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Top Biophysics Researchers

Stefan W. Hell ranks first, followed by Anne E. Carpenter and Ji‐Xin Cheng, out of 632,228 ranked researchers.

Field rank: how many more of the researcher's articles, reviews and conference papers in this field reached the world top 10% for their subfield and year than the 10% expected of anyone's. A paper in the top 10% adds 0.9 and any other takes 0.1 away, however highly cited, so many strong papers in the field outrank one famous paper, a long record of ordinary papers does not climb, and work in other fields does not count. A paper in two subfields counts half in each. A researcher with fewer papers in the Nature Index's selective journals than expected has the count lowered by the square root of that journal factor. Floor: 15 works, an institution the snapshot can resolve, and an article, review or conference paper in this field.

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  1. 1 Stefan W. Hell Germany · #10,147 worldwide overall 64.8 of 168 papers here in the top 10%
  2. 2 Anne E. Carpenter United States · #7,138 worldwide overall 31.2 of 55 papers here in the top 10%
  3. 3 Ji‐Xin Cheng United States · #42,037 worldwide overall 36.9 of 118 papers here in the top 10%
  4. 4 Xiaoliang Sunney Xie United States · #6,402 worldwide overall 29.5 of 57 papers here in the top 10%
  5. 5 Markus Sauer Germany · #70,563 worldwide overall 29.2 of 78 papers here in the top 10%
  6. 6 Christian Eggeling United Kingdom · #71,393 worldwide overall 27.1 of 72 papers here in the top 10%
  7. 7 Roger Y. Tsien United States · #417 worldwide overall 22.8 of 32 papers here in the top 10%
  8. 8 Jürgen Popp Germany · #337,408 worldwide overall 42.6 of 249 papers here in the top 10%
  9. 9 Mike Heilemann Germany · #66,153 worldwide overall 24.1 of 66 papers here in the top 10%
  10. 10 Eric Betzig United States · #8,636 worldwide overall 21.2 of 38 papers here in the top 10%
  11. 11 Xiaowei Zhuang United States · #1,736 worldwide overall 20.8 of 35 papers here in the top 10%
  12. 12 Wei Min United States · #95,362 worldwide overall 21.4 of 48 papers here in the top 10%
  13. 13 Stefan Jakobs Germany · #36,477 worldwide overall 20.3 of 39 papers here in the top 10%
  14. 14 W. E. Moerner United States · #80,372 worldwide overall 23.2 of 73 papers here in the top 10%
  15. 15 Fabian Joachim Theis Germany · #7,038 worldwide overall 17.9 of 25 papers here in the top 10%
  16. 16 Garry P. Nolan United States · #10,503 worldwide overall 18.0 of 30 papers here in the top 10%
  17. 17 Vladislav V. Verkhusha United States · #55,238 worldwide overall 19.0 of 41 papers here in the top 10%
  18. 18 Roberta Sessoli Italy · #16,223 worldwide overall 18.6 of 41 papers here in the top 10%
  19. 19 Watt W. Webb United States · #25,663 worldwide overall 18.7 of 44 papers here in the top 10%
  20. 20 Robert E. Campbell Canada · #176,557 worldwide overall 17.9 of 38 papers here in the top 10%
  21. 21 Michael W. Davidson United States · #100,663 worldwide overall 17.2 of 32 papers here in the top 10%
  22. 22 Luke D. Lavis United States · #9,682 worldwide overall 16.5 of 25 papers here in the top 10%
  23. 23 Hari Shroff United States · #75,697 worldwide overall 18.2 of 42 papers here in the top 10%
  24. 24 Richard P. Van Duyne United States · #5,321 worldwide overall 16.9 of 31 papers here in the top 10%
  25. 25 Atsushi Miyawaki Japan · #104,663 worldwide overall 21.0 of 74 papers here in the top 10%
  26. 26 Aviv Regev United States · #17 worldwide overall 15.3 of 17 papers here in the top 10%
  27. 27 Jennifer Lippincott‐Schwartz United States · #3,539 worldwide overall 17.2 of 36 papers here in the top 10%
  28. 28 Jack H. Freed United States · #103,883 worldwide overall 22.3 of 87 papers here in the top 10%
