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Top institutions in the United States for Genetics & Heredity

32 institutions · Genetics & Heredity · United States

Which institutions in the United States have the most top-cited scientists in Genetics & Heredity?

372 researchers in the United States whose main subfield is Genetics & Heredity are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 0.5% of all listed authors in the United States, and 1st of 42 countries in the subfield. 95 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). Baylor College of Medicine has the most (15), followed by University of Washington School of Medicine (13) and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (13). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors
372
0.5% of all in the United States
In the global top 100,000
95
25.5% of them
Country rank in the subfield
#1
of 42 countries in Genetics & Heredity
Highest-ranked
#1,620
Quinlan, Aaron R.
#InstitutionListed authorsTop 100kRank worldwideHighest-ranked author
1Baylor College of Medicine152#1McGuire, Amy Lynn #59,185
2University of Washington School of Medicine135#2Browning, Brian L. #17,087
3Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine134#3Kazazian, Haig H. #25,086
4Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai104#5Gelb, Bruce D. #30,083
5National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)94#6Biesecker, Leslie Glenn #12,464
6University of Washington93#7Browning, Sharon R. #17,672
7The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia82#8Håkonarson, Håkon H. #22,238
8Harvard Medical School83#9Chung, Wendy Kay #26,073
9Boston Children's Hospital81#10Waisbren, Susan E. #86,012
10David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA73#11Garrison, Nanibaa’ A. #48,767
11University of Utah School of Medicine62#13Quinlan, Aaron R. #1,620
12Massachusetts General Hospital62#14Rehm, Heidi L. #2,513
13Vanderbilt University Medical Center63#15Clayton, Ellen Wright #34,074
14Mayo Clinic60#18Lanza, Ian R. #100,191
15Stanford University School of Medicine52#21Robinson, Peter Nicholas #15,282
16National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)52#26Kaler, Stephen G. #76,000
17Emory University School of Medicine50#28Wilcox, William Ross #121,669
18University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine50#29Weinreb, Neal J. #141,980
19University of Minnesota Twin Cities42#32McGue, Matt K. #25,347
20University of California, San Francisco41#33Risch, Neil J. #25,371
21UCSF School of Medicine41#36Slavotinek, Anne M. #69,713
22Columbia University Irving Medical Center42#40Chung, Wendy K. #87,202
23The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill40#43Muenzer, Joseph #100,863
24The University of Utah40#49Tavtigian, Sean V.V. #141,655
25Texas Children's Hospital31#55Lupski, James R. #11,524
26Oregon Health & Science University31#57Richards, Carolyn Sue #21,316
27University of Pennsylvania32#58Ritchie, Marylyn D. #29,931
28Brigham and Women's Hospital31#63Rao, Deepak A. #40,155
29University of Colorado Anschutz Department of Pediatrics31#64Spritz, Richard A. #49,641
30McGovern Medical School30#68Northrup, Hope A. #105,170
31Yale School of Medicine30#70Jiang, Yonghui #133,140
32University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health30#75Pauli, Richard M. #156,066

