Top institutions in the United States for Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging

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Which institutions in the United States have the most top-cited scientists in Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging?

1,153 researchers in the United States whose main subfield is Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 1.6% of all listed authors in the United States, and 1st of 48 countries in the subfield. 214 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). Harvard Medical School has the most (52), followed by Mayo Clinic (42) and The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (38). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors

1,153

1.6% of all in the United States

In the global top 100,000

214

18.6% of them

Country rank in the subfield

of 48 countries in Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging

Highest-ranked

#827

Weissleder, R.

#	Institution	Listed authors	Top 100k	Rank worldwide	Highest-ranked author
1	Harvard Medical School	52	10	#1	Weissleder, R. #827
2	Mayo Clinic	42	10	#2	McCollough, Cynthia H. #5,543
3	The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center	38	5	#3	Mohan, Radhe #12,881
4	Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center	33	10	#4	Hricak, Hedvig (Hedi) #21,803
5	Stanford University School of Medicine	31	9	#5	Gambhir, Sanjiv Sam #6,243
6	Massachusetts General Hospital	30	8	#6	Paganetti, Harald #2,863
7	UCSF School of Medicine	29	7	#7	Barkovich, Anthony James #14,977
8	University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health	26	6	#8	Pickhardt, Perry J. #4,502
9	Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine	23	6	#9	Sgouros, George #15,484
10	Penn Medicine	21	3	#10	Mankoff, David A. #67,652
11	NYU Grossman School of Medicine	19	4	#13	Bredella, Miriam A. #17,583
12	University of Michigan Medical School	16	2	#16	Kazerooni, Ella A. #66,418
13	David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA	14	4	#19	Calais, Jérémie #22,027
14	Duke University Medical Center	14	2	#21	Samei, Ehsan #38,135
15	University of Washington School of Medicine	14	2	#22	Yarnykh, Vasily L. #74,620
16	Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology	14	1	#24	Vedantham, Suresh #94,663
17	Stanford University	12	3	#29	Xing, Lei #39,125
18	Yale School of Medicine	12	1	#31	Weinreb, Jeffrey C. #61,680
19	Emory University School of Medicine	11	2	#33	Krupinski, Elizabeth Anne #16,241
20	UT Southwestern Medical School	11	3	#35	Fei, Baowei #27,311
21	UT Southwestern Medical Center	11	3	#36	Jiang, Steven Bin #49,154
22	Brigham and Women's Hospital	10	3	#41	Nishino, Mizuki #10,695
23	University of Wisconsin-Madison	10	1	#42	Brace, Christopher L. #43,175
24	Mayo Clinic Scottsdale-Phoenix, Arizona	10	3	#43	Kransdorf, Mark J. #56,932
25	Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine	10	2	#44	Markl, Michael #60,757
26	College of Engineering	10	0	#45	Qi, Jinyi #142,401
27	UC Davis School of Medicine	9	3	#48	Miglioretti, Diana L. #35,554
28	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	9	3	#50	Levine, Deborah #73,085
29	Weill Cornell Medicine	9	0	#51	Goldsmith, Stanley J. #137,006
30	Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis	8	1	#52	Wahl, Richard L. #38,225
31	Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	8	2	#53	Henschke, Claudia I. #49,024
32	University of Pennsylvania	8	2	#55	Itkin, Maxim G. #60,806
33	NYU Langone Health	8	1	#57	Recht, Michael P. #79,048
34	Duke University School of Medicine	7	2	#61	Mazurowski, MacIej Andrzej #8,524
35	National Cancer Institute (NCI)	7	3	#62	Choyke, Peter L. #10,668
36	University of Utah School of Medicine	7	2	#66	Arai, Andrew E. #81,429
37	The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia	7	0	#69	Serai, Suraj D. #112,126
38	University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine	7	0	#70	Haris, Mohammad #120,268
39	Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science	6	2	#75	Gore, John C. #7,841
40	Department of Radiology, The University of Chicago	6	3	#76	Giger, Maryellen Lissak #19,402
41	University of California, San Francisco	6	3	#79	Genant, Harry K. #34,365
42	Hospital for Special Surgery - New York	6	1	#82	Kijowski, Richard #57,418
