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

996 researchers in the United States whose main subfield is Orthopedics are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 1.4% of all listed authors in the United States, and 1st of 50 countries in the subfield. 260 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). Hospital for Special Surgery - New York has the most (57), followed by Mayo Clinic (46) and Rush University Medical Center (25). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors

996

1.4% of all in the United States

In the global top 100,000

260

26.1% of them

Country rank in the subfield

of 50 countries in Orthopedics

Highest-ranked

#2,364

Armstrong, David G.

#	Institution	Listed authors	Top 100k	Rank worldwide	Highest-ranked author
1	Hospital for Special Surgery - New York	57	11	#1	Rodeo, Scott Alan #10,505
2	Mayo Clinic	46	17	#2	Berry, Daniel J. #12,686
3	Rush University Medical Center	25	9	#3	Cole, Brian J. #27,699
4	Harvard Medical School	24	6	#4	Harris, William Hamilton #12,867
5	Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis	20	5	#5	Bridwell, Keith H. #19,466
6	UCSF School of Medicine	16	5	#6	Coughlin, Michael J. #30,943
7	Stanford University	15	4	#7	Goodman, Stuart Barry #8,097
8	Massachusetts General Hospital	14	6	#8	Mankin, Henry J. #32,452
9	University of Utah School of Medicine	11	3	#10	Tashjian, Robert Zaray #17,705
10	NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital	11	3	#11	Zuckerman, Joseph D. #21,807
11	Duke University School of Medicine	11	2	#12	Alman, Benjamin Aaron #50,240
12	Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine	11	2	#13	Sciubba, Daniel Michael #57,428
13	Columbia University Irving Medical Center	10	2	#15	Lenke, Lawrence G. #12,353
14	Thomas Jefferson University Hospital	10	1	#16	Vaccaro, Alexander R. #16,378
15	University of Pittsburgh Medical Center	10	1	#17	Fu, Freddie H. #56,411
16	Stanford University School of Medicine	9	3	#18	Gagnier, Joel Joseph #10,005
17	University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine	9	5	#19	Myerson, Mark S. #39,212
18	NYU Langone Health	9	1	#21	Tetreault, Lindsay A. #88,601
19	Keck School of Medicine of USC	8	1	#23	Armstrong, David G. #2,364
20	Duke University Medical Center	8	2	#26	Garrett, William E.J. #38,783
21	Cleveland Clinic Foundation	7	4	#28	Mont, Michael A. #7,558
22	University of Rochester Medical Center	7	1	#32	Schwarz, Edward M. #79,638
23	University of California, San Diego	7	2	#33	Akbarnia, Behrooz A. #83,653
24	Sidney Kimmel Medical College	6	3	#38	Parvizi, Javad #5,032
25	Yale School of Medicine	6	2	#39	Panjabi, Manohar M. #10,633
26	University of Southern California	6	5	#40	Powers, Christopher M. #12,512
27	University of Iowa	6	2	#42	Weinstein, Stuart L. #17,743
28	The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center	6	4	#47	Magnussen, Robert A. #55,738
29	University of Minnesota Twin Cities	6	3	#48	Polly, David W. #63,930
30	Rothman Institute	6	2	#49	Ilyas, Asif M. #75,364
31	The Warren Alpert Medical School	6	1	#51	Owens, Brett D. #89,026
32	University of Pennsylvania	6	0	#52	DePhillipo, Nicholas N. #101,554
33	University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine	5	1	#54	Buckwalter, Joseph A. #16,926
34	University of California, San Francisco	5	1	#55	Ames, Christopher Pearson #33,111
35	Steadman Hawkins Clinic	5	1	#56	Matta, Joel M. #33,891
36	Emory University School of Medicine	5	2	#59	Wilson, Jacob M. #38,921
37	Steadman Philippon Research Institute	5	2	#60	Philippon, Marc J. #41,269
38	Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	5	1	#63	Cho, Samuel Kang Wook #48,045
39	Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University	5	1	#64	Iannotti, Joseph P. #52,934
40	Brigham and Women's Hospital	5	1	#65	Iorio, Richard R. #61,167
41	Mayo Clinic Scottsdale-Phoenix, Arizona	5	2	#66	Tokish, John M. #63,042
42	University of Florida	5	1	#69	Wright, Thomas W. #94,152
