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 | Jeffrey S. McLean | University of Washington | 0.3618 | 51 | 151 |
| 2 | Wenyuan Shi | American Dental Association | 0.3618 | 76 | 320 |
| 3 | Anna Edlund | Applied BioMath (United States) | 0.1460 | 37 | 112 |
| 4 | Claire Stevens | Keck Hospital of USC | 0.0435 | 22 | 67 |
| 5 | David A. Nix | University of Utah | 0.0435 | 35 | 211 |
| 6 | Floyd E. Dewhirst | Harvard University | 0.0435 | 93 | 335 |