  29. 29 Jay Louis Zweier United States · #129,984 worldwide overall 24.2 of 108 papers here in the top 10%
  30. 30 Wayne L. Hubbell United States · #53,476 worldwide overall 17.3 of 45 papers here in the top 10%
  31. 31 Jonas Ries Germany · #16,180 worldwide overall 16.2 of 34 papers here in the top 10%
  32. 32 Enrico Gratton United States · #189,930 worldwide overall 30.5 of 181 papers here in the top 10%
  33. 33 Shantanu Singh United States · #17,950 worldwide overall 14.8 of 27 papers here in the top 10%
  34. 34 Sarah Amalia Teichmann United Kingdom · #148 worldwide overall 13.8 of 17 papers here in the top 10%
  35. 35 Edward S. Boyden United States · #9,296 worldwide overall 14.3 of 26 papers here in the top 10%
  36. 36 Petra Schwille Germany · #46,793 worldwide overall 16.2 of 45 papers here in the top 10%
  37. 37 Winfried T. Denk Germany · #16,897 worldwide overall 14.5 of 29 papers here in the top 10%
  38. 38 Ralf Jungmann Germany · #20,518 worldwide overall 14.3 of 28 papers here in the top 10%
  39. 39 Na Young Ji United States · #73,012 worldwide overall 15.0 of 34 papers here in the top 10%
  40. 40 Taekjip Ha United States · #52,850 worldwide overall 14.7 of 31 papers here in the top 10%
  41. 41 Peter J. Hore United Kingdom · #150,082 worldwide overall 15.1 of 39 papers here in the top 10%
  42. 42 Michael S. Feld United States · #140,878 worldwide overall 18.5 of 72 papers here in the top 10%
  43. 43 Igor K. Lednev United States · #110,825 worldwide overall 15.5 of 44 papers here in the top 10%
  44. 44 Peter Karl Sorger United States · #875 worldwide overall 13.4 of 24 papers here in the top 10%
  45. 45 Joerg Bewersdorf United States · #75,266 worldwide overall 14.8 of 42 papers here in the top 10%
  46. 46 Hongkui Zeng United States · #236 worldwide overall 12.8 of 23 papers here in the top 10%
  47. 47 Thomas Wilhelm Bocklitz Germany · #162,848 worldwide overall 17.0 of 64 papers here in the top 10%
  48. 48 Giorgio A. Ascoli United States · #456,350 worldwide overall 14.5 of 40 papers here in the top 10%
  49. 49 Wolfgang Wiltschko Germany · #265,611 worldwide overall 15.2 of 44 papers here in the top 10%
  50. 50 Ernst H. K. Stelzer Germany · #78,897 worldwide overall 14.2 of 40 papers here in the top 10%
  51. 51 Robert G. Griffin United States · #23,354 worldwide overall 15.0 of 48 papers here in the top 10%
  52. 51 Kevin W. Eliceiri United States · #82,240 worldwide overall 16.3 of 62 papers here in the top 10%
  53. 53 Wolfgang Wernsdorfer France · #17,242 worldwide overall 13.3 of 32 papers here in the top 10%
  54. 53 Qionghai Dai China · #61,844 worldwide overall 14.4 of 42 papers here in the top 10%
  55. 55 Henrik Mouritsen Germany · #19,988 worldwide overall 12.7 of 25 papers here in the top 10%
  56. 56 Jörg Enderlein Germany · #270,957 worldwide overall 17.1 of 71 papers here in the top 10%
  57. 57 Da‐Wen Sun Ireland · #53,845 worldwide overall 23.2 of 30 papers here in the top 10%
  58. 57 Christian W. Freudiger United States · #51,267 worldwide overall 12.3 of 24 papers here in the top 10%
  59. 59 Ricardo Henriques United Kingdom · #34,402 worldwide overall 12.8 of 29 papers here in the top 10%
  60. 60 Karel Svoboda United States · #514 worldwide overall 11.7 of 19 papers here in the top 10%
  61. 61 Jiamin Wu China · #83,685 worldwide overall 12.1 of 24 papers here in the top 10%
  62. 62 Michael Hawrylycz United States · #11,318 worldwide overall 11.6 of 20 papers here in the top 10%
  63. 63 Philipp Kukura United Kingdom · #40,219 worldwide overall 12.0 of 24 papers here in the top 10%
  64. 64 Jonathan B. Grimm United States · #23,638 worldwide overall 10.8 of 14 papers here in the top 10%
  65. 65 Philipp Keller United States · #47,656 worldwide overall 11.5 of 24 papers here in the top 10%
