Top Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation Researchers
Li Fei-Fei ranks first, out of 3,550 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 Li Fei-Fei United States · #9 worldwide 17k citations · 188 works
- 2 Neil Pearce United Kingdom · #220 worldwide 3.2k citations · 152 works
- 3 Reinhard Busse Germany · #480 worldwide 3.1k citations · 103 works
- 4 Sharon E. Straus Canada · #623 worldwide 6k citations · 96 works
- 5 John C. Morris United States · #720 worldwide 5.1k citations · 361 works
- 6 Lenore J. Launer United States · #898 worldwide 3k citations · 184 works
- 7 Donald S. Siegel United States · #1,182 worldwide 2.7k citations · 114 works
- 8 Ronald C. Petersen United States · #1,258 worldwide 4k citations · 306 works
- 9 Ester Cerin Hong Kong · #1,276 worldwide 4k citations · 85 works
- 10 Steve Iliffe United Kingdom · #1,469 worldwide 1.6k citations · 156 works
- 11 Luigi Ferrucci United States · #1,649 worldwide 5.3k citations · 345 works
- 12 Janice M. Morse Canada · #1,758 worldwide 1.7k citations · 95 works
- 13 Jack M. Guralnik United States · #1,930 worldwide 1.7k citations · 108 works
- 14 Anne M. Fagan United States · #1,978 worldwide 1.7k citations · 125 works
- 15 Ivan Bautmans Belgium · #2,010 worldwide 1.6k citations · 83 works
- 16 Hölger Thiele Germany · #2,502 worldwide 2.3k citations · 205 works
- 17 Lynn Rochester United Kingdom · #2,662 worldwide 1.3k citations · 112 works
- 18 Jane A. Cauley United States · #2,931 worldwide 1.8k citations · 164 works
- 19 Bart W. Koes Netherlands · #3,085 worldwide 1.2k citations · 121 works
- 20 Kristine Yaffe United States · #3,289 worldwide 2.4k citations · 204 works
- 21 Catherine Sherrington Australia · #3,579 worldwide 1.3k citations · 147 works
- 22 Herbert W. Marsh Australia · #3,807 worldwide 4.6k citations · 265 works
- 23 David A. Bennett United States · #4,339 worldwide 3k citations · 267 works
- 24 Jean Woo Hong Kong · #4,630 worldwide 1.3k citations · 159 works
- 25 Simon C. Gandevia Australia · #4,962 worldwide 1.3k citations · 83 works
- 26 Benny Lo United Kingdom · #5,036 worldwide 874 citations · 72 works
- 27 David Kirk Australia · #5,153 worldwide 856 citations · 108 works
- 28 Richard A. Schmidt United States · #5,612 worldwide 1k citations · 73 works
- 29 Robert B. Wallace United States · #5,797 worldwide 1.9k citations · 184 works
- 30 Thomas Weber Austria · #5,817 worldwide 599 citations · 89 works
- 31 Stefania Bandinelli United States · #5,846 worldwide 1.4k citations · 105 works
- 32 Alan M. Jette United States · #5,971 worldwide 797 citations · 76 works
- 33 Linda P. Fried United States · #7,079 worldwide 876 citations · 69 works
- 34 Maarten Vansteenkiste Belgium · #7,100 worldwide 1.6k citations · 91 works
- 35 Steven McPhail Australia · #7,269 worldwide 778 citations · 81 works
- 36 Thomas M. Gill United States · #7,771 worldwide 951 citations · 82 works
- 37 Stephanie A. Studenski United States · #7,890 worldwide 1.4k citations · 54 works
- 38 Pamela W. Duncan United States · #8,020 worldwide 727 citations · 71 works
- 39 W. Jack Rejeski United States · #8,276 worldwide 861 citations · 59 works
- 40 Gerold Stucki Switzerland · #8,740 worldwide 782 citations · 87 works
- 41 François R. Herrmann Switzerland · #9,282 worldwide 864 citations · 126 works
- 42 Eleanor M. Simonsick United States · #10,584 worldwide 816 citations · 76 works
- 43 Thomas Hofmann Germany · #10,717 worldwide 3.5k citations · 437 works
- 44 Claude Bouchard Canada · #11,180 worldwide 1.6k citations · 247 works
- 45 Abby C. King United States · #11,530 worldwide 939 citations · 88 works
- 46 Sheila K. West United States · #11,586 worldwide 757 citations · 116 works
- 47 J. Dichgans Germany · #12,086 worldwide 808 citations · 97 works
- 48 Nir Giladi Israel · #13,404 worldwide 660 citations · 79 works
- 49 Chang Won Won South Korea · #13,407 worldwide 709 citations · 48 works
- 50 Stefan Zeuzem Germany · #13,612 worldwide 2k citations · 427 works
- 51 Adrian Bauman Australia · #14,212 worldwide 1.3k citations · 203 works
