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Top institutions in the United States for Biophysics

12 institutions · Biophysics · United States

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

174 researchers in the United States whose main subfield is Biophysics 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 47 countries in the subfield. 31 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) has the most (5), followed by New York University (4) and Protein Data Bank (3). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors
174
0.2% of all in the United States
In the global top 100,000
31
17.8% of them
Country rank in the subfield
#1
of 47 countries in Biophysics
Highest-ranked
#4,217
Berman, Helen M.
#InstitutionListed authorsTop 100kRank worldwideHighest-ranked author
1National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)52#2Tycko, Robert #14,624
2New York University41#4Grosberg, Alexander Yu #84,148
3Protein Data Bank32#5Berman, Helen M. #4,217
4University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign32#6Schulten, Klaus J. #8,282
5University of Washington31#9Stoll, Stefan #33,539
6University of California, San Francisco32#10Pettersen, Eric F. #34,953
7University of Michigan, Ann Arbor31#12Ramamoorthy, Ayyalusamy #48,825
8Columbia University31#13Palmer, Arthur G. #58,265
9University of California, Irvine31#14Gratton, Enrico #65,264
10University of California, Berkeley30#15Chiu, Wah #105,892
11Harvard Medical School30#17Adzhubeǐ, Ivan A. #184,876
12Biohub30#19Carragher, Bridget O. #226,053

