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

1,700 researchers in the United States whose main subfield is Immunology are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 2.3% of all listed authors in the United States, and 1st of 64 countries in the subfield. 894 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). Harvard Medical School has the most (78), followed by The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (55) and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) (43). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors

1,700

2.3% of all in the United States

In the global top 100,000

894

52.6% of them

Country rank in the subfield

of 64 countries in Immunology

Highest-ranked

#166

Medzhitov, Ruslan M.

#	Institution	Listed authors	Top 100k	Rank worldwide	Highest-ranked author
1	Harvard Medical School	78	45	#1	Sharpe, Arlene H. #1,993
2	The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center	55	36	#2	Kantarjian, Hagop M. #720
3	National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)	43	25	#3	Strober, Warren T. #5,855
4	Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis	41	19	#4	Colonna, Marco #324
5	Mayo Clinic	38	19	#5	Rajkumar, S. Vincent #281
6	Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center	38	23	#6	Abdel-Wahab, Omar I. #3,762
7	Stanford University School of Medicine	32	22	#7	Weissman, Irving Lerner #2,346
8	Yale School of Medicine	29	16	#8	Medzhitov, Ruslan M. #166
9	St. Jude Children's Research Hospital	28	9	#9	Green, Douglas R. #259
10	National Cancer Institute (NCI)	28	14	#10	Rosenberg, Steven Aaron #484
11	Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center	28	16	#11	Lee, Stephanie Joi #6,712
12	Dana-Farber Cancer Institute	27	15	#12	Anderson, Kenneth Carl #5,287
13	University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine	24	14	#13	Wherry, Edward John #355
14	Weill Cornell Medicine	24	14	#14	Nathan, Carl F. #2,141
15	UCSF School of Medicine	20	10	#16	Lanier, Lewis L. #1,818
16	University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine	20	14	#18	Vignali, Dario A.A. #3,696
17	Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	20	11	#19	Mérad, Miriam M. #4,988
18	City of Hope National Med Center	16	7	#21	Caligiuri, Michael A. #7,668
19	Medical College of Wisconsin	16	4	#25	Horowitz, Mary M. #44,488
20	Boston Children's Hospital	15	10	#26	Lieberman, Judy #5,254
21	Emory University School of Medicine	15	7	#28	Ahmed, R. S. #17,721
22	University of Washington	14	10	#29	Hood, Leroy E. #12,465
23	La Jolla Institute for Immunology	13	9	#31	Crotty, Shane #1,059
24	Moffitt Cancer Center	13	6	#27	Locke, Frederick L. #16,917
25	University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine	13	8	#33	Pollyea, Daniel Aaron #22,125
26	University of Washington School of Medicine	13	6	#34	Dale, David C. #31,092
27	University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School	12	4	#35	Fitzgerald, Katherine A. #4,272
28	Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine	12	4	#36	Pearce, Erika L. #4,525
29	Rockefeller University	11	10	#41	Casanova, Jean Laurent #4,273
30	NYU Grossman School of Medicine	11	6	#42	Littman, Dan R. #6,434
31	Vanderbilt University Medical Center	11	6	#43	Rathmell, Jeffrey C. #8,118
32	Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine	11	6	#44	Platanias, Leonidas C. #12,643
33	Penn Medicine	11	8	#45	Maude, Shannon L. #17,321
34	Genentech, Inc	11	3	#47	Carter, Paul J. #20,822
35	David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA	10	6	#50	Ganz, Tomas A. #845
36	University of Rochester Medical Center	10	5	#51	Mosmann, Tim R. #1,311
37	Cedars-Sinai Medical Center	10	4	#54	Grivennikov, Sergei I. #6,614
38	Columbia University Irving Medical Center	10	5	#56	Farber, Donna L. #11,731
39	Scripps Research Institute	10	6	#57	Beutler, Ernest #13,629
40	The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia	10	6	#58	Grupp, Stephan A. #14,005
