Top institutions in the United States for Ophthalmology & Optometry

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Which institutions in the United States have the most top-cited scientists in Ophthalmology & Optometry?

755 researchers in the United States whose main subfield is Ophthalmology & Optometry are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 1.0% of all listed authors in the United States, and 1st of 54 countries in the subfield. 222 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). Harvard Medical School has the most (37), followed by Wilmer Eye Institute (24) and Bascom Palmer Eye Institute (18). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors

755

1.0% of all in the United States

In the global top 100,000

222

29.4% of them

Country rank in the subfield

of 54 countries in Ophthalmology & Optometry

Highest-ranked

#1,481

Spaide, Richard F.

#	Institution	Listed authors	Top 100k	Rank worldwide	Highest-ranked author
1	Harvard Medical School	37	10	#1	Friedman, David Steven #8,840
2	Wilmer Eye Institute	24	11	#3	Quigley, Harry Alan #2,733
3	Bascom Palmer Eye Institute	18	5	#5	Rosenfeld, Philip J. #16,967
4	Mayo Clinic	16	5	#8	Chen, John Jing Wei #38,918
5	Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University	13	7	#10	Kaiser, Peter K. #21,532
6	University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine	13	3	#11	Quinn, Graham E. #28,183
7	UCLA Stein Eye Institute	13	4	#12	Holland, Gary N. #35,738
8	Stanford University School of Medicine	11	5	#13	Hartnett, Mary Elizabeth R.Kusuma #13,005
9	Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis	11	1	#15	Apte, Rajendra Shridhar #16,713
10	University of Houston College of Optometry	10	3	#18	Smith, Earl L. #17,289
11	Oregon Health & Science University	10	4	#19	Rosenbaum, James Todd #21,696
12	Emory University School of Medicine	10	4	#20	Newman, Nancy J. #22,090
13	Wills Eye Hospital	10	2	#22	Schuman, Joel S. #29,489
14	Stanford University	10	3	#23	Nguyen, Quan Dong #52,816
15	UCSF School of Medicine	10	0	#24	LaVail, Matthew M. #120,567
16	National Eye Institute (NEI)	9	5	#25	Chew, Emily Y. #4,144
17	NYU Grossman School of Medicine	9	1	#29	Freund, Kenneth Bailey #33,353
18	University of Michigan Medical School	9	4	#30	Stein, Joshua D. #35,514
19	Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	9	2	#31	Pasquale, Louis R Robert #36,468
20	University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health	8	1	#34	Klein, Barbara Eden Kobrin #7,014
21	University of California, Los Angeles	8	3	#37	Sebag, J. M.D. #29,013
22	Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine	8	2	#38	Miller, Neil Richard #48,084
23	Massachusetts Eye and Ear	8	1	#39	Singh, Rishi P. #52,914
24	David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA	7	3	#40	Sadda, Srinivas R. #8,028
25	University of Utah School of Medicine	7	4	#42	Ahmed, Iqbal Ike Karim #63,129
26	University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine	6	2	#45	Hayreh, Sohan Singh #2,386
27	Duke University Medical Center	6	1	#46	Klein, Ronald E. #4,004
28	University of Iowa Health Care	6	3	#47	Abràmoff, Michael D. #12,648
29	Johns Hopkins University	6	3	#49	Swenor, Bonnielin K. #28,199
30	Duke Eye Center	6	2	#51	Stamer, William Daniel #56,106
31	University of Illinois at Chicago	6	1	#52	Lim, Jennifer I. #66,171
32	OHSU School of Medicine	6	0	#54	Ahuja, Abhimanyu S. #101,494
33	The University of Alabama at Birmingham	5	3	#57	Curcio, Christine A. #5,194
