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

176 researchers in the United States whose main subfield is Biotechnology 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 3rd of 62 countries in the subfield. 60 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). National Laboratory of the Rockies has the most (6), followed by College of Engineering (5) and University of Minnesota Twin Cities (4). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors
176
0.2% of all in the United States
In the global top 100,000
60
34.1% of them
Country rank in the subfield
#3
of 62 countries in Biotechnology
Highest-ranked
#6,256
Robbins, Paul D.
#InstitutionListed authorsTop 100kRank worldwideHighest-ranked author
1National Laboratory of the Rockies62#23Himmel, Michael E. #62,076
2College of Engineering51#38Wan, Caixia #75,514
3University of Minnesota Twin Cities42#49Robbins, Paul D. #6,256
4University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign43#51Zhao, Huimin #17,284
5University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School42#52Gao, Guangping #34,958
6USDA ARS National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research41#58Saha, Badal C. #65,815
7Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory41#61Simmons, Blake A. #86,577
8MIT School of Engineering31#81Stephanopoulos, Gregory N. #10,126
9Stanford University31#84Kay, Mark A. #19,770
10Department of Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering31#99Cornish, Katrina #63,239
11Washington University in St. Louis31#104Yuan, Joshua S. #73,738
12NC State University31#109Park, Sunkyu #86,985