The top 100 in Biophysics in the United States, in order

  1. 1
    Berman, Helen M.
    Protein Data Bank
  2. 2
    Goodsell, David S.
    Protein Data Bank
  3. 3
    Wang, Guangshun
    College of Medicine
  4. 4
    Schulten, Klaus J.
    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  5. 5
    Tycko, Robert
    National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
  6. 6
    Bax, Ad
    National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
  7. 7
    Kessel, David H.
    Wayne State University School of Medicine
  8. 8
    Stoll, Stefan
    University of Washington
  9. 9
    Pettersen, Eric F.
    University of California, San Francisco
  10. 10
    Nagle, John F.
    Carnegie Mellon University
  11. 11
    Manning, Gerald S.
    Rutgers University–New Brunswick
  12. 12
    Ramamoorthy, Ayyalusamy
    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  13. 13
    Hong, Mei
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  14. 14
    Palmer, Arthur G.
    Columbia University
  15. 15
    Blois, Marsden S.
    Stanford University School of Medicine
  16. 16
    Tajkhorshid, Emad
    School of Molecular and Cellular Biology
  17. 17
    Trott, Oleg
    Scripps Research Institute
  18. 18
    Gratton, Enrico
    University of California, Irvine
  19. 19
    Sigworth, Fred J.
    Yale School of Medicine
  20. 20
    Feigenson, Gerald W.
    Cornell University
  21. 21
    Huang, H. W.
    Rice University
  22. 22
    FitzHugh, Richard
    National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  23. 23
    Humphrey, William
    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  24. 24
    Glaeser, Robert M.
    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  25. 25
    White, Stephen H.
    UCI School of Medicine
  26. 26
    Grosberg, Alexander Yu
    New York University
  27. 27
    Rose, George D.
    Johns Hopkins University Krieger School of Arts and Sciences
  28. 28
    Lazaridis, Themis
    City College of New York
  29. 29
    Goddard, Thomas D.
    University of California, San Francisco
  30. 30
    Webb, Benjamin M.
    California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences
  31. 31
    Shakhnovich, Eugene I.
    Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
  32. 32
    Veatch, Sarah L.
    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  33. 33
    Cooke, Roger E.
    UCSF School of Medicine
  34. 34
    Chiu, Wah
    University of California, Berkeley
  35. 35
    Eisenberg, Bob S.
    Rush University Medical Center
  36. 36
    Needham, David
    Pratt School of Engineering
  37. 37
    Schellman, John A.
    University of Oregon
  38. 38
    Beard, Daniel A.
    Department of Biomedical Engineering
  39. 39
    Levitt, David G.
    University of Minnesota Twin Cities
  40. 40
    Westbrook, John D.
    Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey
  41. 41
    Wang, Tuo
    Michigan State University
  42. 42
    Axelrod, Daniel
    LSA Psychology
  43. 43
    Andersen, Olaf Sparre
    Weill Cornell Medicine
  44. 44
    Bloomfield, Victor A.
    University of Minnesota Twin Cities
  45. 45
    Chernomordik, Leonid V.
    National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
  46. 46
    Song, Yiqiao
    Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
  47. 47
    Jang, Hyunbum
    National Cancer Institute at Frederick
  48. 48
    Ludtke, Steven J.
    Baylor College of Medicine
  49. 49
    Grüner, Sol Michael Michael
    Cornell University College of Engineering
  50. 50
    Gumbart, James Conrad
    Georgia Institute of Technology
  51. 51
    Tsai, Chungjung
    National Cancer Institute at Frederick
  52. 52
    Kasianowicz, John J.
    University of South Florida, Tampa
  53. 53
    Chalker-Scott, Linda
    Washington State University Puyallup Research and Extension Center
  54. 54
    Adzhubeǐ, Ivan A.
    Harvard Medical School
  55. 55
    Mentink-Vigier, Frédéric
    National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
  56. 56
    Delaglio, Frank
    Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research
  57. 57
    Olson, Wilma King
    Rutgers University–New Brunswick
  58. 58
    Verdugo, Pedro
    Department of Bioengineering
  59. 59
    Loew, Leslie M.
    UConn Health
  60. 60
    Saxton, Michael J.
    UC Davis School of Medicine
  61. 61
    Shakeri-Zadeh, Ali
    Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
  62. 62
    Bell, George I.
    Los Alamos National Laboratory
  63. 63
    Oster, George F.
    University of California, Berkeley
  64. 64
    Penczek, Pawel A.
    McGovern Medical School
  65. 65
    Pearlman, David A.
    Quantum Simulation Technologies, Inc
  66. 66
    Jerschow, Alexej
    New York University
  67. 67
  68. 68
  69. 69
    Henzler-Wildman, Katherine A.
    University of Wisconsin-Madison
  70. 70
    Webb, Watt Wetmore
    Cornell University
  71. 71
    Siegel, David Paul
    Givaudan Corporation
  72. 72
    Vogt, Stefan
    The Advanced Photon Source
  73. 73
    Wriggers, Willy
    Frank Batten College of Engineering and Technology
  74. 74
    Kupče, Ēriks
    Bruker Corporation
  75. 75
    Keedy, Daniel A.
    The City University of New York
  76. 76
    Overchuk, Marta O.
    Lampe Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering
  77. 77
    Zidovska, Alexandra
    New York University
  78. 78
    Dalal, Vikram
    Washington University in St. Louis
  79. 79
    Hansma, Helen Greenwood
    University of California, Santa Barbara
  80. 80
    Johnson, John E.
    Scripps Research Institute
  81. 81
    Hoch, Jeffrey C.
    UConn Health
  82. 82
    Sukharev, Sergei I.
    College of Computer, Mathematical, & Natural Sciences
  83. 83
    Porter, Lauren L.
    National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
  84. 84
    Heberle, Frederick A.
    The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
  85. 85
    Heymann, J. Bernard
    National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS)
  86. 86
    Shen, Yang
    National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
  87. 87
    Suchyna, Thomas M.
    Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
  88. 88
    Fernandez, Julio M.
    Columbia University
  89. 89
    Johnson, W. Curtis
    Oregon State University
  90. 90
    Eaton, Gareth R.
    University of Denver
  91. 91
    Hürlimann, Martin D.
    Schlumberger-Doll Research Center
  92. 92
    Lyman, Edward R.
    University of Delaware
  93. 93
    Vögeli, Beat Rolf
    University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine
  94. 94
    Andrews, Steven S.
    University of Washington
  95. 95
    Mendelsohn, Richard
    Department of Chemistry
  96. 96
    Sun, Bo
    Oregon State University
  97. 97
    Prestegard, James H.
    University of Georgia
  98. 98
    Beauchamp, Kyle A.
    Tempus AI, Inc.
  99. 99
    Smith, Steven B.
    University of California, Berkeley
  100. 100
    Almeida, Paulo F.F.
    University of North Carolina Wilmington

174 listed scientists in Biophysics 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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