The Most Cited Researchers (2026)

Citation-based rankings provide a snapshot of long-term scientific influence across disciplines such as biomedical science, machine learning, statistics, epidemiology, and physics.

This document lists the top 100 most cited researchers in 2026, ranked by total citation counts across their published work.

Top 100 Most Cited Researchers (2026)

Rank	Author	Works	Citations
1	David Moher	1,548	866,429
2	Douglas G. Altman	960	842,163
3	Ahmedin Jemal	1,061	751,434
4	Rebecca L. Siegel	278	573,711
5	Christopher J L Murray	1,004	563,112
6	Kaiming He	163	555,271
7	Freddie Bray	657	540,862
8	Eric S. Lander	895	515,136
9	Zhong Lin Wang	3,945	482,000
10	Jacques Ferlay	212	478,735
11	Rob Knight	1,782	470,913
12	Michaël Grätzel	2,525	453,658
13	Yoshua Bengio	1,284	452,939
14	Geoffrey E. Hinton	385	449,424
15	Simon I Hay	894	432,469
16	George Davey Smith	4,154	430,140
17	John P. Perdew	557	426,530
18	Theo Vos	671	424,546
19	Georg Kresse	502	419,666
20	Mark J. Daly	1,236	414,707
21	Ali H. Mokdad	923	411,597
22	Stacey Gabriel	772	407,566
23	Walter C. Willett	2,712	405,595
24	Daniel Kahneman	376	395,285
25	Richard Durbin	464	392,786
26	Robert Tibshirani	1,034	388,800
27	Peer Bork	945	385,858
28	Richard M. Ryan	727	383,647
29	Guido Kroemer	2,313	376,164
30	Steven L. Salzberg	601	371,718
31	Bert Vogelstein	1,045	370,256
32	Albert Bandura	390	366,293
33	Zulfiqar A Bhutta	1,860	364,096
34	Ronald C. Kessler	1,648	357,878
35	Gad Getz	1,842	357,392
36	John J.V. McMurray	2,612	356,735
37	Julian P. T. Higgins	627	354,235
38	Ross Girshick	173	350,784
39	Jost B. Jonas	1,860	340,864
40	Elaine R. Mardis	1,695	340,593
41	Shizuo Akira	1,480	338,195
42	Emelia J. Benjamin	1,350	335,926
43	Cyrus Cooper	3,136	335,137
44	Stephan Windecker	2,039	334,874
45	Hermann Brenner	3,225	330,691
46	Jun Wang	3,202	330,311
47	Valery L. Feigin	639	329,220
48	Amos Tversky	289	326,937
49	Kostya S. Novoselov	828	325,095
50	Isabelle Soerjomataram	380	319,888
51	Giuseppe Remuzzi	2,089	318,375
52	Xiangyu Zhang	427	316,815
53	Edward L. Deci	387	316,325
54	Matthias Egger	1,472	316,311
55	Gregory Y.H. Lip	5,527	310,904
56	A. K. Geǐm	490	310,740
57	John P. A. Ioannidis	1,848	310,022
58	Gordon Guyatt	2,208	308,907
59	Graeme J. Hankey	1,270	307,137
60	Karl Friston	1,960	305,178
61	Mika Kivimäki	2,046	305,068
62	Yury Gogotsi	1,559	303,870
63	Matthias Mann	1,426	303,064
64	Dan J. Stein	3,674	299,026
65	Gonçalo R. Abecasis	825	297,965
66	Donald B. Rubin	653	297,781
67	Róbert Langer	1,957	297,306
68	Robert A. Weinberg	673	297,214
69	Trevor Hastie	654	295,061
70	Salim Yusuf	2,149	293,880
71	Matthew Meyerson	1,771	293,789
72	Sudhir Kumar	585	293,078
73	Elie A. Akl	762	291,797
74	Peter Jüni	911	291,312
75	Farshad Farzadfar	598	289,877
76	Lesley Stewart	261	286,540
77	Naohiro Yonemoto	526	285,437
78	Richard A. Gibbs	1,333	283,743
79	Peter C Gøtzsche	667	282,487
80	John Q. Trojanowski	1,765	281,590
81	Stephen S Lim	328	281,270
82	Luigi Ferrucci	2,636	280,630
83	Frank B. Hu	1,874	280,175
84	Michael Karin	895	272,664
85	Sadaf G Sepanlou	277	271,568
86	Jian Sun	154	271,357
87	Rakhi Dandona	411	271,309
88	Reza Malekzadeh	1,074	270,692
89	Ted R. Miller	576	270,592
90	Todd R. Golub	750	270,110
91	Hagop M. Kantarjian	5,532	269,938
92	Josef Coresh	1,951	269,553
93	Victoria Delgado	1,439	268,941
94	Kieron Burke	409	268,465
95	Mohsen Naghavi	359	268,216
96	Matthias Ernzerhof	126	268,072
97	Gordon B. Mills	3,470	266,769
98	Mark A. Bradford	348	266,732
99	Louisa Degenhardt	1,058	265,899
100	Victoria Clarke	247	265,472

Notes

Rankings are based on cumulative citation counts across all indexed publications.
Fields with strong representation include biomedical research, public health, statistical methodology, and machine learning.
Large collaborative consortia significantly influence citation accumulation.