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19 institutions · Tropical Medicine · United States

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

230 researchers in the United States whose main subfield is Tropical Medicine 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 69 countries in the subfield. 29 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has the most (16), followed by National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (10) and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (7). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors
230
0.3% of all in the United States
In the global top 100,000
29
12.6% of them
Country rank in the subfield
#1
of 69 countries in Tropical Medicine
Highest-ranked
#1,076
Hotez, Peter J.
#InstitutionListed authorsTop 100kRank worldwideHighest-ranked author
1Centers for Disease Control and Prevention161#4Powers, Ann M. #92,479
2National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases103#6Eisen, Lars M. #13,784
3Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health72#10Moss, William John #48,643
4UCSF School of Medicine51#17Bern, Caryn #24,222
5Florida Medical Entomological Laboratory51#22Louniboş, Leon Philip #61,325
6University of Notre Dame50#25Perkins, Tiffany Alex #175,915
7Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health42#26Castro, Marcia Caldas De #26,504
8University of Washington41#27Smith, David L. #45,734
9University of California, Davis41#29Scott, Thomas W. #61,570
10University of California, Irvine40#32Yan, Guiyun Yun #149,841
11Yale University40#34Childs, James E. #226,093
12Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine40#37Eisele, Thomas P. #292,835
13John Sealy School of Medicine40#38LeDuc, James W. #313,323
14Colorado State University31#43Calisher, Charles H. #67,008
15Institute for Disease Modeling31#46Proctor, Joshua L. #83,421
16University of Florida31#47Singer, Burton Herbert #83,815
17University of California, Berkeley30#52Colford, John Matthew #122,407
18Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station30#56Andreadis, Theodore G. #134,158
19Sanaria Inc.30#59Hoffman, Stephen L. #252,936

