Top 100 most-cited scientists in Clinical Medicine

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#	Author	Country	Subfield rank	c-score	Cites 2025	h	hm	Self-cit.	Papers	Active
1 #10 overall	Altman, Douglas G. University of Oxford Medical Sciences Division	GBR	General & Internal Medicine #1 · top <0.01%	5.039	71,089	89	38.6	1.3%	1,116	1972–2025
2 #18 overall	Moher, David Ottawa Hospital Research Institute	CAN	General & Internal Medicine #2 · top <0.01%	4.986	88,329	75	19.9	1.0%	937	1984–2026
3 #19 overall	Higgins, Julian P.t. Bristol Medical School	GBR	General & Internal Medicine #3 · top <0.01%	4.956	54,555	58	23.3	0.8%	415	1996–2026
4 #23 overall	Friston, K. J. UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology	GBR	Neurology & Neurosurgery #1 · top <0.01%	4.934	12,794	46	29.4	9.0%	1,373	1989–2026
5 #24 overall	Ioannidis, John P.A. Stanford University School of Medicine	USA	General & Internal Medicine #4 · top <0.01%	4.926	26,012	56	27.9	3.1%	1,488	1994–2026
6 #27 overall	Kessler, Ronald C. Harvard University	USA	Psychiatry #1 · top <0.01%	4.857	19,102	64	22.9	5.7%	1,311	1969–2026
7 #28 overall	Libby, Peter A. Harvard Medical School	USA	Cardiovascular System & Hematology #1 · top <0.01%	4.854	13,693	54	26.9	6.6%	1,080	1972–2026
8 #35 overall	Austin, Peter C. Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences	CAN	Cardiovascular System & Hematology #2 · top <0.01%	4.812	8,308	33	23.6	2.6%	761	1997–2026
9 #38 overall	Murray, Christopher J.L. University of Washington	USA	General & Internal Medicine #5 · top <0.01%	4.800	40,690	89	16.4	4.1%	724	1987–2026
10 #40 overall	Cohen, Jacob New York University	USA	Psychiatry #2 · top <0.01%	4.777	11,508	16	13.6	0.0%	89	1951–2013
11 #50 overall	Ridker, Paul M. Imperial College London	GBR	Cardiovascular System & Hematology #3 · top <0.01%	4.727	15,865	60	20.2	8.1%	1,292	1985–2026
12 #52 overall	Bray, Freddie Ian Centre international de Recherche sur le Cancer	FRA	Oncology & Carcinogenesis #1 · top <0.01%	4.720	59,574	63	19.6	0.9%	518	1996–2026
13 #60 overall	McEwen, Bruce S. Rockefeller University	USA	Neurology & Neurosurgery #2 · top <0.01%	4.690	7,485	37	26.1	2.5%	1,211	1959–2024
14 #62 overall	Kroemer, Guido Institut de Cancerologie Gustave Roussy	FRA	Immunology #1 · top <0.01%	4.680	29,730	80	30.3	4.7%	1,809	1984–2026
15 #69 overall	Petersen, Ronald C. Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota	USA	Neurology & Neurosurgery #3 · top <0.01%	4.655	17,847	53	18.0	12.5%	1,486	1974–2026
16 #71 overall	Burgess, Stephen MRC Biostatistics Unit	GBR	Cardiovascular System & Hematology #4 · top <0.01%	4.653	18,925	51	21.4	2.6%	424	2010–2026
17 #74 overall	Hu, Frank B. Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health	USA	Endocrinology & Metabolism #1 · top <0.01%	4.650	20,614	57	25.5	4.8%	1,558	1994–2023
18 #76 overall	Willett, Walter Churchill Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health	USA	Epidemiology #2 · top 0.02%	4.643	18,158	53	21.0	6.2%	2,454	1970–2026
19 #77 overall	Kalluri, Raghu K. The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center	USA	Oncology & Carcinogenesis #2 · top <0.01%	4.643	11,298	44	17.9	5.9%	380	1991–2026
