Citation Rankings
Highly Cited Researchers
World Highly Cited Researchers CitationMedical and Health Sciences / Health Sciences Rankings 2025
The Citation Rankings (Highly Cited Researchers) highlight the most cited and influential researchers across a vast range of scientific fields, covering 197 main and sub-disciplines, including the Art and Humanities Citation Rankings and Social Sciences and Humanities Citation Rankings. This service, offered exclusively by AD Scientific Index, aims to provide a balanced perspective by excluding data from CERN and other statistical sources that disproportionately favor certain researchers, particularly in the social sciences and humanities. This unique approach addresses the advantages researchers with multi-author publications and CERN involvement hold over others. Furthermore, citation rankings help uncover rule violations and unethical practices within the research community. For more detailed citation analyses, explore the Scientists Last 6 Years Citation Index, Universities Total Citations Rankings 2025, and Universities Last 6 Years Citations Rankings 2025.
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :1
Ruminant
Nutrition
Forage
Phisiology
Animal Science
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
120,251
30,858
0.257
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :2
Evolution
Epidemiology
Virology
Genomics
Phylodynamics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
79,921
49,476
0.619
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :3
Pharmacology
Neurosciences
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
63,528
18,281
0.288
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :4
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
55,942
22,312
0.399
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :5
virology
influenza
immunity
T lymphocytes
antibodies
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
47,913
14,245
0.297
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :6
Clinical Microbiology Diagnostics
Fungal Diagnostics
Medical and Veterinary Mycology and One Health
Anti-infectives PKPD
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
45,346
41,787
0.922
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :7
veterinary parasitology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
41,248
18,213
0.442
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :8
Coronavirus
Norovirus
Viral Diseases
Infectious Disease Epidemiology
Veterinary Public Health
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
40,330
30,749
0.762
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :9
Epidemiology
Zoonoses
Public Health
One Health
Neglected Diseases
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
38,989
18,942
0.486
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :10
Mastitis
Infectious diseases
statistics
mathematical modeling
veterinary epidemiology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
38,643
11,543
0.299
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :11
Vector Borne Infectious Disease
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
37,429
12,689
0.339
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :12
Taxonomia de carrapatos e doenças transmitidas por carrapatos
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
36,136
17,209
0.476
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :13
Toxicology
Computational toxicology
Risk assessment
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
35,969
19,374
0.539
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :14
Ethology
Animal Behaviour
Animal Welfare
Laboratory Animal Science
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
34,779
20,145
0.579
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :15
Animal welfare
cognitive ability
animal behaviour
sustainable agriculture
animal ethics.
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
34,717
12,238
0.353
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :16
Amphibians
Taxonomy
Ecology
Conservation
Evolution
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
33,082
13,340
0.403
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :17
Regenerative Medicine
Biomaterials
Orthopaedics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
32,156
13,049
0.406
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :18
veterinary epidemiology
animal health policy
one health
spatial analysis
risk analysis
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
31,981
14,483
0.453
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :19
Genomics
Genetics
Bioinformatics
Molecular Biology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
31,878
9,846
0.309
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :20
Microbial Ecology
Bioinformatics
Anaerobic cultivation
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
29,979
15,078
0.503
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :21
ecology
biodiversity
conservation biology
ecosystem services
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
29,967
17,380
0.580
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :22
Pathology
Animal Models
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
29,951
18,420
0.615
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :23
Viral Immunology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
29,919
5,150
0.172
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :24
infezioni virali enteriche in animali e uomo
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
28,835
12,997
0.451
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :25
epidemiology
molecular epidemiology
genomic epidemiology
microbiology
food safety
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
27,792
10,919
0.393
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
2,177
1,004
10
Ranking Based On Selection: 1
Peter J Van Soest
Cornell University
Ithaca, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
120,251
30,858
0.257
Ruminant
Nutrition
Forage
Phisiology
Animal Science
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
4,664
379
55
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
Oliver Pybus
University of Oxford
Oxford, United Kingdom
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
79,921
49,476
0.619
Evolution
Epidemiology
Virology
Genomics
Phylodynamics
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
6,843
268
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Wolfgang Löscher
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
