Top institutions in the United States for Astronomy & Astrophysics

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779 researchers in the United States whose main subfield is Astronomy & Astrophysics are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 1.1% of all listed authors in the United States, and 1st of 42 countries in the subfield. 592 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). California Institute of Technology has the most (32), followed by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (30) and Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (26). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors

779

1.1% of all in the United States

In the global top 100,000

592

76.0% of them

Country rank in the subfield

of 42 countries in Astronomy & Astrophysics

Highest-ranked

#397

Hopkins, Philip F.

#	Institution	Listed authors	Top 100k	Rank worldwide	Highest-ranked author
1	California Institute of Technology	32	24	#1	Hopkins, Philip F. #397
2	NASA Goddard Space Flight Center	30	20	#2	Gehrels, Neil C. #22,531
3	Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics	26	18	#3	Hernquist, Lars E. #770
4	The University of Arizona	24	19	#4	Smith, Nathan #5,893
5	Princeton University	20	18	#5	Draine, Bruce T. #1,441
6	Space Telescope Science Institute	20	14	#6	Riess, Adam G. #1,491
7	University of California, Berkeley	16	14	#11	Filippenko, Alexei V. #5,299
8	The Ohio State University	14	13	#13	Kochanek, Christopher S. #6,357
9	University of California, Los Angeles	14	10	#14	Treu, Tommaso L. #8,466
10	College of Computer, Mathematical, & Natural Sciences	13	8	#16	Tielens, Alexander Godfried Gerardus Maria #3,995
11	Simons Foundation	13	11	#17	Spergel, David N. #4,724
12	University of Colorado Boulder	13	9	#19	Cranmer, Steven R. #24,278
13	NASA Ames Research Center	12	10	#21	Zahnle, Kevin J. #12,319
14	University of California, Santa Cruz	11	9	#22	Wòosley, Stanford E. #788
15	Yale University	11	6	#24	Van Dokkum, Pieter G. #2,945
16	College of Science	11	9	#25	Melosh, Henry Jay #4,579
17	The University of Texas at Austin	11	4	#27	Boylan-Kolchin, Michael #7,670
18	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	11	8	#28	Bell, Eric F. #15,594
19	Space Science and Engineering Division	11	9	#29	Canup, Robin M. #21,478
20	Columbia University	10	10	#30	Metzger, Brian D. #1,767
21	University Hawaii Institute for Astronomy	10	9	#32	Tonry, John L. #9,827
22	MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research	10	5	#35	Vogelsberger, Mark #14,016
23	Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory	10	6	#36	Lorenz, Ralph D. #14,288
24	Northwestern University	9	6	#40	Faucher-Giguère, Claude Andre #5,113
25	University of Washington	9	9	#41	Ivezic, Zeljko #13,697
26	Johns Hopkins University	8	6	#50	Bennett, Charles L. #30,820
27	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	7	6	#52	Tegmark, Max #1,812
28	Infrared Processing & Analysis Center	7	6	#53	Wright, Edward L. #4,869
29	The Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, The University of Chicago	7	6	#54	Kravtsov, Andrey V. #6,339
30	Pennsylvania State University	7	5	#55	Kasting, James F. #7,016
31	The Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics	7	3	#57	Freedman, Wendy L. #11,924