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

  1. 1
    Robbins, Paul D.
    University of Minnesota Twin Cities
  2. 2
    Duan, Dongsheng
    University of Missouri
  3. 3
    Demain, Arnold L.
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  4. 4
    Stephanopoulos, Gregory N.
    MIT School of Engineering
  5. 5
    Wilson, James M.
    University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
  6. 6
    Zhao, Huimin
    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  7. 7
    Wyman, Charles E.
    Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering
  8. 8
    Ruan, Rongsheng
    Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering
  9. 9
    Kay, Mark A.
    Stanford University
  10. 10
    Wright, John Fraser
    Stanford University School of Medicine
  11. 11
    Morgan, Richard A.
    Be Biopharma
  12. 12
    Liu, Shijie
    Department of Chemical Engineering
  13. 13
    Klibanov, Alexander M.
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  14. 14
    Zhao, Hua
    University of Minnesota Twin Cities
  15. 15
    Daniell, Henry
    University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine
  16. 16
    Antoniewicz, MacIek R.
    Michigan Engineering
  17. 17
    Pan, Xuejun
    University of Wisconsin-Madison
  18. 18
    Singh, Sandip Kumar
    University of Kansas
  19. 19
    Gao, Guangping
    University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
  20. 20
    Gaylarde, Christine C.
    The University of Oklahoma
  21. 21
    Samulski, Richard Jude S.
    The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  22. 22
    Hallenbeck, Patrick Clark
    United States Air Force Academy
  23. 23
    Mingozzi, Federico
    Spark Therapeutics, Inc.
  24. 24
    Åhring, Birgitte Kiaer
    Washington State University Tri-Cities
  25. 25
    Danquah, Michael Kobina
    Tickle College of Engineering
  26. 26
    Alper, Hal S.
    Cockrell School of Engineering
  27. 27
    Forbes, Neil S.
    Daniel J. Riccio Jr. College of Engineering
  28. 28
    E Lewis, Nathan E.
    University of Georgia
  29. 29
    Shetty, Kalidas
    North Dakota State University
  30. 30
    Li, Yebo
    Quasar Energy Group
  31. 31
    Herzog, Roland W.
    Indiana University School of Medicine
  32. 32
    Georgiou, George
    The University of Texas at Austin
  33. 33
    Chen, Shulin
    Washington State University Pullman
  34. 34
    Flotte, Terence R.
    University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
  35. 35
    Dale, Bruce E.
    Michigan State University
  36. 36
    Himmel, Michael E.
    National Laboratory of the Rockies
  37. 37
    Cornish, Katrina
    Department of Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering
  38. 38
    Saha, Badal C.
    USDA ARS National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research
  39. 39
    Srivastava, Arun
    University of Florida College of Medicine
  40. 40
    Dolgin, Elie
    Science journalist
  41. 41
    Dordick, Jonathan S.
    Center for Biotechnology & Interdisciplinary Studies
  42. 42
    Yang, Shang Tiang
    The Ohio State University
  43. 43
    Yuan, Joshua S.
    Washington University in St. Louis
  44. 44
    Wan, Caixia
    College of Engineering
  45. 45
    Maranas, Costas D.
    Penn State College of Engineering
  46. 46
    Young, Jamey D.
    Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
  47. 47
    Papoutsakis, Eleftherios Terry
    University of Delaware
  48. 48
  49. 49
    Yang, Bin
    Washington State University Tricities
  50. 50
    Simmons, Blake A.
    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  51. 51
    Park, Sunkyu
    NC State University
  52. 52
    Zheng, Yi
    Kansas State University
  53. 53
    Zhang, Xiao
    Washington State University Tri-Cities
  54. 54
    Schmidt-Dannert, Claudia
    BioTechnology Institute
  55. 55
    Jin, Youg Su
    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  56. 56
    Raj, Tirath
    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  57. 57
    Hildebrand, Mark
    Scripps Institution of Oceanography
  58. 58
    Tao, Ling
    National Laboratory of the Rockies
  59. 59
    Weber, Thomas
    Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
  60. 60
    Shuler, Michael Louis
    Cornell University College of Engineering
  61. 61
    Kelley, Brian D.
    Vir Biotechnology, Inc.
  62. 62
    Field, Jim A.
    College of Engineering
  63. 63
    Chamberlain, Jeffrey S.
    University of Washington School of Medicine
  64. 64
    Mayfield, Stephen Patrick Y.
    University of California, San Diego
  65. 65
    Singh, Seema
    Sandia National Laboratories, California
  66. 66
    Chen, Rachel Ruizhen
    UC Davis Graduate School of Management
  67. 67
    Wang, Donghai
    Carl R. Ice College of Engineering
  68. 68
    Chen, Paul L.
    Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering
  69. 69
    Mukhopadhyay, Aindrila
    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  70. 70
    Gray, Steven James
    UT Southwestern Medical Center
  71. 71
    Prather, Kristala Jones Jones
    MIT School of Engineering
  72. 72
    Xie, Dongming
    Francis College of Engineering
  73. 73
    Wang, Dan
    University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
  74. 74
    Wen, Zhiyou
    Iowa State University
  75. 75
    Yu, Jian
    School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology
  76. 76
    Boopathy, Raj
    Nicholls State University
  77. 77
    Yan, Yajun
    College of Engineering
  78. 78
    Koffas, Mattheos A.G.
    School of Engineering
  79. 79
    Salvachúa, Davinia
    National Laboratory of the Rockies
  80. 80
    Laurens, Lieve M.L.
    National Laboratory of the Rockies
  81. 81
    Quinn, Jason C.
    Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering
  82. 82
    Zhang, Hongwei
    Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
  83. 83
    Klasson, K. Thomas
    USDA ARS Southern Regional Research Center
  84. 84
    Mosier, Nathan S.
    Purdue University
  85. 85
    Swartz, James R.
    Stanford Engineering
  86. 86
    Jadhav, Jyoti Prafulla
    University of Missouri
  87. 87
    Davidson, Beverly Long
    The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
  88. 88
  89. 89
    Boopathy, Ramaraj
    Nicholls State University
  90. 90
  91. 91
    Xu, Feng
    Novozymes Biotech, Inc.
  92. 92
    Jeffries, Thomas W.
    Xylome Corporation
  93. 93
    Wilson, David B.
    Cornell University
  94. 94
    Wang, Ping
    University of Minnesota Twin Cities
  95. 95
    Byrne, Barry J.
    University of Florida
  96. 96
    Zhang, Fuzhong
    Washington University in St. Louis
  97. 97
    Anzalone, Andrew V.
    Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
  98. 98
    Venditti, Richard A.
    NC State University
  99. 99
    Reardon, Kenneth F.
    Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering
  100. 100
    Vandenberghe, Luk H.
    Schepens Eye Research Institute

176 listed scientists in Biotechnology 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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