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 | Daniel Griffith | Washington University in St. Louis | 0.2000 | 24 | 61 |
| 2 | Jici Jiang | Northeastern University | 0.2000 | 5 | 10 |
| 3 | Chao Wang | Shanxi Agricultural University | 0.2000 | 21 | 83 |
| 4 | Michael W. Smith | National Institutes of Health | 0.2000 | 38 | 123 |