Top 100 most-cited scientists in Biomedical Research

2025 single-year list · 100 authors, ranked by c-score excluding self-citations · all 17,948 in Biomedical Research

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#	Author	Country	Subfield rank	c-score	Cites 2025	h	hm	Self-cit.	Papers	Active
1 #46 overall	Clevers, Hans C. University Medical Center Utrecht	NLD	Developmental Biology #1 · top <0.01%	4.752	16,319	60	25.6	4.8%	872	1985–2026
2 #51 overall	Stockwell, Brent R. Columbia University	USA	Developmental Biology #2 · top <0.01%	4.721	19,369	56	15.0	2.1%	225	1997–2026
3 #68 overall	Kanehisa, Minoru I. Institute for Chemical Research	JPN	Bioinformatics #2 · top <0.01%	4.656	13,577	28	12.0	0.3%	268	1972–2026
4 #86 overall	Edgar, Robert C. Independent researcher	USA	Bioinformatics #3 · top 0.01%	4.615	7,987	19	12.4	0.7%	55	1981–2025
5 #92 overall	Wishart, David S. University of Alberta	CAN	Developmental Biology #3 · top <0.01%	4.606	9,660	43	18.2	3.0%	564	1969–2026
6 #97 overall	Fierer, Noah G. University of Colorado Boulder	USA	Microbiology #1 · top <0.01%	4.579	12,336	45	18.9	2.2%	299	2000–2026
7 #122 overall	Calder, Philip C. University of Southampton	GBR	Nutrition & Dietetics #1 · top <0.01%	4.538	7,728	35	19.2	4.2%	915	1980–2026
8 #142 overall	Bartel, David P. Massachusetts Institute of Technology	USA	Developmental Biology #5 · top <0.01%	4.508	5,923	32	17.0	1.3%	209	1989–2026
9 #158 overall	Chandel, Navdeep S. Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine	USA	Developmental Biology #6 · top <0.01%	4.479	8,657	43	21.8	2.6%	366	1993–2026
10 #164 overall	Sies, Helmult Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf	DEU	Biochemistry & Molecular Biology #2 · top <0.01%	4.470	5,022	25	18.1	1.1%	733	1969–2026
11 #173 overall	Wu, Guoyao Yao Texas A&M University	USA	Biochemistry & Molecular Biology #3 · top <0.01%	4.455	5,892	32	19.5	6.7%	811	1987–2025
12 #178 overall	HALLIWELL, Barry B. NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine	SGP	Biochemistry & Molecular Biology #4 · top <0.01%	4.446	4,200	29	22.3	1.9%	735	1965–2026
13 #180 overall	Karin, Michael J. Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute	USA	Developmental Biology #7 · top <0.01%	4.444	9,778	48	24.7	3.0%	734	1979–2026
14 #190 overall	Mizushima, Noboru N. University of Tokyo	JPN	Biochemistry & Molecular Biology #5 · top <0.01%	4.430	7,059	41	18.9	3.9%	316	1994–2026
15 #198 overall	Koonin, Eugene V. National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)	USA	Developmental Biology #8 · top <0.01%	4.420	10,634	42	19.2	5.1%	1,146	1980–2026
16 #223 overall	Campisi, Judith Buck Institute for Research on Aging	USA	Developmental Biology #9 · top <0.01%	4.389	9,711	46	16.8	3.4%	366	1976–2026
17 #226 overall	Lander, Eric S. Broad Institute	USA	Developmental Biology #10 · top <0.01%	4.383	30,691	76	16.4	4.2%	671	1981–2026
18 #259 overall	Green, Douglas R. St. Jude Children's Research Hospital	USA	Immunology #4 · top <0.01%	4.355	8,075	43	20.9	5.3%	691	1981–2026
19 #260 overall	Eddy, Sean R. Harvard University	USA	Developmental Biology #11 · top <0.01%	4.354	6,250	32	16.0	0.8%	143	1985–2026
