Top institutions in the United States for Microbiology

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

1,576 researchers in the United States whose main subfield is Microbiology are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 2.1% of all listed authors in the United States, and 1st of 93 countries in the subfield. 681 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has the most (46), followed by University of Wisconsin-Madison (22) and Harvard Medical School (21). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors

1,576

2.1% of all in the United States

In the global top 100,000

681

43.2% of them

Country rank in the subfield

of 93 countries in Microbiology

Highest-ranked

#97

Fierer, Noah G.

#	Institution	Listed authors	Top 100k	Rank worldwide	Highest-ranked author
1	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention	46	11	#1	Uyeki, Timothy M. #8,314
2	University of Wisconsin-Madison	22	12	#3	Keller, Nancy P. #4,070
3	Harvard Medical School	21	11	#4	Hooper, David C. #9,072
4	Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis	20	5	#6	Sibley, Laurence David #25,541
5	Stanford University School of Medicine	19	7	#9	Sonnenburg, Justin Laine #8,997
6	University of Washington	18	9	#12	McFarland, Lynne Vernice #9,446
7	Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine	17	5	#15	Al-Tawfiq, Jaffar Ali #9,736
8	Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health	16	5	#16	Casadevall, Arturo #969
9	National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)	16	8	#17	Otto, Michael #1,050
10	National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases	14	6	#24	Donlan, Rodney M. #7,869
11	University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine	14	5	#25	Sejvar, James J. #18,066
12	University of Maryland School of Medicine	13	7	#27	Ravel, Jacques #17,978
13	Yale University	13	3	#29	Galvani, Alison P. #33,654
14	Baylor College of Medicine	12	8	#34	Petrosino, Joseph F. #16,634
15	Emory University School of Medicine	12	6	#35	Burd, Eileen M. #18,249
16	Michigan State University	11	5	#38	Tiedje, James M. #3,321
17	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	11	5	#39	Woese, Carl R. #11,700
18	Vanderbilt University Medical Center	11	7	#41	Skaar, Eric Patrick #15,402
19	Cornell University	11	4	#42	Russell, James B. #18,468
20	University of Michigan Medical School	10	7	#45	Schloss, Patrick D. #905
21	University of California, Berkeley	10	7	#48	Nikaido, Hiroshi #3,233
22	University of Washington School of Medicine	10	4	#49	Fang, Ferric C. #7,669
23	University of California, Davis	10	6	#51	Bäumler, Andreas J. #10,581
24	U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute	10	6	#54	Roux, Simon #17,398
25	Mayo Clinic	9	5	#62	Patel, Robin #2,197
26	NC State University	9	4	#63	Barrangou, Rodolphe Lit Engl #3,517
27	Indiana University Bloomington	9	4	#64	Bush, Karen J. #3,776
28	Duke University School of Medicine	9	4	#65	Perfect, John Robert #4,971
29	Yale School of Medicine	9	4	#70	Galán, Jorge E. #13,094
30	Massachusetts General Hospital	9	4	#71	Steere, Allen C. #13,763
31	The Ohio State University	9	5	#72	Sullivan, Matthew B. #14,561
32	Pennsylvania State University	9	7	#73	Wood, Thomas K. #15,947
33	School of Public Health	9	5	#75	Roberts, Marilyn C. #27,067
34	John Sealy School of Medicine	9	4	#78	Walker, David Hughes #28,478
35	University of California, San Francisco	8	3	#83	Chambers, Henry F. #8,424
36	Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health	8	3	#84	Lipsitch, Marc #8,653
