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1,372 researchers in the United States whose main subfield is Surgery are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 1.9% of all listed authors in the United States, and 1st of 68 countries in the subfield. 212 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). Harvard Medical School has the most (44), followed by Mayo Clinic (28) and David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA (25). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors

1,372

1.9% of all in the United States

In the global top 100,000

212

15.5% of them

Country rank in the subfield

of 68 countries in Surgery

Highest-ranked

#4,218

Pawlik, Timothy M.

#	Institution	Listed authors	Top 100k	Rank worldwide	Highest-ranked author
1	Harvard Medical School	44	8	#1	Fishman, Jay Alan #8,168
2	Mayo Clinic	28	4	#2	Razonable, Raymund Rabe #12,771
3	David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA	25	3	#3	Livingston, Edward H. #40,508
4	Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University	25	4	#4	Rosenthal, Raúl Jacobo #45,805
5	Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis	24	2	#5	Mackinnon, Susan E. #13,967
6	Stanford University School of Medicine	24	4	#6	Longaker, Michael Thornton #18,191
7	Massachusetts General Hospital	23	4	#7	Cooper, David K.C. #19,857
8	Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine	23	6	#8	Dellon, Arnold Lee #21,954
9	University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine	23	6	#9	Singh, Nina M. #32,969
10	University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine	22	5	#10	Moore, Eugene E. #9,703
11	UCSF School of Medicine	22	1	#11	Vincenti, Flávio G. #37,176
12	University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health	21	0	#12	Garg, Neetika #151,000
13	NYU Langone Health	19	4	#13	Segev, Dorry L. #19,928
14	Stanford University	17	1	#14	Kebebew, Electron K. #8,050
15	Cedars-Sinai Medical Center	17	3	#16	Kobashigawa, Jon A. #23,669
16	Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center	16	6	#15	Jarnagin, William R. #14,736
17	Cleveland Clinic Foundation	16	2	#17	Aminian, Ali #40,515
18	The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center	16	3	#18	Tsilimigras, Diamantis I. #58,410
19	University of Michigan Medical School	14	2	#19	Chung, K. C. #8,964
20	Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine	14	4	#20	Ison, Michael G. #15,415
21	The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center	14	4	#21	Vauthey, Jean Nicolas N. #21,315
22	University of California, San Francisco	14	6	#22	Sosa, Julie Ann #27,770
23	University of Minnesota Medical School	14	1	#24	Snyder, Jon J. #63,417
24	Baylor College of Medicine	13	2	#25	Rohrich, Rod James #6,496
25	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	13	2	#27	Dimick, Justin B. #21,170
26	Brigham and Women's Hospital	12	2	#29	Pusic, Andrea L. #31,850
27	University of Florida College of Medicine	12	1	#30	Bihorac, Azra #39,712
28	University of Pittsburgh Medical Center	12	3	#31	Billiar, Timothy Robert #48,533
29	Columbia University Irving Medical Center	12	2	#32	Novitsky, Yuri William #67,483
30	Medical College of Wisconsin	11	1	#34	Ghaferi, Amir A. #91,379
31	NYU Grossman School of Medicine	11	0	#36	DiMaggio, Charles J. #118,505
