top-cited scientists

Top-cited scientists in Virology

2025 single-year list · 1,678 listed authors · Biomedical Research

1,678 researchers whose main subfield is Virology, part of Biomedical Research, are in the 2025 list of top-cited scientists, out of 79,508 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); 317 of these are in the top 100,000.

Listed authors
1,678
2.11% of the subfield’s Scopus authors
Scopus authors in the subfield
79,508
Median citations
25
top 1% from 922 · all authors in the subfield
Highest-ranked
#1,263
Larson, Heidi Jane

Top countries

  1. United States78547%
  2. China1489%
  3. United Kingdom1318%
  4. Germany785%
  5. Australia553%
  6. Canada553%
  7. France483%
  8. Japan463%
  9. Netherlands433%
  10. Switzerland342%

Top institutions

  1. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)302%
  2. Emory University School of Medicine181%
  3. Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine161%
  4. Harvard Medical School151%
  5. University of California, San Francisco151%
  6. John Sealy School of Medicine141%
  7. Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health121%
  8. Duke University School of Medicine121%
  9. National Institute of Infectious Diseases121%
  10. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention121%

1,678 listed scientists in Virology

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