top-cited scientists

Top-cited scientists in Epidemiology

2025 single-year list · 211 listed authors · Public Health & Health Services

211 researchers whose main subfield is Epidemiology, part of Public Health & Health Services, are in the 2025 list of top-cited scientists, out of 10,334 Scopus authors in the subfield. Authors qualify by ranking in the top 2% of their main subfield or in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c); 111 of these are in the top 100,000.

Listed authors
211
2.04% of the subfield’s Scopus authors
Scopus authors in the subfield
10,334
Median citations
17
top 1% from 1,575 · all authors in the subfield
Highest-ranked
#53
VanDerWeele, Tyler J.

Top countries

  1. United States13363%
  2. United Kingdom3416%
  3. Canada84%
  4. Italy63%
  5. Denmark42%
  6. Australia42%
  7. Japan31%
  8. Liberia21%
  9. Germany21%
  10. Hong Kong21%

Top institutions

  1. Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health73%
  2. School of Public Health73%
  3. Bristol Medical School63%
  4. UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health63%
  5. University College London52%
  6. Yale University52%
  7. National Cancer Institute (NCI)52%
  8. University of California, Berkeley52%
  9. Harvard Medical School42%
  10. MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit42%

211 listed scientists in Epidemiology

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