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

873 researchers in the United States whose main subfield is Public Health are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 1.2% of all listed authors in the United States, and 1st of 57 countries in the subfield. 535 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). School of Public Health has the most (22), followed by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (21) and University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (18). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors

873

1.2% of all in the United States

In the global top 100,000

535

61.3% of them

Country rank in the subfield

of 57 countries in Public Health

Highest-ranked

#156

Williams, David Rudyard

#	Institution	Listed authors	Top 100k	Rank worldwide	Highest-ranked author
1	School of Public Health	22	14	#1	Galea, Sandro #1,460
2	Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health	21	14	#2	Wang, Caroline C. #9,203
3	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	18	14	#5	Zimmerman, Marc A. #4,359
4	Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health	17	12	#6	Williams, David Rudyard #156
5	New York University	13	6	#7	An, Ruopeng #7,959
6	Mailman School of Public Health	13	10	#8	Beard, John R. #11,824
7	University of Michigan School of Public Health	12	9	#9	Reisner, Sari L. #8,472
8	University of California, San Diego	12	7	#11	Frank, Lawrence Douglas #12,209
9	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention	12	6	#12	Sleet, David A. #43,907
10	The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	11	8	#14	Sheeran, Paschal J. #1,291
11	University of Connecticut	11	7	#16	Kalichman, Seth Charles #23,815
12	UCSF School of Medicine	10	4	#19	Braveman, Paula A. #1,662
13	Yale University	10	7	#20	Pachankis, John E. #2,573
14	Indiana University Bloomington	10	8	#21	Thoits, Peggy A. #2,867
15	National Center for Health Statistics	10	3	#15	Ogden, Cynthia L. #16,910
16	University of South Carolina	10	4	#23	Pate, Russell R. #16,920
17	UCLA Fielding School of Public Health	10	9	#24	Gee, Gilbert C. #22,127
18	Rollins School of Public Health	10	7	#26	Jones, Camara Phyllis #27,889
19	Columbia University	9	4	#27	Phelan, Jo C. #5,578
20	Pennsylvania State University	9	6	#28	Graham, John W. #10,605
21	National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion	9	4	#29	Hacker, Karen Ann #17,541
22	University of California, Los Angeles	8	6	#31	Meyer, Ilan H. #211
23	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	8	6	#32	Fishbein, Martin #3,470
24	Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine	8	5	#33	Mustanski, Brian S. #9,718
25	University of California, Berkeley	8	7	#35	Minkler, Meredith A. #16,233
26	National Cancer Institute (NCI)	8	5	#36	Chambers, David A. #20,299
27	University of Illinois at Chicago	8	5	#38	Chaloupka, Frank J. #54,157
28	Drexel University	7	4	#39	Diez-Roux, Ana V. #1,223
29	University of California, San Francisco	7	5	#40	Adler, Nancy E. #4,780
30	The University of Utah	7	6	#42	Uchino, Bert N. #7,446
31	Stanford University School of Medicine	7	4	#43	Prochaska, Judith J. #13,320
32	Washington University in St. Louis, George Warren Brown School of Social Work	7	3	#44	Galupo, M. Paz #16,428
33	The George Washington University	6	3	#48	Bowleg, Lisa #1,984
34	University of Washington	6	5	#53	Frumkin, Howard #6,190
35	Emory University	6	5	#54	Hennink, Monique M. #9,955
36	University of Minnesota Twin Cities	6	3	#55	Rothman, Alexander J. #14,369
37	Duke University	6	5	#58	Poteat, Tonia C. #27,473
38	UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health	6	3	#60	DeVellis, Robert F. #50,013
39	The University of Texas at Austin	5	4	#62	Umberson, Debra J. #4,581
40	Keck School of Medicine of USC	5	5	#64	Valente, Thomas William #7,824
