The Top Women Scientists in the World

The second edition of Research.com ranking of top female scientists in the world is based on data acquired from a wide range of bibliometric sources. This ranking of best female scientists in the world comprises the leading female scientists from all key areas of science. It was based on a detailed analysis of 166,880 profiles.

Research.com states that “we are painfully aware that scienti!c research is continously a largely male line of work, and we believe that female scientists deserve an equal chance to be represented and praised for their accomplishments. Our hope is to inspire female researchers, women pondering an academic profession, as well as decision-makers around the world with the example of successful women in the research community. We hope that it will help with providing more opportunities and equal chances for women in science.”

The woman with the highest ranking is JoAnn E. Manson, Michael and Lee Bell Professor of Women’s Health at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Manson is an endocrinologist, epidemiologist, and principal investigator for the past 30 years of the Women’s Health Initiative Clinical Center in Boston. She has more than 330,000 citations in 2,031 publications.

Ranking second is Virginia M.-Y. Lee, the John H. Ware 3rd Endowed Professor in Alzheimer’s Research at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine. Dr. Lee’s research focuses on disease proteins that form pathological inclusions in hereditary and sporadic Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, frontotemporal lobar degeneration, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and related neurodegenerative disorders of aging.

Ranking third with more than 196,000 citations is Tamara B. Harris, chief of the Interdisciplinary Studies of Aging Section of the Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Sciences in the Intramural Research Program of the National Institute on Aging. Dr. Harris earned her M.D. from Albert Einstein College of Medicine and has master’s degrees in epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health and from the Institute of Human Nutrition, Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons.

The full list of the top women scientists can be found here.