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Top institutions in the United States for Applied Mathematics

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Which institutions in the United States have the most top-cited scientists in Applied Mathematics?

118 researchers in the United States whose main subfield is Applied Mathematics are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 0.2% of all listed authors in the United States, and 1st of 61 countries in the subfield. 74 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). College of Engineering has the most (7), followed by The University of Texas at Austin (4) and Stanford Engineering (4). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors
118
0.2% of all in the United States
In the global top 100,000
74
62.7% of them
Country rank in the subfield
#1
of 61 countries in Applied Mathematics
Highest-ranked
#206
Karniadakis, George Em
#InstitutionListed authorsTop 100kRank worldwideHighest-ranked author
1College of Engineering72#3Arora, Jasbir Singh #40,073
2The University of Texas at Austin43#10Hughes, Thomas J.R. #1,493
3Stanford Engineering44#11Simo, Juan C. #3,586
4MIT School of Engineering42#12Bathe, Klaus JüRgen #9,363
5Duke University42#14Zhao, Hongkai #34,485
6University of California, Los Angeles32#16Osher, Stanley Joel #3,344
7Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science33#17Belytschko, T. #3,503
8College of Engineering and Applied Science31#19Liu, Guirong #4,117
9University of California, Berkeley33#20Sethian, James A. #5,729
10Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory32#24Lin, Lin #14,884
11University of California, San Diego31#27Benson, David J. #19,524
12The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science32#30Weinstein, Michael I. #38,082
13Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences31#33Oden, John Tinsley #62,826

