	6	5	#129	Shilatifard, Ali #6,176
83	Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center	6	3	#130	Finley, Lydia W.S. #14,637
84	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	6	4	#136	Bissell, Mina Jahan #24,926
85	Shu Chien-Gene Lay Department of Bioengineering	6	5	#138	Engler, Adam J. #34,221
86	Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center	6	4	#139	Weirauch, Matthew T. #34,241
87	City of Hope National Med Center	6	4	#140	Rossi, John J. #35,189
88	University of Oregon	6	3	#141	Kimmel, Charles B. #36,231
89	Department of Bioengineering	6	4	#144	Jones, Robert C.W. #48,713
90	University of Georgia	6	1	#148	Wang, Yupeng #97,504
91	Altos Labs, Inc.	5	5	#149	Horvath, Steve M. #106
92	Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering	5	4	#153	Church, George M. #2,929
93	Whitehead Institute	5	3	#154	Young, Richard A. #3,784
94	Department of Cellular & Molecular Medicine	5	4	#155	Glass, Christopher K. #3,973
95	School of Engineering and Applied Science	5	5	#156	Brangwynne, Clifford P. #4,901
96	Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health	5	4	#158	Manning, Brendan D. #6,572
97	National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)	5	5	#162	Hinnebusch, Alan G. #9,592
98	Department of Medicine	5	4	#109	Ideker, Trey E. #10,487
99	Institute for Systems Biology	5	4	#165	Huang, Sui #17,504
100	University of California, Irvine	5	4	#166	Plikus, Maksim V. #19,546
101	University of Rochester Medical Center	5	2	#167	Mathews, David H. #20,380
102	The University of Texas at Austin	5	4	#169	Paull, Tanya T. #22,550
103	Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons	5	2	#172	Bestor, Timothy H. #35,598
104	NYU Langone Health	5	3	#174	Yanai, Itai #42,162
105	University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health	5	4	#178	Huttenlocher, Anna #58,016
106	University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine	5	2	#179	DeGregori, James V. #58,587
107	Stowers Institute for Medical Research	5	2	#181	SÃ¡nchez Alvarado, Alejandro #64,785
108	University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine	4	2	#185	Finkel, Toren #1,307
109	National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke	4	3	#186	Youle, Richard J. #1,996
110	Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences	4	3	#187	Zhuang, Xiaowei #3,275
111	Mayo Clinic Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences	4	3	#190	van Deursen, Jan M.A. #4,498
112	Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center	4	2	#193	Lawrence, Michael S. #5,820
113	Northwestern University	4	3	#197	Morimoto, Richard I. #7,979
114	National Library of Medicine (NLM)	4	2	#198	Makarova, Kira S. #8,357
115	Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	4	1	#201	Bennett, Clarence Frank #8,931
116	Scripps Research Institute	4	2	#204	Yates, John R.R. #12,365
117	Arc Institute	4	3	#205	Thaiss, Christoph A. #13,495
118	Gladstone Institutes	4	2	#208	Pollard, Katherine S. #16,538
119	University of Rochester	4	3	#209	Orr, H. Allen #16,931
120	Johns Hopkins Department of Biomedical Engineering	4	1	#211	Wirtz, Denis #17,194
121	UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center	4	3	#212	Baldwin, Albert S. #17,465
122	Robert Wood Johnson Medical School	4	1	#213	Kozak, Marilyn #17,774
123	Moores Cancer Center	4	2	#214	Ren, Bing #18,833
124	Vanderbilt University School of Medicine	4	3	#218	Cortez, David #24,579
125	National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)	4	2	#222	Yang, Wei #26,471
126	Harvard Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology	4	3	#228	Wagers, Amy J. #35,970
127	University of Florida	4	3	#234	Sweeney, Hugh Lee #52,649
128	College of Computer, Mathematical, & Natural Sciences	4	1	#235	Jeffery, William R. #52,708
129	The University of Utah	4	1	#236	Thummel, Carl S. #53,665
130	Division of Biology and Medicine	4	1	#237	Fausto-Sterling, Anne #54,624
131	McGovern Medical School	4	3	#238	Fornage, Myriam #55,805
132	Institute for Biophysical Dynamics	4	3	#239	Gardel, Margaret Lise #58,678
133	University of Southern California	4	1	#241	Tower, John #66,856