41	University of California, Irvine	5	4	#66	Stokols, Daniel S. #10,913
42	University of Pennsylvania	5	5	#69	Glanz, Karen #17,499
43	NYU Grossman School of Medicine	5	2	#71	Kumar, Manasi #18,710
44	Arizona State University	5	5	#72	Barrera, Manuel #26,346
45	Duke University School of Medicine	5	3	#73	Jordt, Sven Eric #31,967
46	The City University of New York	5	2	#74	Borrell, Luisa N. #33,187
47	Brown University	5	3	#76	Agénor, Madina #40,462
48	Vanderbilt University	5	4	#77	Metzl, Jonathan M. #44,088
49	University of Georgia	5	1	#80	DeJoy, David M. #92,025
50	University of California, Riverside	4	4	#83	Link, Bruce George #1,904
51	University of Minnesota Medical School	4	2	#85	Coleman, Eli J. #8,801
52	The Ohio State University	4	3	#86	Slater, Michael D. #9,186
53	Fenway Community Health Center	4	2	#87	Mayer, Kenneth H. #10,910
54	University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine	4	3	#88	Matthews, Karen A. #13,001
55	Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine	4	4	#90	Cooper, Lisa Angeline #15,803
56	Texas A&M University	4	3	#93	Witte, Kim #25,274
57	Rutgers University–New Brunswick	4	3	#94	Leventhal, Howard E. #25,763
58	Washington University in St. Louis	4	1	#96	Kreuter, Matthew W. #28,427
59	Michigan State University	4	2	#100	Peng, Wei #30,448
60	College of Arts and Sciences	4	4	#101	Safren, Steven A. #32,080
61	University of Washington School of Medicine	4	3	#103	Saelens, Brian E. #34,419
62	UNC School of Medicine	4	2	#106	Perreira, Krista M. #50,758
63	Yale School of Medicine	4	3	#108	Makoul, Gregory T. #63,168
64	Mayo Clinic	4	2	#109	Phelan, Sean M. #66,522
65	University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health	4	2	#112	Piper, Megan E. #80,969
66	University of Wisconsin-Madison	3	2	#116	Ryff, Carol Diane S. #530
67	Brigham Young University	3	3	#117	Holt-Lunstad, Julianne #872
68	Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies	3	3	#121	Berkman, Lisa F. #3,223
69	Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science	3	2	#123	Assari, Shervin #7,110
70	George Mason University	3	3	#124	Maibach, Edward W. #15,020
71	Harvard Medical School	3	2	#125	Rigotti, Nancy A. #16,128
72	Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine	3	3	#126	LaVeist-Ramos, Thomas Alexis #17,301
73	The University of Chicago	3	1	#129	Hedeker, Donald R. #19,648
74	Columbia University School of Nursing	3	2	#131	Bockting, Walter O. #22,022
75	University of Pennsylvania Annenberg School for Communications	3	2	#133	Romer, Dan #22,973
76	Boston College	3	3	#134	Betancourt, Theresa Stichick #25,319
77	University of Maryland, College Park	3	3	#138	Nan, Xiaoli #28,854
78	Oregon Health & Science University	3	2	#139	Andresen, Elena M. #29,185
79	Northeastern University	3	2	#141	Brown, Phil #32,101
80	Florida State University	3	1	#142	Homan, Patricia A. #34,272
81	Temple University	3	2	#148	Siminoff, Laura A. #37,670
82	Roswell Park Cancer Institute	3	2	#149	Goniewicz, Maciej L. #39,074
83	Milken Institute School of Public Health	3	2	#151	Hyder, Adnan A. #46,227
84	Stanford University	3	2	#152	Robinson, Thomas N. #49,657
85	National Center for Injury Prevention and Control	3	1	#155	Guy, Gery P. #55,631
86	Georgia State University	3	2	#157	Dai, Dajun #56,114
87	Wake Forest University School of Medicine	3	1	#159	Arcury, Thomas A. #59,870
88	Guttmacher Institute	3	2	#160	Jones, Rachel K. #60,637
89	Boston University	3	2	#163	Borrelli, Belinda #64,005
90	Medical College of Wisconsin	3	1	#164	Quinn, Katherine G. #66,383
91	University of Southern California	3	1	#165	Blosnich, John R. #71,451
92	National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention	3	1	#168	Centers For Disease Control #85,075
93	Florida International University	3	1	#170	Amaro, Horrensia De Los Angeles #95,930
94	The Warren Alpert Medical School	3	0	#173	Carey, Michael P. #112,419

