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Top institutions in the United States for Built Environment & Design

17 institutions · Built Environment & Design · United States

Which institutions in the United States have the most top-cited scientists in Built Environment & Design?

234 researchers in the United States whose main field is Built Environment & Design are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 0.3% of all listed authors in the United States, and 2nd of 65 countries in the field. 171 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 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (7) and Texas A&M University (7). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors
234
0.3% of all in the United States
In the global top 100,000
171
73.1% of them
Country rank in the field
#2
of 65 countries in Built Environment & Design
Highest-ranked
#248
Li, Victor C.
#InstitutionListed authorsTop 100kRank worldwideHighest-ranked author
1College of Engineering1912#5Warda, Bint Ashraf #13,321
2University of Michigan, Ann Arbor74#31Li, Victor C. #248
3Texas A&M University75#39Brody, Samuel David #27,545
4Massachusetts Institute of Technology64#45Reinhart, Christoph F. #11,952
5University of California, Berkeley65#50Innes, Judith Eleanor #25,041
6Missouri University of Science and Technology53#53Khayat, Kamal Henri #2,634
7Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory54#54Hong, Tianzhen #6,421
8University of California, Los Angeles55#57Scott, Allen J. #7,926
9Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering54#60Monteiro, Paulo J.M. #13,669
10College of Engineering and Applied Science54#63Hallowell, Matthew Ryan #18,499
11National Institute of Standards and Technology44#71Bentz, Dale P. #4,064
12New Jersey Institute of Technology31#130Assaad, Rayan H. #57,956
13Purdue University32#134Zhang, Jiansong #60,976
14UW-Madison College of Engineering31#137Naik, Tarun R. #68,631
15Michigan Engineering31#140Menassa, Carol C. #79,102
16The Grainger College of Engineering32#141El-Gohary, Nora M. #82,229
17University of Virginia33#144Wilson, Bev K. #83,802

