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Which institutions in the United States have the most top-cited scientists in Business & Management?

787 researchers in the United States whose main subfield is Business & Management 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 83 countries in the subfield. 784 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania has the most (19), followed by Harvard Business School (17) and Michigan State University (16). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors

787

1.1% of all in the United States

In the global top 100,000

784

99.6% of them

Country rank in the subfield

of 83 countries in Business & Management

Highest-ranked

#22

Teece, David J.

#	Institution	Listed authors	Top 100k	Rank worldwide	Highest-ranked author
1	Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania	19	19	#1	Grant, Adam M. #785
2	Harvard Business School	17	17	#2	Porter, Michael E. #169
3	Michigan State University	16	16	#3	Roberson, Quinetta M. #12,613
4	Arizona State University	14	14	#4	Ashforth, Blake E. #1,016
5	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	12	12	#5	Weick, Karl E. #2,752
6	University of Minnesota Twin Cities	9	9	#8	Landers, Richard N. #5,620
7	Stanford University	8	8	#10	Eisenhardt, Kathleen M. #454
8	D'Amore-McKim School of Business	8	8	#12	Aguilera, Ruth V. #2,477
9	Babson College	8	8	#13	Davenport, Thomas H. #2,609
10	Texas A&M University	8	8	#14	Hitt, Michael A. #2,842
11	Kelley School of Business	7	7	#22	MacKenzie, Scott Bradley #3,453
12	W. P. Carey School of Business	7	7	#26	LePine, Jeffery A. #5,892
13	Rice University	7	7	#29	Sonenshein, Scott #17,763
14	College of Business	7	7	#31	Li, Mingxiang #39,015
15	Penn State Smeal College of Business	6	6	#33	Hambrick, Donald C. #338
16	Fisher College of Business	6	6	#35	Judge, Timothy A. #967
17	Columbia University	6	6	#38	Flammer, Caroline #1,370
18	University of Washington	6	6	#39	Avolio, Bruce J. #1,550
19	Pennsylvania State University	6	6	#40	Grandey, Alicia A. #2,306
20	George Mason University	6	6	#43	Ács, Zoltán J. #3,864
21	Texas Christian University	6	6	#44	Uhl-Bien, Mary #4,657
22	Stanford Graduate School of Business	6	6	#45	Pfeffer, Jeffrey #4,870
23	Questrom School of Business	6	6	#47	Kahn, William A. #6,379
24	Haas School of Business	6	6	#48	Fleming, Lee #6,511
25	Cornell University	6	6	#50	Nishii, Lisa H. #7,350
26	Auburn University	6	6	#52	Ketchen, David J. #8,744
27	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	6	6	#53	Newman, Daniel A. #8,832
28	University of Pennsylvania	6	6	#57	Siggelkow, Nicolaj #14,127
29	Foster School of Business	6	6	#58	Barnes, Christopher M. #18,723
30	University of California, Berkeley	5	5	#61	Teece, David J. #22
31	Carlson School of Management	5	5	#62	Zahra, Shaker A. #170
32	University of California, Santa Barbara	5	5	#63	Leonardi, Paul M. #945
33	USC Marshall School of Business	5	5	#64	Fiss, Peer C. #1,347
34	UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School	5	5	#65	Edwards, Jeffrey R. #1,732
35	Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth	5	5	#67	Helfat, Constance E. #2,576
36	Boston College	5	5	#70	Pratt, Michael G. #3,498
37	University of South Carolina	5	5	#73	Ployhart, Robert E. #5,711
38	Broad College of Business	5	5	#74	Morgeson, Frederick P. #7,077
39	Stephen M. Ross School of Business	5	5	#80	Ashford, Susan J. #11,064
40	Portland State University	5	5	#84	Erdogan, Berrin #18,743
41	Darden School of Business	5	5	#85	Liedtka, Jeanne M. #19,399
42	Leonard N. Stern School of Business	5	5	#88	Leslie, Lisa M. #22,857
43	The University of Utah	4	4	#93	Barney, Jay Bryan #54
44	University of Notre Dame	4	4	#94	Shepherd, Dean A. #310
45	University of Virginia	4	4	#96	Freeman, R. Edward #551
46	Jones Graduate School of Business	4	4	#98	Van Knippenberg, Daan #991
47	University of Colorado Boulder	4	4	#102	Cropanzano, Russell S. #2,916
