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

165 researchers in the United States whose main subfield is Chemical Engineering 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 2nd of 66 countries in the subfield. 91 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). College of Engineering has the most (23), followed by Colorado School of Mines (4) and Membrane Technology & Research, Inc. (3). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors
165
0.2% of all in the United States
In the global top 100,000
91
55.2% of them
Country rank in the subfield
#2
of 66 countries in Chemical Engineering
Highest-ranked
#3,403
Sloan, Earl Dendy
#InstitutionListed authorsTop 100kRank worldwideHighest-ranked author
1College of Engineering2310#4Koros, William J. #6,007
2Colorado School of Mines44#94Sloan, Earl Dendy #3,403
3Membrane Technology & Research, Inc.31#133Baker, Richard W. #6,066
4Massachusetts Institute of Technology32#134Szekely, Gyorgy #9,968
5USC Viterbi School of Engineering32#135Lee, Jay H. #10,201
6Michigan Engineering33#136Yang, Ralph T. #11,201
7University of Delaware College of Engineering32#143Vlachos, Dionisios G. #18,230
8Georgia Institute of Technology32#152Sahinidis, Nikolaos V. #32,957
9Texas A&M University33#156Pistikopoulos, Efsratios N. #37,021
10School of Engineering31#168Dixon, Anthony G. #60,953
11College of Engineering and Applied Science31#174Weimer, Alan W. #73,628
12UCLA Samueli School of Engineering32#176Cohen, Yoram #80,770
13National Institute of Standards and Technology30#195McLinden, Mark O. #118,928

