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Top institutions in the United States for Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry

21 institutions · Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry · United States

Which institutions in the United States have the most top-cited scientists in Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry?

323 researchers in the United States whose main subfield is Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 0.4% of all listed authors in the United States, and 2nd of 86 countries in the subfield. 66 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). University of Illinois at Chicago has the most (10), followed by National Institutes of Health (NIH) (9) and Merck & Co., Inc. (7). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors
323
0.4% of all in the United States
In the global top 100,000
66
20.4% of them
Country rank in the subfield
#2
of 86 countries in Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry
Highest-ranked
#1,622
Roth, Bryan L.
#InstitutionListed authorsTop 100kRank worldwideHighest-ranked author
1University of Illinois at Chicago103#11Pezzuto, John M. #30,362
2National Institutes of Health (NIH)94#17Cragg, Gordon M.L. #9,696
3Merck & Co., Inc.71#40Sheridan, Robert P. #28,782
4Pfizer Inc.71#42Lovering, Frank E. #43,893
5University of Michigan, Ann Arbor61#50Wang, Shaomeng #30,024
6University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy62#51ElSohly, Mahmoud A. #32,495
7UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy53#69Tropsha, Alexander E. #3,243
8University of California, San Francisco53#70Shoichet, Brian K. #4,417
9Skaggs School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences52#72Gerwick, William H. #35,511
10Scripps Research Institute42#101Forli, Stefano #12,754
11National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)41#103Jacobson, Kenneth A. #19,803
12AbbVie41#117Martin, Yvonne Connolly #58,599
13RTI International40#133Wall, Monroe E. #154,681
14The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center40#139Zhang, Dongwei #194,212
15Emory University40#145Liang, Steven H. #253,348
16The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill31#151Nichols, D. E. #4,606
17Genentech, Inc31#178Dragovich, Peter S. #95,999
18The University of North Carolina at Greensboro30#191Cech, Nadja B. #138,573
19Novartis Corporation30#197Shultz, Michael David #147,300
20National Cancer Institute at Frederick30#208Beutler, John A. #177,946
21UF Health30#225Zheng, Guangrong #310,524

The top 100 in Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry in the United States, in order

