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 | Charles G. Mullighan | St. Jude Children's Research Hospital | 0.1539 | 120 | 1149 |
| 2 | Jinghui Zhang | St. Jude Children's Research Hospital | 0.1248 | 96 | 1059 |
| 3 | James R. Downing | St. Jude Children's Research Hospital | 0.1058 | 130 | 607 |
| 4 | Steven Joffe | Children's Hospital of Philadelphia | 0.1015 | 63 | 339 |
| 5 | Margaret Mooney | National Institutes of Health | 0.1015 | 27 | 132 |
| 6 | Gang Wu | St. Jude Children's Research Hospital | 0.0721 | 75 | 411 |
| 7 | Kai Tan | Children's Hospital of Philadelphia | 0.0510 | 50 | 347 |
| 8 | Sarah Sharp | University of Delaware | 0.0152 | 25 | 49 |
| 9 | Rebecca Alvania | American Society for Cell Biology | 0.0152 | 11 | 33 |
| 10 | Luke R. Joyce | University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus | 0.0152 | 10 | 43 |