43	Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania	6	1	#84	Alavi, Abass #95,165
44	Johns Hopkins University	6	0	#85	Unberath, Mathias #122,605
45	National Institutes of Health (NIH)	5	2	#93	Summers, Ronald M. #8,701
46	Department of Radiology	5	1	#64	Sirlin, Claude B. #25,643
47	University Hospitals Case Medical Center	5	1	#106	Bera, Kaustav #86,958
48	Food and Drug Administration, Center for Devices and Radiological Health	5	0	#108	Miller, Donald L. #121,212
49	Vanderbilt University Medical Center	5	0	#109	Does, Mark D. #131,443
50	University of California, San Diego	5	0	#111	Wong, Eric C. #158,711
51	Moffitt Cancer Center	4	1	#117	El Naqa, Issam M. #9,338
52	National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)	4	2	#118	Balaban, Robert S. #28,749
53	University of California, Los Angeles	4	2	#120	Low, Daniel A. #38,121
54	USC Viterbi School of Engineering	4	3	#123	Jadvar, Hossein #59,969
55	University of Cincinnati College of Medicine	4	1	#124	Dillman, Jonathan R. #68,088
56	University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine	4	1	#129	Hendrick, R. Edward #79,068
57	Keck School of Medicine of USC	4	1	#132	Gholamrezanezhad, Ali #84,938
58	Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons	4	0	#134	Gupta, Ajay #100,375
59	Columbia University Irving Medical Center	4	0	#135	Chernyak, Victoria #112,665
60	Medical College of Wisconsin	4	0	#136	Li, X. Allen #114,952
61	Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science	4	0	#137	Sorin, Vera #119,153
62	Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota	4	0	#139	McDonald, Jennifer S. #129,664
63	St. Jude Children's Research Hospital	4	0	#140	McCarville, Mary Beth #135,865
64	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	4	0	#145	Tourassi, Georgia D. #158,086
65	University of Missouri	4	0	#148	Ho, Mailan #187,570
66	Boston Children's Hospital	4	0	#149	Lee, Edward Y. #211,373
67	University of Maryland School of Medicine	4	0	#150	White, Charles S. #221,300
68	University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine	4	0	#156	Huq, M. Saiful #306,343
69	University of Rochester Medical Center	4	0	#157	Harvey, Jennifer A. #340,248
70	University of Minnesota Twin Cities	3	1	#158	Uğurbil, Kamil #8,296
71	Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University	3	1	#159	Obuchowski, Nancy A. #11,332
72	New York University	3	1	#162	Moy, Linda A. #22,919
73	Whiting School of Engineering	3	1	#163	Bulte, Jeff W.M. #27,566
74	Kennedy Krieger Institute	3	1	#164	Van Zijl, Peter C.Mvan #28,198
75	University of Virginia	3	1	#170	Tustison, Nicholas J. #44,514
76	Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida	3	1	#173	Carter, Rickey Edward #50,342
77	Department of Biomedical Engineering	3	1	#176	Griswold, Mark A. #71,759
78	National Institute of Mental Health	3	1	#178	Pike, V. W. #74,140
79	Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth	3	1	#179	Gladstone, David J. #75,963
80	Medical University of South Carolina	3	1	#183	Jensen, Jens H. #80,838
81	Baylor College of Medicine	3	1	#184	Huisman, Thierry A.G.M. #85,948
82	UCI School of Medicine	3	1	#189	Gholipour, Ali #99,348
83	City of Hope National Med Center	3	0	#196	Wu, Anna M. #115,380
84	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	3	0	#203	Liang, Zhipei #124,601
85	Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center	3	0	#204	Trout, Andrew T. #128,930
86	UAB Department of Radiology	3	0	#205	Tessler, Franklin Neil #139,256
87	OHSU School of Medicine	3	0	#206	Quencer, Keith Bertram #141,088
88	The University of Chicago Medicine	3	0	#213	Chung, Jonathan Hero #160,925
89	Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center	3	0	#218	McDevitt, Michael R. #192,620
90	Virginia Commonwealth University	3	0	#220	Murphy, Martin J. #194,965
91	Department of Bioengineering	3	0	#221	Conolly, Steven M. #201,030
92	University of Iowa	3	0	#223	Hillis, Stephen L. #207,687
93	Cedars-Sinai Medical Center	3	0	#224	Chetty, Indrin J. #214,947
94	University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine	3	0	#226	Graham, Michael M. #222,412
95	University of Minnesota Medical School	3	0	#231	Tkáč, Ivan #229,232
96	The Ohio State University	3	0	#235	Niazi, Muhammad Khalid Khan #250,902