48	Carnegie Mellon University	4	4	#104	Argote, Linda M. #4,330
49	MIT Sloan School of Management	4	4	#106	Sterman, John D. #5,403
50	Mitch Daniels School of Business	4	4	#110	Kossek, Ellen Ernst #6,262
51	Harvard University	4	4	#112	Battilana, Julie #7,578
52	The University of Tennessee, Knoxville	4	4	#113	Cardon, Melissa S. #7,696
53	Price College of Business	4	4	#117	Lumpkin, George Thomas #11,487
54	Rutgers Business School—Newark and New Brunswick	4	4	#118	Barnett, Michael L. #11,642
55	Robert H. Smith School of Business	4	4	#121	Chen, Gilad #13,868
56	University of Central Florida	4	4	#126	Shoss, Mindy Krischer #15,964
57	Northwestern University	4	4	#129	Zajac, Edward J. #16,603
58	Washington University in St. Louis	4	4	#130	Baer, Markus #16,807
59	The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	4	4	#131	Aldrich, Howard E. #19,210
60	The University of Vermont	4	4	#135	Sharma, Pramodita #20,143
61	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	4	4	#138	Sturgeon, Timothy J. #24,796
62	Florida International University	4	4	#141	Reio, Thomas G. #28,326
63	University of Kansas	4	4	#156	Oh, Chang Hoon #72,321
64	Indiana University Bloomington	3	3	#160	Audretsch, David B. #182
65	Warrington College of Business	3	3	#163	Podsakoff, Philip M. #745
66	Weatherhead School of Management	3	3	#165	Nambisan, Satish #809
67	University of Maryland, College Park	3	3	#167	Locke, Edwin A. #1,210
68	New York University	3	3	#169	Morrison, Elizabeth Wolfe #1,547
69	Duke University	3	3	#170	Gereffi, Gary Allan #1,621
70	Villanova University	3	3	#172	Patel, Pankaj C. #3,066
71	University of Pittsburgh	3	3	#174	Bass, Bernard M. #3,693
72	Northeastern University	3	3	#179	Cuervo-Cazurra, Alvaro #4,509
73	Virginia Commonwealth University	3	3	#184	Cortina, José M. #6,152
74	The University of Oklahoma	3	3	#185	Mumford, Michael D. #6,305
75	University of Georgia	3	3	#190	Feldman, Daniel Charles #7,993
76	Martin J. Whitman School of Management	3	3	#192	Wiklund, Johan #8,624
77	Bowling Green State University	3	3	#194	Min, Hokey #9,124
78	Claremont McKenna College	3	3	#197	Day, David V. #9,306
79	State University of New York Albany	3	3	#198	Yukl, Gary A. #9,321
80	UCLA Anderson School of Management	3	3	#203	Sorenson, Olav #10,083
81	The Naveen Jindal School of Management	3	3	#205	Tsang, Eric W.K. #10,305
82	University of Southern California	3	3	#206	Adler, Paul S. #10,404
83	Henry B. Tippie College of Business	3	3	#207	Schmidt, Frank L. #10,408
84	Baruch College	3	3	#209	Rothstein, Hannah R. #11,179
85	Florida State University	3	3	#211	Ferris, Gerald R. #12,577
86	Georgia Institute of Technology	3	3	#214	Rothaermel, Frank T. #13,096
87	Darla Moore School of Business	3	3	#215	Beugelsdijk, Sjoerd #13,186
88	UCI Paul Merage School of Business	3	3	#217	Rindova, Violina P. #13,489
89	University of Colorado Denver	3	3	#222	Cascio, Wayne F. #15,096
90	Boston University	3	3	#223	Hall, Douglas T. #15,233
91	Fox School of Business	3	3	#224	Mudambi, Ram #15,248
92	NC State University	3	3	#226	Meade, Adam W. #16,510
93	BYU Marriott School of Business	3	3	#227	Dyer, Jeffrey H. #16,589
94	University of California, Davis	3	3	#232	Bechky, Beth A. #20,791
95	Rutgers University-Newark	3	3	#235	Baker, Ted #22,839
96	SMU Cox School of Business	3	3	#242	VandeWalle, Don #29,107
97	Colorado State University System	3	3	#245	Nikolaev, Boris N. #30,027
98	University of Iowa	3	3	#246	Rynes, Sara Lynn #30,767
99	Isenberg School of Management	3	3	#247	Richard, Orlando Curtae’ #31,254
100	National Bureau of Economic Research	3	3	#252	Arora, Ashish #33,620
101	University of Wisconsin-Madison	3	3	#254	Coff, Russell W. #34,850
102	The Ohio State University	3	3	#268	Makadok, Richard J. #65,340
103	Old Dominion University	3	2	#270	Judge, William Q. #71,636
104	University of Massachusetts Amherst	3	3	#272	Labianca, Giuseppe (Joe) #89,656

