By analyzing the number of times scientists were cited in others’ papers, the company Thomson Reuters has created a new list of the top 3,215 most highly cited—and therefore most influential— researchers in the world. Seventeen are from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

To qualify, a scientist had to publish numerous articles from 2002 to 2012 that ranked among the top one percent most cited of those within a given subject area. By limiting the time range, Thomson Reuters intended to allow younger influential scientists to be highlighted along with well-established ones.

Congratulations to our top-cited scientists!

Biology and Biochemistry: Gregg Semenza

Clinical Medicine: Lawrence Appel, Hugh Calkins, Ralph Hruban; and the Kimmel Cancer Center’s Kenneth Kinzler, Victor Velculescu and Bert Vogelstein

Computer Science: Steven Salzberg, Arthur Delcher

Microbiology: Steven Salzberg, Mihaela Pertea

Molecular Biology and Genetics: Aravinda Chakravarti

Neuroscience and Behavior: Ted Dawson, Valina Dawson, Hongjun Song

Pharmacology and Toxicology: Justin Hanes

Social Sciences: Lisa Cooper, Jeremy Walston

Additional highly-cited researchers from The Johns Hopkins University included Evan Ma, Barbara Starfield, Charles Bennett, Timothy Heckman, Adam Riess, Alexander Szalay and Aniruddha Thakar. Josef Coresh and Leiyu Shi from the Bloomberg School of Public Health were also named.