20 #264 overall	Ingber, Donald E. Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences	USA	Developmental Biology #12 · top <0.01%	4.351	5,870	39	16.4	3.5%	522	1978–2026
21 #268 overall	Yu, Guangchuang Southern Medical University	CHN	Bioinformatics #5 · top 0.02%	4.345	12,669	25	7.0	0.4%	83	2007–2026
22 #272 overall	Popkin, Barry Michael Department of Nutrition	USA	Nutrition & Dietetics #2 · top <0.01%	4.342	5,709	34	19.2	5.7%	685	1972–2026
23 #295 overall	Massagué, Joan Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center	USA	Developmental Biology #13 · top <0.01%	4.332	5,404	35	18.0	2.4%	390	1977–2026
24 #317 overall	Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J. Instituto de Salud Global de Barcelona	ESP	Toxicology #1 · top <0.01%	4.322	8,838	46	17.2	9.4%	770	1994–2026
25 #347 overall	Murphy, Michael P. MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit	GBR	Biochemistry & Molecular Biology #6 · top <0.01%	4.302	6,479	31	15.6	5.0%	521	1985–2026
26 #357 overall	Klionsky, Daniel J. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	USA	Biochemistry & Molecular Biology #7 · top <0.01%	4.290	9,122	45	18.7	5.7%	709	1982–2026
27 #361 overall	Tang, Daolin UT Southwestern Medical School	USA	Biochemistry & Molecular Biology #8 · top <0.01%	4.287	16,256	60	21.6	3.6%	439	2003–2026
28 #364 overall	Salzberg, Steven L. Johns Hopkins University	USA	Bioinformatics #6 · top 0.02%	4.284	25,884	48	15.7	1.8%	389	1983–2026
29 #374 overall	Doudna, Jennifer A. California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences	USA	Developmental Biology #14 · top <0.01%	4.278	9,224	37	16.9	2.6%	415	1987–2026
30 #390 overall	Denning, David W. The University of Manchester	GBR	Microbiology #2 · top <0.01%	4.269	5,727	28	14.7	7.7%	838	1982–2026
31 #394 overall	Glick, Bernard R. University of Waterloo	CAN	Microbiology #3 · top <0.01%	4.266	4,758	34	22.2	6.4%	382	1970–2026
32 #403 overall	Lovley, Derek R. School of Material Science and Engineering, Northeastern University	CHN	Microbiology #4 · top <0.01%	4.261	4,553	30	17.8	4.9%	530	1982–2026
33 #500 overall	Smyth, Gordon K. University of Melboure	AUS	Developmental Biology #15 · top <0.01%	4.211	16,925	31	13.0	1.6%	309	1988–2026
34 #563 overall	Dixon, Scott James Stanford University	USA	Developmental Biology #16 · top <0.01%	4.181	10,139	31	11.0	1.9%	91	2009–2026
35 #564 overall	Uversky, Vladimir N. University of South Florida, Tampa	USA	Biochemistry & Molecular Biology #9 · top <0.01%	4.181	5,273	28	17.0	24.0%	1,361	1987–2026
36 #574 overall	Mann, Matthias Max-Planck-Institut für Biochemie	DEU	Developmental Biology #17 · top 0.01%	4.176	13,528	48	20.6	4.6%	1,018	1988–2026
37 #597 overall	de Vos, Willem Meindert Wageningen University & Research	NLD	Microbiology #5 · top <0.01%	4.169	11,814	47	17.9	3.9%	943	1978–2026
38 #640 overall	Scheres, Sjors H.W. The Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology	GBR	Developmental Biology #18 · top 0.01%	4.154	4,158	32	14.2	4.4%	157	1999–2026
39 #651 overall	Südhof, Thomas Christian Stanford University School of Medicine	USA	Neurology & Neurosurgery #41 · top 0.01%	4.150	4,479	25	15.5	10.1%	708	1982–2026