37	The University of Oklahoma	8	2	#91	Ning, Daliang #28,695
38	National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases	8	1	#95	Hall, Aron J. #39,642
39	The University of Tennessee, Knoxville	8	4	#96	Wilhelm, Steven W. #45,934
40	University of Colorado Boulder	7	6	#99	Fierer, Noah G. #97
41	University of California, San Diego	7	4	#100	Knight, Rob D. #874
42	The University of Texas at Austin	7	6	#101	Moran, Nancy A. #959
43	Princeton University	7	5	#102	Laxminarayan, Ramanan #1,631
44	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	7	4	#103	Zhou, Jizhong #1,860
45	Broad Institute	7	4	#105	Huttenhower, Curtis #2,379
46	University of Southern California	7	3	#106	Fuhrman, Jed A. #3,729
47	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	7	5	#111	Young, Vincent Bensan #11,917
48	University of Georgia	7	3	#116	Moran, Mary Ann #16,890
49	Duke University Medical Center	7	3	#117	Heitman, Joseph H. #17,717
50	National Institutes of Health (NIH)	7	3	#118	Kadri, Sameer S. #17,798
51	McGovern Medical School	7	4	#121	DuPont, Herbert L. #20,029
52	Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	7	2	#126	Clemente, José Carlos #26,892
53	Weill Cornell Medicine	7	3	#129	Arias, Cesar A. #40,394
54	University of Florida	7	4	#130	Peloquin, Charles Arthur #53,496
55	Tufts University School of Medicine	7	4	#132	Gorbach, Sherwood L. #54,939
56	Northeastern University	6	1	#135	Lewis, Kim #983
57	Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth	6	2	#136	O'Toole, George A. #2,439
58	Wayne State University School of Medicine	6	1	#137	Sobel, Jack D. #2,767
59	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	6	3	#138	Jansson, Janet K. #3,414
60	Oregon State University	6	3	#141	Giovannoni, Stephen J. #14,791
61	Forsyth Institute	6	2	#142	Wade, William G. #16,215
62	BioTechnology Institute	6	3	#143	Wackett, Lawrence P. #16,581
63	JMI Laboratories Incorporated	6	4	#144	Jones, Ronald N N. #17,334
64	University of Virginia School of Medicine	6	3	#145	Hayden, Frederick G. #19,300
65	The Ohio State University College of Medicine	6	4	#148	Stoodley, Paul #22,601
66	Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center	6	4	#154	Xavier, João B. #41,225
67	Albert Einstein College of Medicine	6	4	#155	Nosanchuk, Joshua Daniel #42,469
68	University of Virginia	6	1	#156	Petri, William A. #44,044
69	David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA	6	4	#157	Mościcki, Anna Barbara #45,197
70	University of Minnesota Twin Cities	6	2	#160	Johnson, Timothy J. #57,548
71	University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine	6	2	#161	Schlievert, Patrick M. #61,672
72	University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School	6	2	#164	Levitz, Stuart M. #88,762
73	UCSF School of Medicine	5	3	#168	Turnbaugh, Peter James #3,245
74	Northern Arizona University	5	4	#170	Caporaso, J. Gregory #3,703
75	The University of Chicago	5	1	#172	Gilbert, Jack A. #4,348
76	University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine	5	1	#175	Lozupone, Catherine A. #5,351
77	University of Pittsburgh	5	2	#176	Doi, Yohei #5,616
78	UConn Health	5	2	#177	Setlow, Peter #5,648
79	Iowa State University	5	2	#181	Konstantinidis, Konstantinos T. #7,304
80	The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center	5	4	#184	Kontoyiannis, Dimitrios P. #10,024
81	University of Maryland, College Park	5	2	#188	Colwell, Rita R. #15,308
