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Top institutions in the United States for Toxicology

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

529 researchers in the United States whose main subfield is Toxicology are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 0.7% of all listed authors in the United States, and 1st of 69 countries in the subfield. 151 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). United States Environmental Protection Agency has the most (28), followed by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (14) and Mailman School of Public Health (12). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors
529
0.7% of all in the United States
In the global top 100,000
151
28.5% of them
Country rank in the subfield
#1
of 69 countries in Toxicology
Highest-ranked
#750
Schwartz, Joel D.
#InstitutionListed authorsTop 100kRank worldwideHighest-ranked author
1United States Environmental Protection Agency288#1Lau, Christopher S. #41,965
2Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health1410#2Schwartz, Joel D. #750
3Mailman School of Public Health124#5Perera, Frederica P. #5,105
4School of Public Health124#6Kinney, Patrick Lott #7,450
5University of California, Berkeley125#7Smith, Martyn Thomas #21,372
6National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)121#8Ferguson, Kelly K. #66,375
7National Center for Environmental Health102#10Calafat, Antonia M. #7,858
8NC State University104#11Fenton, Suzanne E. #26,867
9Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai92#14Wright, Rosalind J. #29,891
10National Center for Toxicological Research92#15Fu, Peter Pi Cheng #59,268
11Rollins School of Public Health82#16Steenland, Kyle N. #13,068
12NYU Grossman School of Medicine65#20Thurston, George D. #4,749
13National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health62#21Ma, Qiang #6,404
14Oregon State University62#23DeWitt, Jamie C. #48,135
15University of Michigan School of Public Health62#24Dolinoy, Dana C. #69,296
16Keck School of Medicine of USC61#25McConnell, Rob S. #72,596
17Brown University52#26Braun, Joseph M. #5,902
18University of California, Davis51#28Ostro, Bart David #52,108
19UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health51#29Swenberg, James A. #84,826
20Yale University42#35Bell, Michelle L. #1,646
21Albert Einstein College of Medicine41#36Áschner, Michael #3,095
22University of Rochester Medical Center41#37Oberdörster, Günter #8,369
23Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences42#38Safe, Stephen H. #9,227
24University of Michigan, Ann Arbor41#39Meeker, John D. #13,923
25University of California, San Francisco42#40Woodruff, Tracey J. #15,024
26Duke University43#41Birnbaum, Linda S. #17,178
27College of Health and Human Sciences41#49Zheng, Wei #86,909
28LLC40#51Kavlock, Robert J. #125,751
29The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill40#54Fry, Rebecca C. #161,744
30University of Massachusetts Amherst32#57Calabrese, Edward J. #925
31Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health31#58Hartung, Thomas #4,259
32Harvard Medical School31#59Bellinger, David C. #8,346
33UCLA Fielding School of Public Health31#60Jerrett, Michael L.B. #10,002
34University of Louisville School of Medicine31#66Cai, Lu #29,604
35University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry31#71Clarkson, Thomas William #40,103
36Inc31#74Liebler, Daniel C. #50,131
37National Institutes of Health (NIH)32#76Huang, Ruili #54,687
38Boston University31#81Wellenius, Gregory A. #62,545
39George Mason University31#86Bloom, Michael S. #91,873
40University of Washington31#87Sathyanarayana, Sheela #93,352
41Mercer University School of Medicine30#90Zalups, Rudolfs K. #109,644
42Pfizer Inc.30#95Radi, Zaher Ahmad #134,598
43University of California, Irvine30#96Wu, Jun #136,835
44UNC School of Medicine30#104Sellers, Rani S. #193,018
45Texas A&M University30#106Moorthy, Bhagavatula #219,157
46University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health30#107Talbott, Evelyn E. #254,538
47Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution30#110Stegeman, John J. #278,909

