top-cited scientists

Top-cited scientists in Public Health

2025 single-year list · 1,726 listed authors · Public Health & Health Services

1,726 researchers whose main subfield is Public Health, part of Public Health & Health Services, are in the 2025 list of top-cited scientists, out of 82,273 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); 1,008 of these are in the top 100,000.

Listed authors
1,726
2.10% of the subfield’s Scopus authors
Scopus authors in the subfield
82,273
Median citations
26
top 1% from 1,407 · all authors in the subfield
Highest-ranked
#156
Williams, David Rudyard

Top countries

  1. United States87251%
  2. United Kingdom22013%
  3. Australia1599%
  4. Canada1076%
  5. Netherlands352%
  6. Brazil262%
  7. Switzerland191%
  8. Germany181%
  9. Sweden181%
  10. South Africa161%

Top institutions

  1. School of Public Health221%
  2. Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health211%
  3. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine201%
  4. University College London181%
  5. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor181%
  6. Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health171%
  7. New York University131%
  8. Mailman School of Public Health131%
  9. University of Michigan School of Public Health121%
  10. University of Toronto121%

1,726 listed scientists in Public Health

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