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2,448 researchers in the United States whose main field is Earth & Environmental Sciences are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 3.3% of all listed authors in the United States, and 1st of 98 countries in the field. 1,769 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). United States Geological Survey has the most (55), followed by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (50) and National Center for Atmospheric Research (48). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors

2,448

3.3% of all in the United States

In the global top 100,000

1,769

72.3% of them

Country rank in the field

of 98 countries in Earth & Environmental Sciences

Highest-ranked

#263

Emanuel, Kerry A.

#	Institution	Listed authors	Top 100k	Rank worldwide	Highest-ranked author
1	United States Geological Survey	55	21	#3	Iverson, Richard M. #2,343
2	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution	50	27	#8	Hart, Stanley R. #9,486
3	National Center for Atmospheric Research	48	44	#9	Bonan, Gordon B. #1,483
4	Scripps Institution of Oceanography	44	31	#11	Xie, Shangping #1,750
5	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	42	28	#13	Emanuel, Kerry A. #263
6	Stanford University	42	32	#14	Lobell, David B. #478
7	University of Colorado Boulder	39	29	#17	Molnar, Peter H. #2,577
8	National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration	38	36	#19	Milly, Paul Chris D. #11,186
9	Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory	34	27	#21	Kelemen, Peter B. #4,238
10	University of California, Santa Barbara	32	23	#22	Geyer, Roland #1,601
11	Oregon State University	30	19	#24	Behrenfeld, Michael J. #5,529
12	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	30	26	#25	Meyers, Philip A. #8,947
13	University of California, Berkeley	28	22	#32	Baldocchi, Dennis D. #923
14	Princeton University	28	22	#33	Held, Isaac M. #4,578
15	United States Geological Survey Western Region	27	16	#34	Boore, David M. #1,888
16	Pennsylvania State University	27	19	#35	Kasting, James F. #7,016
17	Yale University	26	20	#37	Berner, Robert A. #1,146
18	College of Science	26	23	#38	Gehrels, George E. #4,177
19	NASA Goddard Space Flight Center	26	22	#39	Holben, Brent N. #4,442
20	College of Engineering	26	21	#40	Miller, Sabbie A. #5,880
21	Jackson School of Geosciences	26	19	#41	Ketcham, Richard A. #7,373
22	University of Washington	24	19	#48	Ebi, Kristie L. #981
23	Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences	24	22	#50	Kanamori, Hiroo M. #3,978
24	University of Wisconsin-Madison	24	19	#52	Remucal, Christina Keenan #22,130
25	University of California, Los Angeles	23	20	#53	McWilliams, James Cyrus #1,820
26	California Institute of Technology	23	15	#55	Farley, Kenneth A. #6,989
27	College of the Environment	19	17	#67	Montgomery, David R. #2,430
28	University of California, Irvine	19	16	#68	Guenther, Alex B. #4,380
29	Texas A&M University	17	11	#81	Caputo, Michele #4,046
30	Arizona State University	17	13	#85	Turner, B. L.II #8,526
31	Columbia University	16	15	#88	Plank, Terry A. #6,178
32	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	16	10	#93	Bond-Lamberty, Ben P. #15,940
33	Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP) at UCLA	15	11	#98	Yin, An #1,582
34	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	15	11	#101	Bodnar, Robert J. #10,096
35	University of Southern California	15	12	#103	Ben-Zion, Yehuda #10,883
36	Colorado School of Mines	15	10	#105	Tahmasebi, Pejman #15,679
37	Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science	14	10	#107	Millero, Frank J. #2,121
38	University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa	14	11	#109	Qiu, Bo #6,462
