Citation Rankings
Highly Cited Researchers
Medical and Health Sciences / Veterinary Sciences Highly Cited Researchers 7.900 Scientists Citation Rankings - 2025
The Citation Rankings (Highly Cited Researchers) list 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
121,403
26,508
0.218
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
Evolution
Epidemiology
Virology
Genomics
Phylodynamics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
81,225
46,701
0.575
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Pharmacology
Neurosciences
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
64,239
16,087
0.250
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
56,801
19,343
0.341
* 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
48,378
12,517
0.259
* 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
47,079
39,863
0.847
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
veterinary parasitology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
41,951
16,315
0.389
* 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
41,423
30,051
0.725
* 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
39,594
16,326
0.412
* 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
39,005
9,725
0.249
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
Vector Borne Infectious Disease
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
37,978
11,056
0.291
* 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
36,754
14,988
0.408
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
Toxicology
Computational toxicology
Risk assessment
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
36,577
16,802
0.459
* 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
35,601
19,002
0.534
* 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
35,210
10,609
0.301
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
Amphibians
Taxonomy
Ecology
Conservation
Evolution
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
33,485
11,706
0.350
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
veterinary epidemiology
animal health policy
one health
spatial analysis
risk analysis
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
32,536
13,122
0.403
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
Regenerative Medicine
Biomaterials
Orthopaedics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
32,471
10,992
0.339
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
Genomics
Genetics
Bioinformatics
Molecular Biology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
32,331
8,591
0.266
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
Pathology
Animal Models
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
31,115
17,335
0.557
* 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
30,611
15,772
0.515
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 22
Microbial Ecology
Bioinformatics
Anaerobic cultivation
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
30,385
12,684
0.417
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 23
Viral Immunology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
30,103
4,550
0.151
* 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
29,327
11,566
0.394
* 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
28,189
9,754
0.346
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
2,204
1,022
11
Ranking Based On Selection: 1
Peter J Van Soest
Cornell University
Ithaca, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
121,403
26,508
0.218
Ruminant
Nutrition
Forage
Phisiology
Animal Science
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
4,677
374
54
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
Oliver Pybus
University of Oxford
Oxford, United Kingdom
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
81,225
46,701
0.575
Evolution
Epidemiology
Virology
Genomics
Phylodynamics
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
6,892
273
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Wolfgang Löscher
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
64,239
16,087
0.250
Pharmacology
Neurosciences
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
8,409
61
16
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Freddy Haesebrouck
Ghent University
Ghent, Belgium
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
56,801
19,343
0.341
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
10,831
446
2
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
Guus Rimmelzwaan
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
48,378
12,517
0.259
virology
influenza
immunity
T lymphocytes
antibodies
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
11,280
5,336
72
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
Seyedmojtaba Seyedmousavi
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
47,079
39,863
0.847
Clinical Microbiology Diagnostics
Fungal Diagnostics
Medical and Veterinary Mycology and One Health
Anti-infectives PKPD
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
13,609
541
42
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
Robin Gasser
University of Melbourne
Melbourne, Australia
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
41,951
16,315
0.389
veterinary parasitology
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
13,886
6,557
15
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
Aron J Hall
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
41,423
30,051
0.725
Coronavirus
Norovirus
Viral Diseases
Infectious Disease Epidemiology
Veterinary Public Health
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
14,955
1,298
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
39,594
16,326
0.412
Epidemiology
Zoonoses
Public Health
One Health
Neglected Diseases
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
15,307
377
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
39,005
9,725
0.249
Mastitis
Infectious diseases
statistics
mathematical modeling
veterinary epidemiology
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
15,989
7,501
11
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
Ed Breitschwerdt
Citation Metrics
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Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
37,978
11,056
0.291
Vector Borne Infectious Disease
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
16,788
131
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
36,754
14,988
0.408
Taxonomia de carrapatos e doenças transmitidas por carrapatos
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
16,914
7,929
37
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
36,577
16,802
0.459
Toxicology
Computational toxicology
Risk assessment
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
17,669
316
22
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
Hanno Würbel
Universität Bern
Bern, Switzerland
Citation Metrics
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Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
35,601
19,002
0.534
Ethology
Animal Behaviour
Animal Welfare
Laboratory Animal Science
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
17,980
1,583
125
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
Donald M Broom
University of Cambridge
Cambridge, United Kingdom
Citation Metrics
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Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
35,210
10,609
0.301
Animal welfare
cognitive ability
animal behaviour
sustainable agriculture
animal ethics.
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
19,402
144
8
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
Célio FB Haddad
Citation Metrics
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Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
33,485
11,706
0.350
Amphibians
Taxonomy
Ecology
Conservation
Evolution
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
20,304
173
30
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
Dirk U Pfeiffer
City University of Hong Kong
Kowloon, Hong Kong
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
32,536
13,122
0.403
veterinary epidemiology
animal health policy
one health
spatial analysis
risk analysis
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
20,368
518
65
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
Wouter Dhert
Utrecht University
Utrecht, Netherlands
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
32,471
10,992
0.339
Regenerative Medicine
Biomaterials
Orthopaedics
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
20,514
524
33
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
Martien Groenen
Wageningen University & Research Centre
Wageningen, Netherlands
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
32,331
8,591
0.266
Genomics
Genetics
Bioinformatics
Molecular Biology
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
21,753
10,042
24
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
Peter Vogel
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
31,115
17,335
0.557
Pathology
Animal Models
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
22,319
275
31
Ranking Based On Selection: 21
Henrik G Smith
Lund University
Lund, Sweden
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
30,611
15,772
0.515
ecology
biodiversity
conservation biology
ecosystem services
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
22,601
10,406
3
Ranking Based On Selection: 22
Brian Oakley
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
30,385
12,684
0.417
Microbial Ecology
Bioinformatics
Anaerobic cultivation
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
22,950
10,574
19
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
30,103
4,550
0.151
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
23,920
935
21
Ranking Based On Selection: 24
Vito Martella
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
29,327
11,566
0.394
infezioni virali enteriche in animali e uomo
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
25,315
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
28,189
9,754
0.346
epidemiology
molecular epidemiology
genomic epidemiology
microbiology
food safety