Top institutions in the United States for Aerospace & Aeronautics

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Which institutions in the United States have the most top-cited scientists in Aerospace & Aeronautics?

650 researchers in the United States whose main subfield is Aerospace & Aeronautics are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 0.9% of all listed authors in the United States, and 1st of 44 countries in the subfield. 93 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). College of Engineering has the most (71), followed by NASA Langley Research Center (37) and NASA Ames Research Center (20). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors

650

0.9% of all in the United States

In the global top 100,000

14.3% of them

Country rank in the subfield

of 44 countries in Aerospace & Aeronautics

Highest-ranked

#2,265

Spalar̀t, Philippe R.

#	Institution	Listed authors	Top 100k	Rank worldwide	Highest-ranked author
1	College of Engineering	71	12	#1	Jameson, Antony #13,141
2	NASA Langley Research Center	37	3	#5	Rumsey, Christopher L. #27,492
3	NASA Ames Research Center	20	1	#7	Johnson, Wayne R. #41,406
4	California Institute of Technology	19	2	#8	Pellegrino, Sergio #23,592
5	Air Force Research Laboratory	18	1	#9	Visbal, Miguel R. #25,619
6	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	15	4	#11	Leveson, Nancy G. #13,428
7	NASA Glenn Research Center	14	2	#12	Liou, Mengsing #43,128
8	The Grainger College of Engineering	12	2	#15	Freund, Jonathan B. #75,473
9	Virginia Tech College of Engineering	10	2	#16	Psiaki, Mark L. #33,070
10	Purdue University	10	0	#20	Son, Steven F. #181,968
11	Boeing Corporation	9	1	#21	Spalar̀t, Philippe R. #2,265
12	Georgia Institute of Technology	9	0	#22	Mavris, Dimitri N. #121,919
13	College of Engineering and Applied Science	8	1	#25	Scheeres, Daniel J. #12,697
14	California Institute of Technology Division of Engineering and Applied Science	8	3	#26	Colonius, Tim #15,629
15	Cockrell School of Engineering	8	1	#29	Clemens, Noel T. #81,672
16	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	7	3	#35	Martins, Joaquim R.R.A. #4,676
17	School of Engineering and Applied Science	7	2	#37	Miles, Richard B. #56,785
18	Michigan Engineering	7	1	#38	Johnsen, Eric #66,114
19	Stanford University	7	0	#39	Sands, Timothy #142,568
20	Penn State College of Engineering	6	0	#44	Horn, Joseph F. #186,830
21	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	6	0	#45	Watson, Layne T. #195,196
22	College of Science and Engineering	5	1	#47	Candler, Graham V. #18,522
23	The University of Texas at Austin	5	1	#48	Tapley, Byron D. #27,220
24	University of Florida	5	1	#49	Haftka, Raphael T.(Compiler) #31,444
25	Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering	5	2	#50	Rao, Anil Vithala #33,943
26	University of Maryland, College Park	5	1	#52	Mart́in, Maria Pino #79,673
27	NASA Kennedy Space Center	5	1	#53	Wheeler, Raymond M. #94,414
28	Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico	5	0	#57	Eldred, Michael S. #195,358
29	MIT School of Engineering	5	0	#58	Hansman, Robert John #205,290
30	A. James Clark School of Engineering	5	0	#59	Laurence, Stuart J. #259,943
31	Pennsylvania State University	5	0	#61	Kuo, Kenneth K. #504,622
32	U.S. Naval Research Laboratory	4	1	#63	Kailasanath, Kazhikathra #48,534
33	Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering	4	1	#64	Liu, Yongming #60,743
34	Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics	4	1	#51	Cantwell, Brian Joseph #60,960
35	UCLA Samueli School of Engineering	4	1	#66	Zhong, Xiaolin #92,564
36	Samueli School of Engineering	4	0	#69	Rimoli, Julian J. #184,254
37	NC State University	4	0	#70	Edwards, Jack R. #185,540
38	Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory	4	0	#73	Trunk, Gerard V. #341,688
39	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	4	0	#74	Kearney, Sean P. #434,518
40	Stanford Engineering	3	1	#75	Lele, Sanjiva K. #7,925
41	San Diego State University	3	1	#76	Lu, Ping #8,035
42	University of Central Florida	3	1	#78	Viana, Felipe Antonio Chegury #29,974
43	Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering	3	1	#81	Benaroya, Haym #52,552
44	NASA Johnson Space Center	3	1	#84	Liou, Jer Chyi #96,602
45	Texas A&M University	3	0	#86	Saric, William S. #112,566
46	University of California, Davis	3	0	#93	Hess, Ronald A. #159,506
47	The University of Arizona	3	0	#95	Fasel, Hermann F. #165,227
48	Samuel Ginn College of Engineering	3	0	#98	Taheri, Ehsan E. #196,450
49	Inc	3	0	#99	Economon, Thomas D. #213,988
50	AFIT Graduate School of Engineering and Management	3	0	#101	Torvik, Peter J. #232,525
51	School of Engineering	3	0	#103	Amitay, Michael #270,143
52	Jet Propulsion Laboratory	3	0	#104	Werner, Robert A. #273,897
53	FAMU-FSU College of Engineering	3	0	#111	Unnikrishnan, Sasidharan #413,061