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

  1. 1
    Sloan, Earl Dendy
    Colorado School of Mines
  2. 2
    Freeman, Benny D.
    The University of Texas at Austin
  3. 3
    Koros, William J.
    College of Engineering
  4. 4
    Baker, Richard W.
    Membrane Technology & Research, Inc.
  5. 5
    Grossmann, Ignacio E.
    Carnegie Mellon University
  6. 6
    Biegler, Lorenz T.
    College of Engineering
  7. 7
    Szekely, Gyorgy
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  8. 8
    Lee, Jay H.
    USC Viterbi School of Engineering
  9. 9
    Savage, Phillip
    Pennsylvania State University
  10. 10
    Yang, Ralph T.
    Michigan Engineering
  11. 11
    Whitaker, Stephen
    University of California, Davis
  12. 12
    Mi, Baoxia
    Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
  13. 13
    Luyben, William L.
    P.C. Rossin College of Engineering & Applied Science
  14. 14
    Lively, Ryan P.
    College of Engineering
  15. 15
    You, Fengqi
    Cornell University College of Engineering
  16. 16
    Lienhard V, John H.
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  17. 17
    Sahimi, Muhammad Syamim
    USC Viterbi School of Engineering
  18. 18
    Zydney, Andrew L.
    Penn State College of Engineering
  19. 19
    Bell, Ian H.
    Thistle Consultants LLC
  20. 20
    Vlachos, Dionisios G.
    University of Delaware College of Engineering
  21. 21
    Lin, Jerry Y.S.
    Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering
  22. 22
    El-Halwagi, Mahmoud M.
    College of Engineering
  23. 23
    Fan’, Liangshih Fan
    College of Engineering
  24. 24
    Venkatasubramanian, Venkat
    Columbia University
  25. 25
    Linic, Suljo
    Michigan Engineering
  26. 26
    Churchill, Stuart W.
    University of Pennsylvania
  27. 27
    Su, Xiao
    Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
  28. 28
    Acree, William E.
    University of North Texas
  29. 29
    Christofides, Panagiotis D.
    University of California, Los Angeles
  30. 30
    McCutcheon, Jeffrey R.
    UConn College of Engineering
  31. 31
    Levenspiel, Octave
    College of Engineering
  32. 32
    Sircar, Shivaji
    P.C. Rossin College of Engineering & Applied Science
  33. 33
    Sahinidis, Nikolaos V.
    Georgia Institute of Technology
  34. 34
    Hoek, Eric M.V.
    University of California, Los Angeles
  35. 35
    Zavala, Víctor M.
    UW-Madison College of Engineering
  36. 36
    Walton, Krista S.
    Georgia Institute of Technology
  37. 37
    Pistikopoulos, Efsratios N.
    Texas A&M University
  38. 38
    Tsouris, Costas
    Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  39. 39
    Yan, Yushan
    University of Delaware College of Engineering
  40. 40
    Lin, Haiqing
    University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
  41. 41
    Rezaei, Fateme
    University of Miami College of Engineering
  42. 42
    Agrawal, Rakesh
    College of Engineering
  43. 43
    Geise, Geoffrey M.
    University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science
  44. 44
    Nagy, Zoltan K.
    Purdue University
  45. 45
    Myers, Alan L.
    University of Texas Dental Branch at Houston
  46. 46
    Greenlee, Lauren F.
    Pennsylvania State University
  47. 47
    Floudas, Christodoulos A.
    Texas A&M University
  48. 48
    Tsapatsis, Michael
    Johns Hopkins University
  49. 49
    Cath, Tzahi Y.
    Colorado School of Mines
  50. 50
  51. 51
    Brennecke, Joan Frances
    Cockrell School of Engineering
  52. 52
    Deng, Shuguang
    Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering
  53. 53
    Bakshi, Bhavik R.
    Arizona State University
  54. 54
    Davé, Rajesh N.
    New Jersey Institute of Technology
  55. 55
    Kamcev, Jovan
    Michigan Engineering
  56. 56
    Adewuyi, Yusuf Gbadebo
    North Carolina A&T College of Engineering
  57. 57
    Dixon, Anthony G.
    School of Engineering
  58. 58
    Jana, Amiya Kumar
    MIT School of Engineering
  59. 59
    Prausnitz, John M.M.
    University of California, Berkeley
  60. 60
    Noble, Richard D.
    University of Colorado Boulder
  61. 61
    Li, Mingheng
    California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
  62. 62
  63. 63
    Carreon, Moises A.
    Colorado School of Mines
  64. 64
    Maravelias, Christos T.
    School of Engineering and Applied Science
  65. 65
    Ierapetritou, Marianthi G.
    University of Delaware
  66. 66
    Sundaresan, Sankaran S.
    School of Engineering and Applied Science
  67. 67
    Chen, Chauchyun
    Edward E. Whitacre Jr. College of Engineering
  68. 68
    Masel, Richard I.
    Dioxide Materials Inc.
  69. 69
    Sum, Amadeu K.
    Colorado School of Mines
  70. 70
    Weimer, Alan W.
    College of Engineering and Applied Science
  71. 71
    Soroush, Masoud
    Drexel University College of Engineering
  72. 72
    Cohen, Yoram
    UCLA Samueli School of Engineering
  73. 73
    Yaroshchuk, Andriy E.
    University of Notre Dame
  74. 74
    Baldea, Michael
    The University of Texas at Austin
  75. 75
    Das, Rasel
    Stony Brook University
  76. 76
    Li, Fanxing
    NC State University
  77. 77
    Warsinger, David M.
    College of Engineering
  78. 78
    Jafarinejad, Shahryar
    Tuskegee University
  79. 79
    Saha, Dipendu
    Widener University
  80. 80
    Park, Alisa Hyung Alissa
    UCLA Samueli School of Engineering
  81. 81
    Gidaspow, Dimitri
    Armour College of Engineering
  82. 82
    Beckman, Eric J.
    Swanson School of Engineering
  83. 83
    Enick, Robert M.
    University of Pittsburgh
  84. 84
    Sandler, Stanley I.
    University of Delaware
  85. 85
    Mathias, Paul M.
    Fluor Corporation
  86. 86
    Faruque Hasan, Muhammad M.
    Texas A&M University
  87. 87
    Xu, Pei
    New Mexico State University College of Engineering
  88. 88
    Amin, Md Tanjin
    College of Engineering
  89. 89
    Chen, John C.
    Lehigh University
  90. 90
    Daoutidis, Prodromos
    College of Science and Engineering
  91. 91
    Chang, Hsueh Chia
    College of Engineering
  92. 92
    Rownaghi, Ali A.
    University of Miami College of Engineering
  93. 93
    Androulakis, Ioannis (Yannis) P.
    Rutgers University–New Brunswick
  94. 94
    Nash, Kenneth L.
    Washington State University Pullman
  95. 95
    Abedsoltan, Hossein
    Missouri University of Science and Technology
  96. 96
    Snider, Dale M.
    Computationa Particle Fluid Dynamics Software, LLC
  97. 97
    Shiflett, Mark B.
    KU School of Engineering
  98. 98
    Tester, Jefferson William
    Cornell University College of Engineering
  99. 99
    Phillip, William A.
    College of Engineering
  100. 100
    Yokozeki, Akimichi
    not available

165 listed scientists in Chemical Engineering 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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