40 #690 overall	Weinberg, Robert A. Massachusetts Institute of Technology	USA	Developmental Biology #20 · top 0.01%	4.135	10,988	36	17.1	0.9%	466	1967–2026
41 #701 overall	Dubey, Jitender P. USDA ARS Beltsville Agricultural Research Center	USA	Mycology & Parasitology #1 · top <0.01%	4.132	2,972	23	16.2	7.6%	1,520	1966–2026
42 #710 overall	Hardie, David Grahame University of Dundee	GBR	Biochemistry & Molecular Biology #10 · top <0.01%	4.128	3,391	23	16.8	2.1%	386	1973–2025
43 #725 overall	Singh, Brajesh Kumar The University of Western Australia	AUS	Microbiology #6 · top <0.01%	4.122	8,599	42	15.8	5.2%	341	2002–2026
44 #742 overall	Segata, Nicola King's College London	GBR	Microbiology #7 · top <0.01%	4.116	14,736	50	11.2	5.2%	283	2005–2026
45 #750 overall	Schwartz, Joel D. Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health	USA	Toxicology #3 · top <0.01%	4.114	10,439	40	17.0	10.6%	1,262	1988–2026
46 #772 overall	Bork, Peer European Molecular Biology Laboratory Heidelberg	DEU	Developmental Biology #21 · top 0.01%	4.105	23,743	64	16.2	2.6%	672	1989–2026
47 #774 overall	Hancock, Robert E.W. The University of British Columbia	CAN	Microbiology #8 · top <0.01%	4.104	5,712	30	18.0	3.3%	781	1974–2026
48 #792 overall	Livak, Kenneth J. Dana-Farber Cancer Institute	USA	Developmental Biology #22 · top 0.01%	4.100	17,244	20	5.8	0.7%	124	1978–2026
49 #866 overall	Chen, Lingling Shanghai Jiao Tong University	CHN	Developmental Biology #23 · top 0.01%	4.079	4,700	29	11.8	2.4%	147	2003–2026
50 #874 overall	Knight, Rob D. University of California, San Diego	USA	Microbiology #9 · top <0.01%	4.077	35,093	83	23.9	4.1%	980	1998–2026
51 #888 overall	Vander-Heiden, Matthew G. Massachusetts Institute of Technology	USA	Developmental Biology #24 · top 0.01%	4.073	7,095	41	13.7	2.8%	253	1994–2026
52 #905 overall	Schloss, Patrick D. University of Michigan Medical School	USA	Microbiology #10 · top <0.01%	4.070	3,841	25	13.0	3.0%	178	2000–2026
53 #907 overall	Wright, Gerard D. McMaster University	CAN	Microbiology #11 · top <0.01%	4.070	3,776	29	15.7	2.8%	330	1989–2026
54 #912 overall	Ley, Ruth E. Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen	DEU	Microbiology #12 · top <0.01%	4.069	12,498	42	11.5	2.2%	174	1998–2026
55 #917 overall	Hyde, Kevin D. Mae Fah Luang University	THA	Mycology & Parasitology #2 · top <0.01%	4.069	8,767	35	15.0	38.6%	1,982	1985–2026
56 #921 overall	Pörtner, Hans-O. Otto Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung	DEU	Physiology #1 · top <0.01%	4.067	3,779	28	13.8	5.9%	401	1979–2026
57 #925 overall	Calabrese, Edward J. University of Massachusetts Amherst	USA	Toxicology #4 · top <0.01%	4.067	2,424	22	15.7	9.8%	823	1974–2025
58 #956 overall	Birney, Ewan EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute	GBR	Developmental Biology #26 · top 0.02%	4.058	10,285	43	8.3	6.9%	369	1992–2026
59 #959 overall	Moran, Nancy A. The University of Texas at Austin	USA	Microbiology #13 · top <0.01%	4.057	3,535	31	18.3	4.6%	302	1979–2026
60 #969 overall	Casadevall, Arturo Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health	USA	Microbiology #14 · top <0.01%	4.056	4,382	26	16.4	14.2%	1,199	1982–2026
