Ranked by in-field PageRank — how central a professor is in this subfield's co-authorship network. Compare against h-index to spot influential researchers that citation counts alone would miss.
| # | Professor | Institution | PageRank | h-index | Papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pamela S. Soltis | Florida Museum of Natural History | 0.2580 | 195 | 1478 |
| 2 | Douglas E. Soltis | Florida Museum of Natural History | 0.2017 | 48 | 160 |
| 3 | Emma C. Teeling | University College Dublin | 0.0810 | 63 | 243 |
| 4 | Sonja C. Vernes | Andrews University | 0.0810 | 39 | 175 |
| 5 | Matthew A. Gitzendanner | University of Florida | 0.0732 | 36 | 92 |
| 6 | Robert K. Jansen | Carnegie Department of Plant Biology | 0.0557 | 85 | 337 |
| 7 | Richard G. Olmstead | University of California, Los Angeles | 0.0372 | 88 | 280 |
| 8 | Martin F. Wojciechowski | Montana State University | 0.0332 | 41 | 129 |
| 9 | Claude W. dePamphilis | Pennsylvania State University | 0.0271 | 83 | 227 |
| 10 | Elizabeth A. Kellogg | Harvard University | 0.0271 | 83 | 424 |