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SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research

Last updated June 1, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Weijuan Huang
Jinan University
99
2
Tony Jun Huang
Duke University
86
3
Eric A. Appel
Stanford University
79
4
Rachel Hess
University of Utah
77
5
Richard A. Moffitt
Emory University
73
6
Shobhit K. Patel
Marwadi University
63
7
Zifeng Yang
Macau University of Science and Technology
62
8
László Tiszlavicz
University of Szeged
61
9
Vijay Bhaskar Semwal
Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology
60
10
Stephen V. Faraone
SUNY Upstate Medical University
60

Rising Stars Papers

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Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Matthew Whitaker
NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre
98
2
Bingyu Zhang
University of Pennsylvania
87
3
Yiwen Lu
Applied Mathematics (United States)
85
4
David Kerkmann
Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research
85
5
Ankit Yadav
Lovely Professional University
79
6
Christian J A Sigrist
SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
78
7
Onyema Ogbuagu
Yale University
75
8
Alexia Sampri
British Heart Foundation
75
9
Lauren E. Wisk
University of California, Los Angeles
72
10
Kim Chiok
University of Saskatchewan
72

Emerging Leaders Papers

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All-Time Leaders

The canon

All-Time Leaders Researchers

1
Bin Cao
Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College
99
2
Chen Wang
Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College
76
3
Oliver G. Pybus
University of Oxford
70
4
Shamil Haroon
University of Birmingham
65
5
Didier Raoult
Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
64
6
Lin‐Fa Wang
SingHealth
61
7
Nahoko Shindo
World Health Organization
59
8
Macaya Douoguih
University of Maryland, Baltimore
58
9
Marina A. Zhuravleva
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
57
10
Paul J. Harrison
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
55

All-Time Leaders Papers

1
Ticks and Tickborne Bacterial Diseases in Humans: An Emerging Infectious Threat
Clinical Infectious Diseases|2001
1.3k cit.
2
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Culture of previously uncultured members of the human gut microbiota by culturomics
Nature Microbiology|2016
896 cit.
3
<i>Rickettsia felis</i>–associated Uneruptive Fever, Senegal
Emerging infectious diseases|2010
159 cit.
4
Mink, SARS-CoV-2, and the Human-Animal Interface
Frontiers in Microbiology|2021
156 cit.
5
Seasonal Variation in<i>Klebsiella pneumoniae</i>Bloodstream Infection on 4 Continents
The Journal of Infectious Diseases|2008
105 cit.
6
Gefitinib and fostamatinib target EGFR and SYK to attenuate silicosis: a multi-omics study with drug exploration
Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy|2022
83 cit.
7
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Repertoire of the gut microbiota from stomach to colon using culturomics and next-generation sequencing
BMC Microbiology|2018
75 cit.
8
Evidence of SARS-CoV-2 re-infection with a different genotype
Journal of Infection|2020
58 cit.
9
New Insights Into the Physiopathology of COVID-19: SARS-CoV-2-Associated Gastrointestinal Illness
Frontiers in Medicine|2021
57 cit.
10
MicroRNA Expression Profile of Pulmonary Artery Smooth Muscle Cells and the Effect of Let‐7d in Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension
Pulmonary Circulation|2013
37 cit.

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