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Top institutions in the United States for Physiology

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

244 researchers in the United States whose main subfield is Physiology are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 0.3% of all listed authors in the United States, and 1st of 34 countries in the subfield. 92 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). University of Florida has the most (13), followed by United States Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine (5) and University of California, Davis (5). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors
244
0.3% of all in the United States
In the global top 100,000
92
37.7% of them
Country rank in the subfield
#1
of 34 countries in Physiology
Highest-ranked
#1,593
Brooks, George A.
#InstitutionListed authorsTop 100kRank worldwideHighest-ranked author
1University of Florida134#2Powers, Scott K. #8,999
2United States Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine52#8Charkoudian, Nisha #16,091
3University of California, Davis51#9Baar, Keith R. #33,468
4University of California, Irvine51#11German, Donovan P. #86,925
5Department of Medicine42#12Wagner, Peter David #25,206
6Kansas State University42#14Poole, David C. #40,620
7Auburn University41#17Gladden, L. Bruce #87,595
8Harvard University32#18Lauder, George V. #5,211
9University of California, San Diego31#19West, John B. #17,196
10University of Washington33#20Swenson, Erik Richard #17,968
11Pennsylvania State University31#24Kenney, Wa Larry #33,132
12University of Utah School of Medicine32#25Amann, Markus #35,422
13University of Oregon32#30Minson, Christopher T. #55,116
14UT Southwestern Medical Center31#31Fu, Qi #58,961
15UT Southwestern Medical School32#32Crandall, Craig Gerald #73,329
16Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health31#33Fredberg, Jeffrey J. #77,302
17The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio31#34Rasmussen, Blake B. #99,352
18Georgia State University30#37Harris, Ruth B.S. #165,086

