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Top institutions in the United States for Civil Engineering

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

172 researchers in the United States whose main subfield is Civil 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 59 countries in the subfield. 76 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). College of Engineering has the most (15), followed by School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (8) and P.C. Rossin College of Engineering & Applied Science (4). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors
172
0.2% of all in the United States
In the global top 100,000
76
44.2% of them
Country rank in the subfield
#2
of 59 countries in Civil Engineering
Highest-ranked
#565
Bažant, Zdeněk Z.
#InstitutionListed authorsTop 100kRank worldwideHighest-ranked author
1College of Engineering153#12Sezen, Halil #47,562
2School of Engineering and Applied Sciences83#29Bruneau, Michel #8,421
3P.C. Rossin College of Engineering & Applied Science43#66Frangopol, Dan M. #6,175
4Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering42#67Der-Kiureghian, Armen #6,906
5University of California, Berkeley41#72McKenna, Frank #26,709
6MIT School of Engineering33#101Triantafyllou, Michael Stefanos #24,320
7Stanford University33#106Cornell, C. Allin #30,163
8Johns Hopkins University33#108Guest, James K. #32,198
9George R. Brown School of Engineering and Computing33#111Spanos, Pol D. #38,078
10Cullen College of Engineering31#112HSU, THOMAS T.C. #42,152

