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

846 researchers in the United States whose main subfield is Pediatrics are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 1.1% of all listed authors in the United States, and 1st of 56 countries in the subfield. 142 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). Boston Children's Hospital has the most (30), followed by The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (28) and Stanford University School of Medicine (20). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors

846

1.1% of all in the United States

In the global top 100,000

142

16.8% of them

Country rank in the subfield

of 56 countries in Pediatrics

Highest-ranked

#3,260

Plotkin, Stanley Alan

#	Institution	Listed authors	Top 100k	Rank worldwide	Highest-ranked author
1	Boston Children's Hospital	30	5	#1	Randolph, Adrienne G. #33,474
2	The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia	28	6	#2	Adzick, N. Scott #18,187
3	Stanford University School of Medicine	20	4	#3	Anand, Kanwaljeet J. S. #33,432
4	Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center	17	1	#4	Shah, Samir S. #43,590
5	Harvard Medical School	17	3	#5	Belfort, Mandy Brown #49,841
6	University of Washington School of Medicine	17	4	#6	Opel, Douglas J. #52,943
7	Baylor College of Medicine	15	2	#7	Lau, Chantal #63,361
8	Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine	13	1	#11	Nogee, Lawrence M. #97,096
9	Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine	13	0	#12	Sanchez-Pinto, L. Nelson #140,248
10	University of Cincinnati College of Medicine	12	1	#13	Jobe, Alan Hall #9,488
11	UCSF School of Medicine	11	3	#14	Glass, Hannah Cranley #43,889
12	Yale School of Medicine	10	3	#16	Ehrenkranz, Richard A. #34,369
13	Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine	10	0	#18	Bauchner, Howard C. #109,527
14	University of Colorado Anschutz Department of Pediatrics	10	0	#20	Kempe, Allison #146,832
15	University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine	9	3	#21	Feudtner, Chris #11,171
16	The Ohio State University College of Medicine	9	1	#22	Kemper, Alex R. #68,368
17	Nationwide Children’s Hospital	9	1	#23	Sanchèz, Pablo José #73,235
18	The Warren Alpert Medical School	8	2	#27	Laptook, Abbot R. #33,086
19	Children's Memorial Hospital	8	2	#28	Shulman, Stanford T. #40,466
20	University of Rochester Medical Center	8	1	#29	Ross, Lainie Friedman #51,536
21	UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh	8	2	#30	Carcillo, Joseph A. #58,055
22	The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences	8	2	#33	Pollack, Murray M. #77,380
23	University of Utah School of Medicine	8	0	#35	Ward, Robert M. #271,852
24	Wake Forest University School of Medicine	8	0	#36	Shetty, Avinash K. #290,763
25	University of California, San Diego	7	3	#37	Burns, Jane C. #15,721
26	University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health	7	3	#38	Moreno, Megan Andreas #18,204
27	Stanford University	7	2	#39	Darmstadt, Gary L. #35,063
28	University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine	6	1	#44	Daniels, Stephen Robert #9,358
29	David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA	6	1	#46	Cherry, James D. #26,519
30	Emory University School of Medicine	6	2	#47	Patel, Ravi M. #27,315
31	Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health	6	0	#50	Bethell, Christina D. #114,060
32	NYU Grossman School of Medicine	6	0	#51	Dreyer, Benard P. #134,989
33	CASE School of Medicine	6	0	#53	Bearer, Cynthia F. #186,203
34	Kaiser Permanente	6	0	#54	Daley, Matthew F. #224,262
35	University of Florida College of Medicine	5	1	#56	Neu, Josef #11,311
36	Vanderbilt University Medical Center	5	1	#57	Edwards, Kathryn M. #18,884
37	Duke University School of Medicine	5	1	#58	Cotten, Charles Michael #25,518
