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Top Biomedical Engineering Researchers

Ian F. Akyildiz ranks first, out of 5,771 ranked researchers.

Composite score: field-normalised excellence, output and total citations weighted 50 / 30 / 20, each as a percentile so no single heavy-tailed measure dominates. Floor: 15 works, and an institution the snapshot can resolve.

The ranking

  1. 1 Ian F. Akyildiz United States · #45 worldwide 8.2k citations · 173 works
  2. 2 David R. Smith United States · #94 worldwide 6.3k citations · 145 works
  3. 3 Rodney S. Ruoff United States · #685 worldwide 5.5k citations · 134 works
  4. 4 Y. Makida Japan · #885 worldwide 8.1k citations · 349 works
  5. 5 Zhuang Liu China · #1,007 worldwide 3.6k citations · 182 works
  6. 6 Naomi J. Halas United States · #1,053 worldwide 2.8k citations · 107 works
  7. 7 A. Yamamoto Japan · #1,169 worldwide 3.3k citations · 184 works
  8. 8 George M. Whitesides United States · #1,739 worldwide 4.8k citations · 265 works
  9. 9 Anantha P. Chandrakasan United States · #1,768 worldwide 2.9k citations · 178 works
  10. 10 Róbert Langer United States · #1,884 worldwide 4.2k citations · 244 works
  11. 11 Charles M. Lieber United States · #1,892 worldwide 2.7k citations · 91 works
  12. 12 Menachem Elimelech United States · #2,304 worldwide 3k citations · 120 works
  13. 13 Ayhan Demirbaş Türkiye · #2,406 worldwide 2.6k citations · 97 works
  14. 14 Nidal Hilal United Kingdom · #2,489 worldwide 2.4k citations · 118 works
  15. 15 Hölger Thiele Germany · #2,502 worldwide 2.3k citations · 205 works
  16. 16 Sanjiv Kaul United States · #2,663 worldwide 1.6k citations · 78 works
  17. 17 Chad A. Mirkin United States · #2,755 worldwide 4.6k citations · 236 works
  18. 18 A. Manz Germany · #2,972 worldwide 2.3k citations · 99 works
  19. 19 Guillermo J. Tearney United States · #2,981 worldwide 1.1k citations · 121 works
  20. 20 Hervé Delingette France · #3,047 worldwide 1.6k citations · 120 works
  21. 21 Yusuf Chisti New Zealand · #3,055 worldwide 2.2k citations · 104 works
  22. 22 Frank Zimmermann Switzerland · #3,329 worldwide 1.2k citations · 134 works
  23. 23 Younan Xia United States · #3,548 worldwide 3.7k citations · 178 works
  24. 24 Keith E. Gubbins United States · #3,556 worldwide 2.2k citations · 117 works
  25. 25 Nicholas Ayache France · #3,620 worldwide 2.1k citations · 196 works
  26. 26 Jan M. Rabaey United States · #3,966 worldwide 1.7k citations · 154 works
  27. 27 George Jackson United Kingdom · #3,989 worldwide 2k citations · 74 works
  28. 28 David J. Hagan United States · #4,055 worldwide 2.1k citations · 133 works
  29. 29 Peter Nordlander United States · #4,165 worldwide 2.1k citations · 126 works
  30. 30 Blake Hannaford United States · #4,270 worldwide 1k citations · 89 works
  31. 31 Volkmar Falk Germany · #4,350 worldwide 2.2k citations · 217 works
  32. 32 Simon C. Gandevia Australia · #4,962 worldwide 1.3k citations · 83 works
  33. 33 A.V. Bridgwater United Kingdom · #5,113 worldwide 2.2k citations · 61 works
  34. 34 Stephen Y. Chou United States · #5,427 worldwide 1.1k citations · 72 works
  35. 35 Phaedon Avouris United States · #5,549 worldwide 2.6k citations · 156 works
  36. 36 Qiwen Zhan United States · #5,687 worldwide 1.1k citations · 105 works
  37. 37 Taeghwan Hyeon South Korea · #5,712 worldwide 2.6k citations · 121 works
  38. 38 Michael R. Hamblin United States · #6,078 worldwide 2.8k citations · 248 works
  39. 39 Morton E. Gurtin United States · #6,091 worldwide 1.7k citations · 117 works
  40. 40 Paavo V. Komi Finland · #6,182 worldwide 892 citations · 74 works
  41. 41 Oussama Khatib United States · #6,199 worldwide 1.1k citations · 88 works
  42. 42 Jean M. J. Fréchet United States · #6,312 worldwide 2k citations · 130 works
  43. 43 Jacky W. Y. Lam Hong Kong · #6,351 worldwide 3.4k citations · 216 works
  44. 44 Eric W. Van Stryland United States · #6,374 worldwide 2.2k citations · 154 works
  45. 45 Zhigang Suo United States · #6,513 worldwide 1.9k citations · 113 works
  46. 46 Roger T. Howe United States · #6,573 worldwide 1.3k citations · 96 works
  47. 47 Shuuji Kajita Japan · #6,800 worldwide 830 citations · 61 works
  48. 48 Boris Luk’yanchuk Singapore · #6,853 worldwide 1k citations · 64 works
  49. 49 Jessy W. Grizzle United States · #6,875 worldwide 1.2k citations · 74 works
  50. 50 Sangbae Kim United States · #7,113 worldwide 1.2k citations · 58 works
  51. 51 Shuji Nakamura United States · #7,138 worldwide 3k citations · 250 works
  52. 52 Yong Sik Ok South Korea · #7,161 worldwide 3.3k citations · 181 works
