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

785 researchers in the United States whose main subfield is Virology are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 1.1% of all listed authors in the United States, and 1st of 60 countries in the subfield. 175 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) has the most (30), followed by Emory University School of Medicine (18) and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (16). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors

785

1.1% of all in the United States

In the global top 100,000

175

22.3% of them

Country rank in the subfield

of 60 countries in Virology

Highest-ranked

#1,263

Larson, Heidi Jane

#	Institution	Listed authors	Top 100k	Rank worldwide	Highest-ranked author
1	National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)	30	14	#1	Cohen, Jeffrey I. #5,096
2	Emory University School of Medicine	18	6	#2	Damon, Inger K. #27,378
3	Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine	16	3	#3	Griffin, Diane E. #23,126
4	Harvard Medical School	15	1	#4	Barouch, Dan H. #5,692
5	University of California, San Francisco	15	6	#5	Deeks, Steven G. #5,713
6	John Sealy School of Medicine	14	3	#6	Barrett, Alan D.T. #23,288
7	Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health	12	2	#7	Klein, Sabra L. #1,868
8	Duke University School of Medicine	12	5	#8	Beyrer, Chris C. #19,119
9	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention	12	0	#10	Brooks, John T. #115,109
10	University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine	10	4	#11	Weissman, Drew #4,253
11	Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center	10	1	#12	Bloom, Jesse D. #9,610
12	The Ohio State University	10	1	#13	Saif, Linda Jean #10,317
13	University of Washington	10	2	#15	Baeten, Jared M. #27,519
14	UNC School of Medicine	10	2	#16	Baric, Ralph S. #34,577
15	Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	9	3	#19	García-Sastre, Adolfo #6,000
16	The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	9	5	#20	Cohen, Myron S. #16,970
17	UCSF School of Medicine	9	3	#22	Hunt, Peter W. #37,604
18	Baylor College of Medicine	9	1	#23	Estes, Mary Kolb #92,081
19	National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases	8	1	#30	Nichol, Stuart T. #81,438
20	Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis	7	2	#32	Diamond, Michael S. #3,133
21	Scripps Research Institute	7	3	#33	Burton, Dennis Raymond #7,289
22	St. Jude Children's Research Hospital	6	3	#36	Webster, Robert G. #13,876
23	Colorado State University	6	1	#38	Ebel, Gregory D. #89,420
24	Yale School of Medicine	6	2	#39	Lindenbach, Brett D. #91,502
25	University of Florida College of Medicine	6	0	#40	Agbandje-McKenna, Mavis #140,923
26	Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine	6	0	#41	Palella, Frank Joseph #178,248
27	The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston	5	1	#42	Weaver, Scott C. #4,475
28	Kaiser Permanente	5	1	#43	Klein, Nicola P. #26,532
29	Stanford University School of Medicine	5	2	#45	Shafer, Robert William #33,376
30	Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons	5	1	#47	Ho, David D. #42,637
31	NIAID Rocky Mountain Laboratories	5	2	#49	Munster, Vincent J. #48,182
32	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	5	1	#50	Rock, Daniel L. #75,838
33	National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases	5	1	#51	Rota, Paul A. #79,963
34	Pfizer Inc.	5	1	#52	Gruber, William C. #87,575
35	UAB Department of Microbiology	5	1	#53	Lefkowitz, Elliot J. #89,184
36	Vanderbilt University Medical Center	5	0	#56	Koethe, John Robert #119,194
37	Kansas State University	5	0	#57	Higgs, Stephen T. #127,574