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

  1. 1
    Bažant, Zdeněk Z.
    Northwestern University
  2. 2
    Adeli, Hojjat
    The Ohio State University
  3. 3
    Naser, M. Z.
    Clemson University
  4. 4
    Frangopol, Dan M.
    P.C. Rossin College of Engineering & Applied Science
  5. 5
    Der-Kiureghian, Armen
    Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
  6. 6
    Shinozuka, Masanobu S.
    The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
  7. 7
    Ellingwood, Bruce R.
    Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering
  8. 8
    Schafer, Benjamin William
    Whiting School of Engineering
  9. 9
    Bruneau, Michel
    School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
  10. 10
    Kareem, Ahsan
    University of Notre Dame
  11. 11
    Nagarajaiah, Satish
    Rice University
  12. 12
    Beck, James Leslie
    California Institute of Technology Division of Engineering and Applied Science
  13. 13
    Makris, Nicos
    Bobby B. Lyle School of Engineering
  14. 14
    Spencer, Billie F.
    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  15. 15
    Gardoni Prof., Paolo
    The Grainger College of Engineering
  16. 16
    Quintiere, James G.
    University of Maryland, College Park
  17. 17
    Babrauskas, Vytenis
    John Jay College of Criminal Justice
  18. 18
    Chen, Xinzhong
    Texas Tech University
  19. 19
    Miranda, Eduardo J.P.
    Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
  20. 20
    Hariri-Ardebili, Mohammad Amin
    National Institute of Standards and Technology
  21. 21
    Triantafyllou, Michael Stefanos
    MIT School of Engineering
  22. 22
    McKenna, Frank
    University of California, Berkeley
  23. 23
    Kelly, James Marshall
    Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
  24. 24
    Büyüköztürk, Oral
    MIT School of Engineering
  25. 25
    Deodatis, George
    The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
  26. 26
    Cornell, C. Allin
    Stanford University
  27. 27
    Krawinkler, Helmut
    Stanford University
  28. 28
    Glišić, Branko
    Princeton University
  29. 29
    Bank, Lawrence C.
    Georgia Institute of Technology
  30. 30
    Avci, O.
    Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources
  31. 31
    Vanmarcke, Erik H.
    School of Engineering and Applied Science
  32. 32
    Guest, James K.
    Johns Hopkins University
  33. 33
    Bao, Yi
    Charles V. Schaefer, Jr. School of Engineering and Science
  34. 34
    Wen, Yikwei
    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  35. 35
    Mahin, Stephen A.(iii)
    Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center
  36. 36
    Ayyub, Bilal M.
    University of Maryland, College Park
  37. 37
    Spanos, Pol D.
    George R. Brown School of Engineering and Computing
  38. 38
    Padgett, Jamie Ellen
    George R. Brown School of Engineering and Computing
  39. 39
    van de Lindt, John W.
    Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering
  40. 40
    DesRoches, Reginald D.
    George R. Brown School of Engineering and Computing
  41. 41
    HSU, THOMAS T.C.
    Cullen College of Engineering
  42. 42
    Gernay, Thomas
    Johns Hopkins University
  43. 43
    Newman, John Nicholas
    MIT School of Engineering
  44. 44
    Catbas, F. Necati
    College of Engineering and Computer Science
  45. 45
    Constantinou, Michael C.
    School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
  46. 46
    Filiatrault, André
    School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
  47. 47
    Sun, Chao
    Louisiana State University
  48. 48
    Harries, Kent A.
    University of Pittsburgh
  49. 49
    Sezen, Halil
    College of Engineering
  50. 50
    Heskestad, Gunnar
    The FM Global Group
  51. 51
    Bernitsas, Michael M.
    Vortex Hydro Energy
  52. 52
    Roeder, Charles W.
    University of Washington
  53. 53
    Hall, Matthew
    National Laboratory of the Rockies
  54. 54
    Elnashai, Amr S.
    University of Houston
  55. 55
    Kurama, Yahya C.
    University of Notre Dame
  56. 56
    Masri, S. F.
    USC Viterbi School of Engineering
  57. 57
    Mander, John B.
    Texas A&M University
  58. 58
    Grigoriu, Mircea Dan
    Cornell University College of Engineering
  59. 59
    Scanlan, Robert H.
    Johns Hopkins University
  60. 60
    Uang, Chiaming
    Department of Structural Engineering
  61. 61
    Aly, Aly Mousaad
    Louisiana State University
  62. 62
    Ansari, Farhad
    University of Illinois at Chicago
  63. 63
    Feng, Maria Qing
    Columbia University
  64. 64
    Deierlein, Gregory G.
    Stanford University
  65. 65
    Shields, Michael D.
    Whiting School of Engineering
  66. 66
    Kim, Moohyun
    College of Engineering
  67. 67
    Kunnath, Sashi K.
    College of Engineering
  68. 68
    El-Tawil, Sherif
    Michigan Engineering
  69. 69
    Hirdaris, Spyros E.
    American Bureau of Shipping
  70. 70
    Wallace, John W.
    UCLA Samueli School of Engineering
  71. 71
    Ricles, James M.
    P.C. Rossin College of Engineering & Applied Science
  72. 72
    Mahmoud, Hussam N.
    Colorado State University
  73. 73
    Ozbulut, Osman E.
    University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science
  74. 74
    Zhu, Yanping
    Montana Technological University
  75. 75
    Sause, Richard S.
    P.C. Rossin College of Engineering & Applied Science
  76. 76
    Berman, Jeffrey W.
    UW College of Engineering
  77. 77
    Bocchini, Paolo
    P.C. Rossin College of Engineering & Applied Science
  78. 78
    Stern, Frederick
    College of Engineering
  79. 79
    Burton, Henry V.
    University of California, Los Angeles
  80. 80
    Kanvinde, Amit M.
    College of Engineering
  81. 81
    ElGawady, Mohamed A.
    Missouri University of Science and Technology
  82. 82
    Hajjar, Jerome F.
    Northeastern University
  83. 83
    Malvar, L. Javier
    US Naval Civil Engineering Lab
  84. 84
    Mosalam, Khalid M.
    University of California, Berkeley
  85. 85
    Azizinamini, Atorod
    FIU College of Engineering and Computing
  86. 86
    Chen, Genda
    Missouri University of Science and Technology
  87. 87
    Palermo, Alessando A.
    University of California, San Diego
  88. 88
    Mo, Yilung
    Cullen College of Engineering
  89. 89
    Young, Yinlu
    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  90. 90
    Wakjira, Tadesse
    Kennesaw State University
  91. 91
    Yu, Cheng
    UNT College of Engineering
  92. 92
    Robertson, Amy N.
    National Laboratory of the Rockies
  93. 93
    Saiidi, Mehdi Saiid
    College of Engineering
  94. 94
    DeJong, Matthew J.
    Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
  95. 95
    Belarbi, Abdeldjelil
    Cullen College of Engineering
  96. 96
    Mirmiran, Amir
    University of Texas at Tyler
  97. 97
    Huang, Zhenhua
    University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
  98. 98
    Mehrabi, Armin B.
    Florida International University
  99. 99
    Soong, Tsu Teh
    School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
  100. 100
    Sritharan, Sri S.
    Iowa State University

172 listed scientists in Civil 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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