32	Yale School of Medicine	11	0	#37	Persing, John Arthur #118,898
33	University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine	10	2	#40	Cannon, Jeremy W. #42,143
34	Vanderbilt University Medical Center	10	1	#42	Gordon, Elisa Jill #68,989
35	Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	10	2	#43	Schwartz, Myron E. #71,800
36	Indiana University School of Medicine	9	2	#48	Bilimoria, Karl Yaz #24,146
37	UT Southwestern Medical School	9	1	#53	Levi, Benjamin L. #69,614
38	Emory University School of Medicine	9	0	#56	Larsen, Christian P. #194,065
39	Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida	8	1	#58	Croome, Kristopher Patrick #38,283
40	University of Washington School of Medicine	8	3	#60	Bulger, Eileen M. #68,696
41	Weill Cornell Medicine	8	1	#62	Hidalgo, David A. #78,919
42	Duke University Medical Center	8	0	#64	Hartwig, Matthew G. #184,313
43	Duke University School of Medicine	7	2	#68	Allen, Peter J. #37,671
44	The University of Chicago	7	2	#70	Alverdy, John C. #39,070
45	UCI School of Medicine	7	2	#71	Daniel, Rollin K. #40,172
46	University of Louisville School of Medicine	7	1	#73	Martin, Robert C.G. #48,754
47	UNC School of Medicine	7	1	#75	Greenberg, Caprice C. #70,243
48	University of Florida	7	1	#76	Moore, Frederick Alan #70,948
49	University of Pittsburgh	7	1	#78	Sperry, Jason L. #74,758
50	University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine	7	1	#79	Ricordi, Camillo #90,586
51	The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia	7	1	#81	Massenburg, Benjamin B. #97,764
52	College of Medicine	7	0	#85	Carlson, Mark Alan #231,616
53	University of Rochester Medical Center	7	0	#86	Linehan, David C. #238,603
54	University of Pennsylvania	6	1	#90	DeMatteo, Ronald P. #30,983
55	McGovern Medical School	6	2	#93	Cotton, Bryan A. #53,288
56	Penn Medicine	6	1	#99	Levin, Lawrence Scott #94,096
57	University of Cincinnati College of Medicine	6	1	#100	Paquette, Ian M. #99,041
58	UT Southwestern Medical Center	6	0	#101	Adams, William P. #100,839
59	Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania	6	0	#102	Olthoff, Kim Marie #110,757
60	University of California, Irvine	6	0	#103	Evans, Gregory R.D. #113,435
61	Washington University in St. Louis	5	1	#109	Strasberg, Steven M. #6,122
62	University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson	5	2	#110	Gurtner, Geoffrey C. #14,188
63	Boston Children's Hospital	5	2	#111	Mulliken, John Butler #15,626
64	Keck School of Medicine of USC	5	1	#115	Demetriades, Demetrios G. #29,500
65	R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center	5	1	#116	Scalea, Thomas Michael #42,180
66	University of Virginia School of Medicine	5	1	#117	Tsung, Allan #44,195
67	University of Minnesota Twin Cities	5	2	#118	Matas, Arthur J. #51,233
68	CASE School of Medicine	5	1	#120	Guyuron, Bahman #52,472
69	The University of Alabama at Birmingham	5	1	#123	Chen, Herbert C. #71,056
70	Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas	5	0	#126	Fleshman, James W. #101,598
71	University of Illinois at Chicago	5	0	#129	Nelson, Richard Lawrence #115,061
72	Mayo Clinic Scottsdale-Phoenix, Arizona	5	0	#137	Saint-Cyr, Michel Hector #230,467
73	City of Hope National Med Center	4	1	#140	Fong, Yuman #19,622
