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482 researchers in the United States whose main subfield is Biomedical Engineering are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 0.7% of all listed authors in the United States, and 1st of 50 countries in the subfield. 157 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). College of Engineering has the most (19), followed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (12) and Department of Bioengineering (12). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors

482

0.7% of all in the United States

In the global top 100,000

157

32.6% of them

Country rank in the subfield

of 50 countries in Biomedical Engineering

Highest-ranked

#116

Langer, Robert Samuel M.

#	Institution	Listed authors	Top 100k	Rank worldwide	Highest-ranked author
1	College of Engineering	19	2	#1	Feinberg, Adam Walter #27,765
2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	12	5	#3	Langer, Robert Samuel M. #116
3	Department of Bioengineering	12	2	#4	Hoffman, Allan S. #9,886
4	Department of Biomedical Engineering	11	3	#6	Sen Gupta, Anirban #51,794
5	Johns Hopkins Department of Biomedical Engineering	8	5	#12	Thakor, Nitish Vyomesh #23,174
6	School of Engineering and Applied Science	8	1	#14	Zhang, Lijie Grace #53,434
7	Washington University in St. Louis	7	2	#17	Oyen, Michelle L. #21,342
8	Pratt School of Engineering	7	0	#24	Gerecht, Sharon #141,727
9	Wake Forest University School of Medicine	6	3	#27	Williams, David F. #9,982
10	Stanford Engineering	6	4	#28	Kuhl, Ellen #10,319
11	George R. Brown School of Engineering and Computing	6	5	#29	King, Michael R. #14,122
12	MIT School of Engineering	6	3	#30	Moody, George B. #14,633
13	Harvard Medical School	6	2	#31	Bonato, Paolo #21,111
14	The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science	6	2	#33	Leong, K. W. #26,845
15	University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine	6	1	#36	Wang, James H.C. #39,714
16	Georgia Institute of Technology	6	2	#37	Inan, Omer Tolga #69,588
17	College of Engineering and Applied Science	5	2	#41	Burdick, Jason A. #6,925
18	University of Washington	5	2	#42	Ratner, Buddy D. #10,987
19	George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering	5	4	#45	García, Andrés J. #33,200
20	Department of Mechanical Engineering	5	2	#35	Rubinsky, Boris E. #38,270
21	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	5	1	#55	Umberger, Brian R. #95,511
22	Biomedical Engineering Department	4	3	#62	Laurencin, Cato T. #18,206
23	Stony Brook University	4	1	#64	Zhu, Donghui #20,241
24	University of California, San Diego	4	2	#66	Jung, Tzyy Ping #25,338
25	Columbia University	4	3	#67	Vunjak-Novakovic, Gordana V. #25,770
26	Samueli School of Engineering	4	1	#70	Athanasiou, Kyriacos A. #50,568
27	Cockrell School of Engineering	4	1	#74	Neptune, Richard R. #78,827
28	Boston University College of Engineering	4	0	#76	Morgan, Elise Feng I. #100,244
29	UCLA Samueli School of Engineering	3	2	#90	Khademhosseini, Ali U. #2,980
30	University of Pittsburgh	3	2	#91	Badylak, Stephen F. #3,192
31	Tufts School of Engineering	3	1	#92	Kaplan, David L. #3,675
32	Northwestern University	3	1	#95	Stupp, Samuel I. #9,542
33	Case Western Reserve University	3	1	#96	Anderson, James M. #11,335
34	UW-Madison College of Engineering	3	1	#97	Thelen, Darryl Gerard #18,362
35	University of Oregon	3	1	#99	Dalton, Paul Donald #22,227
36	University of Pennsylvania	3	1	#101	Daly, Andrew C. #26,101
37	Massachusetts General Hospital	3	2	#106	Toner, Mehmet G. #33,591
38	Stanford University	3	1	#113	Marsden, Alison Lesley #52,172
39	Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences	3	1	#116	Parker, Kevin Kit #60,855
40	Penn State College of Medicine	3	2	#117	Vogler, Erwin A. #61,205
41	University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science	3	1	#118	West, Jennifer L. #68,719
42	USC Viterbi School of Engineering	3	1	#122	Loeb, Gerald E. #80,669
43	A. James Clark School of Engineering	3	0	#135	Fisher, John P. #116,324
44	Cornell University College of Engineering	3	0	#137	Wang, Yadong #121,744
45	UC Davis School of Medicine	3	0	#144	Hull, Maury L. #143,422
46	Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation	3	0	#146	Mandal, Kalpana #152,474
47	Vanderbilt University School of Engineering	3	0	#150	Zelik, Karl E. #164,557

