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1,589 researchers in the United States whose main subfield is Applied Physics are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 2.2% of all listed authors in the United States, and 1st of 91 countries in the subfield. 553 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). College of Engineering has the most (48), followed by Oak Ridge National Laboratory (38) and University of California, Santa Barbara (23). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors

1,589

2.2% of all in the United States

In the global top 100,000

553

34.8% of them

Country rank in the subfield

of 91 countries in Applied Physics

Highest-ranked

#13

Perdew, John

#	Institution	Listed authors	Top 100k	Rank worldwide	Highest-ranked author
1	College of Engineering	48	13	#2	Datta, Supriyo #5,630
2	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	38	15	#5	Dagotto, Elbio R.A. #7,569
3	University of California, Santa Barbara	23	14	#17	Kohn, Walter #308
4	College of Science and Engineering	22	11	#20	Avouris, Ph #4,879
5	National Laboratory of the Rockies	22	3	#22	Lany, Stephan #13,643
6	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	21	11	#23	Fu, Liang #442
7	Pennsylvania State University	21	12	#24	Priya, Shashank #4,655
8	Argonne National Laboratory	20	5	#29	Awschalom, David D. #16,872
9	Stanford University	19	11	#32	Qi, Xiaoliang #2,908
10	University of California, Berkeley	19	12	#33	Ramesh, Rammamoorthy #3,544
11	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	19	6	#34	Zettl, Alex K. #6,922
12	U.S. Naval Research Laboratory	19	5	#35	Éfros, Al L. #12,070
13	The Robert Mehrabian College of Engineering	18	4	#41	Speck, James S. #55,034
14	Harvard University	17	10	#42	Sachdev, Subir #486
15	The Grainger College of Engineering	17	6	#46	Fradkin, Eduardo H. #8,816
16	Los Alamos National Laboratory	17	3	#49	Voter, Arthur F. #56,961
17	Princeton University	16	13	#51	Hopfield, John J. #1,520
18	Nokia Bell Labs	16	5	#52	Shockley, William #4,395
19	University of California, San Diego	15	4	#54	Hirsch, Jorge E. #3,800
20	National Institute of Standards and Technology	15	6	#57	Ravel, Bruce D. #13,824
21	IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center	14	1	#64	Landauer, Rolf W. #14,813
22	MIT School of Engineering	13	7	#68	Chen, Gang #613
23	University of Colorado Boulder	13	8	#69	Zunger, Alex #1,424
24	School of Engineering and Applied Science	13	4	#70	Graves, David B. #10,292
25	Cornell University College of Engineering	13	3	#71	Jena, Debdeep #13,107
26	Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering	13	2	#72	Zhuang, Houlong #17,590
27	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	13	1	#74	Varley, Joel Basile #23,289
28	Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico	13	2	#75	Grest, Gary S. #29,098
29	Rutgers University–New Brunswick	12	8	#83	Vanderbilt, David H. #252
30	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	12	4	#85	Forrest, Stephen R. #2,445
31	University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science	12	2	#96	Zhigilei, Leonid V. #60,176
32	University of Nebraska–Lincoln	11	3	#98	Tsymbal, E. Yu #7,934