63,528
18,281
0.288
Pharmacology
Neurosciences
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
8,383
59
15
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Freddy Haesebrouck
Ghent University
Ghent, Belgium
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
55,942
22,312
0.399
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
10,721
430
2
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
Guus Rimmelzwaan
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
47,913
14,245
0.297
virology
influenza
immunity
T lymphocytes
antibodies
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
11,681
5,532
75
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
Seyedmojtaba Seyedmousavi
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Maryland, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
45,346
41,787
0.922
Clinical Microbiology Diagnostics
Fungal Diagnostics
Medical and Veterinary Mycology and One Health
Anti-infectives PKPD
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
13,631
538
42
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
Robin Gasser
University of Melbourne
Melbourne, Australia
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
41,248
18,213
0.442
veterinary parasitology
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
14,147
6,676
15
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
Aron J Hall
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
40,330
30,749
0.762
Coronavirus
Norovirus
Viral Diseases
Infectious Disease Epidemiology
Veterinary Public Health
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
14,944
1,304
8
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
Eric M Fevre
University of Liverpool
Liverpool, United Kingdom
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
38,989
18,942
0.486
Epidemiology
Zoonoses
Public Health
One Health
Neglected Diseases
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
15,144
373
24
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
Ynte H Schukken
Wageningen University & Research Centre
Wageningen, Netherlands
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
38,643
11,543
0.299
Mastitis
Infectious diseases
statistics
mathematical modeling
veterinary epidemiology
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
15,929
7,484
11
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
Ed Breitschwerdt
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
37,429
12,689
0.339
Vector Borne Infectious Disease
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
16,824
130
33
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
Marcelo Labruna
Universidade de São Paulo USP
São Paulo, Brazil
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
36,136
17,209
0.476
Taxonomia de carrapatos e doenças transmitidas por carrapatos
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
16,949
7,944
38
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
Ivan Rusyn
Texas A&M University
College Station, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
35,969
19,374
0.539
Toxicology
Computational toxicology
Risk assessment
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
17,889
324
22
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
Hanno Würbel
Universität Bern
Bern, Switzerland
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
34,779
20,145
0.579
Ethology
Animal Behaviour
Animal Welfare
Laboratory Animal Science
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
17,928
1,578
126
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
Donald M Broom
University of Cambridge
Cambridge, United Kingdom
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
34,717
12,238
0.353
Animal welfare
cognitive ability
animal behaviour
sustainable agriculture
animal ethics.
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
19,263
143
8
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
Célio FB Haddad
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
33,082
13,340
0.403
Amphibians
Taxonomy
Ecology
Conservation
Evolution
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
20,188
510
64
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
Wouter Dhert
Utrecht University
Utrecht, Netherlands
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
32,156
13,049
0.406
Regenerative Medicine
Biomaterials
Orthopaedics
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
20,376
171
30
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
Dirk U Pfeiffer
City University of Hong Kong
Coimbatore, Hong Kong
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
31,981
14,483
0.453
veterinary epidemiology
animal health policy
one health
spatial analysis
risk analysis
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
20,469
515
33
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
Martien Groenen
Wageningen University & Research Centre
Wageningen, Netherlands
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
31,878
9,846
0.309
Genomics
Genetics
Bioinformatics
Molecular Biology
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
22,506
10,367
3
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
Brian Oakley
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
29,979
15,078
0.503
Microbial Ecology
Bioinformatics
Anaerobic cultivation
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
22,522
276
31
Ranking Based On Selection: 21
Henrik G Smith
Lund University
Lund, Sweden
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
29,967
17,380
0.580
ecology
biodiversity
conservation biology
ecosystem services
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
22,541
10,381
23
Ranking Based On Selection: 22
Peter Vogel
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
29,951
18,420
0.615
Pathology
Animal Models
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
22,585
10,403
18
Ranking Based On Selection: 23
Barry T Rouse
University of Tennessee Knoxville
Knoxville, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
29,919
5,150
0.172
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
23,937
928
20
Ranking Based On Selection: 24
Vito Martella
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
28,835
12,997
0.451
infezioni virali enteriche in animali e uomo
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
25,288
80
5
Ranking Based On Selection: 25
Nigel French
Massey University
Palmerston North, New Zealand
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
27,792
10,919
0.393
epidemiology
molecular epidemiology
genomic epidemiology
microbiology
food safety