Citation Rankings
Highly Cited Researchers
World Highly Cited Researchers CitationNatural Sciences / Biological Science 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
Evolution
Evolutionary biology
Molecular evolution
Population genetics
Phylogenetics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
422,514
85,040
0.201
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :2
aging
cancer
immunology
medicine
metabolism
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
407,972
185,046
0.454
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :3
biology
computational biology
systems biology
bioinformatics
evolution
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
388,260
185,926
0.479
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :4
Computational Biology
Genomics
Bioinformatics
Metagenomics
Biomedical Data Science
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
358,858
177,999
0.496
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :5
Proteomics
Systems biology
Metabolic diseases
Cancer
Signal Transduction
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
349,596
119,127
0.341
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :6
Bioimage Informatics
Bioinformatics
String Algorithms
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
282,797
77,044
0.272
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :7
evolutionary genetics
evolutionary biology
genomics
phylogenetics
bioinformatics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
281,470
125,245
0.445
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :8
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
268,081
66,405
0.248
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :9
Biology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
262,589
94,362
0.359
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :10
High energy physics
theoretical physics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
252,301
125,871
0.499
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :11
ecology
sustainable agriculture
biodiversity
climate change ecology
conservation ecology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
248,869
95,901
0.385
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :12
Computational Biology
Bioinformatics
Genomics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
245,380
153,825
0.627
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :13
Biology
Gene Regulation
MicroRNAs
Noncoding RNA
Molecular Biology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
245,282
72,808
0.297
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :14
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
240,474
84,407
0.351
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :15
gene control
transcription
hormones
nuclear receptors
metabolism
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
238,223
43,455
0.182
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :16
Biotechnology
imaging
drugs
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
204,115
66,173
0.324
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :17
Ecology and Environment
Financial Systems.
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
203,154
47,587
0.234
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :18
environmental biology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
202,795
57,751
0.285
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :19
fungi
mycology
evolution
phylogeny
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
193,491
84,875
0.439
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :20
Systems biology
genomics
personalized medicine
cancer
neurodegeneration
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
193,135
32,459
0.168
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :21
carbon cycle
savannas
earth observation
biodiversity
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
184,437
73,290
0.397
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :22
Molecular Evolution
Virology
Molecular Epidemiology
Computational Biology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
180,101
101,546
0.564
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :23
High Energy Physics
Data Science
High Performance Computing
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
173,509
54,608
0.315
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :24
Biology
Genetics
Genomics
Epigenetics
Cancer
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
168,719
56,373
0.334
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :25
ecology
microbiology
biogeochemistry
microbial ecology
ecosystem ecology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
164,196
99,446
0.606
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
54
30
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 1
Masatoshi Nei
Temple University
Philadelphia, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
422,514
85,040
0.201
Evolution
Evolutionary biology
Molecular evolution
Population genetics
Phylogenetics
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
61
4
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
Guido Kroemer
Université Paris Cité
Paris, France
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
407,972
185,046
0.454
aging
cancer
immunology
medicine
metabolism
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
75
1
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Peer Bork
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
388,260
185,926
0.479
biology
computational biology
systems biology
bioinformatics
evolution
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
107
54
4
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Steven Salzberg
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
358,858
177,999
0.496
Computational Biology
Genomics
Bioinformatics
Metagenomics
Biomedical Data Science
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
119
1
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
Matthias Mann
University of Copenhagen
Copenhagen, Denmark
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
349,596
119,127
0.341
Proteomics
Systems biology
Metabolic diseases
Cancer
Signal Transduction
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
259
9
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
Gene Myers
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
282,797
77,044
0.272
Bioimage Informatics
Bioinformatics
String Algorithms
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
268
5
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
Koichiro Tamura
Tokyo Metropolitan University
Hachioji, Japan
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
281,470
125,245
0.445
evolutionary genetics
evolutionary biology
genomics
phylogenetics
bioinformatics
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
331
141
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
Fred "Rusty" Gage
Salk Institute
San Diego, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
268,081
66,405
0.248
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
359
153
3
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
Eugene Koonin
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Maryland, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
262,589
94,362
0.359
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
414
14
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
Juan Antonio Aguilar Saavedra
Universidad de Granada
Granada, Spain
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
252,301
125,871
0.499
High energy physics
theoretical physics
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
442
185
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
David Tilman
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Minneapolis, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
248,869
95,901
0.385
ecology
sustainable agriculture
biodiversity
climate change ecology
conservation ecology
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
465
190
16
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
Heng Li
Harvard University
Cambridge, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
245,380
153,825
0.627
Computational Biology
Bioinformatics
Genomics
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
466
191
5
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
David Bartel
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
245,282
72,808
0.297
Biology
Gene Regulation
MicroRNAs
Noncoding RNA
Molecular Biology
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
496
199
17
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
Rakesh Jain|Rakesh Jain
Harvard University
Cambridge, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
240,474
84,407
0.351
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
513
204
2
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
Ronald M Evans
Salk Institute
San Diego, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
238,223
43,455
0.182
gene control
transcription
hormones
nuclear receptors
metabolism
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
756
302
27
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
Ralph Weissleder
Harvard University
Cambridge, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
204,115
66,173
0.324
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
764
58
9
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
Robert M May
University of Oxford
Oxford, United Kingdom
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
203,154
47,587
0.234
Ecology and Environment
Financial Systems.
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
768
306
20
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
Harold Mooney
Stanford University
Stanford, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
202,795
57,751
0.285
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
861
352
14
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
John W Taylor
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
193,491
84,875
0.439
fungi
mycology
evolution
phylogeny
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
867
356
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
Leroy Hood
Institute for Systems Biology
Washington, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
193,135
32,459
0.168
Systems biology
genomics
personalized medicine
cancer
neurodegeneration
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
950
3
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 21
Robert J Scholes
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, South Africa
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
184,437
73,290
0.397
carbon cycle
savannas
earth observation
biodiversity
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
993
74
3
Ranking Based On Selection: 22
Andrew Rambaut
University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
180,101
101,546
0.564
Molecular Evolution
Virology
Molecular Epidemiology
Computational Biology
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,058
446
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 23
Ian Fisk
Flatiron Institute
New York, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
173,509
54,608
0.315
High Energy Physics
Data Science
High Performance Computing
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,118
476
12
Ranking Based On Selection: 24
Richard Young
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
168,719
56,373
0.334
Biology
Genetics
Genomics
Epigenetics
Cancer
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,176
507
2
Ranking Based On Selection: 25
Noah Fierer
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
164,196
99,446
0.606
ecology
microbiology
biogeochemistry
microbial ecology
ecosystem ecology