20 #78 overall	Hanahan, Douglas A. Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research Lausanne	CHE	Oncology & Carcinogenesis #3 · top <0.01%	4.640	9,717	28	12.5	1.3%	247	1978–2026
21 #82 overall	Younossi, Zobair M. The Global NASH Council	USA	Gastroenterology & Hepatology #1 · top <0.01%	4.619	14,468	47	16.4	8.8%	851	1995–2026
22 #84 overall	Hamblin, Michael R. University of Johannesburg	ZAF	Dermatology & Venereal Diseases #1 · top <0.01%	4.615	11,050	47	25.1	3.1%	1,083	1975–2026
23 #88 overall	Cummings, Jeffrey L. Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University	USA	Neurology & Neurosurgery #4 · top <0.01%	4.610	14,031	49	19.1	6.2%	1,054	1974–2026
24 #89 overall	Topol, Eric J. Scripps Research Institute	USA	Cardiovascular System & Hematology #5 · top <0.01%	4.609	10,360	37	14.9	2.1%	1,511	1980–2026
25 #99 overall	Packer, Milton P. Baylor Jack and Jane Hamilton Heart and Vascular Hospital	USA	Cardiovascular System & Hematology #6 · top <0.01%	4.577	8,637	39	19.8	11.5%	859	1978–2026
26 #103 overall	Smith, Stephen M. University of Oxford Medical Sciences Division	GBR	Neurology & Neurosurgery #5 · top <0.01%	4.571	12,079	49	16.7	3.4%	364	1993–2026
27 #106 overall	Horvath, Steve M. Altos Labs, Inc.	USA	Developmental Biology #4 · top <0.01%	4.567	12,774	42	16.4	6.6%	528	1998–2026
28 #107 overall	Semenza, Gregg L. Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine	USA	Biochemistry & Molecular Biology #1 · top <0.01%	4.566	5,540	34	23.9	2.3%	507	1984–2026
29 #112 overall	Gordon, Guyatt H. McMaster University	CAN	General & Internal Medicine #6 · top <0.01%	4.561	27,915	65	19.0	6.2%	2,056	1977–2026
30 #116 overall	Langer, Robert Samuel M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology	USA	Biomedical Engineering #1 · top <0.01%	4.549	19,056	58	27.9	3.8%	1,925	1974–2026
31 #123 overall	Mozaffarian, Dariush Tufts University	USA	Cardiovascular System & Hematology #7 · top <0.01%	4.537	11,899	50	19.3	5.3%	631	2001–2026
32 #131 overall	Drucker, Daniel J. Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute	CAN	Endocrinology & Metabolism #2 · top <0.01%	4.519	5,759	38	20.4	5.9%	463	1981–2026
33 #133 overall	Naghavi, Mohsen Karolinska Institutet	SWE	General & Internal Medicine #7 · top <0.01%	4.517	45,710	92	9.3	4.5%	506	1998–2026
34 #135 overall	Murray, Christopher J.L. Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation	USA	General & Internal Medicine #8 · top <0.01%	4.516	34,008	65	6.8	6.6%	196	2010–2026
35 #137 overall	Kroenke, Kurt K. Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis	USA	General & Internal Medicine #9 · top <0.01%	4.514	16,935	32	14.1	1.1%	508	1984–2026
36 #141 overall	Barnes, Peter John National Heart and Lung Institute	GBR	Respiratory System #1 · top <0.01%	4.509	6,267	32	22.1	4.7%	1,887	1974–2026
37 #143 overall	Jain, Rakesh K. Massachusetts General Hospital	USA	Oncology & Carcinogenesis #4 · top <0.01%	4.503	9,620	42	21.1	3.8%	821	1974–2026
38 #145 overall	Volkow, N. D. National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)	USA	Neurology & Neurosurgery #6 · top <0.01%	4.500	8,459	38	23.9	4.6%	1,136	1982–2026
39 #147 overall	Hernán, Miguel A. Ángel Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health	USA	Epidemiology #3 · top 0.03%	4.496	16,661	34	18.7	2.2%	416	1995–2026