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

  1. 1
    Schwartz, Joel D.
    Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
  2. 2
    Calabrese, Edward J.
    University of Massachusetts Amherst
  3. 3
    Bell, Michelle L.
    Yale University
  4. 4
    Pope, C. A.
    Brigham Young University
  5. 5
    Jaeschke, Hartmut W.
    University of Kansas Medical Center
  6. 6
    Elmore, Susan A.
    Experimental Pathology Laboratories Inc.
  7. 7
    Áschner, Michael
    Albert Einstein College of Medicine
  8. 8
    Hartung, Thomas
    Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
  9. 9
    Thurston, George D.
    NYU Grossman School of Medicine
  10. 10
    Perera, Frederica P.
    Mailman School of Public Health
  11. 11
    Braun, Joseph M.
    Brown University
  12. 12
    Ma, Qiang
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
  13. 13
    Kinney, Patrick Lott
    School of Public Health
  14. 14
    Calafat, Antonia M.
    National Center for Environmental Health
  15. 15
    Vandenberg, Laura N.
    University of Massachusetts Amherst
  16. 16
    Bellinger, David C.
    Harvard Medical School
  17. 17
    Oberdörster, Günter
    University of Rochester Medical Center
  18. 18
    Trasande, Leonardo
    NYU Grossman School of Medicine
  19. 19
    Safe, Stephen H.
    Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences
  20. 20
    Jerrett, Michael L.B.
    UCLA Fielding School of Public Health
  21. 21
    Steenland, Kyle N.
    Rollins School of Public Health
  22. 22
    Dominici, Francesca
    Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
  23. 23
    Costa, Max
    NYU Grossman School of Medicine
  24. 24
    Meeker, John D.
    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  25. 25
    Woodruff, Tracey J.
    University of California, San Francisco
  26. 26
    Patz, Jonathan Alan
    University of Wisconsin-Madison
  27. 27
    Birnbaum, Linda S.
    Duke University
  28. 28
    Nielsen, Forrest Harold
    USDA ARS Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center
  29. 29
    Rojas-Rueda, David
    Colorado State University
  30. 30
    Baccarelli, Andrea A.
    Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
  31. 31
    Tchounwou, Paul B.
    Jackson State University, Department of Physics, Atmospheric Sciences, and Geosciences
  32. 32
    Navas-Acién, Ana Acien
    Mailman School of Public Health
  33. 33
    Smith, Martyn Thomas
    University of California, Berkeley
  34. 34
    Zanobetti, Antonella
    Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
  35. 35
    Klaunig, James E.
    Indiana University Bloomington
  36. 36
    Hauser, Russ B.
    Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
  37. 37
    Pestka, James J.
    Department of Microbiology, Genetics, & Immunology
  38. 38
    Hertz-Picciotto, Irva
    UC Davis School of Medicine
  39. 39
    Klaassen, Curtis Dean
    Expert Panel for Cosmetic
  40. 40
    Fenton, Suzanne E.
    NC State University
  41. 41
    Vom Saal, Frederick S.
    University of Missouri
  42. 42
    Eskenazi, Brenda
    University of California, Berkeley
  43. 43
    Basu, Rupa
    University of California, San Francisco
  44. 44
    Khreis, Haneen
    Texas Transportation Institute
  45. 45
    Heindel, Jerrold J.
    Healthy Environment and Endocrine Disruptor Strategies (HEEDS)
  46. 46
    Zhu, Hao
    Rowan University
  47. 47
    Calderón-Garcidueñas, Lilian
    University of Montana
  48. 48
    Cai, Lu
    University of Louisville School of Medicine
  49. 49
    Wright, Rosalind J.
    Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
  50. 50
    Benmarhnia, Tarik
    Scripps Institution of Oceanography
  51. 51
    Morello-Frosch, Rachel A.
    Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management
  52. 52
    Carmichael, Wayne W.
    Wright State University
  53. 53
    Silbergeld Dr., Ellen K.
    Environmental Defense Fund
  54. 54
    Benbrook, Charles M.
    Benbrook Consulting Services
  55. 55
    Zhitkovich, Anatoly V.
    Brown University
  56. 56
    Barr, Dana Boyd
    Rollins School of Public Health
  57. 57
    Spengler, John D.
    Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
  58. 58
    Gupta, Ramesh C.
    Murray State University
  59. 59
    Patisaul, Heather B.
    NC State University
  60. 60
    Wright, Robert O.
    Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
  61. 61
    Hess, Jeremy J.
    University of Washington School of Medicine
  62. 62
    Andersen, F. Alan
    Cosmetic Ingredient Review Former Director
  63. 63
    Lippmann, Morton
    NYU Grossman School of Medicine
  64. 64
    Waalkes, Michael P.
    National Cancer Institute at Frederick
  65. 65
    Rappaport, Stephen Morris
    University of California, Berkeley
  66. 66
    Clarkson, Thomas William
    University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
  67. 67
    Lau, Christopher S.
    United States Environmental Protection Agency
  68. 68
    Weuve, Jennifer
    School of Public Health
  69. 69
    Clougherty, Jane Ellen
    Drexel University
  70. 70
    Chung, King Thorn
    College of Arts & Sciences
  71. 71
    Cascio, Wayne E.
    United States Environmental Protection Agency
  72. 72
    James, Peter
    UC Davis School of Medicine
  73. 73
    Browning, Matthew H.E.M.
    Clemson University
  74. 74
    Vasiliou, Vasilis K.
    Yale University
  75. 75
    Martyniuk, Christopher J.
    University of Florida
  76. 76
    DeWitt, Jamie C.
    Oregon State University
  77. 77
    Kaufman, Joel D.
    School of Public Health
  78. 78
    Hystad, Perry W.
    Oregon State University
  79. 79
  80. 80
    Reid, Colleen E.
    University of Colorado Boulder
  81. 81
    Ostro, Bart David
    University of California, Davis
  82. 82
    Cohen, Samuel M.R.E.
    College of Medicine
  83. 83
    Huang, Ruili
    National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  84. 84
    Weisskopf, Marc G.
    Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
  85. 85
    Hoffman, Robert Steven
    NYU Grossman School of Medicine
  86. 86
    Needleman, Herbert L.
    University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
  87. 87
  88. 88
    Fu, Peter Pi Cheng
    National Center for Toxicological Research
  89. 89
  90. 90
    Laden, Francine
    Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
  91. 91
    Warheit, David B.
    Warheit Scientific LLC
  92. 92
    Ramachandran, Anup
    University of Kansas School of Medicine
  93. 93
    Yokel, Robert A.
    University of Kentucky
  94. 94
    Coull, Brent Andrew
    Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
  95. 95
    Wellenius, Gregory A.
    Boston University
  96. 96
    Andersen, Melvin E.
    ScitoVation LLC
  97. 97
    Casey, Joan Allison
    Mailman School of Public Health
  98. 98
    Patlewicz, Grace Y.
    Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
  99. 99
    Liu, Xinhua
    Mailman School of Public Health
  100. 100
    Ferguson, Kelly K.
    National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)

529 listed scientists in Toxicology 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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