82	University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health	5	5	#190	Andes, David R. #16,043
83	Montana State University	5	1	#192	Strobel, Gary Allan #17,421
84	Stanford University	5	3	#195	Holmes, Susan P. #19,678
85	Columbia University Irving Medical Center	5	3	#198	Lowy, Franklin David #24,207
86	Harbor-UCLA Medical Center	5	2	#202	Yeaman, Michael R. #27,049
87	University of California, Riverside	5	1	#203	Stajich, Jason E. #27,936
88	NIAID Rocky Mountain Laboratories	5	1	#205	DeLeo, Frank R. #31,114
89	University of Minnesota Medical School	5	2	#208	Boulware, David R. #34,333
90	Emory University	5	3	#210	Levin, Bruce R. #39,372
91	College of Agriculture and Life Sciences	5	2	#216	Maier, Raina M. #43,965
92	Public Health Research Institute	5	1	#217	Drlica, Karl A. #44,410
93	J. Craig Venter Institute	5	3	#219	Fouts, Derrick Eugene #50,102
94	University of Massachusetts Amherst	5	2	#223	Holmes, Dawn E. #53,205
95	Colorado State University	5	3	#224	Metcalf, Jessica L. #56,219
96	Rollins School of Public Health	5	1	#225	Klugman, K. P. #56,226
97	St. Jude Children's Research Hospital	5	1	#231	Torres, Victor J. #90,074
98	Food and Drug Administration	5	0	#236	Whitehouse, Chris A. #136,269
99	School of Molecular and Cellular Biology	4	1	#242	Imlay, James A. #3,129
100	The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio	4	2	#244	Wiederhold, Nathan P. #5,853
101	The Warren Alpert Medical School	4	3	#245	Rice, Louis B. #5,960
102	University of Michigan School of Public Health	4	2	#248	Foxman, Betsy #7,425
103	Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health (CVD)	4	2	#251	Kotloff, Karen L. #9,188
104	University of Rochester Medical Center	4	3	#252	Falsey, Ann Regina #9,501
105	UAB Department of Pediatrics	4	2	#254	Whitley, Richard J.W. #11,360
106	The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	4	4	#257	van Duin, David D. #15,036
107	Rockefeller University	4	2	#258	Fischetti, Vincent A. #16,491
108	USDA ARS National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research	4	2	#259	Kurtzman, Cletus Paul #17,677
109	Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center	4	2	#262	Corey, Lawrence C. #21,863
110	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	4	1	#263	Fox, G. James #21,880
111	University of Oregon	4	2	#264	Louca, Stilianos #23,774
112	University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston	4	2	#265	Beral, Valerie E. #28,091
113	Columbia University	4	1	#267	Shaman, Jeffrey L. #28,381
114	Oregon Health & Science University	4	2	#275	Chou, Sunwen #38,014
115	Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine	4	1	#282	Hauser, Alan R. #42,001
116	College of Medicine	4	3	#286	File, Thomas Mcdonald #43,320
117	Oklahoma State University	4	1	#291	Elshahed, Mostafa S. #50,945
118	Joe R. & Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine	4	1	#295	Jorgensen, James H. #62,588
119	CASE School of Medicine	4	1	#304	Jacobs, Michael R. #91,323
120	University of Utah School of Medicine	4	1	#306	Pavia, Andrew T. #94,398
121	USDA Agricultural Research Service	4	0	#311	Thomashow, Linda S. #100,695
122	Norm Asbjornson College of Engineering	3	3	#330	Stewart, Philip S. #5,632
123	Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute	3	3	#332	Klompas, Michael #6,133
124	Hackensack Meridian Health	3	2	#334	Perlin, David Scott #7,310
125	The Jackson Laboratory	3	1	#335	Weinstock, George M. #8,541
126	Harvard University	3	2	#337	Berg, Howard C. #10,136