38	Weill Cornell Medicine	5	0	#59	Gulick, Roy M. #148,363
39	University of Minnesota Medical School	4	3	#64	Li, Fang #12,829
40	The Wistar Institute	4	1	#71	Lieberman, Paul M. #39,249
41	National Cancer Institute (NCI)	4	1	#74	Lowy, Douglas R. #51,858
42	Brigham and Women's Hospital	4	1	#75	Sax, Paul Edward #54,896
43	Tufts University School of Medicine	4	2	#76	Thorley-Lawson, David A. #55,480
44	University of Georgia	4	2	#77	Tripp, Ralph A. #67,011
45	University of California, San Diego	4	2	#78	Richman, Douglas D. #70,861
46	Oregon State University	4	1	#82	Dolja, Valerian V. #92,859
47	Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine	4	0	#84	Mühlberger, Elke #105,675
48	Mayo Clinic	4	0	#89	Kennedy, Richard B. #127,742
49	Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health	4	0	#93	Sato, Ryoko #148,711
50	Saint Louis University School of Medicine	4	0	#96	Frey, Sharon E. #177,573
51	Albert Einstein College of Medicine	4	0	#97	Kielian, Margaret C. #185,442
52	Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center	4	0	#102	Krakower, Douglas S. #238,958
53	Leidos Inc.	4	0	#104	Long, Samuel #326,302
54	UT Southwestern Medical School	3	1	#106	Schoggins, John W. #10,180
55	Los Alamos National Laboratory	3	1	#107	Perelson, Alan S. #11,583
56	Penn Medicine	3	1	#108	Pardi, Norbert #13,780
57	University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine	3	1	#109	Dimitrov, Dimiter Stanchev #19,725
58	University of California, Berkeley	3	1	#111	Harris, Eva H. #34,176
59	Cornell University	3	2	#113	Parrish, Colin R. #35,396
60	Rockefeller University	3	2	#114	Rice, Charles M. #37,402
61	College of Veterinary Medicine	3	1	#70	Ly, Hinh #39,189
62	University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine	3	1	#116	Neumann, Gabriele G. #40,976
63	Massachusetts General Hospital	3	2	#117	Haberer, Jessica Elizabeth #46,457
64	UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center	3	1	#120	Dittmer, Dirk Peter #51,532
65	National Cancer Institute at Frederick	3	1	#123	Freed, Eric O. #59,343
66	Princeton University	3	1	#127	Te Velthuis, Aartjan J.W. #78,128
67	University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health	3	1	#128	Burke, Donald S. #78,477
68	University of Nebraska–Lincoln	3	0	#135	Garcia-Ruiz, Hernán #104,114
69	UPMC Hillman Cancer Center	3	0	#137	Moore, Patrick S. #111,985
70	University of Kentucky College of Medicine	3	0	#138	de Souza, William Marciel #115,667
71	Georgia State University	3	0	#139	Plemper, Richard Karl #118,923
72	University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus	3	0	#140	Erlandson, Kristine Mace #123,200
73	Emory University	3	0	#143	Bednarczyk, Robert A. #136,805
74	CASE School of Medicine	3	0	#144	Lederman, Michael M. #137,487
75	McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research	3	0	#145	Ahlquist, Paul G. #142,925
76	ViiV Healthcare US	3	0	#148	Overton, Edgar Turner #170,534
77	University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson	3	0	#150	Enquist, Lynn William #180,776
78	College of Medicine	3	0	#151	Hirth, Jacqueline M. #186,287
79	University of California, Los Angeles	3	0	#152	Yang, Otto Orlean #187,692
80	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	3	0	#153	Goulder, Philip Jeremy Renshaw #189,664
81	Utah State University	3	0	#155	Smee, Donald F. #205,908
82	Merck & Co., Inc.	3	0	#158	Dempsey, Amanda Frisch #222,532
83	University of Wisconsin-Madison	3	0	#159	Goldberg, Tony L. #229,070
84	UNM School of Medicine	3	0	#163	Bradfute, Steven B. #251,609
85	UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health	3	0	#164	Schäfer, Alexandra #260,188
86	University of Tennessee Health Science Center	3	0	#167	Whitt, Michael A. #293,833