  53. 53 Robert J. Wood United States · #7,197 worldwide 1.2k citations · 112 works
  54. 54 Peidong Yang United States · #7,429 worldwide 2.3k citations · 110 works
  55. 55 Jing Kong United States · #7,485 worldwide 2.4k citations · 126 works
  56. 56 Donna Mancini United States · #7,658 worldwide 1.1k citations · 131 works
  57. 57 Adolf F. Fercher Austria · #7,678 worldwide 844 citations · 81 works
  58. 58 Robert O. Ritchie United States · #8,330 worldwide 2.5k citations · 177 works
  59. 59 L. E. Cross United States · #8,426 worldwide 2.4k citations · 176 works
  60. 60 Daniel Rueckert United Kingdom · #8,479 worldwide 3.6k citations · 321 works
  61. 61 Ray W. Ogden United Kingdom · #8,531 worldwide 1k citations · 79 works
  62. 62 Guangming Zeng China · #8,556 worldwide 5.6k citations · 251 works
  63. 63 Edward J. Anthony United Kingdom · #8,618 worldwide 1.7k citations · 96 works
  64. 64 Zhong Lin Wang United States · #8,619 worldwide 11k citations · 628 works
  65. 65 Axel Scherer United States · #8,649 worldwide 1.4k citations · 120 works
  66. 66 Stefan A. Maier United Kingdom · #8,768 worldwide 2.5k citations · 209 works
  67. 67 Ernst Helmut Brandt Germany · #8,907 worldwide 1.3k citations · 98 works
  68. 68 Udo Weimar Germany · #9,037 worldwide 1.4k citations · 84 works
  69. 69 Nicolae Bârsan Germany · #9,052 worldwide 1.4k citations · 65 works
  70. 70 M. Sheikholeslami Iran · #9,351 worldwide 2k citations · 85 works
  71. 71 F. J. García‐Vidal Spain · #9,356 worldwide 1.5k citations · 85 works
  72. 72 André Faaij Netherlands · #9,463 worldwide 1.7k citations · 110 works
  73. 73 Robert Evans United Kingdom · #9,535 worldwide 1.2k citations · 73 works
  74. 74 William L. Barnes United Kingdom · #9,544 worldwide 1.4k citations · 146 works
  75. 75 Luis M. Liz‐Marzán Spain · #9,638 worldwide 2.2k citations · 139 works
  76. 76 Cees Dekker Netherlands · #9,670 worldwide 1.3k citations · 86 works
  77. 77 Navid Rabiee Iran · #9,763 worldwide 1.2k citations · 83 works
  78. 78 John M. Prausnitz United States · #9,885 worldwide 2k citations · 153 works
  79. 79 Masoud Afrand Iran · #9,935 worldwide 1.3k citations · 71 works
  80. 80 Daniela Rus United States · #10,137 worldwide 3.2k citations · 304 works
  81. 81 Ali Khademhosseini United States · #10,147 worldwide 1.6k citations · 142 works
  82. 82 Gerald D. Buckberg United States · #10,208 worldwide 880 citations · 77 works
  83. 83 Yury Gogotsi United States · #10,271 worldwide 5.1k citations · 255 works
  84. 84 Simon Arridge United Kingdom · #10,417 worldwide 1.3k citations · 149 works
  85. 85 Shanhui Fan United States · #10,508 worldwide 3.6k citations · 292 works
  86. 86 Oswald H. W. Siegmund United States · #10,637 worldwide 948 citations · 113 works
  87. 87 Mamoru Ishii United States · #10,699 worldwide 883 citations · 72 works
  88. 88 Benny D. Freeman United States · #10,946 worldwide 2.5k citations · 131 works
  89. 89 A. A. Maradudin United States · #10,996 worldwide 895 citations · 88 works
  90. 90 Larry L. Hench United States · #11,028 worldwide 1.4k citations · 127 works
  91. 91 Michael S. Patterson Canada · #11,047 worldwide 624 citations · 56 works
  92. 92 H. Kazerooni United States · #11,063 worldwide 944 citations · 51 works
  93. 93 Michael Goldfarb United States · #11,074 worldwide 622 citations · 64 works
  94. 94 David G. Grier United States · #11,118 worldwide 924 citations · 84 works
  95. 95 Janusz Pawliszyn Canada · #11,370 worldwide 1.8k citations · 150 works
  96. 96 Vijai Kumar Gupta United Kingdom · #11,697 worldwide 1.6k citations · 78 works
  97. 97 Alberto Bianco France · #11,821 worldwide 1.7k citations · 82 works
  98. 98 Brett E. Bouma United States · #11,854 worldwide 1.2k citations · 139 works
  99. 99 Hang Su Italy · #12,246 worldwide 1.3k citations · 98 works
  100. 100 Philip J. Marriott Australia · #12,382 worldwide 897 citations · 90 works

authors from the 6,000 highest-output in Biomedical Engineering, re-ranked on the composite score. Author identities come from OpenAlex disambiguation and inherit its errors: a merged record can put one name over two people’s work, and a split one can halve a career. Every row links out to the OpenAlex record so the underlying claim is checkable, and anything that looks wrong can be reported from the row. That report files a correction against the bibliographic record for a human to review — it is not a removal or delisting request, and no such route exists yet.

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