39	Florida State University	14	10	#110	Nicholson, Sharon E. #6,534
40	University of Oregon	14	10	#112	Retallack, Gregory John #10,306
41	University of California, Davis	14	8	#115	Turcotte, Donald L. #16,450
42	Brown University	14	10	#116	Smith, Laurence C. #21,283
43	Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering	13	13	#124	Hurrell, James W. #9,817
44	Rice University	13	6	#125	Lee, Cin Ty Aeolus #10,066
45	Indiana University Bloomington	13	11	#127	Schieber, Juergen #12,762
46	University of California, Santa Cruz	13	6	#132	Zachos, James C. #20,675
47	United States Environmental Protection Agency	13	11	#133	Daughton, Christian G. #21,524
48	Harvard University	12	10	#138	Knoll, Andrew H. #3,199
49	Carnegie Institution of Washington	12	10	#141	Rosa, Lorenzo #5,806
50	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	12	9	#147	Jain, Atul K. #25,003
51	University of Delaware	11	8	#157	Willmott’, Cort J. #4,174
52	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	11	8	#159	DePaolo, Donald J. #5,124
53	University of California, Riverside	11	6	#160	Dieterich, James H. #5,842
54	Duke University	11	7	#161	Shindell, Drew T. #7,843
55	Michigan State University	11	5	#165	Chen, Jiquan #21,358
56	The Ohio State University	11	8	#166	Liu, Zhengyu #21,920
57	NC State University	11	9	#171	Owen, Lewis A. #34,184
58	Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences	10	9	#176	Jacob, Daniel J. #2,347
59	Washington University in St. Louis	10	6	#177	Martin, Randall V. #3,623
60	University of Maryland, College Park	10	9	#182	Brown, Michael #4,875
61	College of Science and Engineering	10	10	#158	Hirschmann, Marc M. #5,055
62	Applied Physics Laboratory	10	6	#184	Kwok, Ron #5,588
63	Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences	10	9	#187	Mahowald, Natalie M. #7,042
64	Georgia Institute of Technology	10	9	#190	Webster, Peter John #11,099
65	College of Computer, Mathematical, & Natural Sciences	10	7	#193	Zeng, Ning #16,559
66	United States Geological Survey Central Region	10	5	#196	Jibson, Randall W. #20,015
67	The University of Arizona	10	6	#197	Liverman, Diana M. #22,899
68	Stony Brook University	10	8	#200	Aller, Robert Curwood #26,571
69	State University of New York Albany	9	6	#206	Dai, Aiguo #352
70	Boston University	9	7	#215	Myneni, Ranga B. #3,569
71	School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology	9	8	#216	Jin, Feifei #3,653
72	The University of Texas at Austin	9	6	#218	Fomel, Sergey B. #6,109
73	University of New Hampshire Durham	9	6	#221	Xiao, Jingfeng #7,783
74	University of Alaska Fairbanks	9	9	#222	Hock, Regine #7,883
75	NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies	9	6	#226	Rosenzweig, Cynthia E. #10,937
76	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	8	6	#246	Taylor, Karl E. #1,348
77	University of South Carolina	8	5	#252	Richardson, Susan D. #3,702
78	School of Earth and Space Exploration	8	6	#254	Whipple, Kelin X. #4,421
79	The University of Oklahoma	8	4	#255	London, David #5,103
80	Department of the Geophysical Sciences, The University of Chicago	8	5	#256	Keith, David W. #7,580
81	University of Washington School of Oceanography	8	6	#261	Johnson, Gregory C. #11,498
82	University of Maine	8	5	#267	Dembetembe, Gift Garikai #17,941
83	University of Iowa	8	6	#270	Brochu, Christopher A. #24,704
84	Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History	8	3	#274	Potts, Richard #36,891
85	Louisiana State University	7	3	#281	Clift, Peter D. #5,234
86	School of Engineering and Applied Science	7	7	#284	Wood, Eric F. #9,983
87	Virginia Institute of Marine Science	7	3	#288	Milliman, John D. #12,004
88	NorthWest Research Associates, Inc.	7	6	#289	Mahrt, Larry J. #14,722
89	The University of Tennessee, Knoxville	7	5	#290	Riding, Robert #19,198