32	School of Earth and Space Exploration	7	4	#58	Christensen, Philip R. #14,482
33	University of California, Santa Barbara	7	4	#60	Bildsten, Lars #21,421
34	NOIRLab	7	4	#62	Abbott, Timothy M.C. #60,462
35	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	6	4	#65	Gammie, Charles F. #7,701
36	Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences	6	6	#70	Grotzinger, John P. #12,083
37	University of Wisconsin-Madison	6	4	#71	Elmegreen, Bruce G. #15,274
38	Planetary Science Institute	6	5	#75	Clark, Roger N. #21,190
39	SETI Institute	6	4	#78	Bishop, Janice L. #26,865
40	Brown University	5	5	#89	Head, James W. #4,116
41	Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science	5	5	#92	Lai, Dong #8,684
42	University of Massachusetts Amherst	5	4	#93	Calzetti, Daniela #9,916
43	Georgia Institute of Technology	5	4	#94	Psaltis, Dimitrios #9,972
44	Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology	5	4	#97	Blandford, Rogerd D. #11,339
45	University of Virginia	5	5	#98	Herbst, Eric #11,427
46	The University of Chicago	5	5	#99	Holz, Daniel E. #14,785
47	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	5	3	#102	Perlmutter, Saul #16,743
48	University of California, San Diego	5	3	#107	Burgasser, Adam J. #41,458
49	Space Science Institute	5	4	#110	Clark, Benton C. #65,567
50	West Virginia University	4	4	#116	Lorimer, Duncan R. #8,960
51	University of Pittsburgh	4	3	#118	Hapke, Bruce W. #11,505
52	The Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics	4	4	#119	Tinker, Jeremy L. #15,356
53	Carnegie Observatories	4	3	#122	Simon, Joshua D. #18,759
54	University of California, Davis	4	3	#127	Knox, Lloyd E. #29,142
55	National Radio Astronomy Observatory	4	2	#129	Ransom, Scott M. #36,192
56	Washington University in St. Louis	4	2	#130	Arvidsoń, Raymond E. #43,416
57	U.S. Naval Research Laboratory	4	3	#134	Wang, Yiming #53,190
58	The University of Utah	4	2	#136	Zheng, Zheng #61,102
59	SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory	4	2	#137	Allen, Steven W. #67,330
60	McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences	3	3	#145	Lodders, Katharina #7,452
61	University of Notre Dame	3	2	#156	Balsara, Dinshaw S. #21,247
62	Lockheed Martin Corporation	3	3	#157	Schrijver, Carolus J.(Karel) #21,314
63	University of Nevada, Las Vegas	3	3	#159	Zhu, Zhaohuan #24,311
64	University of California, Irvine	3	2	#160	Bullock, James S. #24,577
65	Institute for Advanced Study	3	2	#166	Stone, James M. #27,369
66	Space Sciences Laboratory	3	3	#170	Lin, Robert P. #30,388
67	National Radio Astronomy Observatory Socorro	3	3	#171	Frail, Dale A. #31,886
68	Carnegie Institution of Washington	3	3	#174	Chambers, John E. #35,181
69	Arizona State University	3	3	#176	Greeley, Ronald #37,182
70	College of Natural Sciences	3	1	#177	Kumar, Pawan #38,934
71	The Earth and Sun Systems Laboratory	3	2	#184	Rempel, Matthias #50,523
72	Stanford University	3	2	#185	Hathaway, David H. #52,076
73	University of New Hampshire Durham	3	2	#188	Chandran, Benjamin Divakar Giles #61,077
74	University of California, Riverside	3	2	#189	Reddy, Naveen A. #61,977
75	Cornell University	3	2	#190	Kaltenegger, Lisa #65,134
76	Michigan Engineering	3	1	#192	Antiochos, Spiro K. #67,059
77	College of Arts and Sciences	3	1	#195	Klypin, Anatoly A. #78,758
78	NASA Marshall Space Flight Center	3	0	#202	Weisskopf, Martin C. #101,154