The top 100 in Built Environment & Design in the United States, in order

  1. 1
    Li, Victor C.
    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  2. 2
    Behnood, Ali
    University of Mississippi
  3. 3
    Roy, Ananya
    University of California
  4. 4
    Ozbakkaloglu, Togay
    Ingram School of Engineering
  5. 5
    Khayat, Kamal Henri
    Missouri University of Science and Technology
  6. 6
    Ewing, Reid H.
    The University of Utah
  7. 7
    Shah, Surendra P.
    The University of Texas at Arlington
  8. 8
    Bentz, Dale P.
    National Institute of Standards and Technology
  9. 9
    Boeing, Geoff
    University of Southern California
  10. 10
    Rigolon, Alessandro
    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  11. 11
    Hong, Tianzhen
    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  12. 12
    Meerow, Sara A.
    Arizona State University
  13. 13
    Scott, Allen J.
    University of California, Los Angeles
  14. 14
    Brown, Greg Gordon
    California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
  15. 15
    Galster, George C.
    Wayne State University
  16. 16
    Reinhart, Christoph F.
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  17. 17
    Talen, Emily
    The University of Chicago
  18. 18
    Dorst, Kees H.
    Princeton University
  19. 19
    Warda, Bint Ashraf
    College of Engineering
  20. 20
    Monteiro, Paulo J.M.
    Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
  21. 21
    Schön, Donald A.
    National Institute of Standards and Technology
  22. 22
    Garboczi, Edward J.
    National Institute of Standards and Technology
  23. 23
    Shi, Xianming
    University of Miami
  24. 24
    Ma, Hongyan
    Missouri University of Science and Technology
  25. 25
    Loukaitou-Sideris, Anastasia
    University of California, Los Angeles
  26. 26
    Fisk, William J.
    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  27. 27
    Kahraman, Ahmet
    College of Engineering
  28. 28
    Nodehi, Mehrab
    College of Engineering
  29. 29
    Neithalath, Narayanan
    Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering
  30. 30
    Darko, Amos
    University of Washington
  31. 31
    Hu, Ming
    University of Notre Dame
  32. 32
    Zukin, Sharon
    Brooklyn College
  33. 33
    Hallowell, Matthew Ryan
    College of Engineering and Applied Science
  34. 34
    Al-Kodmany, Kheir M.
    University of Illinois at Chicago
  35. 35
    Huang, Baoshan
    The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
  36. 36
    Howell, Larry L.
    Brigham Young University
  37. 37
    Gero, John S.
    Drexel University
  38. 38
    You, Zhanping
    Michigan Technological University
  39. 39
    Thomas, Jeffrey J.
    GCP Applied Technologies Inc.
  40. 40
    McPhearson, Timon P.
    The New School
  41. 41
    Forsyth, Ann
    Harvard Graduate School of Design
  42. 42
    Meyer, Christian
    The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
  43. 43
    Naaman, Antoine E.
    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  44. 44
    Innes, Judith Eleanor
    University of California, Berkeley
  45. 45
    Simpson, Timothy W.
    Penn State College of Engineering
  46. 46
    Friedmann, John
    University of California, Los Angeles
  47. 47
    Brody, Samuel David
    Texas A&M University
  48. 48
    Zunino, Franco
    Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
  49. 49
    Kontokosta, Constantine E.
    New York University
  50. 50
    Fainstein, Susan S.
    Harvard University
  51. 51
    Zhai, Z. J.
    College of Engineering and Applied Science
  52. 52
    Meng, Weina
    Charles V. Schaefer, Jr. School of Engineering and Science
  53. 53
    Dixit, Manish Kumar
    Texas A&M University
  54. 54
    Song, Yan
    College of Arts and Sciences
  55. 55
    Ahern, Jack F.
    University of Massachusetts Amherst
  56. 56
    Diamond, Sidney
    Lyles School of Civil and Construction Engineering
  57. 57
    Juenger, Maria C.Garci
    Cockrell School of Engineering
  58. 58
    Fini, Ellie H.
    Arizona State University
  59. 59
    Lehmann, Steffen
    University of Nevada, Las Vegas
  60. 60
    Wang, Kejin Jin
    Iowa State University
  61. 61
    Bullard, Jeffrey W.
    College of Engineering
  62. 62
    Schiavon, Stefano
    Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
  63. 63
    Marcuse, Peter
    Columbia University
  64. 64
    Zhang, Hui
    University of California, Berkeley
  65. 65
    Skibniewski, M. J.
    University of Maryland, College Park
  66. 66
    Wetter, Michael
    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  67. 67
    Mobasher, Barzin
    Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering
  68. 68
    Fan, Peilei
    Tufts University
  69. 69
    Srubar, Wil V.
    College of Engineering and Applied Science
  70. 70
    Suraneni, Prannoy
    University of Miami
  71. 71
    Berke, Philip R.
    College of Arts and Sciences
  72. 72
    Li, Jiaqi
    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  73. 73
    Persily, Andrew K.
    National Institute of Standards and Technology
  74. 74
    Shi, Linda
    Cornell University
  75. 75
    Pearsall, Hamil
    Temple University
  76. 76
    Xiao, Yu
    Portland State University
  77. 77
    Sant, Gaurav N.
    UCLA Samueli School of Engineering
  78. 78
    Huang, Youqin
    State University of New York Albany
  79. 79
    Gibbs, David C.
    Emory University School of Medicine
  80. 80
    Qian, Xiaoping
    University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Mechanical Engineering
  81. 81
    Zhang, Liang
    The University of Arizona
  82. 82
    Mehta, Vikas
    University of South Florida, Tampa
  83. 83
    Becerik-Gerber, Burçin
    USC Viterbi School of Engineering
  84. 84
    Wille, Kay
    University of Connecticut
  85. 85
    Millard-Ball, Adam
    University of California, Los Angeles
  86. 86
    Miraftab, Faranak
    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  87. 87
    Popovics, Sándor
    Drexel University
  88. 88
    Rea, Mark S.
    Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
  89. 89
    Golparvar-Fard, Mani
    Siebel School of Computing and Data Science
  90. 90
    Chen, Wei
    Department of Materials Design and Innovation
  91. 91
    Chu, Eric K.
    University of California, Davis
  92. 92
    Manzo, Lynne C.
    University of Washington
  93. 93
    Brager, Gail Schiller
    College of Environmental Design
  94. 94
    Krause, Rachel Marie
    University of Kansas
  95. 95
    Hamidi, Shima
    Department of Environmental Health and Engineering
  96. 96
    Brown, Robert D.
    Texas A&M University
  97. 97
    Gambatese, John A.
    College of Engineering
  98. 98
    Dong, Bing
    Syracuse University
  99. 99
    Arens, Edward A.
    University of California, Berkeley
  100. 100
    Maute, Kurt K.
    College of Engineering and Applied Science

234 listed scientists in Built Environment & Design 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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