34	Shiley Eye Institute	5	1	#58	Weinreb, Robert N. #7,744
35	University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine	5	3	#63	Sähel, José Alain #23,729
36	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	5	2	#64	Ehrlich, Joshua R. #28,439
37	University of Washington School of Medicine	5	3	#68	Van Gelder, Russell N. #60,421
38	Cullen Eye Institute	5	1	#69	Koch, Douglas Donald #60,429
39	University of Michigan W.K. Kellogg Eye Center	5	0	#78	Heckenlively, John R. #165,150
40	Yale School of Medicine	5	0	#79	Rizzolo, Lawrence J. #175,594
41	Sidney Kimmel Medical College	4	1	#81	Shields, Carol Lally #4,069
42	Baylor College of Medicine	4	3	#82	Pflugfelder, Stephen Carl #9,759
43	Vanderbilt University Medical Center	4	1	#83	Gass, John Donald Mcintyre #17,685
44	Boston Children's Hospital	4	1	#84	Smith, Lois E.H. #27,417
45	The Ohio State University	4	3	#87	Mutti, Donald O. #35,729
46	Columbia University Irving Medical Center	4	2	#88	Tsang, Stephen H. #39,518
47	Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine	4	2	#93	Jampol, Lee Merrill #56,984
48	Keck School of Medicine of USC	4	1	#94	Rao, Narsinga A. #58,407
49	University of California, Irvine	4	2	#95	Kern, Timothy Scott #59,720
50	Edward S. Harkness Eye Institute	4	1	#96	de Moraes, Carlos Gustavo Vasconcelos #65,836
51	SUNY College of Optometry	4	0	#103	Rosenfield, Mark #102,424
52	Medical College of Georgia	4	0	#107	Liu, Yutao #180,239
53	Children's Hospital Los Angeles	4	0	#109	Murphree, Alan Linn #253,963
54	Thomas Jefferson University	3	1	#110	Shields, Jerry A. #4,909
55	New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai	3	2	#111	Yannuzzi, Lawrence A. #15,798
56	Schepens Eye Research Institute	3	2	#112	Dana, Reza M. #17,916
57	Wayne State University School of Medicine	3	1	#113	Kowluru, Renu Anjan #19,155
58	UAB Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences	3	2	#114	Owsley, Cynthia J. #21,537
59	University of Missouri	3	1	#115	Leske, Maria Cristina #29,128
60	Joslin Diabetes Center	3	2	#117	Aiello, Lloyd Paul #32,928
61	Herbert Wertheim School of Optometry & Vision Science	3	1	#118	Wildsoet, Christine Frances #36,359
62	The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center	3	1	#120	Roberts, Cynthia Jane #44,145
63	University of Washington	3	1	#121	Vos, Theo Kay #44,999
64	Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health	3	1	#122	Katz, Joanne D. #45,444
65	University of Pennsylvania	3	1	#123	Cideciyan, Artur V. #53,174
66	Penn Medicine	3	1	#124	Ying, Guishuang #55,088
67	University of Cincinnati College of Medicine	3	1	#127	Holland, Edward J. #57,638
68	National Institutes of Health (NIH)	3	1	#129	Wong, Wai T. #59,811
69	Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida	3	2	#131	Stewart, Michael Wesley #62,636
70	Morsani College of Medicine	3	1	#139	Margo, Curtis Edward #96,096
71	New England Eye Center	3	1	#140	Baumal, Caroline R. #97,175
72	The University of Arizona	3	0	#144	Belin, Michael Wellington #114,820
73	Tufts University School of Medicine	3	0	#154	Ferrara, Daniela Cavalcanti A.C. #171,416
74	Medical College of Wisconsin	3	0	#156	Harris, Gerald J. #178,026
75	Astellas Pharma US, Inc.	3	0	#161	Schwartz, Steven D. #199,239
76	Devers Eye Institute	3	0	#108	Terry, Mark A. #208,461
77	MUSC Storm Eye Institute	3	0	#162	Rocha, Karolinne Maia #222,851
78	University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine	3	0	#163	Fine, Stuart L. #234,055
79	University of Wisconsin-Madison	3	0	#166	Young, Terri L. #280,861

