Top institutions in the United States for Chemical Physics

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

754 researchers in the United States whose main subfield is Chemical Physics are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 1.0% of all listed authors in the United States, and 1st of 77 countries in the subfield. 391 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). Argonne National Laboratory has the most (14), followed by College of Engineering (12) and Princeton University (11). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors

754

1.0% of all in the United States

In the global top 100,000

391

51.9% of them

Country rank in the subfield

of 77 countries in Chemical Physics

Highest-ranked

#287

Jorgensen, William L.

#	Institution	Listed authors	Top 100k	Rank worldwide	Highest-ranked author
1	Argonne National Laboratory	14	10	#3	Klippenstein, Stephen J. #6,477
2	College of Engineering	12	6	#7	Drelich, Jaroslaw Wieslaw #11,671
3	Princeton University	11	7	#8	Scholes, Gregory D. #3,322
4	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	10	5	#10	Glotzer, Sharon C. #19,008
5	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	10	6	#12	Baker, Nathan A. #40,423
6	University of California, Irvine	9	5	#14	Burke, Kieron #1,581
7	Columbia University	9	8	#15	Friesner, Richard A. #1,836
8	University of Wisconsin-Madison	9	3	#16	Weinhold, F. A. #2,694
9	Rice University	9	7	#17	Scuseria, Gustavo E. #2,718
10	Stanford University	9	7	#21	Zare, Richard N. #8,289
11	Pennsylvania State University	9	5	#22	Knizia, Gerald #13,404
12	National Institute of Standards and Technology	9	2	#24	Douglas, Jack F. #32,120
13	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	9	2	#25	Mullins, David R. #70,082
14	Arizona State University	8	3	#27	Angell, Charles Austen #1,873
15	MIT School of Engineering	8	4	#30	Kulik, Heather J. #9,754
16	College of Computer, Mathematical, & Natural Sciences	8	4	#31	Zwanzig, Robert W. #12,929
17	University of California, Berkeley	8	3	#32	Pitzer, Kenneth S. #14,698
18	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	8	4	#35	Fleming, Graham R. #37,332
19	School of Engineering and Applied Science	7	4	#46	Carter, Emily A. #10,223
20	College of Science and Engineering	7	4	#47	Rahman, Aneesur #15,928
21	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	7	3	#49	Onufriev, Alexey V. #19,277
22	Yale University	6	4	#55	Jorgensen, William L. #287
23	University of California, Santa Barbara	6	2	#57	Israelachvili, Jacob N. #645
24	University of Washington	6	4	#58	Dunning, Thom H. #1,159
25	University of Pittsburgh	6	4	#59	Wang, Junmei #2,856
26	University of California, Riverside	6	5	#60	Atkinson, Roger #3,689
27	Berkeley College of Chemistry	6	4	#62	Chandler, David #5,347
28	SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory	6	3	#64	Martinez, Todd J. #16,671
29	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	6	3	#67	Makri, Nancy #26,849
30	Carnegie Mellon University	5	5	#74	Ṕople, John A. #1,401
31	Schrödinger, LLC	5	2	#75	Halgren, Thomas A. #1,494
32	The University of Chicago	5	3	#76	Mulliken, Robert S. #3,495
33	Northwestern University	5	3	#79	Schatz, George C. #5,851
34	College of Science and Technology	5	4	#80	Spano, Frank C. #5,925
35	Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico	5	3	#86	Thompson, Aidan P. #15,026
36	Gaussian Inc.	5	2	#87	Frisch, Michael J. #15,443
37	University of California, San Diego	5	3	#91	Grassian, Vicki H. #21,160
38	Emory University	5	4	#92	Bowman, Joel M. #21,718
39	School of Engineering and Applied Sciences	5	2	#93	Ruckenstein, Eli #28,908