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

1
Larson, Heidi Jane
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
2
Klein, Sabra L.
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
3
Diamond, Michael S.
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
4
Weissman, Drew
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of MedicineNobel laureate
5
Weaver, Scott C.
The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
6
Cohen, Jeffrey I.
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
7
Barouch, Dan H.
Harvard Medical School
8
Deeks, Steven G.
University of California, San Francisco
9
García-Sastre, Adolfo
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
10
Bushman, Frederic D.
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
11
Moss, Bernard A.
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
12
Burton, Dennis Raymond
Scripps Research Institute
13
Bloom, Jesse D.
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
14
Schoggins, John W.
UT Southwestern Medical School
15
Saif, Linda Jean
The Ohio State University
16
Graham, Barney S.
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
17
Perelson, Alan S.
Los Alamos National Laboratory
18
McLellan, Jason S.
The University of Texas at Austin
19
Li, Fang
University of Minnesota Medical School
20
Omer, Saad B.
Yale University
21
Perlman, Stanley M.
University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
22
Virgin, Herbert W.
Washington University in St. Louis
23
Meng, X. J.
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
24
Pardi, Norbert
Penn Medicine
25
Webster, Robert G.
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
26
Monath, Thomas P.C.
Quigley BioPharma LLC
27
Cohen, Myron S.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
28
Palefsky, Joel Michael
University of California, San Francisco
29
Roossinck, Marilyn J.
Pennsylvania State University
30
Beyrer, Chris C.
Duke University School of Medicine
31
Dimitrov, Dimiter Stanchev
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
32
Fouchier, Ron A.M.
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
33
Kuhn, Jens H.
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
34
Heckerman, David E.
Microsoft Research
35
Palese, Peter
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
36
McBride, Alison A.
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
37
Griffin, Diane E.
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
38
Barrett, Alan D.T.
John Sealy School of Medicine
39
Cullen, Bryan R.
Duke University School of Medicine
40
Klein, Nicola P.
Kaiser Permanente
41
Damon, Inger K.
Emory University School of Medicine
42
Baeten, Jared M.
University of Washington
43
Montefiori, David Charles
Duke University School of Medicine
44
Taubenberger, Jeffery K.
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
45
Graham, Barney S.
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
46
Feldmann, Heinz
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
47
Samuel, Charles E.
University of California, Santa Barbara
48
Poland, Gregory A.
NY
49
Justice, Amy C.
VA Connecticut Healthcare System
50
Ding, Shouwei
University of California, Riverside
51
Lowen, Anice C.
Emory University School of Medicine
52
Saag, Michael S.
UAB Department of Medicine
53
Shafer, Robert William
Stanford University School of Medicine
54
Basler, Christopher F.
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
55
Harris, Eva H.
University of California, Berkeley
56
Baric, Ralph S.
UNC School of Medicine
57
Parrish, Colin R.
Cornell University
58
Garry, Robert F.
Tulane University School of Medicine
59
Rice, Charles M.
Rockefeller UniversityNobel laureate
60
Hunt, Peter W.
UCSF School of Medicine
61
Mascola, John R.
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
62
Telenti, Amalio
Vir Biotechnology, Inc.
63
Ly, Hinh
College of Veterinary Medicine
64
Lieberman, Paul M.
The Wistar Institute
65
Webby, Richard J.
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
66
Pond, Sergei L.Kosakovsky
Temple University
67
Neumann, Gabriele G.
University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine
68
Nachega, J. B.
University of Pittsburgh
69
Del Rio, Carlos D.
Emory University School of Medicine
70
Ho, David D.
Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
71
Lipkin, W. Ian
Columbia University Irving Medical Center
72
Walker, Bruce D.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
73
Goedert, James Jerome
National Cancer Institute
74
Haberer, Jessica Elizabeth
Massachusetts General Hospital
75
McFadden, Grant D.
Arizona State University
76
Bieniasz, Paul D.
Rockefeller University
77
Munster, Vincent J.
NIAID Rocky Mountain Laboratories
78
Arvin, Ann Margaret
Stanford University School of Medicine
79
Gandhi, Rajesh Tim
Massachusetts General Hospital
80
Kwong, Peter D.
Columbia University, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
81
Celum, Connie L.
University of Washington
82
Worobey, Michael
College of Science
83
Ward, Andrew B.
Scripps Research Institute
84
Gack, Michaela
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
85
Dittmer, Dirk Peter
UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
86
Lowy, Douglas R.
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
87
Gallo, Robert C.
Tampa General Hospital
88
Liu, Benjamin M.
The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences
89
Britt, William J.
(University of Alabama
90
Suarez, David L.
USDA Agricultural Research Service
91
Sax, Paul Edward
Brigham and Women's Hospital
92
Treanor, John Jay
University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
93
Thorley-Lawson, David A.
Tufts University School of Medicine
94
Damania, Blossom A.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
95
Bernstein, David I.
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
96
Mushegian, Arcady R.
National Science Foundation
97
Freed, Eric O.
National Cancer Institute at Frederick
98
Shi, Pei Yong
John Sealy School of Medicine
99
Gandhi, Monica
University of California, San Francisco
100
Mocarski, Edward S.
Emory University School of Medicine

785 listed scientists in Virology in the United States

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