40 #148 overall	Morris, John C. Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis	USA	Neurology & Neurosurgery #7 · top <0.01%	4.495	14,053	54	16.7	15.0%	1,175	1984–2026
41 #151 overall	Fischl, Bruce R. MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory	USA	Neurology & Neurosurgery #8 · top <0.01%	4.486	9,940	39	13.0	3.9%	382	1996–2026
42 #157 overall	Sahebkar, Amirhossein Mashhad University of Medical Sciences	IRN	Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry #1 · top <0.01%	4.480	48,389	70	20.0	8.8%	2,418	2008–2026
43 #159 overall	Marmot, M. G. University College London	GBR	Epidemiology #4 · top 0.04%	4.477	7,198	39	18.3	4.1%	1,056	1969–2026
44 #161 overall	Buzsáki, Gÿorgy NYU Grossman School of Medicine	USA	Neurology & Neurosurgery #9 · top <0.01%	4.476	5,444	33	20.5	6.5%	451	1973–2026
45 #165 overall	Cuijpers, Pim C. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam	NLD	Psychiatry #5 · top <0.01%	4.468	11,948	50	20.9	9.6%	1,223	1990–2026
46 #166 overall	Medzhitov, Ruslan M. Yale School of Medicine	USA	Immunology #2 · top <0.01%	4.468	5,423	36	19.8	1.5%	265	1996–2026
47 #177 overall	Vincent, Jean Louis Université Libre de Bruxelles	BEL	Emergency & Critical Care Medicine #1 · top <0.01%	4.447	11,455	41	16.8	4.5%	1,627	1975–2026
48 #179 overall	Frangogiannis, Nikolaos Georgios Albert Einstein College of Medicine	USA	Cardiovascular System & Hematology #8 · top <0.01%	4.445	3,849	30	20.8	1.1%	234	1995–2026
49 #183 overall	Mattson, Mark P. Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine	USA	Neurology & Neurosurgery #10 · top <0.01%	4.440	7,528	37	21.1	3.4%	1,094	1982–2026
50 #201 overall	Buysse, Daniel J. University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine	USA	Neurology & Neurosurgery #11 · top <0.01%	4.416	8,827	33	13.1	4.1%	581	1988–2026
51 #208 overall	Yusuf, Salim N. Population Health Research Institute, Ontario	CAN	Cardiovascular System & Hematology #9 · top <0.01%	4.410	14,535	53	14.9	8.6%	1,656	1979–2026
52 #209 overall	Siegel, Rebecca L. American Cancer Society	USA	Oncology & Carcinogenesis #5 · top <0.01%	4.409	71,875	52	14.0	0.3%	155	2006–2026
53 #214 overall	Viechtbauer, Wolfgang Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences	NLD	Psychiatry #6 · top <0.01%	4.403	5,488	23	11.2	4.0%	208	1999–2026
54 #216 overall	Sanyal, Arun Jayant VCU School of Medicine	USA	Gastroenterology & Hepatology #2 · top <0.01%	4.399	16,634	51	16.8	9.3%	925	1989–2026
55 #224 overall	Singh, Jasvinder A. The University of Alabama at Birmingham	USA	Arthritis & Rheumatology #1 · top <0.01%	4.386	46,014	86	10.8	6.2%	879	2002–2026
56 #231 overall	Page, Matthew James Monash University	AUS	General & Internal Medicine #10 · top <0.01%	4.380	57,502	37	8.6	0.5%	183	2010–2026
57 #232 overall	Dinarello, C. A. Olatec Therapeutics LLC	USA	Immunology #3 · top <0.01%	4.375	6,063	30	17.0	3.0%	1,203	1968–2026
58 #234 overall	Lip, Gregory Y.H. University of Liverpool	GBR	Cardiovascular System & Hematology #10 · top <0.01%	4.374	24,001	52	17.9	17.1%	4,645	1992–2026
59 #235 overall	Hansson, Oskar Eli Lilly and Company	USA	Neurology & Neurosurgery #12 · top <0.01%	4.373	12,287	50	14.9	19.0%	722	1998–2026