The top 100 in Applied Mathematics in the United States, in order

  1. 1
    Karniadakis, George Em
    Brown University
  2. 2
    Raissi, Maziar
    University of Colorado Boulder
  3. 3
    Hughes, Thomas J.R.
    The University of Texas at Austin
  4. 4
    Osher, Stanley Joel
    University of California, Los Angeles
  5. 5
    Belytschko, T.
    Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
  6. 6
    Simo, Juan C.
    Stanford Engineering
  7. 7
    Babus̆ka, Ivo M.
    The University of Texas at Austin
  8. 8
    Liu, Guirong
    College of Engineering and Applied Science
  9. 9
    Gurtin, Morton E.
    Carnegie Mellon University
  10. 10
    Stuart, Andrew M.
    California Institute of Technology Division of Engineering and Applied Science
  11. 11
    Sethian, James A.
    University of California, Berkeley
  12. 12
    Yang, Xiaofeng
    University of South Carolina
  13. 13
    Peskin, Charles S.
    Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
  14. 14
    Bathe, Klaus JüRgen
    MIT School of Engineering
  15. 15
    Lu, Lu
    Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science
  16. 16
    van Leer, Bram
    Michigan Engineering
  17. 17
    Chorin, Alexandre Joel
    University of California, Berkeley
  18. 18
    Lin, Lin
    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  19. 19
    Xiu, Dongbin
    The Ohio State University
  20. 20
    Perdikaris, Paris G.
    School of Engineering and Applied Science
  21. 21
    Roe, Philip L.
    Michigan Engineering
  22. 22
    Keller, Joseph B.
    Stanford University
  23. 23
    Liu, Wing Kam Snm
    Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
  24. 24
    Benson, David J.
    University of California, San Diego
  25. 25
    Farhat, Charbel H.
    Stanford Engineering
  26. 26
    Li, Shaofan
    Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
  27. 27
    Patankar, Neelesh A.
    Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
  28. 28
    Patera, Anthony T.
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  29. 29
    Tezduyar, Tayfun E.
    George R. Brown School of Engineering and Computing
  30. 30
    Sussman, Mark M.
    Florida State University
  31. 31
    Glowinski, Roland
    College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
  32. 32
    Bazilevs, Yuri
    Vanderbilt University School of Engineering
  33. 33
    Brackbill, Jeremiah U.
    ParticleSolutions
  34. 34
    Dong, Suchuan Steven
    Purdue University
  35. 35
    Zhao, Hongkai
    Duke University
  36. 36
    Zohdi, Tarek Ismail
    University of California, Berkeley
  37. 37
    Weinstein, Michael I.
    The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
  38. 38
    Wang, Sifan
    Yale University
  39. 39
    Fish, Jacob
    The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
  40. 40
    Arora, Jasbir Singh
    College of Engineering
  41. 41
    Caflisch, Russel E.
    Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
  42. 42
    Sukumar, Natarajan
    College of Engineering
  43. 43
    Jagtap, Ameya D.
    School of Engineering
  44. 44
    Milton, Graeme Walter
    University of Utah, College Of Science
  45. 45
    Colella, Phillip
    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  46. 46
    Taylor, Robert L.
    Dassault Systèmes Americas Corp.
  47. 47
    Hou, Thomas Yizhao
    California Institute of Technology
  48. 48
    Greengard, Leslie F.
    Simons Foundation
  49. 49
    Coleman, Bernard D.
    Rutgers University–New Brunswick
  50. 50
    Ghanem, Roger G.
    USC Viterbi School of Engineering
  51. 51
    Ying, Lexing
    Stanford University
  52. 52
    Darve, Eric F.
    Stanford Engineering
  53. 53
    Hirt, Cyril W.
    Flow Science, Inc.
  54. 54
    Oden, John Tinsley
    Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences
  55. 55
    Isakov, Victor M.
    Wichita State University
  56. 56
    Engquist, Björn E.
    The University of Texas at Austin
  57. 57
    Klibanov, Michael Victor
    The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
  58. 58
    Wei, Guowei
    Department of Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering
  59. 59
    Bertozzi, Andrea Louise
    University of California, Los Angeles
  60. 60
    Tessler, Alex
    NASA Langley Research Center
  61. 61
    Wang, Jian Xun
    Cornell University
  62. 62
    Goswami, Somdatta
    Whiting School of Engineering
  63. 63
    Miura, Robert M.
    New Jersey Institute of Technology
  64. 64
    Toupin, Richard A.
    Stanford Engineering
  65. 65
    Haghighat, Ehsan
    MIT School of Engineering
  66. 66
    Lu, Jianfeng
    Duke University
  67. 67
    Liu, Chun
    Illinois Institute of Technology
  68. 68
    Noor, Ahmed K.
    Old Dominion University
  69. 69
    Atluri, Satyanadham N.
    Edward E. Whitacre Jr. College of Engineering
  70. 70
    Griffith, Boyce E.
    College of Arts and Sciences
  71. 71
    Bruns, Tyler E.
    Caterpillar Inc.
  72. 72
    Owhadi, Houman
    California Institute of Technology Division of Engineering and Applied Science
  73. 73
    Kansa, Edward J.
    Convergent Solutions
  74. 74
    Zhao, Jia
    Department of Mathematics
  75. 75
    Bell, John B.
    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  76. 76
    Sun, WaiChing
    The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
  77. 77
    Kikuchi, Noboru
    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  78. 78
    Schaeffer, Hayden
    University of California, Los Angeles
  79. 79
    Lowengrub, John S.
    University of California, Irvine
  80. 80
    Bielak, Jacobo
    College of Engineering
  81. 81
    Felippa, Carlos A.
    College of Engineering and Applied Science
  82. 82
  83. 83
    Zhang, Yongjie Jessica
    College of Engineering
  84. 84
    Lin, Guang
    Purdue University
  85. 85
    Nguyen, Ngoc Cuong
    MIT School of Engineering
  86. 86
    Chen, Jiunshyan
    University of California, San Diego
  87. 87
    Lee, Taehun
    The Grove School of Engineering
  88. 88
    Dawson, Clint N.
    Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences
  89. 89
    Tortorelli, D. A.
    Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
  90. 90
    Ambati, Marreddy
    GE Global Research
  91. 91
    Beale, J. Thomas
    Duke University
  92. 92
    Gomez, Hector
    College of Engineering
  93. 93
    Colton, David L.
    University of Delaware
  94. 94
    Liu, Zeliang
    ANSYS, Inc.
  95. 95
    Lu, Siyu
    Texas A&M University
  96. 96
    Sulsky, Deborah L.
    The University of New Mexico
  97. 97
    Liu, Hailiang
    Iowa State University
  98. 98
    Banks, Harvey Thomas
    NC State University
  99. 99
    Armero, Francisco
    Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
  100. 100
    Hsu, Ming-Chen
    College of Engineering

118 listed scientists in Applied Mathematics in the United States

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Data: Ioannidis, John P.A. (2026), ‘August 2026 data-update for “Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators”’, Mendeley Data, v9, doi:10.17632/btchxktzyw.9. 2026 list, ranked by composite citation score (c) excluding self-citations.

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