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

684 researchers in the United States whose main subfield is Ecology are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 0.9% of all listed authors in the United States, and 1st of 60 countries in the subfield. 662 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). University of California, Davis has the most (21), followed by University of California, Santa Cruz (18) and University of Minnesota Twin Cities (17). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors

684

0.9% of all in the United States

In the global top 100,000

662

96.8% of them

Country rank in the subfield

of 60 countries in Ecology

Highest-ranked

#65

Tilman, David G.

#	Institution	Listed authors	Top 100k	Rank worldwide	Highest-ranked author
1	University of California, Davis	21	21	#2	Hijmans, Robert J. #2,449
2	University of California, Santa Cruz	18	18	#4	Holl, Karen D. #11,738
3	University of Minnesota Twin Cities	17	17	#5	Tilman, David G. #65
4	Stanford University	16	16	#6	Vitousek, Peter M. #722
5	University of Wisconsin-Madison	15	15	#8	Carpenter, Stephen R. #650
6	University of Florida	15	15	#9	Holt, Robert Dan #1,830
7	Cornell University	14	13	#11	Luo, Yi #1,485
8	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	12	11	#14	Reich, Peter B. #102
9	College of the Environment	12	12	#17	Olden, Julian D. #1,769
10	University of California, Santa Barbara	12	12	#18	Halpern, Benjamin S. #1,906
11	Warner College of Natural Resources	11	11	#23	Ryan, Michael G. #13,938
12	Oregon State University	10	10	#27	Ripple, William J. #4,223
13	Institute of Ecosystem Studies	9	9	#30	Schlesinger, William H. #2,479
14	University of Colorado Boulder	9	9	#32	Suding, Katharine Nash #7,592
15	Arizona State University	8	8	#34	Wu, Jianguo (Jingle) #610
16	Michigan State University	8	8	#35	Liu, Jianguo #1,310
17	Duke University	8	8	#37	Pimm, Stuart L. #2,538
18	United States Geological Survey	8	8	#40	Grace, James Benjamin #5,041
19	Yale University	8	8	#41	Jetz, Walter J. #5,331
20	University of California, Los Angeles	8	8	#45	Kraft, Nathan Jared Boardman #27,109
21	Princeton University	7	7	#47	Levin, Simon A. #1,039
22	Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute	7	5	#48	Wright, Stuart Joseph #2,996
23	University of Montana	7	7	#49	Elser, James J. #3,036
24	NC State University	7	7	#55	Dunn, Robert R. #10,975
25	University of Georgia	7	7	#59	Gittleman, John L. #17,889
26	University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa	7	7	#60	Mora, Camilo #18,375
27	Northern Arizona University	7	6	#61	Johnson, Nancy Collins #19,411
28	The University of New Mexico	6	6	#67	Brown, James Hemphill #1,218
29	The University of Tennessee, Knoxville	6	5	#68	Simberloff, Daniel S. #1,416
30	University of Connecticut	6	6	#70	Chazdon, Robin L. #2,895
31	The University of Vermont	6	6	#72	Gotelli, Nicholas J. #4,951