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

  1. 1
    Brooks, George A.
    University of California, Berkeley
  2. 2
    Joyner, Michael J.
    Mayo Clinic Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
  3. 3
    Somero, George N.
    Stanford University
  4. 4
    Lauder, George V.
    Harvard University
  5. 5
    Hunter, Sandra Kay
    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  6. 6
    Powers, Scott K.
    University of Florida
  7. 7
    Fish, Frank E.
    West Chester University
  8. 8
    Tidball, James G.
    University of California, Los Angeles
  9. 9
    Diamond, Jared M.
    University of California, Los Angeles
  10. 10
    Dempsey, Jerome A.
    University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
  11. 11
    Wright, Ernest M.
    David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
  12. 12
    Charkoudian, Nisha
    United States Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine
  13. 13
    West, John B.
    University of California, San Diego
  14. 14
    Dickinson, Michael H.
    Division of Biology and Biological Engineering
  15. 15
    Swenson, Erik Richard
    University of Washington
  16. 16
    Holloszy, John O.
    Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
  17. 17
    Biewener, Andrew A.
    Harvard University
  18. 18
    Bodine, Sue C.
    Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation
  19. 19
    Garland, Theodore
    University of California, Riverside
  20. 20
    Kohl, Kevin D.
    University of Pittsburgh
  21. 21
    Sawka, Michael N.
    Georgia Institute of Technology
  22. 22
    Wagner, Peter David
    Department of Medicine
  23. 23
    Yancey, Paul H.
    Whitman College
  24. 24
    Moore, Lorna Grindlay
    University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine
  25. 25
    Hille, Bertil
    University of Washington
  26. 26
    Kenney, Wa Larry
    Pennsylvania State University
  27. 27
    Baar, Keith R.
    University of California, Davis
  28. 28
    Sanders, Kenton M.
    University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine
  29. 29
    Booth, Frank W.
    University of Missouri
  30. 30
    Amann, Markus
    University of Utah School of Medicine
  31. 31
    Morrison, Shaun F.
    OHSU School of Medicine
  32. 32
    Prabhakar, Nanduri R.
    Institute for Integrative Physiology, The University of Chicago
  33. 33
    Ji, Lili
    University of Minnesota Twin Cities
  34. 34
    Romanovsky, Andrej A.
    The University of Arizona
  35. 35
    Fitts, Robert H.
    Klingler College of Arts and Sciences
  36. 36
    Poole, David C.
    Kansas State University
  37. 37
    Webb, Paul W.
    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  38. 38
    Olson, Kenneth R.
    Indiana University School of Medicine-South Bend
  39. 39
    Burggren, Warren W.
    University of North Texas
  40. 40
    Stachenfeld, Nina S.
    Yale School of Medicine
  41. 41
    Leon, Lisa R.
    University of Florida
  42. 42
    McCarthy, John J.
    College of Medicine
  43. 43
    Bates, Jason H.T.
    University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine
  44. 44
    Hedrick, Tyson L.
    The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  45. 45
    Reid, Michael B.
    University of Florida
  46. 46
    Hepple, Russell T.
    University of Florida
  47. 47
    Thom, Stephen R.
    University of Maryland School of Medicine
  48. 48
    Tomanek, Lars
    California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
  49. 49
    Minson, Christopher T.
    University of Oregon
  50. 50
    Secor, Stephen M.
    Department of Biological Sciences
  51. 51
    Glancy, Brian
    National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  52. 52
    Convertino, Víctor A.
    U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research
  53. 53
    Refinetti, Roberto
    University of New Orleans
  54. 54
    Weaver, Lindell K.
    University of Utah School of Medicine
  55. 55
    Fu, Qi
    UT Southwestern Medical Center
  56. 56
    Grosell, M. H.
    Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science
  57. 57
    Conrad, Kirk P.
    University of Florida College of Medicine
  58. 58
    Bezanilla, Francisco M.
    Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Chicago
  59. 59
    Autumn, Kellar
    Lewis & Clark College, Portland
  60. 60
    Thornburg, Kent L.R.
    OHSU School of Medicine
  61. 61
    Roberts, Thomas J.
    Division of Biology and Medicine
  62. 62
    Delpire, Eric J.
    Vanderbilt University Medical Center
  63. 63
    Trappe, Scott W.
    Ball State University
  64. 64
    Rossiter, Harry B.
    The Lundquist Institute
  65. 65
    Severinghaus, John Wendell
    University of California, San Francisco
  66. 66
    Harrison, Jon F.
    School of Life Sciences
  67. 67
    Rotte, Anand
    Arcellx Inc
  68. 68
    Full, Robert J.
    University of California, Berkeley
  69. 69
    Crandall, Craig Gerald
    UT Southwestern Medical School
  70. 70
    Dudley, Robert
    Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
  71. 71
    Williams, Terrie M.
    University of Nevada, Las Vegas
  72. 72
    Alper, Seth L.
    Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
  73. 73
    McCue, Marshall D.
    Sable Systems International
  74. 74
    Patek, Sheila N.
    Duke University
  75. 75
    Fredberg, Jeffrey J.
    Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
  76. 76
    Lohmann, Kenneth J.
    UNC School of Medicine
  77. 77
    Caldwell, John A.
    United States Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine
  78. 78
    Halliwill, John R.
    University of Oregon
  79. 79
    Hsia, Connie C.W.
    UT Southwestern Medical School
  80. 80
    Barstow, Thomas Jackson
    Kansas State University
  81. 81
    Thyfault, John P.
    University of Kansas Medical Center
  82. 82
    German, Donovan P.
    University of California, Irvine
  83. 83
    Karasov, William Henry
    University of Wisconsin-Madison
  84. 84
    Gladden, L. Bruce
    Auburn University
  85. 85
    Mead, Jere A.R.
    National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  86. 86
    Sachs, Frederick
    Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
  87. 87
    Buffenstein, Rochelle B.
    University of Illinois at Chicago
  88. 88
    Kent-Braun, Jane A.
    University of Massachusetts Amherst
  89. 89
    Fadel, Paul J.
    The University of Texas at Arlington
  90. 90
    Darquenne, Chantal J.
    Department of Medicine
  91. 91
    Hampson, Neil B.
    University of Washington
  92. 92
    Rasmussen, Blake B.
    The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
  93. 93
    Hornberger, Troy Alan
    University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine
  94. 94
    Gibbs, Allen G.
    University of Nevada, Las Vegas
  95. 95
    Tytell, Eric D.
    Tufts University
  96. 96
    Evans, David H.
    University of Florida
  97. 97
    DeCoursey, Thomas E.
    Rush University
  98. 98
    Feder, Martin E.
    Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, The University of Chicago
  99. 99
    Julian, Colleen Glyde
    University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
  100. 100
    Bennett, Albert F.
    University of California, Irvine

244 listed scientists in Physiology in the United States

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Data: Ioannidis, John P.A. (2026), ‘August 2026 data-update for “Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators”’, Mendeley Data, v9, doi:10.17632/btchxktzyw.9. 2026 list, ranked by composite citation score (c) excluding self-citations.

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