Women scientists with higher citation impact of their COVID-19-related published work than all of the 76 experts who appeared in the analysed sample of US cable news prime time
| Scientist | Institution | Primary discipline | Secondary discipline |
| Guarner, Jeannette | Emory University School of Medicine | Pathology | Microbiology |
| Bourouiba, Lydia | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Fluids and plasmas | Evolutionary biology |
| Phelan, Alexandra L. | Georgetown Law | General and internal medicine | Applied ethics |
| Abbasi, Jennifer | University of California, San Francisco | General and internal medicine | |
| Walls, Alexandra C. | University of Washington, Seattle | Developmental biology | Biophysics |
| Connors, Jean M. | Harvard Medical School | Cardiovascular system and haematology | Immunology |
| de Wit, Emmie | NIAID Rocky Mountain Laboratories | Virology | Microbiology |
| Volkow, Nora D. | National Institutes of Health (NIH) | Neurology and neurosurgery | Psychiatry |
| Rubin, Rita | Independent journalist | General and internal medicine | |
| Amanat, Fatima | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | Microbiology | Virology |