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100 of 4,308,411 authors, ranked by Weighted total paper score. Click a column to sort the loaded rows. Metrics count papers published 1951–2026, not retracted, not an abstracting service's copy of a paper, categorized by OpenAlex as article, book, review, book-chapter or conference-paper, and cited at least 1 time. A column's info gives the years it covers.

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Sum of the paper scores of the entity's papers. A paper with several authors counts for each of them on a softened scale: with n of them, each is credited 1 / (1 + ln n) of its score. Covers papers published 1951–2025, the years with paper scores.

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#	Name	Citations	Papers	Hit papers	Hit rate	Weighted total paper score rank	Top-20 mean	h-index	Career centroid
1	Zhong Lin Wang	427,338	3,218	257	8.1%	764	2.98	304	2015.5
2	Gregory Y.H. Lip	241,694	3,972	103	2.6%	534	4.20	187	2015.6
3	Ben Zhong Tang	228,828	2,899	110	3.9%	500	2.58	206	2018.0
4	David Julian McClements	161,019	1,867	67	3.6%	479	2.16	185	2015.7
5	Walter Churchill Willett	321,975	2,058	180	8.8%	445	3.16	281	2008.5
6	Didier Raoult	172,261	3,271	44	1.3%	444	2.09	174	2010.4
7	Michael Gräetzel	418,427	1,851	175	9.5%	443	4.01	292	2006.7
8	Lei Jiang	194,808	2,505	94	3.8%	434	2.25	206	2016.9
9	George Davey Smith	306,970	2,610	117	4.5%	432	3.98	230	2008.0
10	Jinde Cao	86,932	2,310	28	1.2%	430	1.48	135	2018.0
11	The Lancet	21,260	2,345	6	0.26%	393	1.22	53	2011.5
12	H. Vincent Poor	116,298	2,516	71	2.8%	393	2.58	150	2014.0
13	Peter John Barnes	181,055	1,903	56	2.9%	390	2.60	197	2000.3
14	Hagop Kantarjian	216,988	3,522	76	2.2%	388	2.56	207	2010.7
15	Mark Damian Griffiths	98,333	1,726	70	4.1%	387	2.16	150	2016.1
16	Erik De Clercq	123,412	2,837	16	0.56%	379	1.50	148	1998.9
17	Kaj Blennow	191,099	2,643	129	4.9%	376	2.93	194	2016.7
18	Witold Pedrycz	73,059	2,386	23	0.98%	374	1.54	115	2013.6
19	Seeram Ramakrishna	159,649	2,057	68	3.3%	371	2.01	184	2016.6
20	Henrik Zetterberg	143,386	2,621	110	4.2%	362	2.53	169	2018.9
21	Donald G. Truhlar	199,716	1,524	70	4.6%	360	3.15	178	2001.6
22	İbrahim Dinçer	91,914	1,848	22	1.2%	359	1.70	139	2014.7
23	John P. A. Ioannidis	236,240	1,409	112	8.0%	358	4.47	195	2013.1
24	Hua Kun Liu	129,054	2,639	53	2.1%	358	1.88	167	2014.4
25	Paul K. Chu	118,528	2,931	23	0.79%	352	1.70	142	2012.2
26	Guido Kroemer	316,602	1,644	169	10.4%	351	3.59	263	2012.5
27	Claudiu Trandafir Supuran	117,290	2,302	11	0.48%	350	1.64	143	2014.5
28	Karl John Friston	233,193	1,420	96	6.8%	347	2.85	230	2010.7
29	Róbert Langer	263,238	1,981	127	6.5%	346	3.03	246	2007.6
30	Carlos Guedes Soares	51,949	2,110	15	0.72%	344	1.31	95	2014.7
31	Carlo La Vecchia	191,260	2,481	78	3.2%	336	5.18	167	2006.1
32	International Monetary Fund	12,214	4,014	0	0.00%	334	0.56	38	2006.3
33	Deepak L. Bhatt	166,854	2,372	118	5.0%	333	3.35	175	2016.8
34	Qiang Zhang	164,502	1,975	133	6.8%	331	2.33	203	2018.1
35	JoAnn E. Manson	207,625	1,939	121	6.3%	329	2.26	228	2013.0
36	Tien Yin Wong	188,289	2,131	98	4.6%	329	3.95	183	2014.0
37	Gordon Henry Guyatt	235,819	1,761	143	8.1%	324	3.35	223	2011.3
38	William Goddard	159,553	1,741	49	2.8%	322	2.62	174	2007.0
39	Abdullah Mohamed Asiri	127,169	2,245	33	1.5%	320	1.81	161	2016.9
40	George M. Whitesides	231,784	1,189	92	7.7%	320	3.12	219	1998.6
41	Dan J. Stein	221,316	2,349	96	4.1%	315	5.62	165	2012.8
42	Jens Juul Holst	136,061	2,056	33	1.6%	315	1.79	175	2008.0