74	Oregon Health & Science University	4	1	#141	Brasel, Karen J. #21,681
75	MedStar Georgetown University Hospital	4	1	#142	Wexner, Steven D. #22,140
76	University of Utah School of Medicine	4	1	#144	Stehlik, Josef #32,406
77	University of Maryland School of Medicine	4	1	#149	Bromberg, Jonathan S. #64,640
78	The University of Chicago Medicine	4	1	#150	Chang, David Woosuk #65,433
79	Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences	4	1	#153	Schreiber, Martin Allan #73,941
80	The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio	4	1	#160	Eastridge, Brian J. #90,946
81	University of Tennessee Health Science Center	4	0	#165	Fabian, Timothy C. #103,727
82	Dell Medical School	4	0	#168	DuBose, Joseph Jeremy #129,407
83	OHSU School of Medicine	4	0	#172	Wolfe, Bruce M. #156,360
84	Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota	4	0	#174	Habermann, Elizabeth B. #157,965
85	UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh	4	0	#175	Green, Michael D. #160,167
86	University Hospitals Case Medical Center	4	0	#178	Winter, Jordan M. #186,497
87	University of Wisconsin-Madison	4	0	#187	Djamali, Arjang X. #277,487
88	Seattle Children's Hospital	3	1	#192	Morrison, Shane Douglas #19,902
89	University of South Florida, Tampa	3	2	#194	Velanovich, Vic #31,245
90	The Ohio State University	3	1	#195	Brethauer, Stacy Alan #39,194
91	University of Washington	3	1	#198	Dellinger, Evan Patchen #51,299
92	University of Nebraska Medical Center	3	1	#199	Mannon, Roslyn B. #52,902
93	Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Service	3	1	#205	Cordeiro, Peter G. #60,560
94	Department of Surgery, The University of Chicago	3	1	#215	Chong, Anita S.F. #93,705
95	Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center	3	0	#219	Heniford, Brant Todd #108,084
96	Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center	3	0	#224	Spiro, Ronald H. #122,577
97	Harborview Medical Center	3	0	#232	Maier, Ronald V. #154,197
98	University of Southern California	3	0	#234	Martin, Matthew Jeffrey #157,916
99	New York University	3	0	#235	Massie, Allan B. #161,834
100	UAB Department of Surgery	3	0	#237	Porrett, Paige M. #170,205
101	University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School	3	0	#243	Martins, Paulo Ney Aguiar #198,482
102	SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University	3	0	#246	Gruessner, Angelika C. #209,596
103	Northwell Health System	3	0	#247	Amdur, Richard L. #210,193
104	Sidney Kimmel Medical College	3	0	#249	Meyers, William C. #235,020
105	Cleveland Clinic Florida	3	0	#170	Ramírez, Oscar M. #243,581
106	Texas Children's Hospital	3	0	#250	Keswani, Sundeep Govind #247,397
107	National Cancer Institute (NCI)	3	0	#253	Hernandez, Jonathan Matthew #257,648
108	University of Virginia Health System	3	0	#255	Hedrick, Traci L. #267,472
109	Department of Surgery	3	0	#74	Bickler, Stephen W. #286,777
110	Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center	3	0	#260	Rogers, Ann M. #306,920
111	Rush University Medical Center	3	0	#264	Dorafshar, Amir H. #355,088
112	Tufts Medical Center	3	0	#267	Chatterjee, Abhishek #361,766
113	Lahey Hospital & Medical Center	3	0	#269	Nakeeb, Attila #403,866
114	University of California, Los Angeles	3	0	#270	Brenner, Megan L. #404,827
115	Duke University Hospital	3	0	#271	Phillips, Brett T. #444,983