The top 100 in Ophthalmology & Optometry in the United States, in order

1
Spaide, Richard F.
Vitreous Retina Macula Consultants of New York
2
Hayreh, Sohan Singh
University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
3
Quigley, Harry Alan
Wilmer Eye Institute
4
Klein, Ronald E.
Duke University Medical Center
5
Shields, Carol Lally
Sidney Kimmel Medical College
6
Chew, Emily Y.
National Eye Institute (NEI)
7
Shields, Jerry A.
Thomas Jefferson University
8
Wilson, Steven E.
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
9
Curcio, Christine A.
The University of Alabama at Birmingham
10
Klein, Barbara Eden Kobrin
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
11
Weinreb, Robert N.
Shiley Eye Institute
12
Sadda, Srinivas R.
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
13
Ferris, F. L.
Ophthalmic Research Consultants, LLC.
14
Friedman, David Steven
Harvard Medical School
15
Bressler, Neil M.
Journal of American Medical Association
16
Pflugfelder, Stephen Carl
Baylor College of Medicine
17
Jabs, Douglas A.
Wilmer Eye Institute
18
Abràmoff, Michael D.
University of Iowa Health Care
19
Hartnett, Mary Elizabeth R.Kusuma
Stanford University School of Medicine
20
Yannuzzi, Lawrence A.
New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai
21
Apte, Rajendra Shridhar
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
22
Rosenfeld, Philip J.
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
23
Smith, Earl L.
University of Houston College of Optometry
24
Gass, John Donald Mcintyre
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
25
Medeiros, Felipe A.
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
26
Tseng, Scheffer C.G.
Inc
27
Dana, Reza M.
Schepens Eye Research Institute
28
Kowluru, Renu Anjan
Wayne State University School of Medicine
29
Harbour, J. William
UT Southwestern Medical Center
30
Kaiser, Peter K.
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University
31
Owsley, Cynthia J.
UAB Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
32
Galor, Anat
Miami VA Healthcare System
33
Rosenbaum, James Todd
Oregon Health & Science University
34
Newman, Nancy J.
Emory University School of Medicine
35
Birch, Eileen E.
UT Southwestern Medical School
36
de Paiva, Cintia S.
Baylor College of Medicine
37
Lemp, Michael A.
Georgetown University
38
Ritch, Robert H.
New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai
39
Sähel, José Alain
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
40
Bullimore, Mark A.
University of Houston College of Optometry
41
Singh, Arun Deo
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University
42
Wykoff, Charles Clifton
C.C.W.)
43
Biousse, Valérie É.Rie
Emory University School of Medicine
44
Abramson, David Harold
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
45
Huang, David
Oregon Health & Science University
46
Smith, Lois E.H.
Boston Children's Hospital
47
Zarbin, Marco Attilio
Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Science
48
Quinn, Graham E.
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
49
Swenor, Bonnielin K.
Johns Hopkins University
50
Ehrlich, Joshua R.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
51
Nichols, Kelly K.
The University of Alabama at Birmingham
52
Foster, Charles Stephen
Ocular Immunology and Uveitis Foundation
53
Sebag, J. M.D.
University of California, Los Angeles
54
Leske, Maria Cristina
University of Missouri
55
Schuman, Joel S.
Wills Eye Hospital
56
Stone, Edwin M.
University of Iowa Health Care
57
Seddon, Johanna M.
University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
58
Tezel, Gülgün
Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
59
Holladay, Jack T.
Baylor College of Medicine
60
Esmaeli, Bita
Tilman J. Fertitta Family College of Medicine
61
Finger, P. T.
New York Eye Cancer Center
62
Aiello, Lloyd Paul
Joslin Diabetes Center
63
Rabinowitz, Yaron S.
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
64
Freund, Kenneth Bailey
NYU Grossman School of Medicine
65
Hood, Donald Charles
Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
66
Wall, Michael
University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
67
Lee, Andrew Go
Houston Methodist Hospital
68
Kanellopoulos, Anastasios John
New York University
69
Stein, Joshua D.
University of Michigan Medical School
70
Mutti, Donald O.
The Ohio State University
71
Holland, Gary N.
UCLA Stein Eye Institute
72
Kempen, John H.
Schepens Eye Research Institute
73
Keenan, Tiarnán D.L.
National Eye Institute (NEI)
74
Wildsoet, Christine Frances
Herbert Wertheim School of Optometry & Vision Science
75
Pasquale, Louis R Robert
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
76
Spaeth, George Link
Wills Eye Hospital
77
Chen, John Jing Wei
Mayo Clinic
78
Antonetti, David A.
University of Michigan Medical School
79
Tsang, Stephen H.
Columbia University Irving Medical Center
80
Chiang, Michael F.
National Library of Medicine (NLM)
81
Brown, David M.
Retina Consultants of America
82
Dartt, Darlene Ann
Harvard Medical School
83
Goldberg, Robert Alan
University of California, Los Angeles
84
Marmor, Michael F.
Stanford University School of Medicine
85
Grossniklaus, Hans E.
Emory University School of Medicine
86
Nussenblatt, Robert Burton
National Eye Institute (NEI)
87
Frick, Kevin D.
Johns Hopkins University
88
Chang, David F.
Altos Eye Physicians
89
Zadnik, Karla
The Ohio State University
90
Gipson, Ilene K.
Harvard Medical School
91
Hoffer, Kenneth J.
UCLA Stein Eye Institute
92
Roberts, Cynthia Jane
The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
93
Niederkorn, Jérry Y.
The University of Texas at Dallas
94
Douglas, Raymond S.
Beverly Hills
95
Vos, Theo Kay
University of Washington
96
Maguire, Maureen G.
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
97
Jaffe, Glenn J.
Duke University
98
Repka, Michael X.
Wilmer Eye Institute
99
Katz, Joanne D.
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
100
Ostrin, Lisa A.
University of Houston College of Optometry

755 listed scientists in Ophthalmology & Optometry in the United States

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