33	Iowa State University	11	7	#103	Gschneidner, Karl A. #26,381
34	University of Washington	10	4	#107	Thouless, David J. #4,249
35	The University of Tennessee, Knoxville	10	5	#109	Weber, William J. #9,994
36	The Ohio State University	10	1	#111	Oshikawa, Masaki #21,752
37	Northeastern University	10	3	#114	Zhang, Xufeng #40,367
38	Arizona State University	10	0	#119	Venables, John Anthony #103,124
39	Stanford Engineering	9	3	#123	Wong, Hon Sum Philip #3,469
40	University of California, Los Angeles	9	5	#125	Schwinger, Julian S. #4,911
41	College of Computer, Mathematical, & Natural Sciences	9	3	#126	Fisher, Michael E. #5,662
42	Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering	9	3	#128	Pearton, S. J. #6,687
43	Brookhaven National Laboratory	9	4	#130	Bak, Per #21,242
44	Georgia Institute of Technology	9	2	#132	de Heer, Walt A. #22,093
45	School of Engineering	9	3	#140	Sundararaman, Ravishankar #60,547
46	University of Maryland, College Park	8	4	#148	Das Sarma, Sankar D. #2,156
47	Stony Brook University	8	3	#149	Yang, Chenning #5,232
48	Columbia University	8	6	#151	Millis, Andrew J. #8,255
49	Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences	8	5	#153	Aziz, Michael J. #8,804
50	NC State University	8	3	#154	Baliga, Bayant Jayant #10,299
51	California Institute of Technology Division of Engineering and Applied Science	8	8	#157	Johnson, William L. #16,580
52	IBM Research - Almaden	8	3	#164	Chen, An #52,601
53	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	7	3	#180	Gall, Daniel L. #12,143
54	University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences	7	2	#188	Mele, Eugene J. #21,585
55	GE Global Research	7	1	#191	Bean, Charles P. #27,773
56	Lucent Technologies	7	2	#194	Henry, Charles H. #39,256
57	SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory	7	5	#196	Shen, Zhixun #46,671
58	UW-Madison College of Engineering	7	1	#205	Eom, Changbeom #80,934
59	Ames Laboratory	7	1	#206	Prozorov, Ruslan L. #88,993
60	University of California, Irvine	6	3	#215	White, Steven R. #1,055
61	Pratt School of Engineering	6	2	#217	Mitzi, David B. #1,687
62	Cornell University	6	3	#220	Muller, David A. #5,836
63	University of Central Florida	6	1	#222	Wu, Shin Tson #9,063
64	The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science	6	2	#223	Fthenakis, Vasilis M. #9,429
65	College of Engineering and Applied Science	6	5	#231	Heikenfeld, Jason C. #23,546
66	Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science	6	3	#232	Read, Nicholas #25,789
67	Purdue University	6	2	#235	Lundstrom, Mark S. #33,299
68	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	6	3	#240	Baer, Donald R. #39,474
69	The University of Texas at Dallas	6	4	#243	Ghassemi, Mona #42,789
70	Boston College	6	2	#245	Broído, David A. #44,112
71	Carnegie Mellon University	6	4	#248	Swendsen, Robert H. #52,894
72	Brookhaven National Laboratory Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department	6	1	#255	Zhu, Yimei #73,632
73	Air Force Research Laboratory	6	0	#265	Islam, Ahmad E. #170,068
74	California Institute of Technology	5	3	#267	Biot, Maurice A. #1,342
75	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	5	3	#268	Cahill, David G. #1,565