43	Cyrus Cooper	261,555	2,071	126	6.1%	313	4.79	215	2010.8
44	Rattan Lal	98,931	1,234	44	3.6%	313	2.09	153	2008.9
45	Douglas G. Altman	683,508	747	177	23.7%	313	8.33	234	2007.8
46	Krzysztof Matyjaszewski	147,432	1,464	49	3.4%	310	2.15	180	2009.3
47	Xiaogang Wang	177,546	2,871	81	2.8%	309	3.14	176	2015.3
48	Patrick W. Serruys	164,107	2,633	68	2.6%	309	2.53	176	2008.5
49	Zhu Tao Han	69,367	2,098	40	2.0%	308	1.87	119	2018.9
50	Klaus Müllen	163,503	2,005	59	3.0%	308	2.22	180	2007.1
51	Guanrong Chen	94,665	1,747	41	2.4%	307	2.06	139	2011.1
52	Josep Maria Guerrero	98,124	1,863	50	2.7%	306	2.14	142	2018.4
53	John J.V. McMurray	256,767	1,882	133	7.1%	304	4.65	202	2014.2
54	Edward L. Giovannucci	178,590	1,707	83	4.9%	304	2.48	198	2012.9
55	Luigi Ferrucci	215,395	1,989	105	5.3%	302	3.16	214	2013.7
56	Frank B. Hu	209,882	1,388	118	8.5%	302	3.06	218	2013.8
57	Shi Xue Dou	127,193	2,143	63	3.0%	301	1.87	180	2011.1
58	Kendall Houk	108,367	1,659	36	2.2%	300	1.78	148	2006.8
59	Ronald C. Kessler	291,478	1,293	136	10.6%	300	3.54	249	2009.8
60	Xuemin (Sherman) Shen	79,924	1,943	51	2.6%	297	2.10	134	2014.8
61	Avelino Corma	157,771	1,410	44	3.1%	297	2.49	175	2006.2
62	Martin McKee	193,409	1,912	88	4.6%	296	5.76	146	2012.5
63	Gregg Fonarow	160,563	1,985	78	3.9%	295	3.13	176	2015.0
64	Hermann Brenner	247,798	2,151	108	5.1%	295	6.27	176	2014.3
65	Guangming Zeng	181,708	1,618	71	4.4%	293	1.79	221	2015.2
66	Pierre Bourdıeu	159,101	699	69	9.9%	293	3.93	142	1995.5
67	Philip S. Yu	97,669	1,841	64	3.5%	293	2.52	141	2013.2
68	Peng Shi	75,584	1,507	51	3.4%	292	1.64	145	2015.7
69	Josep Pañuelas	123,451	1,619	89	5.7%	291	2.36	164	2016.9
70	Yury G. Gogotsi	270,037	1,143	149	13.2%	291	3.72	230	2014.1
71	Jing Li	104,394	2,401	24	1.0%	289	1.90	138	2016.1
72	David Lee Kaplan	146,940	1,735	43	2.5%	287	1.94	182	2010.5
73	Nicola Maffulli	71,143	1,928	21	1.1%	286	1.43	116	2012.9
74	Jin Li	98,387	2,825	26	0.92%	286	1.75	132	2015.6
75	Hua Zhang	175,995	1,957	84	4.3%	286	2.43	199	2015.9
76	Zhanhu Guo	135,933	1,589	71	4.5%	285	1.75	183	2017.0
77	Arumugam Manthiram	114,015	1,065	55	5.2%	285	2.29	163	2012.7
78	Solomon H. Snyder	165,101	1,106	67	6.1%	285	1.99	214	1990.1
79	Jean‐Louis Vincent	193,486	1,647	79	4.8%	284	3.68	169	2007.0
80	Kypros H. Nicolaides	104,027	1,830	34	1.9%	284	1.82	153	2006.5
81	Mercouri G. Kanatzidis	174,132	1,563	89	5.8%	284	2.91	193	2011.2
82	Ping Zhang	66,487	2,815	9	0.32%	282	1.24	107	2016.0
83	‪Damià Barceló	111,261	1,610	24	1.5%	281	1.75	152	2010.5
84	Christopher T. Russell	99,032	2,311	24	1.0%	281	1.59	138	2003.8
85	David John Hunter	180,077	1,867	80	4.3%	279	2.85	191	2010.8
86	Bruce S. McEwen	174,013	1,108	53	4.8%	278	2.18	200	1999.1
87	Barry M. Trost	89,519	1,031	20	1.9%	277	1.70	138	1994.9
88	David Moher	687,066	989	149	15.3%	277	10.7	187	2013.9
89	Russel Joseph Reiter	124,225	1,570	35	2.2%	273	1.75	173	2005.0
90	Adrian F Furnham	68,218	1,576	15	0.95%	273	1.44	121	2005.3
91	Graham A. Colditz	188,073	1,462	85	5.8%	273	2.11	223	2006.1
92	Philippe Ciais	190,735	1,497	165	11.3%	273	3.19	206	2017.0
93	Giuseppe Lippi	69,364	2,200	20	0.91%	272	1.75	108	2014.9
94	Rinaldo Bellomo	131,304	1,978	49	2.5%	272	2.68	153	2013.3
95	Joseph Wang	123,341	1,228	68	5.6%	269	2.30	185	2007.2
96	Jun Wang	208,733	2,252	97	4.3%	269	3.28	191	2016.1
97	Bharat Bhushan	72,658	1,376	29	2.1%	268	1.78	124	2005.3
98	Ioan Victor Pop	63,096	1,564	8	0.51%	268	1.36	118	2011.2
99	Salim Yusuf	221,504	1,611	145	9.0%	267	2.90	229	2009.7
100	Zidong Wang	71,746	1,325	32	2.4%	266	1.69	139	2016.9