  1. 1
    Roth, Bryan L.
    UNC School of Medicine
  2. 2
    Meanwell, Nicholas A.
    Bristol Myers Squibb
  3. 3
    Lipinski, Christopher A.
    Melior Discovery
  4. 4
    Newman, David J.
    NIH Special Volunteer
  5. 5
    Tropsha, Alexander E.
    UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy
  6. 6
    Shoichet, Brian K.
    University of California, San Francisco
  7. 7
    Nichols, D. E.
    The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  8. 8
    Kuhn, Max
    Software Engineer
  9. 9
    Zhavoronkov, Alex A.
    Johns Hopkins University
  10. 10
    Cragg, Gordon M.L.
    National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  11. 11
    Oprea, Tudor I.
    UNM School of Medicine
  12. 12
    Forli, Stefano
    Scripps Research Institute
  13. 13
    Irwin, John J.
    University of California, San Francisco
  14. 14
    Weininger, David
    Daylight Chemical Information Systems
  15. 15
    Olson, Arthur J.
    Scripps Research Institute
  16. 16
    Hansch, Corwin H.
    Pomona College
  17. 17
  18. 18
    Jacobson, Kenneth A.
    National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
  19. 19
    Austin, Christopher P.
    National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  20. 20
    Williams, Antony John
    United States Environmental Protection Agency
  21. 21
    Talele, Tanaji T.
    St. John's University
  22. 22
    Jones, Lyn H.
    Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
  23. 23
    Sheridan, Robert P.
    Merck & Co., Inc.
  24. 24
    Wang, Shaomeng
    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  25. 25
    Pezzuto, John M.
    University of Illinois at Chicago
  26. 26
    ElSohly, Mahmoud A.
    University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy
  27. 27
    Kinghorn, A. Douglas
    The Ohio State University
  28. 28
    Brown, Dean G.
    Jnana Therapeutics
  29. 29
    Gerwick, William H.
    Skaggs School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences
  30. 30
    Koes, David Ryan
    University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
  31. 31
    Pauli, Guido F.
    University of Illinois at Chicago
  32. 32
    Majeed, Muhammed
    Sabinsa Corporation
  33. 33
  34. 34
    Chang, Mayland
    University of Notre Dame
  35. 35
    Lindsley, Craig William
    Vanderbilt University
  36. 36
    Guha, Rajarshi
    Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
  37. 37
  38. 38
    Kar, Supratik
    Kean University
  39. 39
    Lee, Kuohsiung
    UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy
  40. 40
    Cordell, Geoffrey A.
    Natural Products Inc.
  41. 41
    Muegge, Ingo
    Alkermes, Inc.
  42. 42
    Durrant, Jacob Devin
    University of Pittsburgh
  43. 43
    Farnsworth, Norman R.
    University of Illinois at Chicago
  44. 44
  45. 45
    Amaro, Rommie Elizabeth
    Department of Molecular Biology
  46. 46
    Yuan, Chun Su
    The University of Chicago Medicine
  47. 47
    Bayly, Christopher I.
    Open Molecular Software Foundation
  48. 48
    Hall, Matthew D.
    National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  49. 49
    Zhou, Jia
    John Sealy School of Medicine
  50. 50
    Arkin, Michelle R.
    University of California, San Francisco
  51. 51
    Silverman, Richard B.
    Northwestern University
  52. 52
    Singh, Sheo Bux
    Drew University
  53. 53
    Katzenellenbogen, John A.
    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  54. 54
    Jin, Jian
    Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
  55. 55
    Simeonov, Anton
    National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  56. 56
    Kingston, David G.I.
    Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
  57. 57
    Abagyan, Ruben A.
    Skaggs School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences
  58. 58
    Pettit, George Robert
    Arizona State University
  59. 59
    Khan, Ikhlas A.
    University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy
  60. 60
    Pang, Yuan-Ping
    Prostate Theranostics Inc.
  61. 61
    Overington, John P.
    Drug Hunter Inc.
  62. 62
    Quave, Cassandra Leah
    Emory University School of Medicine
  63. 63
    Muratov, Eugene N.
    UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy
  64. 64
    Dragovich, Peter S.
    Genentech, Inc
  65. 65
    Iyer, Arun K.
    Wayne State University
  66. 66
    Neamati, Nouri
    University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center
  67. 67
    Erlanson, Daniel A.
    Frontier Medicines
  68. 68
    Boyd, Michael R.
    ADT Pharmaceuticals, LLC
  69. 69
    Willson, Timothy Mark
    UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy
  70. 70
  71. 71
    Li, Yupeng
    The University of Texas at El Paso
  72. 72
    Radwan, Mohamed M.
    University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy
  73. 73
    Wang, Chongzhi
    Tang Center for Herbal Medicine Research
  74. 74
    Keiser, Michael J.
    University of California, San Francisco
  75. 75
    Kier, Lemont B.
    Virginia Commonwealth University
  76. 76
    Fourches, Denis
    Oerth Bio LLC
  77. 77
    Chiosis, Gabriela
    Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
  78. 78
    Guan, Xiangming
    South Dakota State University
  79. 79
    El-Sayed, K. A.
    The University of Louisiana Monroe
  80. 80
    Mahady, Gail B.
    University of Illinois at Chicago
  81. 81
    Hagmann, William K.
    Merck & Co., Inc.
  82. 82
    Wang, Jun
    Rutgers University–New Brunswick
  83. 83
    Xie, Xiangqun Sean
    University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
  84. 84
    Swamidass, S. Joshua
    Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
  85. 85
    Gunatilaka, Abeysinghe Aleslie
    College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
  86. 86
    Cech, Nadja B.
    The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
  87. 87
    Cheng, Tiejun
    National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
  88. 88
    Anderson, Amy C.
    University of Connecticut
  89. 89
    Zheng, Wei
    Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center
  90. 90
    Reggio, Patricia Hodapp
    The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
  91. 91
    Oberlies, Nicholas H.
    The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
  92. 92
    Subedi, Lalita
    Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
  93. 93
    Kargbo, Robert B.
    Independent Research Consultant
  94. 94
    Shultz, Michael David
    Novartis Corporation
  95. 95
    Hamann, Mark T.
    Medical University of South Carolina
  96. 96
    Bolton, Evan E.
    National Library of Medicine (NLM)
  97. 97
    Lombardo, Franco
    CmaxDMPK LLC
  98. 98
    Wencewicz, Timothy A.
    Washington University in St. Louis
  99. 99
    Ali, Eunus S.
    Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
  100. 100
    Glennon, Richard A.
    Virginia Commonwealth University

323 listed scientists in Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry 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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