61 #983 overall	Lewis, Kim Northeastern University	USA	Microbiology #15 · top <0.01%	4.051	2,702	27	14.3	3.6%	190	1992–2026
62 #1,006 overall	Drewnowski, Adam School of Public Health	USA	Nutrition & Dietetics #3 · top <0.01%	4.042	2,893	23	15.4	4.7%	527	1975–2026
63 #1,021 overall	Baker, David A. University of Washington School of Medicine	USA	Biochemistry & Molecular Biology #14 · top <0.01%	4.040	10,919	46	16.6	8.0%	1,038	1987–2026
64 #1,032 overall	Visscher, Peter M. The University of Queensland, Institute for Molecular Bioscience	AUS	Developmental Biology #27 · top 0.02%	4.036	12,454	53	11.8	10.3%	643	1991–2026
65 #1,036 overall	Wallace, Douglas C. The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia	USA	Developmental Biology #28 · top 0.02%	4.035	2,918	26	13.8	6.7%	502	1972–2026
66 #1,050 overall	Otto, Michael National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)	USA	Microbiology #16 · top <0.01%	4.032	2,833	25	16.8	6.3%	306	1998–2026
67 #1,069 overall	Cantley, Lewis C. Weill Cornell Medicine	USA	Biochemistry & Molecular Biology #15 · top <0.01%	4.029	8,139	42	15.7	2.9%	726	1973–2026
68 #1,080 overall	Bateman, Alex G. EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute	GBR	Developmental Biology #30 · top 0.02%	4.026	12,409	43	8.6	3.7%	251	1995–2026
69 #1,088 overall	Baldrian, Petr Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic	CZE	Microbiology #17 · top <0.01%	4.024	3,605	31	13.8	10.4%	326	1996–2026
70 #1,090 overall	Levine, Beth UT Southwestern Medical Center	USA	Biochemistry & Molecular Biology #16 · top <0.01%	4.023	6,014	38	14.9	4.3%	223	1990–2024
71 #1,094 overall	Hetz, Claudio A. Buck Institute for Research on Aging	USA	Biochemistry & Molecular Biology #17 · top <0.01%	4.023	4,147	24	11.0	8.0%	277	2001–2026
72 #1,118 overall	Trapnell, Cole Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology	USA	Developmental Biology #32 · top 0.02%	4.019	7,324	31	8.9	1.8%	114	2007–2026
73 #1,124 overall	Stephens, Matthew K. The University of Chicago	USA	Developmental Biology #33 · top 0.02%	4.016	6,473	36	13.1	4.4%	170	2000–2026
74 #1,154 overall	Zhang, Yang National University of Singapore	SGP	Bioinformatics #9 · top 0.04%	4.010	3,670	25	13.5	2.9%	275	1998–2026
75 #1,171 overall	Guengerich, Frederick Peter Vanderbilt University School of Medicine	USA	Biochemistry & Molecular Biology #18 · top <0.01%	4.007	2,201	19	16.2	10.9%	1,155	1973–2026
76 #1,188 overall	Babalola, Olubukola Oluranti North-West University	ZAF	Microbiology #18 · top <0.01%	4.003	5,468	37	22.6	8.3%	479	2002–2026
77 #1,239 overall	Sabatini, David M. Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic	CZE	Developmental Biology #34 · top 0.02%	3.994	7,912	45	18.4	2.4%	284	1990–2026
78 #1,259 overall	Chan, David C. Division of Biology and Biological Engineering	USA	Developmental Biology #35 · top 0.02%	3.991	2,478	28	13.8	1.2%	124	1991–2026
79 #1,264 overall	Đikić, Ivan Frankfurter Fachbereich Medizin	DEU	Developmental Biology #36 · top 0.02%	3.990	4,697	31	13.4	6.6%	394	1992–2026