76	MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	5	2	#269	Dresselhaus, Mildred Spiewak #1,570
77	School of Electrical and Computer Engineering	5	4	#270	Yu, Shimeng #2,005
78	Department of Materials Science and Engineering	5	3	#221	Wu, Junqiao #7,924
79	Michigan Engineering	5	2	#278	Kushner, Mark J. #13,014
80	Cornell University Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics	5	2	#280	Ashcroft, Neil W. #15,660
81	University of Connecticut	5	1	#282	Klemens, Paul G. #16,930
82	Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science	5	2	#284	Razeghi, Manijeh M. #19,477
83	College of Liberal Arts and Sciences	5	2	#285	Stewart, Gregory R. #19,659
84	University of Pennsylvania	5	2	#287	MacDiarmid, Alan G. #20,884
85	Clemson University	5	4	#293	Tritt, Terry M. #29,682
86	NC State College of Engineering	5	4	#300	Parsons, Gregory N. #38,088
87	Cockrell School of Engineering	5	1	#303	Shi, Li #42,381
88	The University of Texas at Austin	5	2	#306	Kleinman, Leonard #45,048
89	Johns Hopkins University	5	2	#308	Armitage, N. Peter #50,093
90	University at Buffalo, The State University of New York	5	1	#310	Žutić, Igor #52,515
91	Yale University	5	1	#319	Cheng, Meng #71,089
92	The University of Utah	5	3	#321	Vardeny, Zeev Valy #73,205
93	Institute for Quantum Information and Matter	5	2	#330	Eisenstein, James P. #91,473
94	College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics	5	1	#331	Chu, Chingwu #93,379
95	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	5	1	#333	Barnes, Edwin #94,604
96	University of Pittsburgh	5	0	#344	Petek, Hrvoje #129,450
97	Los Alamos National Laboratory Theoretical Division	5	0	#347	Gubernatis, James E. #142,657
98	College of Natural Sciences	5	0	#350	Galeener, Frank L. #154,479
99	Tulane University School of Science and Engineering	4	2	#359	Perdew, John #13
100	A. James Clark School of Engineering	4	2	#362	Pecht, Michael G. #1,617
101	Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences	4	4	#364	Yablonovitch, Eli #3,407
102	The University of Toledo	4	2	#369	Yan, Yanfa #8,714
103	Drexel University	4	1	#372	Fridman, A. A. #9,319
104	Microsoft Corporation.	4	2	#378	Nayak, Chetan #12,723
105	Penn State College of Engineering	4	2	#381	Uchino, Kenji #15,352
106	University of South Florida, Tampa	4	2	#384	Batzill, Matthias #19,404
107	Brown University	4	1	#386	Kosterlitz, J. Michael #22,107
108	University of California, Riverside	4	1	#391	Varma, Chandra M.B.Seshikanth #24,619
109	Missouri University of Science and Technology	4	1	#397	Brow, Richard K. #31,540
110	University of Southern California	4	1	#407	Thompson, Mark E. #40,767
111	Department of Physics	4	1	#62	Dynes, Robert C. #44,320
112	Case Western Reserve University	4	2	#425	French, Roger H. #58,327
113	The University of Texas at San Antonio	4	2	#435	Yacaman, Miguel Jose #82,491
114	Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science	4	1	#439	Fischetti, Massimo V. #85,288
115	University of Notre Dame	4	1	#444	Ni, Kai #93,484
116	University of South Carolina	4	0	#447	Pershin, Yuriy V. #104,653
117	Edward E. Whitacre Jr. College of Engineering	4	0	#448	Jiang, Hongxing #104,769