41	University of Michigan Medical School	10	3	#59	Ward, Peter A. #16,206
42	Duke University School of Medicine	10	3	#61	Haynes, Barton F. #28,154
43	The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center	9	6	#63	Pardoll, Drew M. #277
44	Brigham and Women's Hospital	9	5	#64	Serhan, Charles Nicholas #533
45	Massachusetts General Hospital	9	7	#65	Xavier, Ramnik Joseph #2,367
46	Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons	9	5	#66	Sadelain, Michel W.J. #3,157
47	University of California, San Francisco	9	7	#67	Bluestone, Jeffrey A. #4,833
48	National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)	9	3	#68	Young, Neal S. #6,401
49	National Institutes of Health (NIH)	9	4	#70	Holland, Steven M. #11,879
50	University of Minnesota Medical School	9	5	#72	Blazar, Bruce R. #24,973
51	Stanford University	9	4	#73	Parham, Peter R. #29,817
52	Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center	8	5	#75	Barber, Glen N. #3,532
53	The Jackson Laboratory	8	3	#78	Banchereau, Jacques F.J. #18,785
54	Roswell Park Cancer Institute	8	4	#80	Brentjens, Renier J. #26,759
55	Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center	8	3	#81	Jordan, Michael B. #28,698
56	University of Minnesota Twin Cities	8	2	#82	Weisdorf, Daniel J. #28,980
57	University of Cincinnati College of Medicine	8	4	#83	Filipovich, Alexandra Hult #31,932
58	UT Southwestern Medical Center	7	4	#91	Hooper, Lora V. #4,718
59	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	7	6	#93	Kim, Chang H. #5,092
60	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	7	2	#99	Spranger, Stefani #11,895
61	University of California, San Diego	7	3	#101	Kipps, Thomas J. #14,680
62	Mayo Clinic Scottsdale-Phoenix, Arizona	7	4	#103	Mesa, Ruben Anthony #17,767
63	University of Pennsylvania	7	2	#105	Schuster, Stephen J. #18,421
64	Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University	7	3	#107	Sekeres, Mikkael A. #27,797
65	Duke University Medical Center	7	4	#111	Tedder, Thomas F. #31,641
66	Baylor College of Medicine	7	3	#114	Goodell, Margaret A. #46,201
67	University of Virginia School of Medicine	7	1	#118	Strieter, Robert M. #72,343
68	Department of Medicine, The University of Chicago	6	3	#122	Pamer, Eric G. #7,471
69	Columbia University	6	5	#125	Orange, Jordan S. #12,655
70	Albert Einstein College of Medicine	6	4	#130	Frenette, Paul Sylvain #15,925
71	University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine	6	3	#133	Nauseef, William M. #21,844
72	UC Davis School of Medicine	6	1	#134	Gershwin, Merrill Eric E. #23,579
73	Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason	6	4	#135	Ziegler, Steven F. #24,247
74	University of California, Irvine	6	5	#139	Tenner, Andrea Joan #41,430
75	The University of Chicago	6	4	#140	Vardiman, James W. #45,100
76	Medical College of Georgia	5	4	#145	Ley, Klaus F. #2,287
77	University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine	5	4	#152	Hunter, Christopher A. #12,148
78	Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center	5	2	#153	Scadden, David T. #12,159
79	Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine	5	3	#156	Steinberg, Martin H. #16,195
80	Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research	5	2	#161	Gregersen, Peter K. #41,343
81	University of Utah School of Medicine	5	2	#163	Round, June L. #44,504
82	Case Western Reserve University	5	0	#171	Huang, Stanley Ching Cheng #112,217
83	Fox Chase Cancer Center	4	1	#175	Galluzzi, Lorenzo #696
84	OHSU School of Medicine	4	2	#177	Druker, Brian J. #7,584
85	Johns Hopkins University	4	1	#183	Levis, Mark James #12,476
86	University of Nebraska Medical Center	4	3	#184	Khoury, Joseph D. #13,343
87	University of California, Berkeley	4	3	#185	Raulet, David H. #13,733
88	Huntsman Cancer Institute	4	2	#187	Ostrand-Rosenberg, Suzanne #15,043
89	University of Pittsburgh	4	2	#189	Lotze, Michael Thomas #17,836
90	The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center	4	2	#196	Woyach, Jennifer Ann #28,083
91	UCI School of Medicine	4	3	#197	Zlotnik, Albert #28,372