The top 100 in Tropical Medicine in the United States, in order

  1. 1
    Hotez, Peter J.
    Baylor College of Medicine
  2. 2
    Halstead, Scott B.
    F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine
  3. 3
    Luby, Stephen P.
    Stanford University School of Medicine
  4. 4
    Eisen, Lars M.
    National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases
  5. 5
    Bern, Caryn
    UCSF School of Medicine
  6. 6
    Castro, Marcia Caldas De
    Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
  7. 7
    Clasen, Thomas F.
    Rollins School of Public Health
  8. 8
    King, Charles Harding
    Case Western Reserve University
  9. 9
    Thomas, Stephen J.
    SUNY Upstate Medical University
  10. 10
    Tesh, Robert B.
    The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
  11. 11
    Smith, David L.
    University of Washington
  12. 12
    Moss, William John
    Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
  13. 13
    Beier, John Carlton
    University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine
  14. 14
    Reisen, William K.
    School of Veterinary Medicine
  15. 15
    Louniboş, Leon Philip
    Florida Medical Entomological Laboratory
  16. 16
    Scott, Thomas W.
    University of California, Davis
  17. 17
    Plowe, Christopher Vv
    University of Maryland School of Medicine
  18. 18
    Calisher, Charles H.
    Colorado State University
  19. 19
    Shepard, Donald Sloane
    Brandeis University
  20. 20
    Buckee, Caroline O.Flaherty
    Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
  21. 21
    Piesman, Joseph F.
    National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases
  22. 22
    Perry, Henry B.
    Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
  23. 23
    Proctor, Joshua L.
    Institute for Disease Modeling
  24. 24
    Singer, Burton Herbert
    University of Florida
  25. 25
    Freeman, Matthew Charles
    Rollins School of Public Health
  26. 26
    Eisen, Rebecca J.
    National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases
  27. 27
    Goff, Madison Lee
    Chaminade University of Honolulu
  28. 28
    Powers, Ann M.
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  29. 29
    Turell, Michael J.
    U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases
  30. 30
    Perin, Jamie
    Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
  31. 31
    Secor, William Evan
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  32. 32
    Hamer, Davidson Howes
    School of Public Health
  33. 33
    Colford, John Matthew
    University of California, Berkeley
  34. 34
    Sokolow, Susanne H.
    Stanford University
  35. 35
    Noor, Abdisalan Mohamed
    Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
  36. 36
    Arnold, Benjamin F.
    University of California, San Francisco
  37. 37
    Spielman, Andrew
    Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
  38. 38
    Muturi, Ephantus J.
    USDA ARS National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research
  39. 39
    Haque, Ubydul
    Rutgers Global Health Institute
  40. 40
    Andreadis, Theodore G.
    Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station
  41. 41
    Mills, James N.
    Emory University
  42. 42
    LaBeaud, Angelle Desirée
    Stanford University School of Medicine
  43. 43
    Barrera, Roberto
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  44. 44
    Kamhawi, Shaden A.
    National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
  45. 45
    Walson, Judd L.
    University of Washington
  46. 46
  47. 47
    Black IV, William C.
    Colorado State University
  48. 48
    Day, Jonathan F.
    University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences
  49. 49
    Xi, Zhiyong
    College of Natural Science
  50. 50
    Yan, Guiyun Yun
    University of California, Irvine
  51. 51
    Armbruster, Peter A.
    Georgetown University
  52. 52
    Stafford, Kirby C.I.I.
    Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station
  53. 53
  54. 54
    Paaijmans, Krijn Petrus
    School of Life Sciences
  55. 55
    Budke, Christine M.
    Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences
  56. 56
    Dobson, Stephen L.
    MosquitoMate, Inc
  57. 57
    Addiss, David G.
    Task Force for Global Health
  58. 58
    John, Chandy Chiramukhathu
    Indiana University School of Medicine
  59. 59
    Breman, Joel G.
    National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  60. 60
    Bardosh, Kevin Louis
    University of Washington
  61. 61
    Lane, Robert S.
    Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management
  62. 62
    Lahondère, Chloé
    Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
  63. 63
    Mullens, Bradley A.
    University of California, Riverside
  64. 64
    Tabachnick, Walter J.
    Florida Medical Entomological Laboratory
  65. 65
    Rochlin, Ilia
    Stony Brook University
  66. 66
    Kloos, Helmut
    UCSF School of Medicine
  67. 67
    Remais, Justin V.
    University of California, Berkeley
  68. 68
    Wesolowski, Amy P.
    Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
  69. 69
    Perkins, Tiffany Alex
    University of Notre Dame
  70. 70
    Rasgon, Jason L.
    Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences
  71. 71
    Schantz, Peter Mullineaux
    National Center for Infectious Diseases
  72. 72
    Brault, Aaron C.
    National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases
  73. 73
    Kitron, Uriel D.
    Emory University School of Medicine
  74. 74
    Nasci, Roger S.
    Vector-Borne Disease Consulting LLC
  75. 75
    Cui, Liwang
    University of South Florida Health
  76. 76
    Harrington, Laura C.
    Cornell University
  77. 77
    Taylor, Louise H.
    Global Alliance for Rabies Control
  78. 78
    Fonseca, Dina M.
    Rutgers University–New Brunswick
  79. 79
    Goddard, Jerome
    Auburn University at Montgomery
  80. 80
    Ottesen, Eric A.
    Neglected Tropical Diseases Support Center
  81. 81
    Wilson, Mark Lee
    University of Michigan School of Public Health
  82. 82
    Keirans, James E.
    Georgia Southern University
  83. 83
    Greenberg, Bernard
    University of Illinois at Chicago
  84. 84
    Wiegand, Ryan E.
    National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases
  85. 85
    Colley, Daniel G.
    University of Georgia
  86. 86
    Ginsberg, Howard S.
    Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
  87. 87
    Walker, Edward D.
    Department of Microbiology, Genetics, & Immunology
  88. 88
    Fischer, Marc X.
    National Center for Infectious Diseases
  89. 89
    Marshall, John M.
    University of California, Berkeley
  90. 90
    Murdock, Courtney Cuin
    University of Georgia
  91. 91
    Reithinger, Richard
    RTI International
  92. 92
    Foster, Woodbridge A.
    College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences
  93. 93
    Thomson, Madeleine C.
    International Research Institute for Climate and Society
  94. 94
    Childs, James E.
    Yale University
  95. 95
    Endy, Timothy P.
    SUNY Upstate Medical University
  96. 96
    Arsenault, Catherine
    Milken Institute School of Public Health
  97. 97
    Hahn, Micah B.
    University of Alaska Anchorage
  98. 98
    Foil, Lane D.
    LSU Agricultural Center
  99. 99
    Taylor, Terrie Ellen
    MSU College of Osteopathic Medicine
  100. 100
    Battle, Katherine E.
    Institute for Disease Modeling

230 listed scientists in Tropical Medicine 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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