90	University of Georgia	7	3	#292	Patiño-Douce, Alberto E. #20,065
91	The University of New Mexico	7	5	#298	Sharp, Zachary D. #26,333
92	University of Kansas	7	1	#308	Cravens, Thomas E. #54,390
93	The University of Texas at Dallas	6	4	#313	Stern, Robert James #1,133
94	Northwestern University	6	6	#316	Scotese, Christopher Robert #7,337
95	George Mason University	6	6	#320	Dirmeyer, Paul A. #10,742
96	Old Dominion University	6	3	#323	Burdige, David J. #14,174
97	Utah State University	6	4	#324	Fejer, Bela G. #14,827
98	Florida International University	6	4	#326	Oladoye, Peter Olusakin #15,419
99	College of Engineering and Applied Science	6	5	#332	Forbes, Jeffrey M. #21,488
100	Bureau of Economic Geology	6	3	#339	Loucks, Robert G. #32,657
101	Cornell University College of Engineering	6	5	#342	Barthelmie, Rebecca J. #34,351
102	University of South Florida St. Petersburg	6	5	#345	Byrne, Robert H. #40,637
103	NASA Johnson Space Center	6	2	#349	Zolensky, Michael Ewing #59,914
104	Los Alamos National Laboratory	6	4	#350	Reeves, Geoffrey D. #64,693
105	University of Miami	5	5	#354	Sharma, Virender K. #958
106	Woodwell Climate Research Center	5	3	#355	HOUGHTON, R. A. #1,065
107	Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering	5	4	#357	Jacobson, Mark Z. #1,533
108	University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science	5	3	#358	DAVIDSON, ERIC A. #1,941
109	NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory	5	4	#359	McPhaden, Michael J. #2,700
110	The University of Chicago	5	5	#360	Newville, Matthew G. #2,849
111	University of Massachusetts Amherst	5	4	#362	Xing, Baoshan #3,508
112	Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering	5	4	#365	Nazaroff, William W. #4,583
113	Cornell University	5	4	#368	Ramanathan, Veerabhadran #6,633
114	Rutgers University–New Brunswick	5	3	#379	Burger, Joanna #13,090
115	Smithsonian Institution	5	4	#386	Behrensmeyer, Anna Kay #16,236
116	Johns Hopkins University	5	5	#390	Sverjensky, Dimitri A. #16,774
117	University of California, San Diego	5	3	#396	Grassian, Vicki H. #21,160
118	Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute	5	2	#408	Chávez de La O, Francisco P. #26,250
119	The Earth and Sun Systems Laboratory	5	5	#411	Richmond, Arthur D. #27,216
120	International Research Institute for Climate and Society	5	5	#420	Hansen, James W. #39,986
121	Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering	5	4	#422	Townsend, Timothy Glyndon #43,637
122	The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	5	3	#424	Hsu, Angel #46,551
123	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	5	2	#437	Gu, Baohua #74,901
124	University of Virginia	4	3	#443	Doney, Scott C. #2,205
125	Yale School of the Environment	4	4	#445	Leiserowitz, Anthony A. #2,502
126	NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory	4	2	#449	Wanninkhof, Rik H. #3,580
127	Boise State University	4	3	#453	Kohn, Matthew J. #5,536
128	University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences	4	3	#456	Mann, Michael E. #5,910
129	California Institute of Technology Division of Engineering and Applied Science	4	4	#457	Seinfeld, John H. #6,026
130	Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering	4	4	#459	Halden, Rolf U. #7,428
131	University of Florida	4	3	#460	Zimmerman, Andrew R. #7,938
132	University of Utah, College of Mines and Earth Sciences	4	4	#463	Cerling, Thure E. #9,795
133	College of Engineering and Physical Sciences	4	4	#471	Frost, Bryce Ronald #15,009
134	MIT School of Engineering	4	2	#472	Williams, Earle R. #17,878
135	The University of Texas at El Paso	4	3	#474	Gardea-Torresdey, Jorge Luis #19,032
136	University of Nevada, Reno	4	3	#475	Blewitt, Geoffrey #19,054