134	Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center	4	1	#243	Colaprico, Antonio #81,040
135	UCLA Samueli School of Engineering	4	0	#247	Chen, Yvonne Y. #106,969
136	Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute	3	3	#249	Karin, Michael J. #180
137	The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center	3	1	#250	Mardis, Elaine R. #687
138	Department of Chemistry, The University of Chicago	3	2	#252	He, Chuan H. #2,081
139	California Institute of Technology	3	2	#257	Baltimore, David #4,930
140	Calico LLC	3	3	#259	Kenyon, Cynthia J. #6,717
141	Vanderbilt University	3	2	#260	Rokas, Antonis #7,161
142	New York University	3	1	#261	Purugganan, Michael D. #9,288
143	Center for Computational Biology	3	2	#262	Ingolia, Nicholas Thomas #10,640
144	University of California, Santa Barbara	3	2	#266	Montell, Craig #14,276
145	23andMe Research Institute	3	2	#270	Auton, Adam #16,324
146	Washington University in St. Louis	3	3	#272	Pappu, Rohit V. #19,113
147	NC State University	3	2	#275	MacKay, Trudy F.C. #21,321
148	National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)	3	1	#276	Kunkel, Thomas A. #21,715
149	University of Missouri	3	2	#277	Birchler, James A. #22,671
150	Duke University	3	1	#280	Nijhout, H. Frederik #25,656
151	J. Craig Venter Institute	3	2	#281	Gibson, Daniel G. #25,847
152	College of Engineering	3	2	#287	Wang, Ning #30,090
153	UConn Health	3	1	#288	Graveley, Brenton R. #31,882
154	University of Virginia	3	2	#290	Bloom, George S. #33,794
155	Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s (ASAP) Collaborative Research Network	3	3	#291	Studer, Lorenz P. #37,090
156	University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine	3	3	#292	Moraes, Carlos Torres #40,133
157	Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Chicago	3	1	#294	Pan, Tao #43,171
158	Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth	3	2	#297	Dunlap, Jay C.C. #48,511
159	School of Life Sciences	3	1	#303	McCutcheon, John P. #59,610
160	Washington State University Pullman	3	1	#307	Watts, Jennifer L. #73,191
161	Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	3	1	#309	Akinc, Akin #78,009
162	University of Maryland School of Medicine	3	1	#312	Pittenger, Mark F. #82,017
163	Oregon Health & Science University	3	1	#318	Adey, Andrew C. #91,367
164	Emory University	3	0	#324	Reyna, Matthew A. #151,625

The top 100 in Developmental Biology in the United States, in order

1
Stockwell, Brent R.
Columbia University
2
Horvath, Steve M.
Altos Labs, Inc.
3
Bartel, David P.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
4
Chandel, Navdeep S.
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
5
Karin, Michael J.
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute
6
Koonin, Eugene V.
National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
7
Campisi, Judith
Buck Institute for Research on Aging
8
Lander, Eric S.
Broad Institute
9
Eddy, Sean R.
Harvard University
10
Ingber, Donald E.
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
11
Massagué, Joan
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
12
Doudna, Jennifer A.
California Institute for Quantitative BiosciencesNobel laureate
13
Dixon, Scott James
Stanford University
14
Mardis, Elaine R.
The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
15
Weinberg, Robert A.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
16
Livak, Kenneth J.
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
17
Vander-Heiden, Matthew G.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
18
Wallace, Douglas C.
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
19
Dang, Chi
Johns Hopkins University
20
Thompson, Craig B.
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
21
Trapnell, Cole
Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology
22
Stephens, Matthew K.
The University of Chicago
23
Chan, David C.
Division of Biology and Biological Engineering
24
Finkel, Toren
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
25
DeBerardinis, Ralph J.
UT Southwestern Medical Center
26
Gan, Boyi
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
27
Escobar, Arturo
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
28
Collins, Francis S.