92	Cleveland Clinic Foundation	4	2	#198	Li, Xiaoxia #29,313
93	Emory University	4	2	#200	Neish, Andrew S. #29,965
94	College of Medicine	4	2	#137	Weisenburger, Dennis D. #30,614
95	Indiana University School of Medicine	4	3	#204	Kaplan, Mark H. #33,873
96	Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida	4	2	#205	Fairweather, Delisa Lisa #34,233
97	Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health	4	2	#207	Baumgarth, Nicole #36,947
98	University of Maryland School of Medicine	4	1	#208	Flajnik, Martin F. #38,495
99	UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center	4	3	#211	Dotti, Gianpietro #44,698
100	National Cancer Institute at Frederick	4	2	#212	Oppenheim, Joost J. #44,703
101	University of Illinois at Chicago	4	2	#215	Fantuzzi, Giamila #50,334
102	Texas Children's Hospital	4	2	#217	Allen, Carl E. #51,646
103	James Graham Brown Cancer Center	4	1	#218	Yan, Jun #54,497
104	Oregon Health & Science University	4	2	#219	Maziarz, Richard Thomas #57,716
105	Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center	4	2	#220	Weller, Peter F. #57,984
106	Department of Molecular Biology	4	1	#223	Goldrath, Ananda W. #75,894
107	University of Iowa	4	0	#228	Butler, John E. #111,882
108	Northwell Health System	3	2	#232	Tracey, Kevin J. #1,454
109	University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center	3	3	#234	Zou, Weiping #1,600
110	Yale University	3	1	#235	Iwasaki, Akiko #1,636
111	Hospital for Special Surgery - New York	3	2	#237	Ivashkiv, Lionel B. #2,537
112	National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS)	3	2	#242	O'Shea, John Joseph #6,263
113	Broad Institute	3	2	#244	Ebert, Benjamin L. #6,646
114	Stanford Cancer Institute	3	3	#245	MacKall, Crystal Lee #7,258
115	McGovern Medical School	3	2	#248	Eltzschig, Holger Klaus #9,860
116	University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson	3	2	#249	Nikolich, Janko Ž. #10,256
117	National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR)	3	1	#253	Chen, Wanjun #12,338
118	Department of Medicine	3	1	#128	Chang, John T. #13,339
119	University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center	3	2	#256	George, James N. #18,936
120	Section of Hematology Oncology, The University of Chicago	3	2	#257	Larson, Richard A. #19,170
121	Seattle Children's Hospital	3	2	#258	Aderem, Alan A. #19,275
122	The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center	3	2	#259	Byrd, John C. #20,992
123	The University of Alabama at Birmingham	3	3	#266	Randall, Troy D. #29,168
124	Nationwide Children’s Hospital	3	2	#270	Gallagher, Patrick G. #33,148
125	AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP	3	1	#271	Younes, Anas #33,275
126	University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine	3	2	#273	Malek, Thomas R. #37,107
127	University of Florida College of Medicine	3	1	#274	Wingard, John Reid #37,504
128	VA Medical Center	3	1	#275	Roodman, Garson David #38,676
129	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	3	2	#276	Allen, Irving Coy #40,550
130	UConn Health	3	2	#277	Palucka, Karolina Anna #41,899
131	Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation	3	2	#278	McEver, Rodger P. #44,103
132	New York Blood Center	3	1	#282	Mohandas, Narla #48,394
133	Feinstein Institute for Medical Research	3	3	#292	Wang, Haichao #60,686
134	CASE School of Medicine	3	2	#294	Lazarus, Hillard Michael #63,515
135	National Institute on Aging (NIA)	3	1	#298	Weng, Nanping P. #71,137
136	NYU Langone Health	3	1	#303	Morgan, Gareth John #75,896
137	University of Tennessee Health Science Center	3	1	#304	Ataga, Kenneth I. #77,937
138	NIH Clinical Center (CC)	3	1	#306	Fleisher, Thomas A. #81,728
139	The Ohio State University	3	1	#307	Wen, Haitao #82,462
140	University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences	3	1	#314	van Rhee, Frits #90,179
141	Mass General Brigham	3	1	#318	Chen, Yibin A. #99,341
142	BloodCenter of Wisconsin	3	0	#326	Aster, Richard H. #122,282