137	Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability	4	4	#476	Mäher, Kate M. #21,273
138	University of Minnesota Twin Cities	4	3	#479	Ray, Deepak K. #23,226
139	Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science	4	3	#482	Kim, Jaehong #23,958
140	University of Connecticut	4	1	#486	Fielding, Christopher R. #27,771
141	Cecil H. and Ida M. Green Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics	4	2	#489	Fialko, Yuri A. #30,787
142	Southwest Research Institute	4	2	#490	Burch, James L. #32,149
143	LLC	4	4	#492	Jarvie, Daniel M. #32,447
144	Berkeley Geochronology Center	4	4	#417	Balco, Greg A. #32,516
145	Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health	4	3	#493	Spengler, John D. #33,594
146	NASA Langley Research Center	4	3	#498	Winker, David M. #35,726
147	Northeastern University	4	2	#507	Stubbins, Aron P. #51,126
148	Space Sciences Laboratory	4	3	#509	Luhmann, Janet G. #53,576
149	New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology	3	1	#535	Condie, Kent C. #2,680
150	The World Bank, USA	3	3	#538	Hallegatte, Stéphane #4,362
151	Northern Arizona University	3	3	#540	Schuur, Edward A.G. #5,651
152	College of Earth, Ocean and Environment	3	2	#544	Cai, Wei Jun #8,093
153	The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science	3	3	#554	Gentine, Pierre #11,465
154	University of Rhode Island	3	1	#555	Lohmann, Rainer #12,455
155	Texas Tech University	3	2	#569	Sylvester, Paul J. #18,103
156	The University of Utah	3	2	#576	Anderson, Orson L. #22,277
157	Carnegie Mellon University	3	2	#579	Donahue, Neil Mc Pherson #23,753
158	Desert Research Institute	3	3	#581	Chow, Judith C. #23,849
159	Exxon Mobil Corporation	3	2	#584	Snieder, Roel K. #24,774
160	Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics	3	3	#586	Rothman, L. S. #25,131
161	American Museum of Natural History	3	2	#588	Webster, James D. #25,863
162	Warner College of Natural Resources	3	1	#590	Mueller, Nathaniel D. #26,093
163	The Nevada Seismological Laboratory	3	2	#593	Wesnousky, Steven G. #26,292
164	Lunar and Planetary Institute	3	3	#596	Treiman, Allan H. #28,817
165	Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere	3	2	#598	DeMaria, Mark #29,001
166	Michigan Engineering	3	3	#602	Flanner, Mark G. #29,691
167	Kennedy College of Sciences	3	3	#613	Eby, G. N. #35,070
168	Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory	3	1	#614	Gjerloev, Jesper W. #35,232
169	National Science Foundation	3	2	#624	Holland, Marika M. #40,211
170	University of South Florida, Tampa	3	1	#627	Defant, Marc J. #41,723
171	U.S. Naval Research Laboratory	3	2	#629	Emmert, John T. #42,237
172	Vanderbilt University	3	1	#633	Miller, Calvin F. #43,734
173	Planetary Science Institute	3	3	#635	Dyar, Melinda Darby #43,994
174	University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee	3	1	#642	Schwartz, Mark D. #47,050
175	Iowa State University	3	2	#644	Jovanović, Boris #48,383
176	University at Buffalo, The State University of New York	3	2	#645	Buck, Holly Jean #48,554
177	Lehigh University	3	1	#652	Bebout, Gray E. #52,801
178	University of Pittsburgh	3	2	#656	Ng, Carla A. #55,757
179	Marine Physical Laboratory	3	2	#658	Jaffe, Jules S. #56,783
180	College of Agriculture and Life Sciences	3	3	#662	Chorover, Jon D. #58,941
181	Aerodyne Research, Inc.	3	2	#665	Worsnop, Douglas R. #60,869
182	McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences	3	3	#666	Phillips, Roger J. #61,320
183	Cockrell School of Engineering	3	2	#673	Daigle, Hugh C. #65,922
184	University Corporation for Atmospheric Research	3	2	#675	Anthes, Richard A. #66,486
185	Faculty of Arts and Sciences	3	3	#683	Mankin, Justin S. #75,619
186	College of Natural Sciences	3	3	#686	Borch, Thomas #77,501
187	University of Rochester	3	1	#696	Righter, Kevin #86,056