The top 100 in Biomedical Engineering in the United States, in order

1
Langer, Robert Samuel M.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2
Khademhosseini, Ali U.
UCLA Samueli School of Engineering
3
Badylak, Stephen F.
University of Pittsburgh
4
Ma, Peter X.
Michigan Engineering
5
Kaplan, David L.
Tufts School of Engineering
6
Humphrey, Jay D.
Yale School of Medicine
7
Mooney, David J.
Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering
8
Guilak, Farshid
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
9
Burdick, Jason A.
College of Engineering and Applied Science
10
Ozbolat, Ibrahim T.
Pennsylvania State University
11
Stupp, Samuel I.
Northwestern University
12
Hoffman, Allan S.
Department of Bioengineering
13
Williams, David F.
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
14
Kuhl, Ellen
Stanford Engineering
15
Ratner, Buddy D.
University of Washington
16
Delp, Scott L.
Stanford Engineering
17
Anderson, James M.
Case Western Reserve University
18
Cowin, Stephen C.
The City University of New York
19
He, Bin
Carnegie Mellon University
20
Hubbell, Jeffrey A.
Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering
21
Bose, Susmita
Washington State University Pullman
22
Hosseinkhani, Hossein
Innovation Center for Advanced Technology Matrix, Inc.
23
Hollister, Scott J.
Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering
24
King, Michael R.
George R. Brown School of Engineering and Computing
25
Moody, George B.
MIT School of Engineering
26
Augustine, Robin
University of Massachusetts Lowell
27
Clifford, Gari D.
Emory University
28
Annabi, Nasim
University of Wisconsin-Madison
29
Swartz, Melody A.
Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering
30
Laurencin, Cato T.
Biomedical Engineering Department
31
Thelen, Darryl Gerard
UW-Madison College of Engineering
32
Duan, Bin
University of Nebraska Medical Center
33
Zhu, Donghui
Stony Brook University
34
Bonato, Paolo
Harvard Medical School
35
Bao, Gang
George R. Brown School of Engineering and Computing
36
Oyen, Michelle L.
Washington University in St. Louis
37
Dalton, Paul Donald
University of Oregon
38
Thakor, Nitish Vyomesh
Johns Hopkins Department of Biomedical Engineering
39
Grill, Warren M.
Duke University
40
Anseth, Kristi S.
College of Engineering and Applied Science
41
Andriacchi, Thomas P.
Stanford Engineering
42
Jung, Tzyy Ping
University of California, San Diego
43
Vunjak-Novakovic, Gordana V.
Columbia University
44
Daly, Andrew C.
University of Pennsylvania
45
Herr, Hugh M.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
46
Leong, K. W.
The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
47
Skardal, Aleksander
The Ohio State University
48
Mikos, A. G.
George R. Brown School of Engineering and Computing
49
Feinberg, Adam Walter
College of Engineering
50
Griffith, Linda G.
MIT School of Engineering
51
Ateshian, Gerard A.
The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
52
Sacks, Michael S.
Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences
53
Green, Jordan J.
Institute for Nanobiotechnology
54
Ashammakhi, Nureddin A.
University of California, Los Angeles
55
Kamm, Roger D.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
56
Kleinstreuer, Clement
NC State College of Engineering
57
García, Andrés J.
George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering
58
Toner, Mehmet G.
Massachusetts General Hospital
59
Pons, José Luis
Shirley Ryan AbilityLab
60
Tamayol, Ali
Biomedical Engineering Department
61
Zajac, Felix E.
Stanford Engineering
62
LeGeros, Racquel Zapanta
NYU College of Dentistry
63
Cavanagh, Peter R.
University of Washington
64
Rubinsky, Boris E.
Department of Mechanical Engineering
65
Millán, José del R.
The University of Texas at Austin
66
Ku, David N.
George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering
67
Popel, Aleksander S.
Johns Hopkins Department of Biomedical Engineering
68
Wang, James H.C.
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
69
Christman, Karen L.
Shu Chien-Gene Lay Department of Bioengineering
70
Peterchev, Angel V.
Duke University School of Medicine
71
Ferris, Daniel P.
J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical EngineeringUniversity of Florida
72
Grainger, David W.
The University of Utah
73
Elisseeff, Jennifer H.
Johns Hopkins Department of Biomedical Engineering
74
Niklason, Laura E.
Humacyte Global Inc
75
Sun, Wei
Drexel University College of Engineering
76
Dobson, Jon Paul
Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering
77
Keaveny, Tony M.
University of California, Berkeley
78
Carter, Dennis R.
VA Palo Alto Health Care System
79
Arola, Dwayne D.
UW College of Engineering
80
Kargozar, Saeid
UT Southwestern Medical Center
81
Tarbell, John M.
The Grove School of Engineering
82
Athanasiou, Kyriacos A.
Samueli School of Engineering
83
Sen Gupta, Anirban
Department of Biomedical Engineering
84
Marsden, Alison Lesley
Stanford University
85
Zhang, Lijie Grace
School of Engineering and Applied Science
86
Bartlett, Robert H.
Deceased
87
Karp, Jeffrey M.
Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology
88
Taylor, Charles Anthony
HeartFlow, Inc.
89
Cogan, Stuart F.
Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science
90
Bellis, Susan Lynn
The University of Alabama at Birmingham
91
Kyriakides, Themistoklis R.
Yale School of Medicine
92
Franz, Jason R.
Lampe Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering
93
Murphy, Sean Vincent
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
94
Mark, Roger G.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
95
Parker, Kevin Kit
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
96
Vogler, Erwin A.
Penn State College of Medicine
97
Kuiken, Todd A.
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
98
Provenzano, Paolo P.
College of Science and Engineering
99
Vorp, David A.
University of Pittsburgh
100
Messersmith, Phillip B.
Department of Bioengineering

482 listed scientists in Biomedical Engineering in the United States

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