The top 100 in Aerospace & Aeronautics in the United States, in order

1
Spalar̀t, Philippe R.
Boeing Corporation
2
Martins, Joaquim R.R.A.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
3
Willcox, Karen E.
Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences
4
Lele, Sanjiva K.
Stanford Engineering
5
Lu, Ping
San Diego State University
6
Scheeres, Daniel J.
College of Engineering and Applied Science
7
Duraisamy, Karthik
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
8
Jameson, Antony
College of Engineering
9
Leveson, Nancy G.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
10
Abdelkefi, Abdessattar
New Mexico State University College of Engineering
11
Colonius, Tim
California Institute of Technology Division of Engineering and Applied Science
12
Tam, Christopher K.W.
Florida State University
13
Dowell, Earl H.
Duke University
14
Candler, Graham V.
College of Science and Engineering
15
Bar-Shalom, Yaakov
UConn College of Engineering
16
Loth, Eric
University of Virginia
17
Liu, Chaoqun
The University of Texas at Arlington
18
Schneider, Steven P.
College of Engineering
19
Pellegrino, Sergio
California Institute of Technology
20
Park, Chul
ELORET Corporation
21
Visbal, Miguel R.
Air Force Research Laboratory
22
Bilitza, Dieter K.
George Mason University
23
Yang, Vigor
College of Engineering
24
Schmidt, Oliver T.
University of California, San Diego
25
Tapley, Byron D.
The University of Texas at Austin
26
Gaitonde, Datta V.
College of Engineering
27
Rumsey, Christopher L.
NASA Langley Research Center
28
Wilcox, David C.
DCW Industries, Inc
29
Viana, Felipe Antonio Chegury
University of Central Florida
30
Haftka, Raphael T.(Compiler)
University of Florida
31
Drela, Mark
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
32
Psiaki, Mark L.
Virginia Tech College of Engineering
33
Morelli, Eugene A.
Sunflyte Enterprises
34
Rao, Anil Vithala
Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering
35
Boyd, Iain D.
University of Colorado Boulder
36
Johnson, Wayne R.
NASA Ames Research Center
37
Wang, Zhenbo
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
38
Liou, Mengsing
NASA Glenn Research Center
39
Kim, Namho
Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering
40
Starikovskiy, Andrey
Princeton University
41
Mahadevan, Sankaran
Vanderbilt University School of Engineering
42
Howell, Kathleen Connor
College of Engineering
43
Markley, F. Landis
XANALYTIX SYSTEMS LLC
44
Kailasanath, Kazhikathra
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
45
Liu, Tianshu
College of Engineering and Applied Sciences
46
Wang, Z. J.
University of Kansas
47
Gutmark, E.
University of Cincinnati
48
Benaroya, Haym
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
49
Driscoll, James F.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
50
Settles, Gary S.
State College
51
Malik, Mujeeb R.
NASA Langley Research Center
52
Agarwal, Ramesh K.
Washington University in St. Louis
53
Chung, Soon Jo
California Institute of Technology Division of Engineering and Applied Science
54
Roy, Christopher J.
Virginia Tech College of Engineering
55
Miles, Richard B.
School of Engineering and Applied Science
56
Yu, Wenbin
College of Engineering
57
Dolling, David S.
School of Engineering and Applied Science
58
Falco, Gregory J.
Cornell University
59
Crawley, Edward F.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
60
Liu, Yongming
Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering
61
Cantwell, Brian Joseph
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
62
Hodges, Dewey H.
College of Engineering
63
Mortari, Daniele
College of Engineering
64
Adamovich, Igor V.
The Ohio State University
65
Johnsen, Eric
Michigan Engineering
66
Löhner, Rainald D.
College of Science
67
Furfaro, Roberto
College of Engineering
68
Musk, Elon R.
Space Exploration Technologies Corp.
69
Berger, Marsha J.
Simons Foundation
70
Hu, Hui
College of Engineering
71
Crassídís, John L.
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
72
Freund, Jonathan B.
The Grainger College of Engineering
73
Ning, Andrew
National Laboratory of the Rockies
74
Huang, P. George
College of Engineering and Computer Science at Wright State University
75
Ansell, Phillip J.
The Grainger College of Engineering
76
Mart́in, Maria Pino
University of Maryland, College Park
77
Bagley, Ronald L.
Margie and Bill Klesse College of Engineering and Integrated Design
78
Clemens, Noel T.
Cockrell School of Engineering
79
Dimotakis, Paul E.
California Institute of Technology Division of Engineering and Applied Science
80
Beckstead, Merrill W.
Brigham Young University
81
de Weck, Olivier Ladislas
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
82
Goebel, Dan M.
California Institute of Technology
83
Wie, Bong
Iowa State University
84
Leishman, J. Gordon
College of Engineering
85
Zhong, Xiaolin
UCLA Samueli School of Engineering
86
Persson, Per Olof
University of California, Berkeley
87
Wheeler, Raymond M.
NASA Kennedy Space Center
88
Agusdinata, Datu Buyung
Arizona State University
89
Liou, Jer Chyi
NASA Johnson Space Center
90
Nishikawa, Hiroaki
National Institute of Aerospace
91
Farassat, F.
NASA Langley Research Center
92
Wygnanski, Israel J.
College of Engineering
93
Zaman, Khairul B.M.Q.
NASA Glenn Research Center
94
Conway, Bruce A.
The Grainger College of Engineering
95
Mankins, John C.
Moon Village Association
96
Russell, Ryan P.
Cockrell School of Engineering
97
Lee, Seongkyu
College of Engineering
98
D’Amico, Simone
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
99
Saric, William S.
Texas A&M University
100
Mavriplis, Dimitri J.
NASA Langley Research Center

650 listed scientists in Aerospace & Aeronautics in the United States

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