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Top institutions in the United States for Epidemiology

16 institutions · Epidemiology · United States

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

133 researchers in the United States whose main subfield is Epidemiology are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 0.2% of all listed authors in the United States, and 1st of 19 countries in the subfield. 67 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health has the most (7), followed by School of Public Health (7) and UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health (6). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors
133
0.2% of all in the United States
In the global top 100,000
67
50.4% of them
Country rank in the subfield
#1
of 19 countries in Epidemiology
Highest-ranked
#53
VanDerWeele, Tyler J.
#InstitutionListed authorsTop 100kRank worldwideHighest-ranked author
1Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health76#1VanDerWeele, Tyler J. #53
2School of Public Health74#2Rothman, Kenneth Jay M. #1,467
3UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health63#4Poole, Charles L. #26,570
4Yale University55#6Spiegelman, Donna L. #17,790
5National Cancer Institute (NCI)53#7Alavanja, Michael C.R. #32,575
6University of California, Berkeley52#8Ahern, Jennifer A. #92,075
7Harvard Medical School42#9Lee, I. Min #3,553
8American Cancer Society43#11Thun, Michael J. #15,124
9The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill42#12Cole, Stephen R. #16,369
10Mailman School of Public Health41#13Aiello, Allison E. #47,574
11Stanford University School of Medicine43#14Safdar, Nasia #47,943
12Slone Epidemiology Center41#15Palmer, Julie R.P. #84,537
13National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)33#16Weinberg, Clarice Ring #30,002
14Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health31#17Jackson, John W. #58,876
15Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center31#18White, Emily #84,586
16University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center30#19Kolonel, Laurence N. #104,756