The top 100 in Business & Management in the United States, in order

1
Teece, David J.
University of California, Berkeley
2
Barney, Jay Bryan
The University of Utah
3
Porter, Michael E.
Harvard Business School
4
Zahra, Shaker A.
Carlson School of Management
5
Audretsch, David B.
Indiana University Bloomington
6
Sarkis, Joseph
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
7
Edmondson, Amy C.
Harvard Business School
8
Shepherd, Dean A.
University of Notre Dame
9
Hambrick, Donald C.
Penn State Smeal College of Business
10
Spector, Paul E.
Muma College of Business
11
Luthans, F.
University of Nebraska–Lincoln
12
Eisenhardt, Kathleen M.
Stanford University
13
Freeman, R. Edward
University of Virginia
14
Shane, Scott A.
Case Western Reserve University
15
Podsakoff, Philip M.
Warrington College of Business
16
Grant, Adam M.
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
17
Amabile, Teresa M.
Harvard Business School
18
Nambisan, Satish
Weatherhead School of Management
19
Aguinis, Herman
School of Engineering and Applied Science
20
Leonardi, Paul M.
University of California, Santa Barbara
21
Judge, Timothy A.
Fisher College of Business
22
Gioia, Dennis A.Denny
Penn State Smeal College of Business
23
Van Knippenberg, Daan
Jones Graduate School of Business
24
George, Gerard
Georgetown University
25
Ashforth, Blake E.
Arizona State University
26
Locke, Edwin A.
University of Maryland, College Park
27
Peng, Michael W.
The University of Texas at Dallas
28
Rousseau, Denise M.
Tepper School of Business
29
Fiss, Peer C.
USC Marshall School of Business
30
Flammer, Caroline
Columbia University
31
Baron, Robert Alan
Oklahoma State University
32
Morrison, Elizabeth Wolfe
New York University
33
Avolio, Bruce J.
University of Washington
34
Gereffi, Gary Allan
Duke University
35
Colquitt, Jason A.
Mendoza College of Business
36
Edwards, Jeffrey R.
UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School
37
Grandey, Alicia A.
Pennsylvania State University
38
Hillman, Amy J.
Arizona State University
39
Carroll, Archie B.
Terry College of Business
40
Aguilera, Ruth V.
D'Amore-McKim School of Business
41
Helfat, Constance E.
Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth
42
Davenport, Thomas H.
Babson College
43
Weick, Karl E.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
44
Allen, Tammy D.
University of South Florida
45
Hitt, Michael A.
Texas A&M University
46
Ocasio, William
Gies College of Business
47
Cropanzano, Russell S.
University of Colorado Boulder
48
Patel, Pankaj C.
Villanova University
49
Eisenberger, Robert
University of Houston
50
Halbesleben, Jonathon R.B.
Carlos Alvarez College of Business
51
Gulati, Ranjay
Harvard Business School
52
MacKenzie, Scott Bradley
Kelley School of Business
53
Pratt, Michael G.
Boston College
54
Trevi˜no, Linda Klebe
Penn State Smeal College of Business
55
Bass, Bernard M.
University of Pittsburgh
56
Ács, Zoltán J.
George Mason University
57
Kuratko, Donald F.
Kelley School of Business
58
Wang, Mo
Warrington College of Business
59
Feldman, Maryann P.
Arizona State University
60
Lewis, Marianne W.
Carl H. Lindner College of Business
61
Argote, Linda M.
Carnegie Mellon University
62
Adner, Ron
Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth
63
Cuervo-Cazurra, Alvaro
Northeastern University
64
Levinthal, Daniel A.
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
65
Uhl-Bien, Mary
Texas Christian University
66
Carayannis, Elias George
The George Washington University
67
Tepper, Bennett J.
Fisher College of Business
68
Pfeffer, Jeffrey
Stanford Graduate School of Business
69
Siegel, Donald S.
Arizona State University Downtown Phoenix Campus
70
Smith, Wendy K.
University of Delaware
71
Delmas, Magali A.
University of California, Los Angeles
72
Sterman, John D.
MIT Sloan School of Management
73
Spreitzer, Gretchen M.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
74
Landers, Richard N.
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
75
Tracy, Sarah J.
Arizona State University
76
Ployhart, Robert E.
University of South Carolina
77
Schneider, Benjamin
University of Maryland, College Park
78
van de Ven, Andrew H.
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
79
Gómez-Mejia, Luis R.
Arizona State University
80
LePine, Jeffery A.
W. P. Carey School of Business
81
Cortina, José M.
Virginia Commonwealth University
82
Kossek, Ellen Ernst
Mitch Daniels School of Business
83
Mumford, Michael D.
The University of Oklahoma
84
Winter, Sidney G.
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
85
Lee, In
Western Illinois University
86
Fisher, Greg J.
Kelley School of Business
87
Kahn, William A.
Questrom School of Business
88
Chrisman, James J.
Mississippi State University
89
Mathieu, John E.
University of Connecticut
90
Fleming, Lee
Haas School of Business
91
Bolino, Mark C.
The University of Oklahoma
92
Kaplan, Robert Steven
Harvard Business School
93
Brush, Candida Greer
Babson College
94
Pisano, Gary Paul
Harvard Business School
95
Feldman, Martha S.
University of California, Irvine
96
Schilke, Oliver S.
Eller College of Management
97
Morgeson, Frederick P.
Broad College of Business
98
March, James G.
Stanford University
99
Nishii, Lisa H.
Cornell University
100
George, Jennifer M.
Jones Graduate School of Business

787 listed scientists in Business & Management in the United States

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