The top 100 in Public Health in the United States, in order

1
Williams, David Rudyard
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
2
Meyer, Ilan H.
University of California, Los Angeles
3
Krieger, Nancy
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
4
Ryff, Carol Diane S.
University of Wisconsin-Madison
5
Hatzenbuehler, Mark L.
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
6
Holt-Lunstad, Julianne
Brigham Young University
7
Diez-Roux, Ana V.
Drexel University
8
Sheeran, Paschal J.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
9
Kawachi, Ichiro I.
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
10
Galea, Sandro
School of Public Health
11
Braveman, Paula A.
UCSF School of Medicine
12
Link, Bruce George
University of California, Riverside
13
Bowleg, Lisa
The George Washington University
14
Glasgow, Russell E.
University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine
15
Pachankis, John E.
Yale University
16
Elwyn, Glyn Jones
The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice
17
Thoits, Peggy A.
Indiana University Bloomington
18
Berkman, Lisa F.
Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
19
Fishbein, Martin
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
20
Seeman, Teresa E.
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
21
Zimmerman, Marc A.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
22
Umberson, Debra J.
The University of Texas at Austin
23
Adler, Nancy E.
University of California, San Francisco
24
Tomiyama, A. Janet
University of California, Los Angeles
25
Phelan, Jo C.
Columbia University
26
Weinstein, Neil David
School of Environmental and Biological Sciences
27
Frumkin, Howard
University of Washington
28
Rosenstock, Irwin M.
California State University, Long Beach
29
McAuley, Edward D.
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
30
Wallerstein, Nina B.
UNM Health Sciences Center
31
Assari, Shervin
Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science
32
Prochaska, James O.
University of Rhode Island
33
Timmermans, Stefan
University of California, Los Angeles
34
Tsai, Alexander C.
Massachusetts General Hospital
35
Uchino, Bert N.
The University of Utah
36
Valente, Thomas William
Keck School of Medicine of USC
37
Earnshaw, Valerie A.
University of Delaware
38
An, Ruopeng
New York University
39
Brewer, Noel T.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
40
Neumark-Sztainer, Dianne R.
School of Public Health
41
Guest, Greg
Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation
42
Reisner, Sari L.
University of Michigan School of Public Health
43
Coleman, Eli J.
University of Minnesota Medical School
44
Pescosolido, Bernice A.
Indiana University Bloomington
45
Slater, Michael D.
The Ohio State University
46
Wang, Caroline C.
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
47
von Hippel, Paul T.
The University of Texas at Austin
48
Singh, Gopal K.
Keck School of Medicine of USC
49
Street, Richard Lewis
Patient Education and Counseling
50
Mustanski, Brian S.
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
51
Halla, Pedro Curi
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
52
Collins, Linda M.
New York University
53
Hennink, Monique M.
Emory University
54
Velicer, Wayne F.
University of Rhode Island
55
Geronimus, Arline T.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
56
DiMatteo, Maryanne Robin
University of California, Riverside
57
Ross, Catherine E.
The University of Texas at Austin
58
Graham, John W.
Pennsylvania State University
59
Mayer, Kenneth H.
Fenway Community Health Center
60
Stokols, Daniel S.
University of California, Irvine
61
Schillinger, Dean
UCSF School of Medicine
62
Loprinzi, Paul Dinneen
University of Mississippi
63
Zimet, Gregory D.
Indiana University School of Medicine
64
Gone, Joseph P.
Harvard University
65
Brownson, Ross C.
St. Louis University School of Public Health
66
Raj, Anita
Tulane University
67
Beard, John R.
Mailman School of Public Health
68
Kumanyika, Shiriki K.
Drexel University
69
Dube, Shanta Rishi
Wingate University
70
Frank, Lawrence Douglas
University of California, San Diego
71
Sharma, Manoj
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
72
Noar, Seth M.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
73
Evenson, Kelly R.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
74
Matthews, Karen A.
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
75
Yang, Yang Claire
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
76
Dunkel Schetter, Christine
University of California, Los Angeles
77
Prochaska, Judith J.
Stanford University School of Medicine
78
Khubchandani, Jagdish
New Mexico State University
79
Smyth, Joshua M.
Pennsylvania State University
80
Rothman, Alexander J.
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
81
Perry, Brea L.
Indiana University Bloomington
82
Curran, Geoffrey Michael
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
83
Subramanian, Sankaran Venkata
Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
84
Maibach, Edward W.
George Mason University
85
Glantz, Stanton A.
University of California, San Francisco
86
Mullan Harris, Kathleen Mullan
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
87
Cooper, Lisa Angeline
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
88
Clayton, Janine Austin
NIH Office of the Director (OD)
89
Roter, Debra L.
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
90
Peters, Ellen M.
University of Oregon
91
Rigotti, Nancy A.
Harvard Medical School
92
Minkler, Meredith A.
University of California, Berkeley
93
Galupo, M. Paz
Washington University in St. Louis, George Warren Brown School of Social Work
94
Rivara, Frederick Peter
School of Public Health
95
Ogden, Cynthia L.
National Center for Health Statistics
96
Pate, Russell R.
University of South Carolina
97
Li, Xiaoming
University of South Carolina
98
Miller, Elizabeth P.
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
99
Hernández, Diana M.
Mailman School of Public Health
100
LaVeist-Ramos, Thomas Alexis
Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine

873 listed scientists in Public Health in the United States

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