127	University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa	3	2	#342	DeLong, Edward F. #11,147
128	Department of Molecular Biology	3	1	#343	Saier, Milton H. #12,153
129	Loyola University Chicago	3	2	#346	Bartlett, John C. #13,640
130	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	3	1	#348	Falkinham, Joseph Oliver #16,064
131	University of California, Irvine	3	3	#349	Martiny, Adam Camillo #16,993
132	Department of Plant & Microbial Biology	3	2	#352	Taylor, John W. #19,030
133	University of Nebraska Medical Center	3	1	#353	Kalil, Andre Celestino #19,355
134	SDSU College of Sciences	3	1	#362	Rohwer, Forest L. #25,354
135	University of Nebraska–Lincoln	3	1	#363	Hutkins, Robert W. #25,613
136	University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine	3	1	#364	Tamma, Pranita D.Pd #26,538
137	Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology	3	1	#370	Dominguez-Bello, Maria Gloria #30,633
138	University of Colorado Anschutz Department of Pediatrics	3	1	#374	Levin, Myron J. #33,920
139	Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences	3	2	#375	Emerson, David Frederic #34,225
140	Marshfield Clinic	3	1	#376	Belongia, Edward A. #34,914
141	MIT School of Engineering	3	2	#380	Alm, Eric John #37,122
142	NIH Clinical Center (CC)	3	2	#381	O'Grady, Naomi P. #38,966
143	Rush University Medical Center	3	1	#386	Weinstein, Robert A. #40,684
144	Department of Medicine	3	2	#214	Schooley, Robert Turner #42,222
145	Georgia Institute of Technology	3	2	#389	Whiteley, Marvin #42,834
146	Scripps Institution of Oceanography	3	1	#401	Jensen, Paul R. #51,362
147	The University of Utah	3	1	#409	Casjens, Sherwood R. #58,141
148	Brigham and Women's Hospital	3	1	#413	Pier, Gerald B. #60,481
149	UAMS College of Medicine	3	1	#420	Steinbach, William J. #64,332
150	Washington State University Pullman	3	1	#421	Celli, Jean #64,660
151	UCI School of Medicine	3	2	#422	Barbour, Alan G. #67,020
152	Pacific Biosciences Research Center	3	1	#428	Yuan, Mengting Maggie #70,662
153	Kaiser Permanente	3	1	#433	Jackson, Lisa A. #81,653
154	UNC School of Medicine	3	1	#443	Conlon, Brian P. #91,011
155	University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee	3	1	#446	McBride, Mark J. #95,056
156	United States Department of Agriculture	3	1	#447	Dunlap, Christopher A. #95,321
157	Pfizer Inc.	3	0	#451	Anderson, Annaliesa S. #103,520
158	USDA ARS Western Regional Research Center (WRRC)	3	0	#457	Brandl, Maria Theresa #110,942
159	UAB Department of Microbiology	3	0	#461	Boppana, Suresh B. #115,536
160	University of South Florida, Tampa	3	0	#462	Ramírez, Juan David #115,539
161	Los Alamos National Laboratory	3	0	#465	Ivanova, Natalia N. #118,634
162	West Virginia University	3	0	#467	Morrissey, Ember M. #122,322
163	University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences	3	0	#468	Romeo, Tony #124,181
164	Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation	3	0	#469	Zaidi, Anita Kaniz Mehdi #124,437
165	University of Delaware	3	0	#470	Boyd, Ethna Fidelma #126,959
166	The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences	3	0	#471	Pérez-Losada, Marcos #126,966
167	Medical University of South Carolina	3	0	#472	Yilmaz, Özlem #130,493
168	University of Nevada, Las Vegas	3	0	#475	Bazylinski, Dennis A. #137,170
169	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	3	0	#487	Podar, Mircea #169,082
170	Cleveland Clinic Foundation	3	0	#493	Mukherjee, Pranab K. #204,270
171	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	3	0	#496	Blazewicz, Steven J. #210,179