118	West Virginia University	4	0	#449	Romero, Aldo Humberto #109,169
119	George R. Brown School of Engineering and Computing	4	0	#457	Kono, Junichiro #123,109
120	School of Engineering and Applied Sciences	4	0	#459	Li, Yi #129,793
121	New York University	4	0	#466	Chaikin, Paul M. #146,408
122	Intel Corporation	4	0	#471	Young, Ian A. #161,586
123	University of Delaware	4	0	#477	Jungfleisch, Matthias Benjamin #193,254
124	Rice University	4	0	#481	Morosan, Emilia #233,983
125	Texas Materials Institute	3	2	#484	Goodenough, John B. #56
126	University of Missouri	3	3	#488	Singh, David Joseph #2,939
127	George Mason University	3	1	#494	Mazin, Igor I. #5,522
128	UW College of Engineering	3	2	#495	Xiao, Di #5,537
129	College of Arts & Sciences	3	1	#497	Sandvik, Anders W. #7,961
130	Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory	3	2	#498	Dresselhaus, George F. #9,456
131	Electrical and Computer Engineering Department	3	1	#502	Nomura, Kenji #13,548
132	University of California, Santa Cruz	3	1	#503	Ramirez, Arthur P. #13,648
133	University of Illinois at Chicago	3	1	#510	Hemley, Russell J. #17,302
134	University of California, Davis	3	1	#512	Pickett, Warren E. #19,335
135	FAMU-FSU College of Engineering	3	1	#517	Montanari, Giancarlo #22,115
136	UNT College of Engineering	3	1	#520	Du, Jincheng #23,069
137	Washington University in St. Louis	3	1	#522	Yang, Li #24,368
138	VCU College of Engineering	3	1	#527	Morkoç̌, Hadis D. #26,515
139	Colorado School of Mines	3	1	#529	Toberer, Eric S. #27,101
140	UCLA Samueli School of Engineering	3	2	#533	Wang, Kanglong Lung #29,952
141	College of Science	3	3	#537	Chamon, Claudio De C. #33,119
142	University of Houston	3	1	#539	Shokuhi Rad, Ali #33,984
143	Florida State University	3	1	#541	Schrieffer, J. Robert #35,262
144	Old Dominion University	3	1	#552	Gurevich, Alex #44,226
145	Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated	3	2	#557	Herring, Conyers #47,657
146	California State University, Northridge	3	1	#569	Miao, Maosheng #57,805
147	Simons Foundation	3	1	#576	Stoudenmire, Edwin Miles #63,520
148	University of Georgia	3	1	#578	Landau, David Paul #69,726
149	Michigan State University	3	1	#580	Tománek, David #70,393
150	University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee	3	1	#581	Agterberg, Daniel F. #71,488
151	Sandia National Laboratories, California	3	1	#587	Zhou, Xiaowang #76,853
152	Washington State University Pullman	3	1	#607	McCloy, John Stuart #98,373
153	Northwestern University	3	0	#610	Freeman, Arthur J. #102,360
154	The University of Arizona	3	0	#611	Bloembergen, Nicolaas #105,722
155	Wake Forest University	3	0	#613	Winter, Stephen M. #107,860
156	Google LLC	3	0	#620	Aleiner, Igor L. #122,810
157	The University of Texas at Arlington	3	0	#644	Liu, Jinjun Ping #152,683
158	Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences	3	0	#657	Jones, Thomas B. #164,630
159	Applied Materials Incorporated	3	0	#659	Pesic, Milan D. #167,912
160	Vanderbilt University	3	0	#683	Haglund, Richard F. #207,029
161	Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering	3	0	#690	Lake, Roger K. #225,094
162	Department of Materials Science & Engineering	3	0	#702	Ji, Huiwen #256,572