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

1
Pawlik, Timothy M.
The Ohio State University College of Medicine
2
Strasberg, Steven M.
Washington University in St. Louis
3
Rohrich, Rod James
Baylor College of Medicine
4
Holcomb, John Bradley B.
UAB Center for Injury Science
5
Kebebew, Electron K.
Stanford University
6
Fishman, Jay Alan
Harvard Medical School
7
Chung, K. C.
University of Michigan Medical School
8
Moore, Eugene E.
University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine
9
Razonable, Raymund Rabe
Mayo Clinic
10
Heimbach, Julie K.
Mayo Clinic
11
Mackinnon, Susan E.
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
12
Gurtner, Geoffrey C.
University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson
13
Jarnagin, William R.
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
14
Ison, Michael G.
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
15
Mulliken, John Butler
Boston Children's Hospital
16
Gawande, Atul A.
Harvard Medical School
17
Longaker, Michael Thornton
Stanford University School of Medicine
18
Khush, Kiran K.
Stanford University School of Medicine
19
Napolitano, Lena M.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Department of Surgery
20
Fong, Yuman
City of Hope National Med Center
21
Cameron, John L.
The Johns Hopkins Hospital
22
Cooper, David K.C.
Massachusetts General Hospital
23
Morrison, Shane Douglas
Seattle Children's Hospital
24
Segev, Dorry L.
NYU Langone Health
25
Kotton, Camille Nelson
Massachusetts General Hospital
26
Sarwer, David B.
Temple University
27
Dimick, Justin B.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
28
Vauthey, Jean Nicolas N.
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
29
Brasel, Karen J.
Oregon Health & Science University
30
Dellon, Arnold Lee
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
31
Wexner, Steven D.
MedStar Georgetown University Hospital
32
Kobashigawa, Jon A.
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
33
Biffl, Walter L.
Scripps Clinic
34
Bilimoria, Karl Yaz
Indiana University School of Medicine
35
Sosa, Julie Ann
University of California, San Francisco
36
Satava, Richard Martin M.D.
Emeritus of Surgery
37
Greene, Arin K.
Boston Children's Hospital
38
Demetriades, Demetrios G.
Keck School of Medicine of USC
39
Richman, Joshua S.
Heersink School of Medicine
40
Mehta, Neil J.
University of California, San Francisco
41
DeMatteo, Ronald P.
University of Pennsylvania
42
Velanovich, Vic
University of South Florida, Tampa
43
Pusic, Andrea L.
Brigham and Women's Hospital
44
Mustoe, Thomas A.
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
45
Jordan, Stanley C.
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
46
Stehlik, Josef
University of Utah School of Medicine
47
Singh, Nina M.
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
48
Birkmeyer, John D.
Sound Physicians
49
Mock, Charles N.
Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center
50
Wolfgang, Christopher Lee
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
51
Meara, John G.
Harvard Medical School
52
Coleman, Sydney R.
NYU Langone Health
53
Orgill, Dennis P.
Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School
54
Starzl, Thomas E.
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
55
Ferrone, Cristina Rosa
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
56
García-Aguilar, Julio E.
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
57
Vincenti, Flávio G.
UCSF School of Medicine
58
Allen, Peter J.
Duke University School of Medicine
59
Croome, Kristopher Patrick
Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida
60
Hashimoto, Daniel A.
School of Engineering and Applied Science
61
Alverdy, John C.
The University of Chicago
62
Brethauer, Stacy Alan
The Ohio State University
63
Bihorac, Azra
University of Florida College of Medicine
64
Daniel, Rollin K.
UCI School of Medicine
65
Livingston, Edward H.
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
66
Aminian, Ali
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
67
Lillemoe, Keith D.
Massachusetts General Hospital
68
Schauer, Philip R.
Pennington Biomedical Research Center
69
Courcoulas, Anita P.
UPMC Hillman Cancer Center
70
Kirklin, James K.
Kirklin Solutions
71
Mehrara, Babak Joseph
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
72
Cannon, Jeremy W.
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
73
Scalea, Thomas Michael
R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center
74
Montgomery, Robert A.
NYU Langone Health
75
Warshaw, Andrew Louis
Harvard Medical School
76
Brennan, Murray F.
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
77
Tsung, Allan
University of Virginia School of Medicine
78
D'Angelica, Michael I.
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
79
Sarr, Michael Gregory L.
Mayo Clinic Department of General Surgery
80
Rosenthal, Raúl Jacobo
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University
81
Inaba, Kenji
Keck Medicine of USC
82
Castillo, Carlos Fernández del
Harvard Medical School
83
Schlegel, Andrea A.
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
84
Limaye, Ajit P.
University of California, San Francisco
85
Billiar, Timothy Robert
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
86
Martin, Robert C.G.
University of Louisville School of Medicine
87
Demetris, Anthony Jake
UPMC Montefiore
88
Stefanidis, Dimitrios
Indiana University School of Medicine
89
Valantine, Hannah A.
Stanford University School of Medicine
90
Lentine, Krista Leigh
St. Louis University Hospital
91
Matas, Arthur J.
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
92
Buchwald, Henry
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
93
Dellinger, Evan Patchen
University of Washington
94
Arterburn, David E.
Kaiser Permanente
95
Guyuron, Bahman
CASE School of Medicine
96
Mannon, Roslyn B.
University of Nebraska Medical Center
97
Velmahos, George C.
Massachusetts General Hospital
98
Khuri, Shukri F.
VA Boston Healthcare System
99
Cotton, Bryan A.
McGovern Medical School
100
Steele, Scott R.
Digestive Disease and Surgery Institute

1,372 listed scientists in Surgery in the United States

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