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

  1. 1
    VanDerWeele, Tyler J.
    Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
  2. 2
    Willett, Walter Churchill
    Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
  3. 3
    Hernán, Miguel A. Ángel
    Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
  4. 4
    Greenland, Sander
    University of California, Los Angeles
  5. 5
    Rothman, Kenneth Jay M.
    School of Public Health
  6. 6
    Lee, I. Min
    Harvard Medical School
  7. 7
    Rosner, Bernard A.
    Channing Division of Network Medicine
  8. 8
    Stampfer, Meir J.
    Brigham and Women's Hospital
  9. 9
    Coughlin, Steven Scott
    Augusta University
  10. 10
    Crump, Casey
    University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
  11. 11
  12. 12
    Thun, Michael J.
    American Cancer Society
  13. 13
    Cole, Stephen R.
    The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  14. 14
    Glymour, Medellena Maria M.
    School of Public Health
  15. 15
    Spiegelman, Donna L.
    Yale University
  16. 16
    Hernández-Díaz, Sonia
    Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
  17. 17
    Rutala, William A.
    The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  18. 18
    Bracken, Michael B.
    Yale University
  19. 19
    Holford, Theodore R.
    Yale University
  20. 20
    Schernhammer, Eva S.
    Harvard Medical School
  21. 21
    Rich-Edwards, Janet Wilson
    Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
  22. 22
    Poole, Charles L.
    UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health
  23. 23
    Savitz, David A.
    Brown University
  24. 24
    Donskey, Curtis J.
    Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center
  25. 25
    Weinberg, Clarice Ring
    National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
  26. 26
    Wilcox, Allen James
    National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
  27. 27
    Baron, John Anthony
    UNC School of Medicine
  28. 28
    Schisterman, Enrique F.
    University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
  29. 29
    Rosenthal, Víctor Daniel
    University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine
  30. 30
    Alavanja, Michael C.R.
    National Cancer Institute (NCI)
  31. 31
    Anderson, Deverick J.
    Duke University School of Medicine
  32. 32
    Swanson, Sonja Alsemgeest
    University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health
  33. 33
    Gandek, Barbara
    University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
  34. 34
    Arah, Onyebuchi A.
    UCLA Fielding School of Public Health
  35. 35
    Lauderdale, Diane Sperling
    The University of Chicago
  36. 36
    Aiello, Allison E.
    Mailman School of Public Health
  37. 37
    Weber, David J.
    UNC School of Medicine
  38. 38
    Safdar, Nasia
    Stanford University School of Medicine
  39. 39
    Morgenstern, Hal
    University of Michigan School of Public Health
  40. 40
    McCullough, Marjorie L.
    American Cancer Society
  41. 41
    Weiss, Noel Scott
    School of Public Health
  42. 42
    Dahabreh, Issa J.
    Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
  43. 43
    Calle, Eugenia E.E.
    American Cancer Society
  44. 44
    Gaynes, Robert P.
    Emory University School of Medicine
  45. 45
    Westreich, Daniel
    UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health
  46. 46
    Kaplan, George A.
    California Department of Health Services
  47. 47
    Nieto, Francisco Javier
    Oregon State University
  48. 48
    Jackson, John W.
    Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
  49. 49
    Gauderman, William James
    Keck School of Medicine of USC
  50. 50
    Flanders, William Dana
    Rollins School of Public Health
  51. 51
    Moore, Steven C.
    National Cancer Institute (NCI)
  52. 52
    Lubin, Jay H.
    National Cancer Institute (NCI)
  53. 53
    Sandler, Dale P.
    National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
  54. 54
    Kelsey, Jennifer L.
    Stanford University School of Medicine
  55. 55
    Naimi, Ashley Isaac
    Emory University
  56. 56
    Richardson, David B.
    UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health
  57. 57
    Wise, Lauren Anne
    School of Public Health
  58. 58
    Palmer, Julie R.P.
    Slone Epidemiology Center
  59. 59
    White, Emily
    Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
  60. 60
    Carmichael, Suzan L.
    Stanford University School of Medicine
  61. 61
    Mayne, Susan Taylor
    Yale University
  62. 62
    Ahern, Jennifer A.
    University of California, Berkeley
  63. 63
    Perl, Trish M.
    UT Southwestern Medical Center
  64. 64
    Dubrow, Robert
    Yale University
  65. 65
    Morgan, Daniel J.
    VA Medical Center
  66. 66
    Witte, John S.
    Stanford University
  67. 67
    Hubbard, Alan E.
    University of California, Berkeley
  68. 68
    Thomas, Duncan Campbell
    Keck School of Medicine of USC
  69. 69
    Freudenheim, Jo L.
    University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
  70. 70
    Yang, Quanhe
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  71. 71
    Jarvis, William Robert
    Jason and Jarvis Associates
  72. 72
    Huang, Susan S.
    UCI School of Medicine
  73. 73
    Chen, Yu
    NYU Grossman School of Medicine
  74. 74
    Kolonel, Laurence N.
    University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center
  75. 75
    Magill, Shelley S.
    National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases
  76. 76
    Longnecker, Matthew P.
    Ramboll USA, Inc.
  77. 77
    Harris, Anthony D.
    University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB)
  78. 78
    Patel, Chirag Jagdish
    Harvard Medical School
  79. 79
    Stolzenberg-Solomon, Rachael Z.
    National Cancer Institute (NCI)
  80. 80
    Munoz-Price, Silvia L.
    Medical College of Wisconsin
  81. 81
    Comstock, George Wills
    Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
  82. 82
    Lumey, Lambert H.
    Mailman School of Public Health
  83. 83
    Murray, Eleanor J.
    School of Public Health
  84. 84
    Bodnar, Lisa M.
    University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health
  85. 85
    Werler, Martha M.
    School of Public Health
  86. 86
    Perkins, Neil J.
    Division of Population Health Research
  87. 87
    Rosenberg, Lynn A.
    Slone Epidemiology Center
  88. 88
    Jacobs, Eric J.
    American Cancer Society
  89. 89
    Horan, Teresa C.
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  90. 90
    Potischman, Nancy A.
    National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  91. 91
    Olshan, Andrew F.
    The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  92. 92
    Cozier, Yvette C.
    Slone Epidemiology Center
  93. 93
    Paffenbarger, Ralph Seal
    Stanford University School of Medicine
  94. 94
    Bradshaw, Patrick Terrence
    University of California, Berkeley
  95. 95
    Schweizer, Marin L.
    University of Wisconsin-Madison
  96. 96
    Brender, Jean D.
    Texas A&M University
  97. 97
    Milstone, Aaron M.
    Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
  98. 98
    Reynolds, Peggy J.
    University of California, San Francisco
  99. 99
  100. 100
    Mody, Lona R.
    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

133 listed scientists in Epidemiology 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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