60 #237 overall	Feigin, Valery L. Auckland University of Technology	NZL	Neurology & Neurosurgery #13 · top <0.01%	4.372	41,013	77	8.6	6.1%	516	1983–2026
61 #238 overall	Kudo, Masotoshi Kindai University School of Medicine	JPN	Gastroenterology & Hepatology #3 · top <0.01%	4.370	11,257	42	13.1	10.0%	1,473	1981–2026
62 #239 overall	Nordestgaard, Börge Grønne Gentofte Hospital	DNK	Cardiovascular System & Hematology #11 · top <0.01%	4.367	15,000	55	19.0	12.3%	1,281	1984–2026
63 #246 overall	Carmeliet, Peter F.M. KU Leuven	BEL	Cardiovascular System & Hematology #12 · top <0.01%	4.363	7,441	42	16.5	4.1%	856	1984–2026
64 #249 overall	Sporns, Olaf Indiana University	USA	Neurology & Neurosurgery #14 · top <0.01%	4.362	6,057	35	19.9	4.4%	318	1989–2026
65 #251 overall	Bhutta, Zulfiqar A. The Aga Khan University	PAK	General & Internal Medicine #11 · top <0.01%	4.361	36,807	73	14.9	7.5%	1,624	1987–2026
66 #257 overall	Steptoe, Andrew University College London	GBR	Psychiatry #7 · top <0.01%	4.357	8,241	40	22.0	3.8%	984	1974–2026
67 #262 overall	Egger, Matthias Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town	ZAF	General & Internal Medicine #12 · top <0.01%	4.352	36,078	51	16.9	1.3%	1,092	1988–2026
68 #267 overall	Jack, Clifford R. Mayo Clinic	USA	Neurology & Neurosurgery #15 · top <0.01%	4.346	15,974	46	13.9	14.4%	1,398	1984–2026
69 #270 overall	Cani, Patrice D. UCLouvain	BEL	Endocrinology & Metabolism #3 · top <0.01%	4.343	8,613	41	14.9	3.1%	398	2003–2026
70 #276 overall	Jemal, Ahmedin M. American Cancer Society	USA	Oncology & Carcinogenesis #6 · top <0.01%	4.340	77,987	61	22.2	0.6%	640	1993–2026
71 #277 overall	Pardoll, Drew M. The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center	USA	Immunology #5 · top <0.01%	4.339	9,003	43	13.3	3.2%	494	1976–2026
72 #281 overall	Rajkumar, S. Vincent Mayo Clinic	USA	Immunology #6 · top <0.01%	4.338	7,866	37	14.7	13.2%	991	1993–2026
73 #285 overall	Cohen, Sheldon A. Carnegie Mellon University	USA	Social Psychology #14 · top 0.05%	4.337	6,311	24	12.9	0.5%	232	1973–2025
74 #292 overall	Hotamisligil, Gôkhan Siddik Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health	USA	Endocrinology & Metabolism #4 · top <0.01%	4.334	4,166	32	15.1	1.9%	239	1990–2026
75 #294 overall	Levey, Andrew S. Tufts Medical Center	USA	Urology & Nephrology #1 · top <0.01%	4.333	11,832	45	13.8	5.6%	701	1982–2026
76 #298 overall	Jonas, Jost Bruno L.V. Prasad Eye Institute India	IND	Ophthalmology & Optometry #1 · top <0.01%	4.330	54,452	94	11.1	7.6%	1,724	1986–2026
77 #303 overall	Holick, Michael Francis Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine	USA	Endocrinology & Metabolism #5 · top <0.01%	4.326	3,762	25	17.4	3.2%	785	1970–2026
78 #304 overall	Neurath, Markus Friedrich Universitätsklinikum Erlangen	DEU	Gastroenterology & Hepatology #4 · top <0.01%	4.326	5,728	33	18.0	5.6%	1,096	1991–2026
79 #313 overall	D’Agostino, Ralph B. Boston University	USA	Cardiovascular System & Hematology #13 · top <0.01%	4.323	10,609	46	18.0	3.8%	1,247	1970–2026
80 #315 overall	Pocock, Stuart J. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine	GBR	Cardiovascular System & Hematology #14 · top <0.01%	4.323	23,597	50	15.9	5.2%	866	1969–2026
