Leaderboards/Virology and Viral Diseases

Virology and Viral Diseases

Last updated July 15, 2026

Rising Stars

Fresh ink, massive impact

Researchers

1
Anna A. Minta
World Health Organization
2
Chiranjibi Sitaula
The University of Melbourne
3
Side Hu
Harvard University
4
Yiru Wang
ShanghaiTech University
5
Déborah Delaune
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
6
Stephanie Goya
University of Washington Medical Center
7
Rownak Ara Rasul
Islamic University
8
Lu Xue
Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health
9
Meredith G. Dixon
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
10
Sam Perochon
École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay

Papers

1
Progress Toward Measles Elimination — Worldwide, 2000–2023
MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report|2024
156 cit.
2
Publication in Healthcare Analytics (2024) [83 citations, W4390577178]
Healthcare Analytics|2024
83 cit.
3
Standardized Phylogenetic Classification of Human Respiratory Syncytial Virus Below the Subgroup Level
Emerging infectious diseases|2024
68 cit.
4
Publication in Cell (2025) [32 citations, W4406617339]
Cell|2025
32 cit.
5
Enhanced multi-level features for very high resolution remote sensing scene classification
Neural Computing and Applications|2024
31 cit.
6
Genomic Epidemiology and Evolution of Rhinovirus in Western Washington State, 2021–2022
The Journal of Infectious Diseases|2024
10 cit.
7
Phylodynamics of human metapneumovirus and evidence for a duplication-deletion model in G gene variant evolution
Journal of Clinical Virology|2025
8 cit.
8
Publication in Neural Computing and Applications (2024) [1 citation, W4401122433]
Neural Computing and Applications|2024
1 cit.
9
Publication in Molecular Biology and Evolution (2025) [W4414110293]
Molecular Biology and Evolution|2025
0 cit.
10
Publication in theses.fr (ABES) (2025) [W7124235087]
theses.fr (ABES)|2025
0 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Drafting the new consensus

Researchers

1
Hongjun Song
Johns Hopkins University
2
Henri‐Pierre Mallet
Institut de Veille Sanitaire
3
Rafael A. Larocca
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
4
Paul A. Gastañaduy
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
5
Jens Wrammert
Emory University
6
Laure Dumolard
World Health Organization
7
Ryan M. Wallace
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
8
Laurent Perez
Hôpital Orthopédique de la Suisse Romande
9
Neil P. King
University of Washington
10
Russell Corbett‐Detig
University of California, Santa Cruz

Papers

1
Pandemic-scale phylogenomics reveals the SARS-CoV-2 recombination landscape
Nature|2022
163 cit.
2
Rabies surveillance in the United States during 2021
Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association|2023
66 cit.
3
Transposable elements drive intron gain in diverse eukaryotes
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|2022
55 cit.
4
Antigen- and scaffold-specific antibody responses to protein nanoparticle immunogens
Cell Reports Medicine|2022
51 cit.
5
Pre-existing SARS-CoV-2 immunity influences potency, breadth, and durability of the humoral response to SARS-CoV-2 vaccination
Cell Reports Medicine|2022
46 cit.
6
Rabies surveillance in the United States during 2020
Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association|2022
43 cit.
7
Rapid and automated design of two-component protein nanomaterials using ProteinMPNN
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|2024
40 cit.
8
Hierarchical design of pseudosymmetric protein nanocages
Nature|2024
39 cit.
9
Rabies surveillance in the United States during 2022
Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association|2024
34 cit.
10
A country classification system to inform rabies prevention guidelines and regulations
Journal of Travel Medicine|2022
33 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Wrote the book, still writing it

Researchers

1
Lin‐Fa Wang
Beijing Institute of Technology
2
Robert A. Lamb
Imperial College London
3
Roberto Cattaneo
Mayo Clinic in Arizona
4
Diane E. Griffin
Johns Hopkins University
5
Catherine Lord
University of California, Los Angeles
6
Peer Bork
Max Delbrück Center
7
Yusuke Yanagi
Kyushu University Hospital
8
Siba K. Samal
Virginia–Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine
9
John K. Rose
University of California, San Francisco
10
Karl‐Klaus Conzelmann
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Papers

1
Interactive Tree Of Life (iTOL) v5: an online tool for phylogenetic tree display and annotation
Nucleic Acids Research|2021
11.7k cit.
2
Autism Diagnostic Interview-Revised: A revised version of a diagnostic interview for caregivers of individuals with possible pervasive developmental disorders
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders|1994
9.1k cit.
3
Enterotypes of the human gut microbiome
Nature|2011
7.6k cit.
4
The Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule—Generic: A Standard Measure of Social and Communication Deficits Associated with the Spectrum of Autism
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders|2000
7.6k cit.
5
Interactive Tree Of Life (iTOL) v4: recent updates and new developments
Nucleic Acids Research|2019
6.5k cit.
6
Interactive tree of life (iTOL) v3: an online tool for the display and annotation of phylogenetic and other trees
Nucleic Acids Research|2016
5.4k cit.
7
eggNOG 5.0: a hierarchical, functionally and phylogenetically annotated orthology resource based on 5090 organisms and 2502 viruses
Nucleic Acids Research|2018
5.3k cit.
8
Interactive Tree of Life (iTOL) v6: recent updates to the phylogenetic tree display and annotation tool
Nucleic Acids Research|2024
3.8k cit.
9
PAL2NAL: robust conversion of protein sequence alignments into the corresponding codon alignments
Nucleic Acids Research|2006
3.6k cit.
10
Interactive Tree Of Life (iTOL): an online tool for phylogenetic tree display and annotation
Bioinformatics|2006
3.5k cit.

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