43	David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA	5	0	#72	Urist, Marshall R. #126,796
44	The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia	5	0	#73	Sankar, Wudbhav N. #169,682
45	Weill Cornell Medicine	5	0	#74	Mancuso, Carol A. #219,146
46	Twin Cities Orthopedics	4	2	#75	LaPrade, R. F. #6,326
47	Dell Medical School	4	2	#76	Ring, David C. #11,192
48	The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio	4	2	#77	Morrey, Bernard F. #11,329
49	University of Cincinnati College of Medicine	4	1	#79	Paterno, Mark Vincent #22,134
50	Lenox Hill Hospital	4	3	#81	Schwab, Frank J. #26,303
51	College of Engineering	4	2	#82	Howell, Stephen Miller #32,501
52	The University of Utah	4	1	#84	Fritz, Julie M. #39,748
53	University of Wisconsin-Madison	4	2	#85	Anderson, Paul A. #49,709
54	Indiana University School of Medicine	4	2	#86	Meneghini, Robert Michael #52,099
55	Vanderbilt University Medical Center	4	2	#89	Owens, Brett D. #66,458
56	Tufts University School of Medicine	4	1	#92	Cleland, Joshua Aland #76,172
57	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	4	1	#94	Wojtys, Edward Michael #79,637
58	University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine	4	1	#97	Flynn, John M. #92,535
59	Scripps Clinic	4	1	#99	D'Lima, Darryl D. #99,492
60	UC Davis School of Medicine	4	0	#100	Menendez, Mariano Esteban #100,776
61	Duke University	4	0	#101	Cook, Chad E. #108,461
62	The Ohio State University College of Medicine	4	0	#102	Schmitt, Laura C. #139,593
63	Cedars-Sinai Medical Center	4	0	#103	Skaggs, David L. #139,664
64	University of Washington School of Medicine	4	0	#104	Mosca, Vincent S. #144,040
65	Boston Children's Hospital	4	0	#105	Bae, Donald S. #145,009
66	Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center	4	0	#106	Parikh, Shital N. #146,224
67	Kaiser Permanente	4	0	#112	Paxton, Elizabeth W. #216,998
68	Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine	3	2	#115	Lieber, Richard L. #11,173
69	UT Southwestern Medical School	3	2	#119	Lavery, Lawrence Alfred #27,110
70	Lexington Clinic	3	1	#120	Kibler, William Ben #27,448
71	UT Southwestern Medical Center	3	1	#123	Wukich, Dane K. #33,452
72	Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida	3	1	#127	Springer, Bryan D. #36,358
73	American Sports Medicine Institute	3	2	#128	Fleisig, Glenn S. #36,466
74	University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine	3	1	#129	Musahl, Volker R. #38,989
75	Wake Forest University School of Medicine	3	1	#131	Waterman, Brian Robert #43,334
76	Washington University in St. Louis	3	1	#132	Barrack, Robert L. #44,281
77	University of Virginia School of Medicine	3	1	#133	Werner, Brian Christopher #45,553
78	Medical University of South Carolina	3	1	#144	Friedman, Richard Joel #73,896
79	Columbia University	3	1	#146	Thomopoulos, Stavros #78,617
80	University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine	3	1	#149	Beynnon, Bruce D. #99,425
81	University of California, Davis	3	0	#151	Lum, Zachary Christopher #102,595
82	Rady Children's Hospital	3	0	#152	Newton, Peter O. #105,558
83	Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center	3	0	#157	Lurie, Jon D.N. #115,535
84	The Ohio State University	3	0	#159	Moore, Amy M. #121,576
85	University of Maryland School of Medicine	3	0	#162	Ghert, Michelle A. #137,134
86	University of Michigan Medical School	3	0	#163	Hankenson, Kurt David #144,296
87	McGovern Medical School	3	0	#165	Noble, Philip C. #150,675
88	Nemours Children's Health System	3	0	#166	Miller, Freeman #153,838
89	University of Minnesota Medical School	3	0	#168	Ludewig, Paula M. #160,648
90	New England Baptist Hospital	3	0	#170	Jawa, Andrew #164,977
91	Johns Hopkins University	3	0	#174	McFarland, Edward George #182,932
92	Mass General Brigham	3	0	#175	Lattermann, Christian #187,871
93	Tulane University School of Medicine	3	0	#178	Savoie, Felix Henry “Buddy” #212,137
94	Sinai Hospital of Baltimore	3	0	#180	Hoveidaei, Amir Human #245,708
95	Houston Methodist Hospital	3	0	#185	McCulloch, Patrick Callaghan #328,691