40	University of Utah, College Of Science	5	3	#101	Simons, Jack #49,494
41	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	5	1	#108	Alder, Berni J. #74,988
42	Georgia Institute of Technology	4	2	#114	El-Sayed, Mostafa A. #896
43	Rutgers University–New Brunswick	4	2	#116	Case, David Andrew #1,811
44	California Institute of Technology	4	4	#117	Goddard  III, William  A A. #1,882
45	Penn State College of Engineering	4	2	#119	van Duin, Adri C.T. #5,782
46	Stony Brook University	4	1	#120	Dill, Ken A. #6,040
47	University of Southern California	4	3	#121	Warshel, Arieh W. #6,194
48	The Ohio State University	4	1	#128	Herbert, John M. #11,632
49	University of Colorado Boulder	4	3	#133	Hay, P. Jeffrey #14,112
50	University at Buffalo, The State University of New York	4	3	#134	Alexandridis, Paschalis #14,627
51	University of Massachusetts Amherst	4	3	#135	Muthukumar, Murrugappan #15,215
52	Florida State University	4	2	#136	Kasha, Michael #16,040
53	College of Liberal Arts and Sciences	4	2	#137	Stanton, John F. #16,568
54	College of Engineering and Applied Science	4	4	#144	Heinz, Hendrik #20,941
55	Tulane University School of Science and Engineering	4	2	#146	Levy, Mel #25,505
56	The University of Texas at Austin	4	2	#148	Bersuker, Isaac B. #32,007
57	National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)	4	3	#149	Brooks, Bernard R. #33,899
58	Kansas State University	4	2	#152	Aikens, Christine M. #39,184
59	NC State College of Engineering	4	2	#154	Velev, Orlin D. #46,533
60	Case Western Reserve University	4	3	#158	Burda, Clemens #53,866
61	Virginia Commonwealth University	4	2	#162	Luzar, Alenka #61,280
62	Texas A&M University	4	2	#165	Mittal, Jeetain #76,343
63	University of California, Davis	4	1	#171	Wang, Lee-Ping Ping #98,822
64	Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry	3	2	#179	Brédas, J. L. Luc #1,196
65	Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering	3	2	#181	Marcus, Rudolph A. #2,199
66	Indiana University Bloomington	3	3	#185	Raghavachari, Krishnan #3,026
67	Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences	3	2	#186	Weitz, David A. #3,232
68	University of Florida	3	1	#188	Bartlett, Rodney J. #3,944
69	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	3	3	#191	Cao, Jianshu #8,455
70	College of Arts and Sciences	3	3	#194	Liu, Shubin #9,720
71	Brown University	3	1	#196	Wang, Laisheng #10,931
72	Cornell University College of Engineering	3	1	#206	Jiang, Shaoyi #16,898
73	Southern Methodist University	3	2	#212	Cremer, Dieter #22,648
74	University of Notre Dame	3	3	#215	Wheeler, Steven E. #24,482
75	Clemson University	3	2	#216	Sun, Yaping #25,245
76	The Robert Mehrabian College of Engineering	3	2	#217	Squires, Todd M. #25,766
77	Los Alamos National Laboratory Theoretical Division	3	1	#221	Tretiak, Sergei #34,834
78	University of California, Los Angeles	3	2	#222	Sautet, Philippe #36,025
79	University of Rochester	3	1	#226	White, Andrew D. #39,746
80	University of Delaware	3	1	#230	Szalewicz, Krzysztof #41,463
81	NASA Ames Research Center	3	2	#233	Lee, Timothy J. #43,498
82	College of Arts & Sciences	3	1	#234	Cui, Qiang #45,333
83	University of Virginia	3	1	#239	Yates, John Terry Y. #57,705
84	Swanson School of Engineering	3	1	#247	Balazs, Anna C. #76,899
85	Iowa State University	3	1	#249	Ruedenberg, Klaus #81,074
86	Michigan State University	3	1	#253	Piecuch, Piotr #90,741
87	The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science	3	1	#254	Bishop, Kyle J.M. #91,397
88	Brandeis University	3	0	#260	Shao, Yihan #103,304
89	IBM Research - Almaden	3	0	#267	Barker, John A. #139,691