38	Weill Cornell Medicine	5	2	#60	Perlman, Jeffrey M. #46,102
39	University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital	5	1	#63	Walsh, Michele C. #67,478
40	Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis	5	2	#66	Warner, Barbara B. #72,201
41	Childrens National Health System	5	0	#69	Levitt, Marc Aaron #110,417
42	UT Southwestern Medical Center	5	0	#70	Buchanan, George R. #113,796
43	RTI International	5	0	#71	McPheeters, Melissa L. #163,775
44	Boston Medical Center	5	0	#72	Bair-Merritt, Megan H. #261,556
45	The University of Utah	5	0	#73	Holubkov, Richard #315,199
46	University of Minnesota Medical School	4	1	#75	Georgieff, Michael K. #6,494
47	University of Michigan Medical School	4	1	#77	Radesky, Jenny S. #27,581
48	University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine	4	1	#79	Bell, Edward F. #41,626
49	University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry	4	1	#83	Szilâgyi, Peter G. #49,345
50	University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine	4	2	#85	Horbar, Jeffrey D. #58,215
51	Nemours Children's Health System	4	2	#86	Weiss, Scott L. #59,206
52	Indiana University School of Medicine	4	1	#89	Bull, Marilyn J. #78,435
53	Seattle Children's Hospital	4	1	#91	Diekema, Douglas S. #84,593
54	McGovern Medical School	4	1	#92	Baker, Carol J. #94,516
55	University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine	4	0	#94	Houtrow, Amy J. #103,127
56	Duke Clinical Research Institute	4	0	#95	Skinner, Asheley Cockrell #116,065
57	University of Virginia School of Medicine	4	0	#97	Moon, Rachel Y. #133,124
58	UNC School of Medicine	4	0	#98	Good, Misty L. #166,547
59	C.S. Mott Children's Hospital	4	0	#102	Teitelbaum, Daniel H. #202,257
60	University of Washington	4	0	#103	Breuner, Cora Collette #208,839
61	University of Pennsylvania	3	1	#105	Plotkin, Stanley Alan #3,260
62	University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston	3	1	#106	Stoll, Barbara J. #13,293
63	University of Minnesota Twin Cities	3	1	#107	Grosse, Scott D. #14,630
64	Wayne State University	3	1	#108	Shankaran, Seetha #22,822
65	University of California, Davis	3	1	#111	Underwood, Mark A. #28,195
66	The University of Alabama at Birmingham	3	2	#112	Kimberlin, David W. #29,517
67	Cleveland Clinic Foundation	3	1	#113	Aly, Hany Z. #32,472
68	Intermountain Healthcare	3	1	#115	Christensen, Robert D. #49,995
69	Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons	3	1	#116	Whitaker, Robert C. #54,768
70	National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion	3	1	#117	Freedman, David S. #54,920
71	UT Southwestern Medical School	3	2	#118	Barlow, Sarah E. #60,342
72	Columbia University Irving Medical Center	3	1	#119	Saiman, Lisa M. #64,449
73	The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	3	1	#121	O'Shea, Thomas Michael D. #71,080
74	Children's Hospital Los Angeles	3	0	#129	Khemani, Robinder G. #104,357
75	Penn State College of Medicine	3	0	#133	Paul, Ian M. #111,432
76	St. Jude Children's Research Hospital	3	0	#134	Ramilo, Octavio #114,216
77	University of Iowa	3	0	#138	Ziegler, Ekhard E. #140,633
78	Duke University	3	0	#140	Goldmann, Donald A. #143,920
79	Children's Mercy Kansas City	3	0	#142	Carter, Brian Scott #177,889
80	The Ohio State University	3	0	#143	Coury, Daniel L. #183,680
81	Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children	3	0	#146	Minneci, Peter C. #195,975
82	Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center	3	0	#147	Stark, Ann R. #210,575
83	Texas Children's Hospital	3	0	#149	Shekerdemian, Lara S. #220,468
84	Massachusetts General Hospital	3	0	#150	Fleegler, Eric William #226,337
85	UAMS College of Medicine	3	0	#152	Casey, Patrick H. #246,576
86	Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters Health System	3	0	#153	Brenner, Joel S. #248,504
87	University of Missouri-Kansas City	3	0	#155	Shapiro, Steven M. #284,488

