Harvard Chan School faculty recognized among world’s most influential researchers

More than 40 faculty members or researchers affiliated with Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health have been named among the world’s most influential researchers over the past decade. The annual list of Highly Cited Researchers from Clarivate Analytic’s Web of Science Group includes faculty from around the world whose papers have been cited most often by their peers—in the top 1% of citations for a chosen field or fields.

Four Harvard Chan School faculty were identified as having exceptional performance across several fields: Edward Giovannucci, Frank Hu, Walter Willett, and David R. Williams.

Worldwide, 6,389 researchers were named to the 2020 “highly cited” list. Those affiliated with Harvard Chan School include:

Galit Alter, professor in the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases
Rifat Atun, professor of global health systems
Scott Carter, assistant professor of computational biology
Andrew Chan, professor in the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases
Nancy Cook, professor in the Department of Epidemiology
Brent Coull, professor of biostatistics
Alessio Fasano, professor in the Department of Nutrition
Eric Franzosa, senior research scientist in the Department of Biostatistics
Wendy Garrett, Irene Heinz Given Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases
Edward Giovannucci, professor of nutrition and epidemiology
Robert Glynn, professor in the Department of Biostatistics
Miguel Hernán, Kolokotrones Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
Gökhan S. Hotamışlıgil, James Stevens Simmons Professor of Genetics and Metabolism and director, Sabri Ülker Center for Nutrient, Genetic and Metabolic Research
Frank Hu, Fredrick J. Stare Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology and chair, Department of Nutrition
Rafael Irizarry, professor of biostatistics
Ashish Jha, adjunct professor of global health
Ichiro Kawachi, John L. Loeb and Frances Lehman Loeb Professor of Social Epidemiology
Karestan Koenen, professor of psychiatric epidemiology
I-Min Lee, professor in the Department of Epidemiology
JoAnn Manson, professor in the Department of Epidemiology
Miguel Martinez-Gonzalez, adjunct professor of nutrition
Kenneth Mayer, professor in the Department of Global Health and Population
Dariush Mozaffarian, adjunct associate professor of epidemiology
Shuji Ogino, professor in the Department of Epidemiology
Vikram Patel, professor in the Department of Global Health and Population
Alkes Price, professor of statistical genetics
Susan Redline, professor in the Department of Epidemiology
Paul Ridker, professor in the Department of Epidemiology
Eric Rimm, professor in the Departments of Epidemiology and Nutrition
Bernard Rosner, professor in the Department of Biostatistics
Sebastian Schneeweiss, professor in the Department of Epidemiology
Joel Schwartz, professor of environmental epidemiology
Donna Spiegelman, professor of epidemiologic methods, emerita
Meir Stampfer, professor of epidemiology and nutrition
S V Subramanian, professor of population health and geography
Elsie Sunderland, professor of environmental science and engineering in the Department of Environmental Health
Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen, adjunct professor of biostatistics and epidemiologic methods
Tyler VanderWeele, John L. Loeb and Frances Lehman Loeb Professor of Epidemiology
Bruce Walker, professor in the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases
Walter Willett, professor of epidemiology and nutrition
David R. Williams, Florence Sprague Norman and Laura Smart Norman Professor of Public Health and chair, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Antonella Zanobetti, principal research scientist, Department of Environmental Health
Yi Zhang, research fellow, Department of Biostatistics