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

1
Medzhitov, Ruslan M.
Yale School of Medicine
2
Dinarello, C. A.
Olatec Therapeutics LLC
3
Green, Douglas R.
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
4
Pardoll, Drew M.
The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center
5
Rajkumar, S. Vincent
Mayo Clinic
6
Colonna, Marco
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
7
Wherry, Edward John
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
8
Hajishengallis, George N.
University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine
9
Wynn, Thomas A.
Pfizer Inc.
10
Rosenberg, Steven Aaron
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
11
Serhan, Charles Nicholas
Brigham and Women's Hospital
12
Galluzzi, Lorenzo
Fox Chase Cancer Center
13
Kantarjian, Hagop M.
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
14
June, Carl H.
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
15
Kanneganti, Thirumala Devi
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
16
Ganz, Tomas A.
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
17
Tefferi, Ayalew
Mayo Clinic
18
Crotty, Shane
La Jolla Institute for Immunology
19
Mosmann, Tim R.
University of Rochester Medical Center
20
Tracey, Kevin J.
Northwell Health System
21
Zou, Weiping
University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center
22
Iwasaki, Akiko
Yale University
23
Lanier, Lewis L.
UCSF School of Medicine
24
Sharpe, Arlene H.
Harvard Medical School
25
Dispenzieri, Angela A.
Mayo Clinic
26
Fauci, Anthony S.
Georgetown University
27
Gertz, Morie A.A.
Mayo Clinic
28
Nathan, Carl F.
Weill Cornell Medicine
29
Ley, Klaus F.
Medical College of Georgia
30
Weissman, Irving Lerner
Stanford University School of Medicine
31
Xavier, Ramnik Joseph
Massachusetts General Hospital
32
Ivashkiv, Lionel B.
Hospital for Special Surgery - New York
33
Tsokos, George C.
Harvard Medical School
34
Gajewski, Thomas F.
Department of Pathology, The University of Chicago
35
Trinchieri, Giorgio
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
36
Neelapu, Sattva S.
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
37
Kumar, Shaji K.
Mayo Clinic
38
Sadelain, Michel W.J.
Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
39
Ansell, Stephen Maxted
Mayo Clinic
40
Chi, Hongbo
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
41
Cortes, Jorge E.
Medical College of Georgia
42
Barber, Glen N.
Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center
43
Vignali, Dario A.A.
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
44
Abdel-Wahab, Omar I.
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
45
Quintana, Francisco J.
Harvard Medical School
46
Mullighan, Charles C.
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
47
Chen, Lieping
Yale School of Medicine
48
Artis, David
Weill Cornell Medicine
49
Fitzgerald, Katherine A.
University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
50
Casanova, Jean Laurent
Rockefeller University
51
Garcia-Manero, Guillermo
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
52
Pulendran, Bali
Stanford University School of Medicine
53
Pearce, Erika L.
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
54
Hooper, Lora V.
UT Southwestern Medical Center
55
Whiteside, Theresa L.
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
56
Bluestone, Jeffrey A.
University of California, San Francisco
57
Mérad, Miriam M.
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
58
Rudensky, Alexander Yu
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
59
Kim, Chang H.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
60
Lieberman, Judy
Boston Children's Hospital
61
Anderson, Kenneth Carl
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
62
Cyster, Jason G.
UCSF School of Medicine
63
Davis, Mark M.
Stanford University School of Medicine
64
Pisetsky, David S.
Durham VA Medical Center
65
Strober, Warren T.
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
66
Freeman, Gordon James
Harvard Medical School
67
O'Shea, John Joseph
National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS)
68
Young, Neal S.
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
69
Littman, Dan R.
NYU Grossman School of Medicine
70
DiNardo, Courtney D.
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
71
Steinman, Ralph Marvin
Rockefeller UniversityNobel laureate
72
Grivennikov, Sergei I.
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
73
Ebert, Benjamin L.
Broad Institute
74
Lee, Stephanie Joi
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
75
Flavell, Richard A.
Yale School of Medicine
76
Ravandi, Farhad
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
77
Zhu, Jinfang
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
78
Weyand, Cornelia M.
Stanford University School of Medicine
79
Waldmann, Thomas A.
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
80
Gladwin, Mark T.
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
81
Theoharides, Theoharis Constantin
Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Osteopathic Medicine
82
Gaffen, Sarah L.
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
83
MacKall, Crystal Lee
Stanford Cancer Institute
84
Pamer, Eric G.
Department of Medicine, The University of Chicago
85
Druker, Brian J.
OHSU School of Medicine
86
Caligiuri, Michael A.
City of Hope National Med Center
87
Irvine, Darrell John
MIT School of Engineering
88
Richardson, Paul Gerard
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
89
Kuter, David J.
Harvard Medical School
90
Luster, Andrew D.
Harvard Medical School
91
Rathmell, Jeffrey C.
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
92
Konopleva, Marina Yu
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
93
Jabbour, Elias Joseph
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
94
Jaffe, Elaine S.
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
95
Mazmanian, Sarkis K.
Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s (ASAP) Collaborative Research Network
96
Jaiswal, Siddhartha
Stanford University School of Medicine
97
Maus, Marcela Valderrama
Massachusetts General Hospital
98
Springer, Timothy A.
Boston Children's Hospital
99
Sette, Alessandro D.
La Jolla Institute for Immunology
100
Mathis, Diane J.
Harvard Medical School

1,700 listed scientists in Immunology in the United States

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