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

1
Plotkin, Stanley Alan
University of Pennsylvania
2
Anderson, Peter John
UCI School of Medicine
3
Dietz, William H.
Milken Institute School of Public Health
4
Georgieff, Michael K.
University of Minnesota Medical School
5
Daniels, Stephen Robert
University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine
6
Jobe, Alan Hall
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
7
Feudtner, Chris
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
8
Neu, Josef
University of Florida College of Medicine
9
Gillman, Matthew W.
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
10
Christakis, Dimitri A.
Seattle Children’s Research Institute
11
Stoll, Barbara J.
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
12
Flores, Glenn
University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine
13
Grosse, Scott D.
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
14
Higgins, Rosemary D.
Florida Gulf Coast University
15
Burns, Jane C.
University of California, San Diego
16
Vohr, Betty R.
Brown University
17
Adzick, N. Scott
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
18
Moreno, Megan Andreas
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
19
Hall, Caroline Breese
Lewis Katz School of Medicine
20
Edwards, Kathryn M.
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
21
Starfield, Bárbara H.
Johns Hopkins University
22
Shankaran, Seetha
Wayne State University
23
Cabana, Michael D.
The Children’s Hospital at Montefiore
24
Hay, William W.
University of Colorado Denver
25
Forrest, Christopher B.
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
26
Cotten, Charles Michael
Duke University School of Medicine
27
Cherry, James D.
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
28
Patel, Ravi M.
Emory University School of Medicine
29
Radesky, Jenny S.
University of Michigan Medical School
30
Underwood, Mark A.
University of California, Davis
31
Kimberlin, David W.
The University of Alabama at Birmingham
32
Bradley, John S.
University of California, San Diego
33
Aly, Hany Z.
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
34
Laptook, Abbot R.
The Warren Alpert Medical School
35
Anand, Kanwaljeet J. S.
Stanford University School of Medicine
36
Randolph, Adrienne G.
Boston Children's Hospital
37
Ehrenkranz, Richard A.
Yale School of Medicine
38
Darmstadt, Gary L.
Stanford University
39
Pichichero, Michael E.
Rochester General Hospital
40
Lozoff, Betsy M.
University of Michigan School of Public Health
41
Shulman, Stanford T.
Children's Memorial Hospital
42
Wynn, James Lawrence
University of Florida
43
Bell, Edward F.
University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
44
Puopolo, Karen M.
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
45
Olds, David Lee
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
46
Shah, Samir S.
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
47
Glass, Hannah Cranley
UCSF School of Medicine
48
Watterberg, Kristi L.
UNM Health Sciences Center
49
Perlman, Jeffrey M.
Weill Cornell Medicine
50
Lakshminrusimha, Satyan
UC Davis Children's Hospital
51
Szilâgyi, Peter G.
University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
52
Shaywitz, Sally E.
Yale School of Medicine
53
Belfort, Mandy Brown
Harvard Medical School
54
Christensen, Robert D.
Intermountain Healthcare
55
Raju, Tonse N.K.
F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine
56
Ross, Lainie Friedman
University of Rochester Medical Center
57
Chambers, Christina D.
University of California, San Diego
58
Rowley, Anne H.
Children's Memorial Hospital
59
Opel, Douglas J.
University of Washington School of Medicine
60
Finer, Neil Norman
Sharp HealthCare
61
Blumberg, Stephen J.
National Center for Health Statistics
62
Inder, Terrie Eleanor
UCI School of Medicine
63
Whitaker, Robert C.
Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
64
Freedman, David S.
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
65
Farrell, Philip M.
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
66
Patrick, Stephen W.
Rollins School of Public Health
67
Halfon, Neal
UCLA Fielding School of Public Health
68
Ghandour, Reem M.
Health Resources and Services Administration
69
Carcillo, Joseph A.
UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
70
Bhandari, Vineet W.
Cooper University Hospital
71
Horbar, Jeffrey D.
University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine
72
Schmidt, Barbara K.
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
73
Weiss, Scott L.
Nemours Children's Health System
74
Barlow, Sarah E.
UT Southwestern Medical School
75
Feldman, Heidi M.
Stanford University School of Medicine
76
Wald, Ellen R.
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
77
Wyckoff, Myra Helen
UT Southwestern Medical School
78
Domachowske, Joseph B.
State University of New York System
79
Lau, Chantal
Baylor College of Medicine
80
Saiman, Lisa M.
Columbia University Irving Medical Center
81
Carlo, Waldemar A.
UAB Department of Pediatrics
82
Hackam, David J.
Johns Hopkins University
83
Jensen, Erik A.
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
84
Juul, Sandra E.
University of Washington School of Medicine
85
Patel, Dilip R.
Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine
86
Walsh, Michele C.
University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital
87
Kaplan, Sheldon L.
Baylor College of Medicine
88
Bhutani, Vinod K.
Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford
89
Orenstein, Walter A.
Emory University School of Medicine
90
Kemper, Alex R.
The Ohio State University College of Medicine
91
Shaikh, Nader
UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
92
DeMauro, Sara Bonamo
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
93
Golden, Neville Hylton
Stanford University School of Medicine
94
Dodgson, Joan E.
Dodgson Consulting
95
Soll, Roger Franklin
University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine
96
O'Shea, Thomas Michael D.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
97
Singh, Yogen
UC Davis Health
98
Warner, Barbara B.
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
99
Sanchèz, Pablo José
Nationwide Children’s Hospital
100
Shapiro, Eugene D.
Yale School of Medicine

846 listed scientists in Pediatrics in the United States

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