Top institutions in Switzerland for Chemistry

14 institutions · Chemistry · Switzerland

Which institutions in Switzerland have the most top-cited scientists in Chemistry?

203 researchers in Switzerland whose main field is Chemistry are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 5.6% of all listed authors in Switzerland, and 18th of 109 countries in the field. 79 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). ETH Zürich has the most (52), followed by Université de Genève (18) and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (16). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors
203
5.6% of all in Switzerland
In the global top 100,000
79
38.9% of them
Country rank in the field
#18
of 109 countries in Chemistry
Highest-ranked
#2,223
Pérez-Ramírez, Javier
#InstitutionListed authorsTop 100kRank worldwideHighest-ranked author
1ETH Zürich5228#11Schneider, Gisbert #2,319
2Université de Genève186#145Bakker, Eric J. #14,064
3École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne166#175Hu, Xile #4,495
4Universität Basel155#191Wenger, Oliver S. #4,458
5Institut des Sciences et Ingénierie Chimiques126#293Zhu, Jieping #21,943
6Universität Zürich120#314Caflisch, Amedeo #111,708
7University of Bern93#430Reymond, Jean Louis #6,126
8Novartis International AG92#436Schröder, Martin W. #9,396
9University of Fribourg64#713Giese, Bernd #34,505
10Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology62#747Gaan, Sabyasachi #81,601
11Paul Scherrer Institut52#870Sushkevich, Vitaly L. #64,630
12SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics31#1,174Daina, Antoine #13,794
13Adolphe Merkle Institute31#1,258Weder, Christoph #55,230
14F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG30#1,355Böhm, Hans Joachim #129,015