80 #1,307 overall	Finkel, Toren University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine	USA	Developmental Biology #37 · top 0.02%	3.984	3,584	29	13.3	3.9%	275	1980–2026
81 #1,324 overall	Oren, Aharon Hebrew University of Jerusalem	ISR	Microbiology #19 · top <0.01%	3.982	2,169	20	13.8	7.4%	733	1977–2026
82 #1,334 overall	DeBerardinis, Ralph J. UT Southwestern Medical Center	USA	Developmental Biology #38 · top 0.02%	3.981	6,957	39	13.6	4.3%	308	1996–2026
83 #1,395 overall	Altman, Naomi Simone Pennsylvania State University	USA	Statistics & Probability #23 · top 0.09%	3.971	2,356	22	12.8	2.6%	156	1990–2026
84 #1,419 overall	Seemann, Torsten Department of Microbiology & Immunology	AUS	Microbiology #20 · top <0.01%	3.966	3,408	14	4.9	5.0%	202	1997–2026
85 #1,420 overall	Phillips, Stuart Martin McMaster University, Faculty of Science	CAN	Sport Sciences #2 · top <0.01%	3.966	4,249	30	15.9	8.3%	500	1992–2026
86 #1,442 overall	Hill, Colin University College Cork	IRL	Microbiology #21 · top <0.01%	3.963	7,494	36	14.5	4.1%	684	1985–2026
87 #1,451 overall	Krammer, Florian H. Medizinische Universität Wien	AUT	Virology #2 · top <0.01%	3.961	4,381	29	10.9	16.4%	543	2010–2026
88 #1,455 overall	Raoult, Didier A. Aix Marseille Université	FRA	Microbiology #22 · top <0.01%	3.961	9,843	36	15.9	6.1%	3,543	1979–2026
89 #1,472 overall	Blaser, Martin J. Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine	USA	Microbiology #23 · top <0.01%	3.958	5,314	31	13.8	6.0%	903	1977–2026
90 #1,500 overall	Grosso, Giuseppe Università degli Studi di Catania	ITA	Nutrition & Dietetics #4 · top <0.01%	3.953	22,370	44	10.0	8.3%	309	2008–2026
91 #1,505 overall	Zimmermann, Michaël Bruce European Molecular Biology Laboratory Heidelberg	DEU	Nutrition & Dietetics #5 · top <0.01%	3.951	3,073	25	12.9	5.8%	475	1998–2026
92 #1,507 overall	Gan, Boyi The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center	USA	Developmental Biology #39 · top 0.02%	3.951	5,539	29	10.7	4.5%	133	2001–2026
93 #1,519 overall	Hinz, Boris University of Toronto	CAN	Developmental Biology #40 · top 0.02%	3.950	2,489	26	13.8	2.9%	178	1995–2026
94 #1,559 overall	Rambaut, Andrew A. The University of Edinburgh	GBR	Microbiology #24 · top 0.01%	3.943	8,622	39	11.5	6.2%	374	1995–2026
95 #1,593 overall	Brooks, George A. University of California, Berkeley	USA	Physiology #2 · top <0.01%	3.938	2,159	18	12.4	5.3%	289	1970–2026
96 #1,597 overall	Sun, Shaocong Capital Medical University	CHN	Immunology #31 · top 0.02%	3.937	3,311	19	10.9	1.6%	212	1990–2025
97 #1,620 overall	Quinlan, Aaron R. University of Utah School of Medicine	USA	Genetics & Heredity #1 · top <0.01%	3.933	4,462	20	7.4	3.7%	184	2007–2026
98 #1,627 overall	Dobson, Christopher Martin University of Cambridge	GBR	Biochemistry & Molecular Biology #19 · top <0.01%	3.932	4,097	25	14.0	11.4%	914	1969–2026
99 #1,631 overall	Laxminarayan, Ramanan Princeton University	USA	Microbiology #25 · top 0.01%	3.932	5,400	32	10.0	3.7%	315	2001–2026
100 #1,632 overall	Collins, Francis S. National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)	USA	Developmental Biology #42 · top 0.03%	3.931	7,747	40	10.8	7.8%	821	1970–2026

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