National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)
29
Hynes, Richard O.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
30
Verdin, E. M.
Buck Institute for Research on Aging
31
Regev, Aviv
Broad Institute
32
Pritchard, Jonathan K.
University of Washington
33
Kirkland, James L.
Cedars-Sinai Health System
34
Youle, Richard J.
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
35
Mellman, Ira Seth
Genentech, Inc
36
He, Chuan H.
Department of Chemistry, The University of Chicago
37
Olson, Eric N.
UT Southwestern Medical Center
38
Cuervo, Ana Maria
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
39
Locasale, Jason Wei
Duke University School of Medicine
40
Chen, Zhijian J.
UT Southwestern Medical Center
41
Shendure, Jay A.
Allen Discovery Center for Cell Lineage Tracing
42
Kaelin, William G.
Brigham and Women's HospitalNobel laureate
43
Hunter, Tony R.
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
44
Spiegelman, Bruce M.
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
45
Levine, Morgan E.
Yale School of Medicine
46
Zhang, Feng
MIT School of Engineering
47
Henikoff, Steven
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
48
Church, George M.
Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering
49
Evans, Ronald M.
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
50
Fuchs, Elaine V.
Rockefeller University
51
Collins, James J.
MIT School of Engineering
52
Guarente, Leonard P.
Elysium Health, Inc.
53
White, Eileen P.
Rutgers University–New Brunswick
54
Eichler, Evan E.
University of Washington School of Medicine
55
Fischbach, Michael A.
Stanford University
56
Zhuang, Xiaowei
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
57
Nüsse, Roel
Stanford University School of Medicine
58
Laird, Peter W.
Van Andel Institute
59
Park, Peter J.
Harvard Medical School
60
Wu, Hao
Boston Children's Hospital
61
Levin, Michael S.
Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering
62
Young, Richard A.
Whitehead Institute
63
Thomson, James Alexander
Wisconsin National Primate Research Center
64
Love, Michael I.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
65
Glass, Christopher K.
Department of Cellular & Molecular Medicine
66
Feinberg, Andrew P.
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
67
Picard, Martin
University of Pennsylvania
68
de Lange, Titia
Rockefeller University
69
Berger, Shelley L.
University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences
70
Kent, William James
Baskin School of Engineering
71
Chaudhuri, Ovijit
Stanford Engineering
72
Dekker, Job
University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
73
Doench, John G.
Broad Institute
74
van Deursen, Jan M.A.
Mayo Clinic Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
75
Gibbs, Richard A.L.
Baylor College of Medicine
76
Blackburn, Elizabeth Helen
University of California, San FranciscoNobel laureate
77
Chang, Howard Y.
Stanford University School of Medicine
78
Brangwynne, Clifford P.
School of Engineering and Applied Science
79
Baltimore, David
California Institute of TechnologyNobel laureate
80
Rabinowitz, Joshua D.
Princeton University
81
Thomas, Paul D.
Keck School of Medicine of USC
82
Shaw, Reuben J.
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
83
Satija, Rahul
New York Genome Cente
84
Breaker, Ronald R.
Yale University
85
Ambros, Victor R.
University of Massachusetts Chan Medical SchoolNobel laureate
86
Levine, Arnold J.
Institute for Advanced Study
87
Quake, Stephen R.
Stanford University
88
Jurica, Jan
California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences
89
Lawrence, Michael S.
Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center
90
Mirny, Leonid A.
MIT School of Engineering
91
Shilatifard, Ali
Biohub
92
Karsenty, Gerard
Columbia University Irving Medical Center
93
Guan, Kunliang
Department of Pharmacology
94
Paşca, Sergiu P.
Stanford University
95
Manning, Brendan D.
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
96
Sharp, Phillip A.
Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyNobel laureate
97
Pollard, Thomas D.
University of California, Berkeley
98
Kenyon, Cynthia J.
Calico LLC
99
Brunet, Anne
Stanford University
100
Ecker, Joseph R.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

1,841 listed scientists in Developmental Biology in the United States

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