Top institutions in the United States for Agronomy & Agriculture

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Which institutions in the United States have the most top-cited scientists in Agronomy & Agriculture?

390 researchers in the United States whose main subfield is Agronomy & Agriculture are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 0.5% of all listed authors in the United States, and 2nd of 69 countries in the subfield. 165 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). USDA Agricultural Research Service has the most (32), followed by Iowa State University (18) and University of California, Davis (17). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors

390

0.5% of all in the United States

In the global top 100,000

165

42.3% of them

Country rank in the subfield

of 69 countries in Agronomy & Agriculture

Highest-ranked

#15

Lal, Rattan A.

#	Institution	Listed authors	Top 100k	Rank worldwide	Highest-ranked author
1	USDA Agricultural Research Service	32	9	#4	Huang, Yanbo #21,891
2	Iowa State University	18	8	#10	Bremner, John M. #4,032
3	University of California, Davis	17	10	#12	Ferris, Howard #11,116
4	Colorado State University	12	7	#19	Cotrufo, Maria Francesca #7,588
5	Cornell University	11	4	#22	Herrero, Mario #6,921
6	University of Nebraska–Lincoln	10	4	#25	Blanco-Canqui, Humberto #1,741
7	United States Department of Agriculture	10	5	#28	Spokas, Kurt A. #9,755
8	University of Florida	8	5	#35	Hoogenboom, Gerrit #17,234
9	Michigan State University	7	4	#40	Robertson, G. Philip #9,047
10	USDA ARS Beltsville Agricultural Research Center	7	2	#43	Rawls, Walter J. #73,504
11	The Ohio State University	6	5	#45	Lal, Rattan A. #15
12	Oregon State University	6	4	#48	Kleber, Markus #5,805
13	University of Wisconsin-Madison	6	2	#51	Hartemink, Alfred Eduard #11,239
14	USDA ARS Salinity Laboratory	6	3	#53	Corwin, Dennis L. #14,414
15	University of Georgia	6	0	#64	Sumner, Malcolm E. #106,899
16	University of New Hampshire Durham	5	3	#69	Frey, Serita D. #3,997
17	Washington State University Pullman	5	2	#73	Snapp, Sieglinde S. #23,999
18	University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences	5	2	#77	Ampatzidis, Yiannis G. #55,808
19	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	5	4	#79	Mulvaney, Richard Lesley #65,226
20	University of Maryland, College Park	5	0	#87	Toor, Gurpal Singh #103,455
21	The University of Tennessee, Knoxville	5	0	#90	Schaeffer, Sean M. #147,770
22	Pennsylvania State University	4	2	#96	Lin, Hangsheng Henry #15,921
23	Texas A&M University	4	1	#97	Williams, Jimmy R. #16,193
24	University of Minnesota Twin Cities	4	1	#99	Mulla, David J. #18,400
25	University of Idaho	4	1	#116	Strickland, Michael S. #85,557
26	Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering	4	0	#118	Capareda, Sergio Canzana #107,139
27	College of Agriculture	4	0	#121	Kladivko, Eileen J. #191,821
28	University of California, Santa Barbara	3	2	#122	Schimel, Joshua P. #1,244
29	Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management	3	3	#124	Altieri, Miguel Angel #1,784
30	University of California, Riverside	3	2	#127	Rengasamy, Pichu #11,476
31	USDA ARS National Laboratory for Agriculture and the Environment	3	1	#131	Karlen, D. L. #16,754
32	University of California, Berkeley	3	2	#133	Sposito, Garrison #20,230
33	The University of Vermont	3	2	#136	Neher, Deborah A. #23,181
34	University of Missouri	3	1	#140	Lovell, Sarah Taylor #32,056
35	Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering	3	2	#143	Jones, James W. #40,766
36	USDA ARS Sugarbeet Research Unit	3	2	#147	Kleinman, Peter J.A. #49,287
37	Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering	3	1	#148	Zhang, Yuanhui #50,335
38	College of Engineering	3	0	#170	Mohtar, Rabi H. #120,799