The top 100 in Chemistry in Switzerland, in order

  1. 1
  2. 2
  3. 3
    Wenger, Oliver S.
    Universität Basel
  4. 4
    Hu, Xile
    École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
  5. 5
    Reymond, Jean Louis
    University of Bern
  6. 6
    Schröder, Martin W.
    Novartis International AG
  7. 7
  8. 8
  9. 9
    Daina, Antoine
    SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
  10. 10
  11. 11
    Bakker, Eric J.
    Université de Genève
  12. 12
  13. 13
    Jeschke, Gunnar
    ETH Zürich
  14. 14
    Zenobi, Renato
    ETH Zürich
  15. 15
    Wolfender, Jean Luc
    Université de Genève
  16. 16
    Prins, R. P.
    ETH Zürich
  17. 17
    Zhu, Jieping
    Institut des Sciences et Ingénierie Chimiques
  18. 18
    Dyson, Paul J.
    Institut des Sciences et Ingénierie Chimiques
  19. 19
    Riniker, Sereina
    ETH Zürich
  20. 20
    Piel, Jörn
    ETH Zürich
  21. 21
    Baiker, Alfons
    ETH Zürich
  22. 22
    Giese, Bernd
    University of Fribourg
  23. 23
  24. 24
    Schwaller, Philippe
    École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
  25. 25
    Lücking, Ulrich
    Global Discovery Chemistry
  26. 26
    Buonsanti, Raffaella
    École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
  27. 27
    Dunitz, Jack D.
    ETH Zürich
  28. 28
    Bode, Jeffrey W.
    ETH Zürich
  29. 29
    Gertsch, Jur̈g
    University of Bern
  30. 30
    Mitchell, Sharon J.
    NCCR Catalysis
  31. 31
    Seebach, Dieter
    ETH Zürich
  32. 32
    Woodward, Robert Burns
    The Woodward Research InstituteNobel laureate
  33. 33
    Constable, Edwin C.
    Universität Basel
  34. 34
    Günther, Detlef
    ETH Zürich
  35. 35
    Severin, Kay
    Institut des Sciences et Ingénierie Chimiques
  36. 36
    Corminboeuf, Clémence
    École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
  37. 37
    Coskun, Ali
    University of Fribourg
  38. 38
    Waser, Jérôme
    Institut des Sciences et Ingénierie Chimiques
  39. 39
    Steurer, Walter
    ETH Zürich
  40. 40
    Emsley, Lyndon
    Institut des Sciences et Ingénierie Chimiques
  41. 41
    Bürgi, Thomas
    Université de Genève
  42. 42
    Müller, Klaus
    ETH Zürich
  43. 43
    Weder, Christoph
    Adolphe Merkle Institute
  44. 44
    Bao, Yinyin
    ETH Zürich
  45. 45
  46. 46
    Klok, Harm Anton
    University of Fribourg
  47. 47
    Luterbacher, Jeremy S.
    Institut des Sciences et Ingénierie Chimiques
  48. 48
    Rtimi, Sami
    Global Institute for Water Environment and Health
  49. 49
  50. 50
    Sushkevich, Vitaly L.
    Paul Scherrer Institut
  51. 51
    Fromm, Katharina M.
    University of Fribourg
  52. 52
    Matile, Stefan
    Université de Genève
  53. 53
  54. 54
    Albrecht, Martin
    University of Bern
  55. 55
    Baudoin, Olivier
    Universität Basel
  56. 56
    Nesper, Reinhard
    Laboratorium für Anorganische Chemie
  57. 57
    Testa, Bernard
    Université de Lausanne (UNIL)
  58. 58
    Morandi, Bill
    ETH Zürich
  59. 59
    Krumeich, F.
    Laboratorium für Anorganische Chemie
  60. 60
    Arosio, Paolo
    ETH Zürich
  61. 61
    Flack, Howard D.
    Université de Genève
  62. 62
    Gaan, Sabyasachi
    Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology
  63. 63
    Hamburger, Matthias O.
    Universität Basel
  64. 64
    Dittrich, Birger
    Novartis International AG
  65. 65
    Ruffieux, Pascal
    Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology
  66. 66
    Limongelli, Vittorio
    Università della Svizzera italiana
  67. 67
    Girault, Hubert H.J.
    École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
  68. 68
    Togni, Antonio
    ETH Zürich
  69. 69
    Eberhardt, Jérôme
    Biozentrum, Universität Basel
  70. 70
  71. 71
    Ward, Thomas R.
    Universität Basel
  72. 72
    Piguet, Claude
    Université de Genève
  73. 73
  74. 74
    Kröcher, Oliver
    Paul Scherrer Institut
  75. 75
  76. 76
    Ahmed, Daniel
    University of Bern, Faculty of Medicine
  77. 77
  78. 78
    Guillarme, Davy
    Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève
  79. 79
    Palermo, Giulia
    École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
  80. 80
    Laino, Teodoro
    IBM Research - Zurich
  81. 81
    Walde, Peter
    ETH Zürich
  82. 82
    Gijs, Martin A.M.
    École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
  83. 83
  84. 84
    Rodriguez-Pérez, Raquel
    Novartis International AG
  85. 85
    Potterat, Olivier
    Universität Basel
  86. 86
    Heinis, Christian
    Institut des Sciences et Ingénierie Chimiques
  87. 87
    Caflisch, Amedeo
    Universität Zürich
  88. 88
    Kalyanasundaram, Kuppuswamy
    École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
  89. 89
  90. 90
  91. 91
    Housecroft, Catherine E.
    Universität Basel
  92. 92
    Seebeck, Florian Peter
    Universität Basel
  93. 93
    Cramer, Nicolai
    École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
  94. 94
    Hirunsit, Pussana
    Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology
  95. 95
    Hagemann, Hans Rudolf
    Université de Genève
  96. 96
    Gallou, Fabrice
    Novartis International AG
  97. 97
    Butterweck, Veronika
    Medical Department
  98. 98
    Böhm, Hans Joachim
    F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG
  99. 99
    Therrien, Bruno
    Université de Neuchâtel, Institut de Chimie
  100. 100
    Queen, Wendy L.
    École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

203 listed scientists in Chemistry in Switzerland

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