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

1
Fierer, Noah G.
University of Colorado Boulder
2
Knight, Rob D.
University of California, San Diego
3
Schloss, Patrick D.
University of Michigan Medical School
4
Moran, Nancy A.
The University of Texas at Austin
5
Casadevall, Arturo
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
6
Lewis, Kim
Northeastern University
7
Otto, Michael
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
8
Blaser, Martin J.
Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine
9
Laxminarayan, Ramanan
Princeton University
10
Zhou, Jizhong
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
11
Patel, Robin
Mayo Clinic
12
Huttenhower, Curtis
Broad Institute
13
Heritage, John C.
University of California, Los Angeles
14
O'Toole, George A.
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
15
Sobel, Jack D.
Wayne State University School of Medicine
16
Garrett, Wendy Sarah
Broad Institute
17
Deretić, Vojo P.
UNM School of Medicine
18
Imlay, James A.
School of Molecular and Cellular Biology
19
Nikaido, Hiroshi
University of California, Berkeley
20
Turnbaugh, Peter James
UCSF School of Medicine
21
Tiedje, James M.
Michigan State University
22
Jansson, Janet K.
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
23
Barrangou, Rodolphe Lit Engl
NC State University
24
Caporaso, J. Gregory
Northern Arizona University
25
Fuhrman, Jed A.
University of Southern California
26
Bush, Karen J.
Indiana University Bloomington
27
Keller, Nancy P.
University of Wisconsin-Madison
28
Banfield, Jillian F.
University of California, Berkeley
29
Bonomo, Robert A.
Case Western Reserve University
30
Gilbert, Jack A.
The University of Chicago
31
Bassler, Bonnie L.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
32
Perfect, John Robert
Duke University School of Medicine
33
Pappas, Peter G.
The University of Alabama at Birmingham
34
Lozupone, Catherine A.
University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine
35
Handelsman, Jo
University of Wisconsin-Madison
36
Doi, Yohei
University of Pittsburgh
37
Stewart, Philip S.
Norm Asbjornson College of Engineering
38
Setlow, Peter
UConn Health
39
Pfaller, Michael A.
University of Iowa
40
Wiederhold, Nathan P.
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
41
Costerton, John William C.
Norm Asbjornson College of Engineering
42
Rice, Louis B.
The Warren Alpert Medical School
43
Hatfull, Graham F․
University of Pittsburgh
44
Klompas, Michael
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute
45
Spellberg, Brad J.
Hospital Administration
46
Brook, Itzhak G.
Georgetown University School of Medicine
47
Sears, Cynthia L.
The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center
48
Konstantinidis, Konstantinos T.
Iowa State University
49
Perlin, David Scott
Hackensack Meridian Health
50
Foxman, Betsy
University of Michigan School of Public Health
51
Shade, Ashley L.
Michigan State University
52
Fang, Ferric C.
University of Washington School of Medicine
53
Donlan, Rodney M.
National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases
54
Uyeki, Timothy M.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
55
Ricke, Steven C.
University of Wisconsin-Madison
56
Chambers, Henry F.
University of California, San Francisco
57
Weinstock, George M.
The Jackson Laboratory
58
Callahan, Benjamin J.
NC State University
59
Lipsitch, Marc
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
60
Galperin, Michael Y.
National Library of Medicine (NLM)
61
Ghannoum, Mahmoud Afif
Case Western Reserve University
62
Sonnenburg, Justin Laine
Stanford University School of Medicine
63
Abedon, Stephen Tobias
The Ohio State University at Mansfield
64
Lipsky, Benjamin A.
University of Washington School of Medicine
65
Hooper, David C.
Harvard Medical School
66
Kotloff, Karen L.
Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health (CVD)
67
McFarland, Lynne Vernice
University of Washington
68
Falsey, Ann Regina
University of Rochester Medical Center
69
Relman, David A.
VA Medical Center
70
Al-Tawfiq, Jaffar Ali
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
71
Lockhart, Shawn R.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
72
Kontoyiannis, Dimitrios P.
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
73
Berg, Howard C.
Harvard University
74
Walsh, Thomas J.
Center for Innovative Therapeutics and Diagnostics
75
Bäumler, Andreas J.
University of California, Davis
76
Segre, Julia A.
National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)
77
Kauffman, Carol A.
University of Michigan Medical School
78
Baddour, Larry M.
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science
79
Lynch, Susan V.
University of California, San Francisco
80
Jacoby, George A.
Lahey Hospital & Medical Center
81
DeLong, Edward F.
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
82
de la Fuente-Nunez, Cesar
University of Pennsylvania
83
Whitley, Richard J.W.
UAB Department of Pediatrics
84
Bashan, Yoav
The Bashan Institute of Science
85
Daszak, Peter
EcoHealth Alliance
86
Walsh, Edward E.
University of Rochester Medical Center
87
Trivedi, Pankaj C.
Texas Tech University
88
Woese, Carl R.
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
89
Simoẽs, Eric A.F.
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
90
Young, Vincent Bensan
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
91
Cronan, John E.
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
92
Saier, Milton H.
Department of Molecular Biology
93
Galán, Jorge E.
Yale School of Medicine
94
Bartlett, John C.
Loyola University Chicago
95
Nizet, Victor
University of California, San Diego
96
Steere, Allen C.
Massachusetts General Hospital
97
Monto, Arnold S.
University of Michigan School of Public Health
98
Nealson, Kenneth H.
University of Southern California
99
Mobley, Harry Lt
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
100
Chiu, Charles Y.
UCSF School of Medicine

1,576 listed scientists in Microbiology in the United States

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