32	College of Computer, Mathematical, & Natural Sciences	6	5	#73	Inouye, David William #7,009
33	University of Washington	6	6	#78	Buckley, Lauren B. #13,328
34	Utah State University	6	6	#80	Adler, Peter B. #31,251
35	Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management	5	5	#82	Kremen, Claire #1,262
36	University of California, Irvine	5	5	#84	Allison, Steven D. #1,461
37	The University of Utah	5	5	#87	Anderegg, William R.L. #2,887
38	College of Science	5	5	#88	Enquist, Brian J. #3,974
39	Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability	5	5	#90	Naylor, Rosamond Lee #4,899
40	University of California, Riverside	5	5	#93	Franklin, Janet #6,657
41	Pennsylvania State University	5	5	#94	Cardinale, Bradley J. #6,680
42	University of California, Berkeley	5	5	#98	Dawson, Todd E. #8,995
43	Smithsonian Environmental Research Center	5	5	#100	Duffy, J. Emmett #10,647
44	Colorado State University	5	5	#105	Berger, Joel #20,975
45	Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory	5	5	#106	Blonder, Benjamin Wong #21,472
46	University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science	4	4	#115	DAVIDSON, ERIC A. #1,941
47	Harvard University	4	4	#118	Cavender-Bares, Jeannine M. #4,719
48	Indiana University Bloomington	4	4	#125	Phillips, Richard P. #13,063
49	University of Montana College of Forestry and Conservation	4	4	#127	Dobrowski, Solomon Z. #17,536
50	Nature Conservancy	4	3	#130	McRae, Brad H. #21,606
51	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	4	4	#139	Augspurger, Carol K. #50,313
52	University of Kansas	3	3	#147	Peterson, Andrew Townsend #1,208
53	University of Alaska Fairbanks	3	2	#148	Chapin, F. Stuart #1,728
54	University of Notre Dame	3	3	#151	Agrawal, Arun #2,590
55	College of Natural Sciences	3	3	#152	Poff, N. Leroy #2,688
56	Yale School of the Environment	3	3	#153	Bradford, Mark A. #2,979
57	Tulane University School of Science and Engineering	3	2	#155	Friess, Daniel A. #3,788
58	Santa Fe Institute	3	3	#158	Hastings, Alan M. #4,838
59	Iowa State University	3	3	#160	Dixon, Philip Michael #5,993
60	School of Life Sciences	3	3	#163	Bastías, Daniel A. #7,719
61	Rutgers University–New Brunswick	3	3	#164	Winfree, Rachael #7,768
62	The University of Oklahoma	3	3	#182	Kaspari, Michael E. #19,681
63	College of Agriculture	3	2	#184	Gurevitch, Jessica #21,276
64	University of New Hampshire Durham	3	3	#190	McDowell, William H. #29,201
65	University of California, San Diego	3	3	#199	Cleland, Elsa E. #34,526
66	College of Arts & Sciences	3	2	#200	Kunz, Thomas H. #37,173
67	University of Nevada, Reno	3	3	#206	Vander Wall, Stephen B. #41,446
68	University of Missouri	3	3	#207	Semlitsch, Raymond D. #44,259
69	The University of Texas at Austin	3	3	#209	Jha, Shalene #48,350
70	United States Department of Agriculture	3	3	#210	Bestelmeyer, B. T. #51,202
71	Field Museum of Natural History	3	2	#216	Patterson, Bruce D. #64,027
72	Florida State University	3	3	#218	Inouye, Brian D. #68,637