The top 100 in Earth & Environmental Sciences in the United States, in order

1
Emanuel, Kerry A.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2
Dai, Aiguo
State University of New York Albany
3
Lobell, David B.
Stanford University
4
Abatzoglou, John T.
School of Engineering
5
Stern, Paul C.
Social and Environmental Research Institute
6
Baldocchi, Dennis D.
University of California, Berkeley
7
Sharma, Virender K.
University of Miami
8
Ebi, Kristie L.
University of Washington
9
HOUGHTON, R. A.
Woodwell Climate Research Center
10
Stern, Robert James
The University of Texas at Dallas
11
Berner, Robert A.
Yale University
12
Taylor, Karl E.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
13
Bonan, Gordon B.
National Center for Atmospheric Research
14
Jacobson, Mark Z.
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
15
Yin, An
Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP) at UCLA
16
Geyer, Roland
University of California, Santa Barbara
17
Kannan, Kurunthachalam
Wadsworth Center for Laboratories and Research
18
Xie, Shangping
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
19
McWilliams, James Cyrus
University of California, Los Angeles
20
Boore, David M.
United States Geological Survey Western Region
21
Seto, Karen C.
Yale University
22
DAVIDSON, ERIC A.
University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
23
Millero, Frank J.
Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science
24
Doney, Scott C.
University of Virginia
25
de Vries, Wim H.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
26
Iverson, Richard M.
United States Geological Survey
27
Jacob, Daniel J.
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
28
Meehl, Gerald A.
National Center for Atmospheric Research
29
Montgomery, David R.
College of the Environment
30
Leiserowitz, Anthony A.
Yale School of the Environment
31
Molnar, Peter H.
University of Colorado Boulder
32
Zoback, Mark D.
ResFrac Corporation
33
Rudnick, Roberta L.
University of California, Santa Barbara
34
Condie, Kent C.
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
35
McPhaden, Michael J.
NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
36
Houze, Robert A.
College of the Environment
37
Richardson, Andrew D.
Steve Sanghi College of Engineering
38
Newville, Matthew G.
The University of Chicago
39
Foley, Jonathan A.
Project Drawdown
40
Deser, Clara
National Center for Atmospheric Research
41
Knoll, Andrew H.
Harvard University
42
Running, Steven W.
University of Montana College of Forestry and Conservation
43
Xing, Baoshan
University of Massachusetts Amherst
44
Myneni, Ranga B.
Boston University
45
Wanninkhof, Rik H.
NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory
46
Martin, Randall V.
Washington University in St. Louis
47
Jin, Feifei
School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology
48
Richardson, Susan D.
University of South Carolina
49
Lavender, Kara L.
Sea Education Association
50
Graedel, Thomas E.
Yale University
51
Kanamori, Hiroo M.
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences
52
Watson, E. Bruce
School of Science
53
Caputo, Michele
Texas A&M University
54
Hansen, James E.
Earth Institute
55
Harrison, T. Mark
University of California, Los Angeles
56
Willmott’, Cort J.
University of Delaware
57
Gehrels, George E.
College of Science
58
Kelemen, Peter B.
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
59
Hallegatte, Stéphane
The World Bank, USA
60
Guenther, Alex B.
University of California, Irvine
61
Whipple, Kelin X.
School of Earth and Space Exploration
62
Holben, Brent N.
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
63
Dudhia, Jimy
National Center for Atmospheric Research
64
Scholz, Christopher H.
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
65
Gao, Bin
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
66
Held, Isaac M.
Princeton University
67
Melosh, Henry Jay
College of Science
68
Nazaroff, William W.
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
69
Hopke, Philip K.
Clarkson University
70
Hsiang, Solomon M.
National Bureau of Economic Research
71
Brown, Michael
University of Maryland, College Park
72
Davis, Steven Joseph
Stanford University
73
Syvitski, James P.M.
University of Colorado Boulder
74
Hirschmann, Marc M.
College of Science and Engineering
75
Oreskes, Naomi
Harvard University
76
London, David
The University of Oklahoma
77
DePaolo, Donald J.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
78
Arrigo, Kevin Robert
Stanford University
79
Clift, Peter D.
Louisiana State University
80
Ellsworth, William L.
Stanford University
81
Robock, Alan D.
Department of Environmental Sciences
82
Behrenfeld, Michael J.
Oregon State University
83
Kohn, Matthew J.
Boise State University
84
Kwok, Ron
Applied Physics Laboratory
85
O'Neill, Brian C.
University of Maryland, College Park
86
Schuur, Edward A.G.
Northern Arizona University
87
Best, Jim L.
The Grainger College of Engineering
88
Rosa, Lorenzo
Carnegie Institution of Washington
89
Dieterich, James H.
University of California, Riverside
90
Tollefson, Jeff
Alicia Patterson Foundation
91
Miller, Sabbie A.
College of Engineering
92
Mann, Michael E.
University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences
93
Avouac, Jean Philippe
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences
94
Lyons, Timothy W.
University of California, Riverside
95
Craig, Harmon
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
96
Seinfeld, John H.
California Institute of Technology Division of Engineering and Applied Science
97
Galloway, James N.
University of Virginia
98
Fomel, Sergey B.
The University of Texas at Austin
99
Plank, Terry A.
Columbia University
100
Weiss, Ray F.
Scripps Institution of Oceanography

2,448 listed scientists in Earth & Environmental Sciences in the United States

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