81 #324 overall	Colonna, Marco Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis	USA	Immunology #7 · top <0.01%	4.317	9,279	45	17.1	4.5%	592	1987–2026
82 #325 overall	Buckner, Randy L. Massachusetts General Hospital	USA	Neurology & Neurosurgery #16 · top <0.01%	4.317	8,611	40	16.1	8.4%	328	1993–2026
83 #326 overall	Stern, Yaakov Columbia University Irving Medical Center	USA	Neurology & Neurosurgery #17 · top <0.01%	4.316	6,315	33	14.2	9.5%	868	1981–2026
84 #328 overall	Mantovani, Alberto R. Humanitas University	ITA	Immunology #8 · top <0.01%	4.316	10,475	36	17.2	3.8%	1,260	1973–2026
85 #330 overall	Iadecola, Costantino Weill Cornell Medicine Feil Family Brain & Mind Research Institute	USA	Neurology & Neurosurgery #18 · top <0.01%	4.313	4,783	33	17.1	4.0%	463	1979–2026
86 #332 overall	Raichle, Marcus E. Washington University in St. Louis	USA	Neurology & Neurosurgery #19 · top <0.01%	4.310	5,423	37	15.6	7.3%	471	1968–2026
87 #339 overall	Moffitt, Terrie Edith Duke University	USA	Psychiatry #8 · top <0.01%	4.306	8,198	39	16.0	5.2%	600	1980–2026
88 #343 overall	Loomba, Rohit UC San Diego School of Medicine	USA	Gastroenterology & Hepatology #5 · top <0.01%	4.303	16,587	52	19.5	9.6%	705	2006–2026
89 #345 overall	McMurray, John JV Glasgow Cardiovascular Research Centre	GBR	Cardiovascular System & Hematology #15 · top <0.01%	4.303	22,995	58	17.0	10.8%	1,879	1914–2026
90 #346 overall	Blüher, Matthias Universität Leipzig	DEU	Endocrinology & Metabolism #6 · top <0.01%	4.302	6,954	32	14.1	9.7%	878	1999–2026
91 #349 overall	Rolls, Edmund T. University of Warwick	GBR	Neurology & Neurosurgery #20 · top <0.01%	4.299	3,679	26	16.8	9.8%	593	1969–2026
92 #350 overall	Selkoe, Dennis J. Brigham and Women's Hospital	USA	Neurology & Neurosurgery #21 · top <0.01%	4.298	5,324	30	16.7	6.2%	561	1969–2026
93 #354 overall	Blennow, Kaj Sahlgrenska Akademin	SWE	Neurology & Neurosurgery #22 · top <0.01%	4.293	22,273	62	18.9	19.1%	2,394	1988–2026
94 #355 overall	Wherry, Edward John University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine	USA	Immunology #9 · top <0.01%	4.291	8,190	47	14.5	3.7%	348	1997–2026
95 #358 overall	Greenhalgh, Trisha University of Oxford Medical Sciences Division	GBR	General & Internal Medicine #13 · top <0.01%	4.289	6,023	33	16.2	5.9%	754	1978–2026
96 #359 overall	DeFronzo, Ralph Albarado Joe R. & Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine	USA	Endocrinology & Metabolism #7 · top <0.01%	4.288	5,115	33	16.6	4.1%	876	1967–2026
97 #365 overall	Hajishengallis, George N. University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine	USA	Immunology #10 · top <0.01%	4.283	4,071	30	15.8	3.1%	262	1989–2026
98 #367 overall	Menon, Vinod Stanford University School of Medicine	USA	Neurology & Neurosurgery #23 · top <0.01%	4.283	4,740	26	14.9	4.0%	284	1994–2026
99 #371 overall	Nock, Matthew K. Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences	USA	Psychiatry #9 · top <0.01%	4.280	6,143	34	15.1	6.5%	453	1998–2026
100 #373 overall	Braunwald, Eugene B. Brigham and Women's Hospital	USA	Cardiovascular System & Hematology #16 · top <0.01%	4.280	8,247	43	16.4	6.2%	1,837	1953–2026

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