The top 100 in Genetics & Heredity in the United States, in order

  1. 1
    Quinlan, Aaron R.
    University of Utah School of Medicine
  2. 2
    Rehm, Heidi L.
    Massachusetts General Hospital
  3. 3
    Schork, Nicholas J.
    Translational Genomics Research Institute
  4. 4
    Koboldt, Daniel C.
    Nationwide Children’s Hospital
  5. 5
    Lupski, James R.
    Texas Children's Hospital
  6. 6
    Biesecker, Leslie Glenn
    National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)
  7. 7
    Keller, Matthew C.
    University of Colorado Boulder
  8. 8
    Robinson, Peter Nicholas
    Stanford University School of Medicine
  9. 9
    Butler, Merlin Gohazrua K.
    University of Kansas Medical Center
  10. 10
    Kingsmore, Stephen Francis
    Rady Children's Hospital
  11. 11
    Browning, Brian L.
    University of Washington School of Medicine
  12. 12
    Browning, Sharon R.
    University of Washington
  13. 13
    Sidransky, Ellen
    Brandeis University
  14. 14
    Richards, Carolyn Sue
    Oregon Health & Science University
  15. 15
    Håkonarson, Håkon H.
    The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
  16. 16
    Vockley, Jerry G.
    University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
  17. 17
    Lange, Kenneth L.
    University of California, Los Angeles
  18. 18
    Dean, Michael C.
    National Cancer Institute (NCI)
  19. 19
    Kazazian, Haig H.
    Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
  20. 20
    McGue, Matt K.
    University of Minnesota Twin Cities
  21. 21
    Risch, Neil J.
    University of California, San Francisco
  22. 22
    Chung, Wendy Kay
    Harvard Medical School
  23. 23
    Gahl, William Allen
    National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)
  24. 24
    Khoury, Muin Joseph
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  25. 25
    Cutting, Garry R.
    Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
  26. 26
    Ritchie, Marylyn D.
    University of Pennsylvania
  27. 27
    Gelb, Bruce D.
    Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
  28. 28
    Ferreira, Carlos R.
    National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)
  29. 29
    Nussbaum, Robert L.
    Invitae Corporation
  30. 30
    De-La-Chapelle, Albert Dela
    The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center
  31. 31
    Clayton, Ellen Wright
    Vanderbilt University Medical Center
  32. 32
    Turkheimer, Eric N.
    University of Virginia
  33. 33
    Rao, Deepak A.
    Brigham and Women's Hospital
  34. 34
    Cox, Nancy J.
    Vanderbilt University Medical Center
  35. 35
    Schäffer, Alejandro A.
    National Cancer Institute (NCI)
  36. 36
    Watson, Michael S.
    American College of Medical Genetics
  37. 37
    Cavalli-Sforza, Luigi Luca
    Stanford University School of Medicine
  38. 38
    Bastarache, Lisa A.
    Vanderbilt University Medical Center
  39. 39
    Pyeritz, Reed Edwin
    University of Pennsylvania
  40. 40
    Hamosh, Ada
    Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
  41. 41
    Murray, Jeffrey Clark
    University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
  42. 42
    Rotimi, Charles N.
    National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  43. 43
    Korf, Bruce Richard
    Heersink School of Medicine
  44. 44
    Beaudet, Arthur L.
    Luna Genetics
  45. 45
    Garrison, Nanibaa’ A.
    David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
  46. 46
    Spritz, Richard A.
    University of Colorado Anschutz Department of Pediatrics
  47. 47
    Ober, C. L.
    The University of Chicago
  48. 48
    Dobyns, William B.
    University of Minnesota Twin Cities
  49. 49
    Biesecker, Barbara Bowles
    RTI International
  50. 50
    Rasmussen, Sonja Ann
    Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
  51. 51
    Desnick, Robert J.
    Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
  52. 52
    Gleeson, Joseph G.
    Institute for Genomic Medicine
  53. 53
    King, Mary Claire
    University of Washington School of Medicine
  54. 54
    Kishnani, Priya Sunil
    Duke University Medical Center
  55. 55
    Burke, Wylie G.
    University of Washington School of Medicine
  56. 56
    Solomon, Benjamin D.
    National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)
  57. 57
    Grabowski, Gregory Alex
    University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
  58. 58
    Longo, Nicola
    University of California, Los Angeles
  59. 59
    Green, Robert C.
    Harvard University
  60. 60
    Belmont, John W.
    Illumina, Inc.
  61. 61
    McGuire, Amy Lynn
    Baylor College of Medicine
  62. 62
    Monaco, Anthony P.
    Tufts University
  63. 63
    Lasalle, Janine M.
    University of California, Davis
  64. 64
    Rauen, Katherine A.
    UC Davis School of Medicine
  65. 65
    MacDonald, Marcy E.
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  66. 66
    Chakravarti, Aravinda
    NYU Grossman School of Medicine
  67. 67
    Kidd, Kenneth K.
    Yale University
  68. 68
    Bamshad, Michael J.
    University of Washington
  69. 69
    Jarvik, Gail Pairitz
    University of Washington School of Medicine
  70. 70
    McDonald-McGinn, Donna M.
    The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
  71. 71
    Slavotinek, Anne M.
    UCSF School of Medicine
  72. 72
    Janssens, A. Cécile Jw W.
    Rollins School of Public Health
  73. 73
    Haendel, Melissa Anne
    University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine
  74. 74
    Prior, Thomas W.
    Johnson & Johnson
  75. 75
    Katsanis, Nicholas
    RESCINDO THERAPEUTICS, INC.
  76. 76
    Kaler, Stephen G.
    National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
  77. 77
    Schuchman, Edward Howard
    Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
  78. 78
    Mills, James L.
    National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
  79. 79
    Balwani, Manisha C.
    Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
  80. 80
    Butte, Manish J.
    David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
  81. 81
    Distèche, Christine M.
    University of Washington
  82. 82
    Waisbren, Susan E.
    Boston Children's Hospital
  83. 83
    Byers, Peter H.H.
    University of Washington School of Medicine
  84. 84
    Gusella, James F.
    Massachusetts General Hospital
  85. 85
    Martin, George M.
    Dr. George Martin Dermatology Associates
  86. 86
    Chung, Wendy K.
    Columbia University Irving Medical Center
  87. 87
    Hassold, Terry J.
    Washington State University Pullman
  88. 88
    Skotko, Brian G.
    Harvard Medical School
  89. 89
    Sabatello, Maya
    Columbia University Irving Medical Center
  90. 90
    Gripp, Karen W.
    Nemours Children's Hospital
  91. 91
    Krakow, Deborah E.
    David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
  92. 92
    Meisler, Miriam H.
    University of Michigan Medical School
  93. 93
    Levy, Harvey
    Harvard Medical School
  94. 94
    Jorde, Lynn B.
    University of Utah School of Medicine
  95. 95
    Scaglia, Fernando
    Baylor College of Medicine
  96. 96
    Lanza, Ian R.
    Mayo Clinic
  97. 97
    Porter, Forbes D.
    National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
  98. 98
    Muenzer, Joseph
    The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  99. 99
    Martin, Christa Lese
    Geisinger Health System
  100. 100
    Eaves, Lindon J.
    Virginia Commonwealth University

372 listed scientists in Genetics & Heredity 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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