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Medical and Health Sciences / Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences Highly Cited Researchers 21.270 Scientists Citation Rankings - 2025

Discover the world’s highly cited researchers through the AD Scientific Index 2025 Citation Rankings.
These rankings evaluate scientists based on their total and recent citation counts, capturing the breadth and real-time currency of academic recognition. Citation data reveals how widely a scholar’s work is referenced, applied, and extended across diverse disciplines. The rankings are routinely updated to reflect ongoing citation growth, while eliminating distortions from excessive co-authorship and institutional inflation. Premium tools provide access to detailed citation dynamics, unethical citation behavior detection, and field-normalized benchmarking.

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Total 21.270 scientists

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* Total Citation Rankings

Rankings

581

World Rank

224

Country Rank

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Thomas D Schmittgen

University of Florida Gainesville, United States

Medical and Health Sciences / Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences
cancer | microRNA | molecular biolog

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Total

241,175
Last 6 Years

101,887
Last 6 Years / Total

0.422

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Rankings

956

World Rank

390

Country Rank

University

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Dan Roden

Vanderbilt University Nashville, United States

Medical and Health Sciences / Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences
arrhythmia | electrophysiology | cardiology | pharmacology | genetic

Citation Metrics

Total

193,403
Last 6 Years

71,364
Last 6 Years / Total

0.369

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Rankings

1,806

World Rank

146

Country Rank

University

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Paul M Matthews

Imperial College London London, United Kingdom

Medical and Health Sciences / Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences
Neuroimaging | PET | MS | plasticity | pharmaceutical

Citation Metrics

Total

139,611
Last 6 Years

53,231
Last 6 Years / Total

0.381

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Rankings

2,165

World Rank

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University

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Maarten Postma

University of Groningen Groningen, Netherlands

Medical and Health Sciences / Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences
Pharmacoeconomics | Health Economic

Citation Metrics

Total

126,499
Last 6 Years

106,050
Last 6 Years / Total

0.838

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Rankings

2,548

World Rank

1,186

Country Rank

110

University

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Jerry Avorn

Harvard University Cambridge, United States

Medical and Health Sciences / Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences
pharmacoepidemiology | side effects | drug policy | academic detailing | prescription drug

Citation Metrics

Total

116,862
Last 6 Years

23,025
Last 6 Years / Total

0.197

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Rankings

2,691

World Rank

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University

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Harald Hampel

Ludwig Maximilians Universität München Munich, Germany

Medical and Health Sciences / Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences
Drug Discovery & Development | Precision Medicine | Alzheimer's diseas

Citation Metrics

Total

113,654
Last 6 Years

50,194
Last 6 Years / Total

0.442

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Rankings

2,777

World Rank

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Ki Hyun Kim

Sungkyunkwan University Seoul, South Korea

Medical and Health Sciences / Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences

Citation Metrics

Total

111,716
Last 6 Years

86,354
Last 6 Years / Total

0.773

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Rankings

2,929

World Rank

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University

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Dick De Zeeuw

University of Groningen Groningen, Netherlands

Medical and Health Sciences / Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences
Clinical Pharmacology | Renal and Cardiovascular protection in diabete

Citation Metrics

Total

108,844
Last 6 Years

37,817
Last 6 Years / Total

0.347

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Rankings

2,987

World Rank

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University

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Wei Li

Jilin Agricultural University Changchun, China

Medical and Health Sciences / Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences
drug discovery | medicinal chemistry | cancer | neurodegenerative diseases | analytical chemistry including NMR UPLC/HRM

Citation Metrics

Total

107,773
Last 6 Years

72,239
Last 6 Years / Total

0.670

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* Total Citation Rankings

Rankings

3,331

World Rank

268

Country Rank

University

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MJ Brown

University of Cambridge Cambridge, United Kingdom

Medical and Health Sciences / Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences
Hypertension | Pharmacology | Adrenal | Genetic