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

1
Perdew, John
Tulane University School of Science and Engineering
2
Goodenough, John B.
Texas Materials InstituteNobel laureate
3
Vanderbilt, David H.
Rutgers University–New Brunswick
4
Kohn, Walter
University of California, Santa BarbaraNobel laureate
5
Fu, Liang
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
6
Sachdev, Subir
Harvard University
7
Langmuir, Irving
Stevens Institute of TechnologyNobel laureate
8
Chen, Gang
MIT School of Engineering
9
Wen, Xiaogang
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
10
Balandin, Alexander A.
California NanoSystems Institute
11
White, Steven R.
University of California, Irvine
12
van de Walle, Chris G.
University of California, Santa Barbara
13
Biot, Maurice A.
California Institute of Technology
14
Zunger, Alex
University of Colorado Boulder
15
Giustino, Feliciano
Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences
16
Balents, Leon
Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics
17
Hopfield, John J.
Princeton UniversityNobel laureate
18
Cahill, David G.
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
19
Dresselhaus, Mildred Spiewak
MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
20
Pecht, Michael G.
A. James Clark School of Engineering
21
Mitzi, David B.
Pratt School of Engineering
22
Heeger, Alan J.
University of California, Santa BarbaraNobel laureate
23
Yu, Shimeng
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
24
Das Sarma, Sankar D.
University of Maryland, College Park
25
Forrest, Stephen R.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
26
Cava, Robert Joseph
Princeton University
27
Qi, Xiaoliang
Stanford University
28
Singh, David Joseph
University of Missouri
29
Pop, Eric
Stanford University
30
Atwater, Harry A.
California Institute of Technology
31
Yablonovitch, Eli
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
32
Wong, Hon Sum Philip
Stanford Engineering
33
Dyson, Freeman J.
Cornell University’s Laboratory of Nuclear Studies
34
Ramesh, Rammamoorthy
University of California, Berkeley
35
Moore, Joel E.
University of California, Berkeley
36
Hirsch, Jorge E.
University of California, San Diego
37
George, Steven M.
University of Colorado Boulder
38
Lee, Patrick A.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
39
Thouless, David J.
University of WashingtonNobel laureate
40
Shockley, William
Nokia Bell LabsNobel laureate
41
Hamann, Donald R.
Mat-Sim Research LLC
42
Priya, Shashank
Pennsylvania State University
43
Slack, Glen A.
Science Consulting
44
Todadri, Senthil
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
45
Avouris, Ph
College of Science and Engineering
46
Schwinger, Julian S.
University of California, Los AngelesNobel laureate
47
Nakamura, Shuji
University of California, Santa BarbaraNobel laureate
48
Yang, Chenning
Stony Brook UniversityNobel laureate
49
Mazin, Igor I.
George Mason University
50
Xiao, Di
UW College of Engineering
51
Datta, Supriyo
College of Engineering
52
Fisher, Michael E.
College of Computer, Mathematical, & Natural Sciences
53
Muller, David A.
Cornell University
54
Jena, Purusottam Puru
Virginia Commonwealth University
55
Fisher, Matthew P.Â.
University of California, Santa Barbara
56
Pearton, S. J.
Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering
57
Ramprasad, Ramamurthy
College of Engineering
58
Cross, Leslie Eric
Pennsylvania State University
59
Ashkin, Arthur A.
Bell Laboratories, Inc.Nobel laureate
60
Zettl, Alex K.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
61
Williams, R. Stanley
Texas A&M University
62
Allen, Philip B.
Stony Brook University
63
Car, Roberto
Princeton University
64
Dagotto, Elbio R.A.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
65
Wu, Junqiao
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
66
Tsymbal, E. Yu
University of Nebraska–Lincoln
67
Sandvik, Anders W.
College of Arts & Sciences
68
Cohen, Marvin L.
University of California, Berkeley
69
Millis, Andrew J.
Columbia University
70
Joannopoulos, John D.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
71
Yan, Yanfa
The University of Toledo
72
Aziz, Michael J.
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
73
Fradkin, Eduardo H.
The Grainger College of Engineering
74
Wu, Shin Tson
University of Central Florida
75
Louie, Steven G.
University of California, Berkeley
76
Fridman, A. A.
Drexel University
77
Fthenakis, Vasilis M.
The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
78
Dresselhaus, George F.
Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory
79
Hasan, M. Zahid
Princeton University
80
Bethe, Hans Albrecht
Cornell UniversityNobel laureate
81
Huse, David A.
Princeton University
82
Weber, William J.
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
83
McGuire, Michael A.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
84
Bardeen, John M.
The Grainger College of EngineeringNobel laureate
85
Graves, David B.
School of Engineering and Applied Science
86
Baliga, Bayant Jayant
NC State University
87
Kivelson, Steven Allan
Stanford University
88
Lindsay, Lucas R.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
89
Anthony, John Edward
University of Kentucky
90
Gupta, Ram Krishna
Pittsburg State University
91
Kittel, Charles
University of California, Berkeley
92
Anders, André
Plasma Engineering LLC
93
Bloch, Felix
Stanford UniversityNobel laureate
94
Alicea, Jason
California Institute of Technology
95
Jiles, David C.
College of Engineering
96
Du, Maohua
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
97
Éfros, Al L.
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
98
Gall, Daniel L.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
99
Scalapino, Douglas J.
University of California, Santa Barbara
100
Cheong, Sang-wook
Rutgers Center for Emergent Materials

1,589 listed scientists in Applied Physics in the United States

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