The top 100 in Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging in the United States, in order

1
Weissleder, R.
Harvard Medical School
2
Paganetti, Harald
Massachusetts General Hospital
3
Wang, Ge
School of Engineering
4
Pickhardt, Perry J.
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
5
McCollough, Cynthia H.
Mayo Clinic
6
Gambhir, Sanjiv Sam
Stanford University School of Medicine
7
Gore, John C.
Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science
8
Uğurbil, Kamil
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
9
Langlotz, Curtis P.M.D.
Stanford University School of Medicine
10
Mazurowski, MacIej Andrzej
Duke University School of Medicine
11
Summers, Ronald M.
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
12
El Naqa, Issam M.
Moffitt Cancer Center
13
Erickson, Bradley James M.D.
Mayo Clinic
14
Choyke, Peter L.
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
15
Nishino, Mizuki
Brigham and Women's Hospital
16
Obuchowski, Nancy A.
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University
17
Mahmood, Faisal
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
18
Fessler, Jeffrey A.
Michigan Engineering
19
Magin, Richard L.
Richard and Loan Hill Department of Biomedical Engineering
20
Mohan, Radhe
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
21
Klang, Eyal
The Mount Sinai Medical Center
22
Turkbey, Ismail Baris
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
23
Barkovich, Anthony James
UCSF School of Medicine
24
Bluemke, David A.
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
25
Kallmes, David F.
Mayo Clinic
26
Rubin, Daniel L.
Stanford University School of Medicine
27
Sgouros, George
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
28
Krupinski, Elizabeth Anne
Emory University School of Medicine
29
Caravan, Peter D.
Massachusetts General Hospital
30
Link, Thomas Marc
UCSF School of Medicine
31
Zaharchuk, Greg
Stanford University School of Medicine
32
Bredella, Miriam A.
NYU Grossman School of Medicine
33
Giger, Maryellen Lissak
Department of Radiology, The University of Chicago
34
Biswas, Som Subhro
Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital
35
Madabhushi, Anant
Case Western Reserve University
36
Wintermark, Max
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
37
Rosenkrantz, Andrew B.
Editor in Chief
38
Hricak, Hedvig (Hedi)
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
39
Barr, Richard G.
Northeast Ohio Medical University (NEOMED)
40
Hope, Thomas A.
UCSF School of Medicine
41
Calais, Jérémie
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
42
Basser, Peter J.
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
43
Moy, Linda A.
New York University
44
Salem, R. A.
Section of Interventional Radiology
45
Rajiah, P. Shantha
Mayo Clinic
46
Berg, Wendie A.
UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital
47
Webb, Andrew G.
Microsoft Research
48
Sirlin, Claude B.
Department of Radiology
49
Bortfeld, Thomas R.
Massachusetts General Hospital
50
Fei, Baowei
UT Southwestern Medical School
51
Bulte, Jeff W.M.
Whiting School of Engineering
52
Ahmed, Muneeb
Harvard Medical School
53
Van Zijl, Peter C.Mvan
Kennedy Krieger Institute
54
McDannold, Nathan Judson
Brigham and Women's Hospital
55
Balaban, Robert S.
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
56
Jólesz, Ferenc Andras M.D.
Harvard Medical School
57
Leiner, Tim
Mayo Clinic
58
Ehman, Richard L.
Mayo Clinic
59
Smith-Bindman, Rebecca
UCSF School of Medicine
60
Rubin, Geoffrey D.
University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson
61
Kikinis, Ron M.D.
Harvard Medical School
62
Phelps, Michael E.
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
63
Cherry, Simon R.
University of California, Davis
64
Genant, Harry K.
University of California, San Francisco
65
Brock, Kristy K.
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
66
Ulaner, Gary Allan
University of Southern California
67
Davenport, Matthew S.
Michigan Medical School
68
Miglioretti, Diana L.
UC Davis School of Medicine
69
Leng, Shuai
Mayo Clinic
70
Reeder, S. B.
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
71
Daldrup-Link, Heike Elisabeth
Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford
72
Low, Daniel A.
University of California, Los Angeles
73
Samei, Ehsan
Duke University Medical Center
74
Wahl, Richard L.
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
75
Kellman, Peter
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
76
Xing, Lei
Stanford University
77
Wald, Lawrence L.
Harvard Medical School
78
Pinker, Katja
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
79
Fletcher, Joel G.
Mayo Clinic
80
Brace, Christopher L.
University of Wisconsin-Madison
81
Boone, John M.
UC Davis School of Medicine
82
Zanzonico, Pat B.
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
83
Tustison, Nicholas J.
University of Virginia
84
Stabin, Michael Gregory
Vanderbilt University
85
Siewerdsen, Jeffrey H.
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
86
Deasy, Joseph O.
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
87
Smith, Andrew Dennis Castellano
University of Southern California
88
Lungren, Matthew P.
Microsoft Corporation.
89
Henschke, Claudia I.
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
90
Jiang, Steven Bin
UT Southwestern Medical Center
91
Metz, Charles E.
The University of Chicago
92
Carter, Rickey Edward
Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida
93
Gatsonis, Constantine A.
Brown University
94
Morris, Elizabeth Anne
UC Davis School of Medicine
95
Goldberg, Shraga Nahum
Harvard Medical School
96
Fedorov, Andriy Y.
Harvard Medical School
97
Venkatesh, Sudhakar Kundapur
Mayo Clinic
98
Mahesh, Mahadevappa
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
99
Rehani, Madan Mohan
Massachusetts General Hospital
100
Zhao, Binsheng
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

1,153 listed scientists in Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging in the United States

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