The top 100 in Astronomy & Astrophysics in the United States, in order

1
Hopkins, Philip F.
California Institute of Technology
2
Hernquist, Lars E.
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
3
Wòosley, Stanford E.
University of California, Santa Cruz
4
Draine, Bruce T.
Princeton University
5
Riess, Adam G.
Space Telescope Science InstituteNobel laureate
6
Conroy, Charlie
Center for Astrophysics∣Harvard & Smithsonian
7
Metzger, Brian D.
Columbia University
8
Tegmark, Max
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
9
Narayan, Ramesh
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
10
Kennicutt, Robert C.
Texas A&M University
11
Van Dokkum, Pieter G.
Yale University
12
Tielens, Alexander Godfried Gerardus Maria
College of Computer, Mathematical, & Natural Sciences
13
Quataert, Eliot J.
Princeton University
14
Head, James W.
Brown University
15
Melosh, Henry Jay
College of Science
16
Eisenstein, Daniel J.
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
17
Spergel, David N.
Simons Foundation
18
Wright, Edward L.
Infrared Processing & Analysis Center
19
Faucher-Giguère, Claude Andre
Northwestern University
20
Loeb, Abraham Avi
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
21
Filippenko, Alexei V.
University of California, Berkeley
22
Burrows, Adam S.
Princeton University
23
Smith, Nathan
The University of Arizona
24
Greene, Jenny E.
Princeton University
25
Berger, Edo
Center for Astrophysics∣Harvard & Smithsonian
26
Kravtsov, Andrey V.
The Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, The University of Chicago
27
Kochanek, Christopher S.
The Ohio State University
28
Kasting, James F.
Pennsylvania State University
29
Kalogera, Vassiliki
Northwestern University
30
Lodders, Katharina
McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences
31
Robertson, Brant E.
University of California, Santa Cruz
32
Seager, Sara
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
33
Boylan-Kolchin, Michael
The University of Texas at Austin
34
Gammie, Charles F.
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
35
Kasen, Daniel N.
University of California, Berkeley
36
Merritt, David
Rochester Institute of Technology
37
Treu, Tommaso L.
University of California, Los Angeles
38
Lai, Dong
Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science
39
Zuber, Maria T.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
40
Lorimer, Duncan R.
West Virginia University
41
Price-Whelan, Adrian M.
Simons Foundation
42
Reynolds, Christopher S.
University of Maryland, College Park
43
Tonry, John L.
University Hawaii Institute for Astronomy
44
Calzetti, Daniela
University of Massachusetts Amherst
45
Psaltis, Dimitrios
Georgia Institute of Technology
46
Nesvorný, David
Southwest Research Institute
47
Begelman, Mitchell C.
JILA
48
Dotter, Aaron L.
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
49
Peebles, P. James E.
Princeton UniversityNobel laureate
50
Rasio, Frederic A.
Northwestern University
51
Nimmo, Francis
University of California, Santa Cruz
52
Blandford, Rogerd D.
Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
53
Herbst, Eric
University of Virginia
54
Cordes, James M.
Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science
55
Hapke, Bruce W.
University of Pittsburgh
56
Weinberg, David H.
The Ohio State University
57
Finkbeiner, Douglas P.
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
58
Freedman, Wendy L.
The Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
59
Grotzinger, John P.
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences
60
Zahnle, Kevin J.
NASA Ames Research Center
61
Winn, Joshua N.
Princeton University
62
Stern, Daniel K.
California Institute of Technology
63
Shen, Yue
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
64
Kewley, Lisa J.
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
65
Pieters, Carlé M.
Brown University
66
Somerville, Rachel S.
Simons Foundation
67
Catling, David C.
College of the Environment
68
Andrews, Sean M.
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
69
Ivezic, Zeljko
University of Washington
70
Vogelsberger, Mark
MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
71
Boynton, William V.
The University of Arizona
72
Stevenson, David J.
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences
73
Özel, Feryal
Georgia Institute of Technology
74
Ostriker, Eve C.
Princeton University
75
Lorenz, Ralph D.
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
76
Luhman, Kevin L.
Pennsylvania State University
77
Christensen, Philip R.
School of Earth and Space Exploration
78
Holz, Daniel E.
The University of Chicago
79
Fuller, Jim
California Institute of Technology
80
Lucey, Paul G.
School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology
81
McGaugh, Stacy S.
Case Western Reserve University
82
Fryer, Chris L.
Los Alamos National Laboratory
83
Elmegreen, Bruce G.
University of Wisconsin-Madison
84
Tinker, Jeremy L.
The Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics
85
VanderPlas, Jacob T.
University of Washington
86
Bell, Eric F.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
87
Haiman, Zolt́an
Columbia University
88
Chevalier, Roger A.
University of Virginia
89
Condon, James J.
Unaffiliated
90
Scoccimarro, Román
The Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics
91
Heckman, Timothy M.
School of Earth and Space Exploration
92
Schaefer, Bradley E.
Louisiana State University
93
McKay, Christopher P.
NASA Ames Research Center
94
Foreman-Mackey, Daniel T.
Simons Foundation
95
Perlmutter, Saul
Lawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryNobel laureate
96
Öberg, Karin I.
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
97
Mandelbaum, Rachel
Carnegie Mellon University
98
Crisp, David C.
LLC
99
Peterson, Bradley M.
Retired
100
Willmer, Christopher N.A.
The University of Arizona

779 listed scientists in Astronomy & Astrophysics in the United States

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