Citation Metrics

Total

101,602
Last 6 Years

24,827
Last 6 Years / Total

0.244

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* Total Citation Rankings

Rankings

3,408

World Rank

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Naomi Sharlene Levitt

University of Cape Town Cape Town, South Africa

Medical and Health Sciences / Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences

Citation Metrics

Total

100,514
Last 6 Years

54,601
Last 6 Years / Total

0.543

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Rankings

4,014

World Rank

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University

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Csaba Szabo

Université de Fribourg Fribourg, Switzerland

Medical and Health Sciences / Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences
pharmacology | nitric oxide | hydrogen sulfide | PARP | mitochondri

Citation Metrics

Total

91,904
Last 6 Years

22,556
Last 6 Years / Total

0.245

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* Total Citation Rankings

Rankings

4,113

World Rank

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University

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Guo-Rong Chen

East China University of Science & Technology Shanghai, China

Medical and Health Sciences / Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences
Glycochemistry | Chemical Glycobiology | Medicinal Chemistry | Materials Scienc

Citation Metrics

Total

91,393
Last 6 Years

46,387
Last 6 Years / Total

0.508

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* Total Citation Rankings

Rankings

4,386

World Rank

2,067

Country Rank

University

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Leaf Huang

University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, United States

Medical and Health Sciences / Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences
Drug delivery | nanotechnology | liposom

Citation Metrics

Total

87,015
Last 6 Years

22,280
Last 6 Years / Total

0.256

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* Total Citation Rankings

Rankings

4,428

World Rank

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University

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Mohammad Abdollahi

Tehran University of Medical Sciences Tehran, Iran

Medical and Health Sciences / Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences
Mechanistic Toxicology | Medical Pharmacology | General Toxicology | General Pharmacology | Disease

Citation Metrics

Total

86,480
Last 6 Years

48,476
Last 6 Years / Total

0.561

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* Total Citation Rankings

Rankings

4,483

World Rank

2,115

Country Rank

University

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Mary V Relling

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Memphis, United States

Medical and Health Sciences / Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences
Pharmacogenomic

Citation Metrics

Total

85,865
Last 6 Years

26,801
Last 6 Years / Total

0.312

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* Total Citation Rankings

Rankings

4,693

World Rank

Country Rank

University

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Raphael Mechoulam

Hebrew University of Jerusalem Jerusalem, Israel

Medical and Health Sciences / Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences
Chemistry and biological properties of natural and synthetic products | cannabinoids | endocannabaniod

Citation Metrics

Total

83,762
Last 6 Years

24,183
Last 6 Years / Total

0.289

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* Total Citation Rankings

Rankings

5,073

World Rank

103

Country Rank

University

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Wim Hennink

Utrecht University Utrecht, Netherlands

Medical and Health Sciences / Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences
Polymers | Drug Delivery | Biomaterials | Pharmaceutic

Citation Metrics

Total

79,868
Last 6 Years

25,190
Last 6 Years / Total

0.315

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* Total Citation Rankings

Rankings

5,123

World Rank

275

Country Rank

University

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Paolo Angelo Cortesi

Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca Milano, Italy

Medical and Health Sciences / Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences
Health Economics | Public Health | Health Technology Assessment | Epidemiology | Healthcare Managemen

Citation Metrics

Total

79,562
Last 6 Years

71,701
Last 6 Years / Total

0.901

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* Total Citation Rankings

Rankings

5,428

World Rank

2,564

Country Rank

University

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William E Evans

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Memphis, United States

Medical and Health Sciences / Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences
Pharmacogenomics | childhood leukemi

Citation Metrics

Total

76,947
Last 6 Years

16,008
Last 6 Years / Total

0.208

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Rankings

5,435

World Rank

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University

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Kirin Ql Liu *

University of Hong Kong Pokfulam, Hong Kong

Medical and Health Sciences / Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences
Pharmacy practice | Public Health | Pharmacoeconomics | Pharmacoepedemiology | Primary healt