Some outstanding scientists with media presence (those of the 76 with prime-time appearance in CNN, MSNBC or Fox News on 18 May to 19 June 2020 who are at the top 2% of citation impact in their discipline both for all their work and for their COVID-19 work)
| Name | Institution | Primary discipline | Rank for COVID-19 | Scientists in discipline (COVID-19 work) | Rank for all work | Scientists in discipline (all) |
| Grabowski, David C | Harvard Medical School | Health policy and services | 1 | 2522 | 90 | 16 521 |
| Holtgrave, David R | University at Albany | Public health | 48 | 9211 | 385 | 48 533 |
| Jha, Ashish K | Harvard University | General and internal medicine | 397 | 32 920 | 91 | 106 795 |
| Gawande, Atul A | Brigham and Women’s Hospital | Surgery | 114 | 12 295 | 58 | 80 940 |
| Topol, Eric | Scripps Research Translational Institute | Cardiovascular system and haematology | 28 | 19 231 | 7 | 152 312 |
| Emanuel, Ezekiel J | University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine | General and internal medicine | 26 | 32 920 | 31 | 106 795 |
| Fineberg, Harvey V | Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation | General and internal medicine | 158 | 32 920 | 503 | 106 795 |
| Risch, Harvey A | Yale University | Oncology and carcinogenesis | 95 | 19 550 | 690 | 230 678 |
| Hotez, Peter J. | Baylor College of Medicine | Tropical medicine | 8 | 4941 | 4 | 28 529 |
| Prather, Kimberly A | Scripps Institution of Oceanography | Meteorology and atmospheric sciences | 8 | 1745 | 830 | 54 940 |
| Aral, Sinan | MIT Sloan School of Management | Information systems | 91 | 619 | 163 | 16 581 |