  66. 66 Sergey Lukyanov Russia · #84,066 worldwide overall 11.3 of 22 papers here in the top 10%
  67. 67 James G. Fujimoto United States · #96,521 worldwide overall 15.3 of 63 papers here in the top 10%
  68. 68 Royston Goodacre United Kingdom · #51,641 worldwide overall 13.8 of 48 papers here in the top 10%
  69. 69 Rainer Heintzmann Germany · #197,598 worldwide overall 14.7 of 57 papers here in the top 10%
  70. 70 Jason R. Swedlow United Kingdom · #71,867 worldwide overall 11.5 of 26 papers here in the top 10%
  71. 71 Wei E. Huang United Kingdom · #92,013 worldwide overall 11.2 of 22 papers here in the top 10%
  72. 72 Pavel Tomančák Germany · #27,567 worldwide overall 11.0 of 21 papers here in the top 10%
  73. 73 John C. Marioni United Kingdom · #344 worldwide overall 10.2 of 13 papers here in the top 10%
  74. 74 Jan Ellenberg Germany · #3,719 worldwide overall 11.5 of 27 papers here in the top 10%
  75. 75 Kai Johnsson Switzerland · #23,732 worldwide overall 10.7 of 18 papers here in the top 10%
  76. 75 Johan Hofkens Belgium · #106,533 worldwide overall 14.8 of 60 papers here in the top 10%
  77. 77 Peter C.M. van Zijl United States · #20,332 worldwide overall 11.4 of 26 papers here in the top 10%
  78. 78 Bernd Bodenmiller Switzerland · #6,799 worldwide overall 11.3 of 26 papers here in the top 10%
  79. 79 Beth A. Cimini United States · #27,818 worldwide overall 10.8 of 21 papers here in the top 10%
  80. 80 Shimon Weiss United States · #139,621 worldwide overall 14.2 of 54 papers here in the top 10%
  81. 81 Suliana Manley Switzerland · #64,614 worldwide overall 11.5 of 28 papers here in the top 10%
  82. 82 Jean‐Baptiste Sibarita France · #36,405 worldwide overall 10.8 of 22 papers here in the top 10%
  83. 83 Balaraman Kalyanaraman United States · #49,104 worldwide overall 12.1 of 36 papers here in the top 10%
  84. 84 Ke Xu United States · #92,952 worldwide overall 10.5 of 20 papers here in the top 10%
  85. 85 Gaudenz Danuser United States · #30,420 worldwide overall 12.0 of 35 papers here in the top 10%
  86. 86 Frank Neese Germany · #3,276 worldwide overall 11.5 of 30 papers here in the top 10%
  87. 87 Ralph Weissleder United States · #3,458 worldwide overall 12.2 of 37 papers here in the top 10%
  88. 88 Ed S. Lein United States · #785 worldwide overall 10.0 of 16 papers here in the top 10%
  89. 89 Bin W. Ren China · #62,455 worldwide overall 11.3 of 30 papers here in the top 10%
  90. 89 Reto Paul Fiolka United States · #87,732 worldwide overall 11.9 of 36 papers here in the top 10%
  91. 89 Gunnar Jeschke Switzerland · #260,202 worldwide overall 17.5 of 92 papers here in the top 10%
  92. 92 Philip Tinnefeld Germany · #100,468 worldwide overall 11.8 of 35 papers here in the top 10%
  93. 93 Andréa Caneschi Italy · #81,645 worldwide overall 11.8 of 35 papers here in the top 10%
  94. 93 Roswitha Wiltschko Germany · #394,584 worldwide overall 12.5 of 38 papers here in the top 10%
  95. 95 Chris Xu United States · #257,347 worldwide overall 16.7 of 84 papers here in the top 10%
  96. 96 Benjamin Schuler Switzerland · #41,069 worldwide overall 10.5 of 22 papers here in the top 10%
  97. 96 Ad Bax United States · #6,849 worldwide overall 10.5 of 22 papers here in the top 10%
  98. 98 Sanjiv Sam Gambhir United States · #18,494 worldwide overall 10.7 of 24 papers here in the top 10%
  99. 99 Lothar Schermelleh United Kingdom · #17,078 worldwide overall 9.7 of 14 papers here in the top 10%
  100. 100 George H. Patterson United States · #143,557 worldwide overall 10.5 of 24 papers here in the top 10%

ranked researchers with an article, review or conference paper in Biophysics. 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, but it is not a removal or delisting request, and no such route exists yet.

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