The top 100 in Agronomy & Agriculture in the United States, in order

1
Lal, Rattan A.
The Ohio State University
2
Schimel, Joshua P.
University of California, Santa Barbara
3
Blanco-Canqui, Humberto
University of Nebraska–Lincoln
4
Altieri, Miguel Angel
Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management
5
Sinsabaugh, Robert L.
The University of New Mexico
6
Frey, Serita D.
University of New Hampshire Durham
7
Bremner, John M.
Iowa State University
8
Cassman, Kenneth G.
University of Nebraska–Lincoln
9
Kleber, Markus
Oregon State University
10
Franzluebbers, Alan J.
USDA ARS North Carolina State University
11
Herrero, Mario
Cornell University
12
Cotrufo, Maria Francesca
Colorado State University
13
Kirkham, Mary Beth
Kansas State University
14
Robertson, G. Philip
Michigan State University
15
Paustian, Keith H.
Colorado State University
16
Laird, David A.
Iowa State University
17
Spokas, Kurt A.
United States Department of Agriculture
18
Sharpley, Andrew N.
University of Arkansas
19
Wallenstein, Matthew David
Colorado State University
20
Sanderman, Jonathan
Woodwell Climate Research Center
21
Ferris, Howard
University of California, Davis
22
Hartemink, Alfred Eduard
University of Wisconsin-Madison
23
Rengasamy, Pichu
University of California, Riverside
24
Corwin, Dennis L.
USDA ARS Salinity Laboratory
25
Tabatabai, Malit Ali
Iowa State University
26
Paul, Eldora A.
Colorado State University
27
Lin, Hangsheng Henry
Pennsylvania State University
28
Williams, Jimmy R.
Texas A&M University
29
Conant, Richard Theodore
Colorado State University
30
Doran, John Walsh
Soil Science Society of America
31
Bezner Kerr, Rachel N.
Cornell University
32
Karlen, D. L.
USDA ARS National Laboratory for Agriculture and the Environment
33
Hoogenboom, Gerrit
University of Florida
34
Muck, Richard E.
USDA ARS U.S. Dairy Forage Research Center
35
Ohno, Tsutomu
University of Maine
36
Mulla, David J.
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
37
Elliott, Edward T.
Colorado State University
38
Jastrow, J. D.
Argonne National Laboratory
39
Nearing, Mark A.
retired
40
Sainju, Upendra Man
USDA ARS Northern Plains Agricultural Research Laboratory
41
Brevik, Eric C.
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
42
Banerjee, Samiran
North Dakota State University
43
Sposito, Garrison
University of California, Berkeley
44
Dahlgren, Randy Alan
University of California, Davis
45
Huang, Yanbo
USDA Agricultural Research Service
46
Berhe, Asmeret Asefaw
UC Merced
47
Hatfield, Jerry L.
National Laboratory for Agriculture and the Environment
48
Neher, Deborah A.
The University of Vermont
49
Basso, Bruno B.
Michigan State University
50
Snapp, Sieglinde S.
Washington State University Pullman
51
Cheng, Weixin
University of California, Santa Cruz
52
Amundson, Ronald G.
Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management
53
Tumuluru, Jaya Shankar
USDA Agricultural Research Service
54
Gliessman, Steve Richard
ASFS
55
Irmak, Suat
Pennsylvania State University
56
Sánchez, Pedro Antõnio
University of Florida
57
Dick, Richard P.
The Ohio State University
58
Niles, Meredith T.
The University of Vermont
59
Lovell, Sarah Taylor
University of Missouri
60
Lu, Renfu
USDA ARS Avian Disease and Oncology Laboratory
61
Edwards, Clive A.
The Ohio State University
62
Kravchenko, Alexandra N.
Michigan State University
63
Ciampitti, Ignacio Antonio
Purdue University
64
Grandy, A. Stuart
University of New Hampshire Durham
65
DeForest, Jared L.
Ohio University
66
Kimball, Bruce A.
USDA ARS U.S. Arid-Land Agricultural Research Center
67
He, Zhongqi
USDA ARS Southern Regional Research Center
68
Rotz, Clarence Alan
USDA Agricultural Research Service
69
Horwáth, William R.
University of California, Davis
70
Goldberg, Sabine
USDA ARS Salinity Laboratory
71
Jones, James W.
Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering
72
Ladha, Jagdish Kumar
University of California, Davis
73
Plante, Alain F.
University of Pennsylvania
74
Goovaerts, Pierre E.
BioMedware, Inc.
75
Ritchie, Joe T.
Michigan State University
76
Grunwald, Sabine
University of Florida
77
Zhang, Xunchang John
USDA ARS Grazinglands Research Laboratory
78
Boote, Kenneth J.
Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering
79
Yang, Chenghai
USDA ARS Southern Plains Agricultural Research Center
80
Moorhead, Daryl L.
The University of Toledo
81
Wood, Stephen A.
Nature Conservancy
82
Moriasi, Daniel N.
United States Department of Agriculture
83
Chadwick, Oliver A.
University of California, Santa Barbara
84
Kleinman, Peter J.A.
USDA ARS Sugarbeet Research Unit
85
Sutherland, Ross A.
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
86
Crews, Timothy E.
The Land Institute
87
Hopmans, Jan W.
University of California, Davis
88
Zhang, Yuanhui
Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
89
Dou, Zhengxia
New Bolton Center
90
Grassini, Patricio
University of Nebraska–Lincoln
91
Ippolito, James Anthony
The Ohio State University
92
Parkin, Timothy B.
United States Department of Agriculture
93
Campbell, Gaylon S.
METER Group, Inc.
94
Cambardella, Cynthia A.
United States Department of Agriculture
95
Bockheim, James G.
University of Wisconsin-Madison
96
Reganold, John P.
Washington State University Pullman
97
Chaney, Rufus L.
Chaney Environmental
98
Archontoulis, Sotirios V.
Iowa State University
99
Ampatzidis, Yiannis G.
University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences
100
Hall, Steven J.
Iowa State University

390 listed scientists in Agronomy & Agriculture in the United States

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