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

1
Jorgensen, William L.
Yale University
2
Truhlar, Donald G.
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
3
Israelachvili, Jacob N.
University of California, Santa Barbara
4
Kamat, Prashant V.
Notre Dame Radiation Laboratory
5
El-Sayed, Mostafa A.
Georgia Institute of Technology
6
Dunning, Thom H.
University of Washington
7
Brédas, J. L. Luc
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
8
Ṕople, John A.
Carnegie Mellon UniversityNobel laureate
9
Mackerell, Alexander D.
University of Maryland School of Pharmacy
10
Halgren, Thomas A.
Schrödinger, LLC
11
Burke, Kieron
University of California, Irvine
12
Jaroniec, Mietek
Kent State University
13
Head-Gordon, Martin P.
Pitzer Center for Theoretical Chemistry
14
Case, David Andrew
Rutgers University–New Brunswick
15
Friesner, Richard A.
Columbia University
16
Lakowicz, Joseph R.
University of Maryland School of Medicine
17
Angell, Charles Austen
Arizona State University
18
Goddard  III, William  A A.
California Institute of Technology
19
Marcus, Rudolph A.
Division of Chemistry and Chemical EngineeringNobel laureate
20
Karplus, Martin
Harvard UniversityNobel laureate
21
Onsager, Lars
University of MiamiNobel laureate
22
Borodin, Oleg A.
U.S. Army Research Laboratory
23
Yang, Weitao
Duke University
24
Weinhold, F. A.
University of Wisconsin-Madison
25
Scuseria, Gustavo E.
Rice University
26
Campbell, Charles T.
University of Washington
27
Wang, Junmei
University of Pittsburgh
28
Raghavachari, Krishnan
Indiana University Bloomington
29
Kim, Sunghwan
National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
30
Brus, Louis E.
Columbia UniversityNobel laureate
31
Parr, Robert G.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
32
Weitz, David A.
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
33
Scholes, Gregory D.
Princeton University
34
Mulliken, Robert S.
The University of ChicagoNobel laureate
35
Atkinson, Roger
University of California, Riverside
36
Politzer, Peter A.
University of New Orleans
37
Bartlett, Rodney J.
University of Florida
38
Stillinger, Frank H.
Princeton University
39
Schlegel, H. Bernhard
Wayne State University
40
Roux, Benoı̂t Thomas
The University of Chicago
41
Hammes-Schiffer, Sharon L.
Princeton University
42
Monkhorst, Hendrik J.
TAE Technologies, Inc.
43
Chandler, David
Berkeley College of Chemistry
44
Gillespie, Daniel Thomas
Dan T. Gillespie Consulting
45
van Duin, Adri C.T.
Penn State College of Engineering
46
Schatz, George C.
Northwestern University
47
Peterson, Kirk A.
Washington State University Pullman
48
Spano, Frank C.
College of Science and Technology
49
Chan, Garnet Kin Lic
California Institute of Technology
50
Dill, Ken A.
Stony Brook University
51
Warshel, Arieh W.
University of Southern CaliforniaNobel laureate
52
Moskovits, Martin
University of California, Santa Barbara
53
Klippenstein, Stephen J.
Argonne National Laboratory
54
Wu, Jianzhong
Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering
55
Marković, Nenad M.
Argonne National Laboratory
56
Somorjai, Gábor A.
Berkeley College of Chemistry
57
Murray, Jane S.
University of New Orleans
58
Scheiner, Steve
Utah State University
59
Zare, Richard N.
Stanford University
60
Pulay, Péter
University of Arkansas
61
Cao, Jianshu
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
62
Andersen, Hans C.
Stanford University
63
Tully, John C.
Yale University
64
Liu, Shubin
College of Arts and Sciences
65
Kulik, Heather J.
MIT School of Engineering
66
Kirkwood, John G.
Yale University
67
Krylov, Anna I.
University of Southern California
68
Nozik, Arthur J.
National Laboratory of the Rockies
69
Zaera, Francisco
University of California, Riverside
70
Mccammon, J. Andrew
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
71
Carter, Emily A.
School of Engineering and Applied Science
72
van Oss, Carel Jan
Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
73
Wang, Laisheng
Brown University
74
Eyring, Henry
The University of Utah
75
Martin, Richard Luis
Los Alamos National Laboratory
76
Zewail, Ahmed H.
California Institute of TechnologyNobel laureate
77
Kitchin, John R.
Carnegie Mellon University
78
Herbert, John M.
The Ohio State University
79
Drelich, Jaroslaw Wieslaw
College of Engineering
80
Zhou, Huanx Xiang
University of Illinois at Chicago
81
Sherrill, C. David
Georgia Institute of Technology
82
Merz, Kenneth M.
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
83
Zwanzig, Robert W.
College of Computer, Mathematical, & Natural Sciences
84
Knizia, Gerald
Pennsylvania State University
85
Sun, Qiming
Bytedance Seed
86
Chodera, John D.
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
87
Hay, P. Jeffrey
University of Colorado Boulder
88
Miller, William H.
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
89
Ratner, Mark A.
Northwestern University
90
Ediger, Mark D.
University of Wisconsin-Madison
91
Dyall, Kenneth G.
Dirac Solutions Inc.
92
Alexandridis, Paschalis
University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
93
Pitzer, Kenneth S.
University of California, Berkeley
94
Wolynes, Peter Guy
Rice University
95
Thompson, Aidan P.
Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico
96
Furche, Filipp
University of California, Irvine
97
Stephens, Philip J.
University of Southern California
98
Muthukumar, Murrugappan
University of Massachusetts Amherst
99
Frisch, Michael J.
Gaussian Inc.
100
Debenedetti, Pablo G.
School of Engineering and Applied Science

754 listed scientists in Chemical Physics in the United States

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