The top 100 in Ecology in the United States, in order

1
Tilman, David G.
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
2
Reich, Peter B.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
3
Wu, Jianguo (Jingle)
Arizona State University
4
Carpenter, Stephen R.
University of Wisconsin-Madison
5
Vitousek, Peter M.
Stanford University
6
Jackson, Robert B.
Stanford University
7
Asner, Gregory P.
Arizona State University
8
Levin, Simon A.
Princeton University
9
Peterson, Andrew Townsend
University of Kansas
10
Brown, James Hemphill
The University of New Mexico
11
Kremen, Claire
Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management
12
Liu, Jianguo
Michigan State University
13
Simberloff, Daniel S.
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
14
Allison, Steven D.
University of California, Irvine
15
Luo, Yi
Cornell University
16
Keeley, Jon E.
United States Geological Survey Western Region
17
Treseder, Kathleen K.
University of California, Irvine
18
Chapin, F. Stuart
University of Alaska Fairbanks
19
Olden, Julian D.
College of the Environment
20
Turner, Monica Goigel
University of Wisconsin-Madison
21
Holt, Robert Dan
University of Florida
22
Halpern, Benjamin S.
University of California, Santa Barbara
23
DAVIDSON, ERIC A.
University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
24
Field, Christopher B.
Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
25
Hobbie, Sarah E.
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
26
Hijmans, Robert J.
University of California, Davis
27
Schlesinger, William H.
Institute of Ecosystem Studies
28
Pimm, Stuart L.
Duke University
29
Agrawal, Arun
University of Notre Dame
30
Poff, N. Leroy
College of Natural Sciences
31
Sih, Andrew
University of California, Davis
32
Ellis, Erle Christopher
University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB)
33
Anderegg, William R.L.
The University of Utah
34
Chazdon, Robin L.
University of Connecticut
35
Bradford, Mark A.
Yale School of the Environment
36
Wright, Stuart Joseph
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
37
Elser, James J.
University of Montana
38
Lambin, Eric F.
Stanford University
39
Pimentel, David P.
Cornell University
40
Lefcheck, Jonathan S.
University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
41
Callaway, Ragan Morrison
University of Montana
42
Agrawal, Anurag A.
Cornell University
43
Friess, Daniel A.
Tulane University School of Science and Engineering
44
Enquist, Brian J.
College of Science
45
Daily, Gretchen C.
Stanford University
46
Holling, Crawford S.
University of Florida
47
Ackerly, David D.
Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management
48
Ripple, William J.
Oregon State University
49
Lafferty, Kevin D.
University of California, Santa Barbara
50
Ellison, Aaron M.
Sound Solutions for Sustainable Science
51
Swenson, Nathan G.
University of Notre Dame
52
Cavender-Bares, Jeannine M.
Harvard University
53
Hastings, Alan M.
Santa Fe Institute
54
Smith, Melinda D.
College of Natural Sciences
55
Naylor, Rosamond Lee
Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability
56
Ricklefs, Robert Eric
University of Missouri-St. Louis
57
Gotelli, Nicholas J.
The University of Vermont
58
Stedman, Richard Clark
Cornell University
59
Grace, James Benjamin
United States Geological Survey
60
Roodman, David Malin
Open Philanthropy Project
61
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The University of Utah
62
Bever, James D.
University of Kansas
63
McGill, Brian J.
University of Maine
64
Jetz, Walter J.
Yale University
65
Urban, Mark C.
University of Connecticut
66
Chesson, Peter L.
College of Science
67
Royle, Jeffrey Andrew
United States Geological Survey
68
Post, David M.
Yale University
69
Ives, Anthony R.
University of Wisconsin-Madison
70
Levine, Jonathan M.
Princeton University
71
Dixon, Philip Michael
Iowa State University
72
McKinney, Michael L.
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
73
Brown, Joel S.
Moffitt Cancer Center
74
Schmitz, Oswald J.
Yale University
75
Craine, Joseph Mitchell
Jonah Ventures
76
Franklin, Janet
University of California, Riverside
77
Cardinale, Bradley J.
Pennsylvania State University
78
Inouye, David William
College of Computer, Mathematical, & Natural Sciences
79
Fukami, Tadashi
Stanford University
80
Soberón, Jorge M.
University of Kansas
81
Winemiller, Kirk O.
Texas A&M University
82
Colwell, Robert K.
University of Colorado Museum of Natural History
83
Phillips, Steven J.
American Museum of Natural History
84
Ostfeld, Richard S.
Institute of Ecosystem Studies
85
Hubbell, Stephen P.
Morton Arboretum
86
Laughlin, Daniel C.
University of Wyoming
87
Suding, Katharine Nash
University of Colorado Boulder
88
Bastías, Daniel A.
School of Life Sciences
89
Winfree, Rachael
Rutgers University–New Brunswick
90
Dobson, Andrew D.M.
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
91
Polásky, Stephen A.
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
92
Lima, Steven L.
Indiana State University
93
Turner, B. L.II
Arizona State University
94
Relyea, Rick A.
School of Science
95
Knapp, Alan K.
College of Natural Sciences
96
Clark, James S.
Duke University
97
Dawson, Todd E.
University of California, Berkeley
98
Lodge, David M.
Cornell University
99
Fagan, William Fredric
College of Computer, Mathematical, & Natural Sciences
100
Allen, Craig D.
The University of New Mexico

684 listed scientists in Ecology in the United States

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