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

1
Armstrong, David G.
Keck School of Medicine of USC
2
Kurtz, Steven M.
Drexel University
3
Hewett, Timothy E.
Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine
4
Deyo, Richard A.
Oregon Health & Science University
5
Parvizi, Javad
Sidney Kimmel Medical College
6
LaPrade, R. F.
Twin Cities Orthopedics
7
Mont, Michael A.
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
8
Goodman, Stuart Barry
Stanford University
9
Burkhart, Stephen S.
Burkhart Research Institute for Orthopaedics
10
Gagnier, Joel Joseph
Stanford University School of Medicine
11
Rodeo, Scott Alan
Hospital for Special Surgery - New York
12
Panjabi, Manohar M.
Yale School of Medicine
13
Lieber, Richard L.
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
14
Ring, David C.
Dell Medical School
15
Morrey, Bernard F.
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
16
Lenke, Lawrence G.
Columbia University Irving Medical Center
17
Powers, Christopher M.
University of Southern California
18
Berry, Daniel J.
Mayo Clinic
19
Harris, William Hamilton
Harvard Medical School
20
Abdel, Matthew P.
Mayo Clinic
21
Gatchel, Robert J.
The University of Texas at Arlington
22
Einhorn, Thomas A.
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
23
Vaccaro, Alexander R.
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
24
Buckwalter, Joseph A.
University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
25
Bozic, Kevin John
Dell Medical School
26
Tashjian, Robert Zaray
University of Utah School of Medicine
27
Weinstein, Stuart L.
University of Iowa
28
Neer, Charles S.
NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center
29
Bridwell, Keith H.
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
30
Harris, Joshua D.
The Methodist Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Center
31
Paley, Dror
Paley Orthopedic and Spine Institute
32
Zuckerman, Joseph D.
NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital
33
Paterno, Mark Vincent
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
34
Krych, Aaron John
Mayo Clinic
35
An, Kainan
Mayo Clinic
36
Nwachukwu, Benedict U.
Hospital for Special Surgery - New York
37
Schwab, Frank J.
Lenox Hill Hospital
38
O'Driscoll, Shawn W.M.
Mayo Clinic
39
Matsen Iv, Frederick A.
University of Washington
40
Sánchez-Sotelo, Joaquín L.
Mayo Clinic
41
Lavery, Lawrence Alfred
UT Southwestern Medical School
42
Kibler, William Ben
Lexington Clinic
43
Cole, Brian J.
Rush University Medical Center
44
Noyes, Frank R.
Cincinnati Sportsmedicine Research and Education Foundation
45
Andrews, James R.
Andrews Research and Education Foundation
46
Chahla, J. A.
Cedars-Sinai Kerlan-Jobe Institute
47
Wright, Rick W.
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
48
Schoenfeld, Andrew J.
Harvard Medical School
49
Brophy, Robert H.
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
50
Andersson, Gunnar B.J.
Rush University Medical Center
51
Coughlin, Michael J.
UCSF School of Medicine
52
Kunze, Kyle N.
Rush University Medical Center
53
Cofield, Robert H.
Mayo Clinic
54
Kocher, Mininder Singh
Harvard Medical School
55
Mankin, Henry J.
Massachusetts General Hospital
56
Howell, Stephen Miller
College of Engineering
57
Safran, Marc Raymond
Stanford University
58
Denard, Patrick Joel
Oregon Shoulder Institute
59
Ames, Christopher Pearson
University of California, San Francisco
60
Stergiou, Nicholas
University of Nebraska Omaha
61
Wukich, Dane K.
UT Southwestern Medical Center
62
Matta, Joel M.
Steadman Hawkins Clinic
63
Smith, Justin S.
University of Virginia Health System
64
Chen, Antonia Faustina
UT Southwestern Medical School
65
Marx, Robert G.
Hospital for Special Surgery - New York
66
Lafage, Virginie C.
Lenox Hill Hospital
67
Springer, Bryan D.
Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida
68
Fleisig, Glenn S.
American Sports Medicine Institute
69
Davis, Irene S.
University of South Florida, Tampa
70
Garrett, William E.J.
Duke University Medical Center
71
Wilson, Jacob M.
Emory University School of Medicine
72
Musahl, Volker R.
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
73
Evans, Christopher H.
Mayo Clinic
74
Myerson, Mark S.
University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine
75
Camp, Christopher L.
Mayo Clinic
76
Snyder-Mackler, Lynn
University of Delaware
77
Fritz, Julie M.
The University of Utah
78
O'Connor, Mary I.
Vori Health
79
Wilk, Kevin E.
American Sports Medicine Institute
80
Saltzman, Charles L.
University of Utah School of Medicine
81
Arciero, Robert A.
University of Connecticut
82
Philippon, Marc J.
Steadman Philippon Research Institute
83
Schmidt, Andrew H.
Hennepin County Medical Center
84
Stokes, Ian A.F.
The University of Vermont
85
Bedi, Asheesh
C.S. Mott Children's Hospital
86
Domb, Benjamin Gilbert
American Hip Institute
87
Waterman, Brian Robert
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
88
Barrack, Robert L.
Washington University in St. Louis
89
Chalmers, Peter Nissen
University of Utah School of Medicine
90
Erickson, Brandon J.
Northwell Orthopedics
91
Della-Valle, Craig J.D.
Rush University Medical Center
92
MacKenzie, Ellen J.
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
93
Werner, Brian Christopher
University of Virginia School of Medicine
94
Kamath, Atul F.
A Division of Ortho NJ
95
Cho, Samuel Kang Wook
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
96
Piuzzi, N. S.
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
97
Spindler, Kurt Paul
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
98
Michener, Lori Ann
University of Southern California
99
Murray, Martha Meaney
Harvard Medical School
100
Anderson, Paul A.
University of Wisconsin-Madison

996 listed scientists in Orthopedics in the United States

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