- 52 Stewart G. Trost Australia · #14,323 worldwide 673 citations · 76 works
- 53 John G. Nutt United States · #14,994 worldwide 690 citations · 50 works
- 54 John D. Lee United States · #15,885 worldwide 975 citations · 92 works
- 55 Kenneth M. Langa United States · #16,088 worldwide 631 citations · 88 works
- 56 Bastiaan R. Bloem Netherlands · #16,582 worldwide 619 citations · 100 works
- 57 Thomas A. Dingus United States · #17,841 worldwide 598 citations · 56 works
- 58 Anne B. Newman United States · #17,855 worldwide 1.4k citations · 169 works
- 59 John R. Best Canada · #18,109 worldwide 546 citations · 49 works
- 60 Martin Underwood United Kingdom · #18,302 worldwide 690 citations · 91 works
- 61 Karl M. Newell United States · #18,655 worldwide 693 citations · 82 works
- 62 Russell R. Pate United States · #19,531 worldwide 937 citations · 124 works
- 63 Sandra Mahecha Matsudo Brazil · #19,595 worldwide 248 citations · 60 works
- 64 Paul W. Hodges Australia · #19,684 worldwide 648 citations · 116 works
- 65 Andrew C. Sparkes United Kingdom · #19,885 worldwide 600 citations · 70 works
- 66 Doune Macdonald Australia · #20,121 worldwide 346 citations · 54 works
- 67 Gareth Stratton United Kingdom · #20,187 worldwide 398 citations · 50 works
- 68 Martin Schumacher Germany · #20,214 worldwide 1k citations · 121 works
- 69 M. Arfan Ikram Netherlands · #20,299 worldwide 1.9k citations · 247 works
- 70 Robert M. Malina United States · #20,768 worldwide 827 citations · 141 works
- 71 Victor Keihan Rodrigues Matsudo Brazil · #21,128 worldwide 329 citations · 87 works
- 72 Lawrence D. Frank Canada · #21,276 worldwide 692 citations · 42 works
- 73 Neville Hogan United States · #21,359 worldwide 1.2k citations · 38 works
- 74 Cynthia Owsley United States · #22,672 worldwide 675 citations · 89 works
- 75 Bo Carlsson United States · #22,777 worldwide 1k citations · 128 works
- 76 Rod K. Dishman United States · #22,967 worldwide 682 citations · 38 works
- 77 Stuart Biddle Australia · #23,013 worldwide 730 citations · 99 works
- 78 Maureen R. Weiss United States · #23,551 worldwide 446 citations · 47 works
- 79 Hermano Igo Krebs United States · #24,211 worldwide 493 citations · 64 works
- 80 Maria Chiara Carrozza Italy · #24,665 worldwide 590 citations · 84 works
- 81 Gertrudis I. J. M. Kempen Netherlands · #24,767 worldwide 402 citations · 62 works
- 82 Dick de Waard ?? · #24,855 worldwide 532 citations · 94 works
- 83 Leocadio Rodríguez‐Mañas Spain · #25,302 worldwide 346 citations · 59 works
- 84 Daniela Berg Germany · #25,922 worldwide 615 citations · 83 works
- 85 Pedro J. Teixeira Portugal · #26,564 worldwide 511 citations · 84 works
- 86 Joan L. Duda United Kingdom · #26,752 worldwide 552 citations · 72 works
- 87 Marcia G. Ory United States · #27,310 worldwide 477 citations · 72 works
- 88 Th. Müller United States · #27,580 worldwide 2.8k citations · 336 works
- 89 Bernd Löwe Germany · #27,923 worldwide 809 citations · 227 works
- 90 Peter M. Wayne United States · #28,066 worldwide 361 citations · 70 works
- 91 Pradeep Y. Ramulu United States · #28,173 worldwide 540 citations · 91 works
- 92 Volker Dietz Switzerland · #29,842 worldwide 545 citations · 64 works
- 93 Leen Haerens Belgium · #30,763 worldwide 731 citations · 59 works
- 94 Brendon Stubbs United Kingdom · #31,113 worldwide 938 citations · 123 works
- 95 Kyriakos S. Markides United States · #31,976 worldwide 447 citations · 51 works
- 96 Michael A. Messner United States · #32,283 worldwide 417 citations · 35 works
- 97 Bess H. Marcus United States · #32,525 worldwide 641 citations · 68 works
- 98 Urs Fischer Switzerland · #32,533 worldwide 735 citations · 169 works
- 99 Aron S. Buchman United States · #33,274 worldwide 385 citations · 47 works
- 100 Laurence Z. Rubenstein United States · #33,660 worldwide 406 citations · 35 works
authors from the 6,000 highest-output in Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation, 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.