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

882 researchers in the United States whose main subfield is Energy are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 1.2% of all listed authors in the United States, and 2nd of 99 countries in the subfield. 402 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). College of Engineering has the most (46), followed by National Laboratory of the Rockies (30) and Argonne National Laboratory (25). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors

882

1.2% of all in the United States

In the global top 100,000

402

45.6% of them

Country rank in the subfield

of 99 countries in Energy

Highest-ranked

#353

Xu, Kang W.

#	Institution	Listed authors	Top 100k	Rank worldwide	Highest-ranked author
1	College of Engineering	46	15	#9	Lieuwen, Tim C. #15,210
2	National Laboratory of the Rockies	30	12	#16	Turner, John A. #7,753
3	Argonne National Laboratory	25	14	#28	Thackeray, Michael M. #10,861
4	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	21	10	#40	Zinkle, Steven J. #2,125
5	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	18	11	#53	Weber, Adam Z. #6,774
6	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	15	9	#64	Bazant, Martin Z. #1,730
7	Cockrell School of Engineering	15	6	#65	Rochelle, Gary Thomas #3,426
8	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	15	6	#71	Muratori, Matteo #19,613
9	Los Alamos National Laboratory	14	5	#79	Kim, Yu Seung #12,397
10	School of Engineering and Applied Science	11	6	#114	Law, Chung King #2,652
11	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	10	6	#132	Was, Gary S. #3,672
12	Pennsylvania State University	10	4	#136	Elsworth, Derek #16,469
13	The University of Tennessee, Knoxville	9	3	#157	Li, Fangxing Fran #10,889
14	Stanford Engineering	8	5	#173	Gür, Turgut M. #9,066
15	Georgia Institute of Technology	7	3	#202	Liu, Meilin #4,343
16	Cornell University College of Engineering	7	3	#205	Pope, Stephen B. #6,463
17	Samueli School of Engineering	7	5	#206	Wang, Yun #7,741
18	Colorado School of Mines	7	5	#207	Bazilian, Morgan D. #8,988
19	University of Wisconsin-Madison	7	2	#211	Nemet, G. F. #12,420
20	Texas A&M University	7	1	#233	Xie, Le #81,585
21	U.S. Army Research Laboratory	6	5	#243	Xu, Kang W. #353
22	MIT School of Engineering	6	6	#249	Buongiorno, Jacopo #6,002
23	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	6	2	#257	Westbrook, Charles K. #13,721
24	Stanford University	6	3	#262	Huggins, Robert A. #17,174
25	College of Engineering and Applied Science	6	5	#263	Plett, Gregory L. #17,495
26	The University of Texas at Austin	6	2	#265	Olson, Jon E. #19,452
27	College of Engineering and Physical Sciences	6	1	#269	Morrow, Norman R. #22,933
28	Molinaroli College of Engineering and Computing	6	3	#271	Mustain, William E. #28,722
29	John and Marcia Price College of Engineering	6	1	#276	Duan, Chuancheng #33,224
30	The University of Oklahoma	6	2	#290	Civan, Faruk #46,598
31	Idaho National Laboratory	6	3	#292	Liaw, Bor Yann #50,825
32	Sandia National Laboratories, California	6	2	#297	Schefer, Robertw W. #54,737
33	Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering	5	4	#311	Lackner, Klaus S. #7,710
34	Princeton University	5	2	#321	Ju, Yiguang #12,611
35	Virginia Tech College of Engineering	5	2	#326	Zhang, Jinsuo #15,359
36	Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico	5	1	#336	Ho, Clifford K. #21,417
37	Columbia University	5	3	#364	Bataille, Chris G.F. #56,835
38	General Motors	5	0	#377	Kongkanand, Anusorn #110,188
39	Penn State College of Engineering	4	2	#393	Wang, Chaoyang #3,092
40	University of California, Davis	4	4	#397	Burke, Andrew F. #5,262
41	University of California, Berkeley	4	2	#398	Newman, John S. #5,723
42	Iowa State University	4	3	#407	Brown, Robert C. #11,858
43	UW-Madison College of Engineering	4	2	#408	Reitz, Rolf Deneys #12,726
44	Washington University in St. Louis	4	1	#420	Allendorf, Mark D. #18,882
45	Department of Energy Science and Engineering	4	3	#421	Durlofsky, Louis J. #18,962
46	University of Wyoming	4	2	#425	Fan, Maohong #25,724
47	Bureau of Economic Geology	4	1	#428	Javadpour, Farzam G. #27,353
48	University of South Carolina	4	3	#440	Dryer, Frederick L. #34,251
49	University of Maryland, College Park	4	1	#441	Gupta, Ashwani K. #36,225
50	Washington State University Pullman	4	1	#479	Pérez-García, Manuel #63,481
51	National Institute of Standards and Technology	4	1	#483	Youden, W. J. #67,301
52	UConn College of Engineering	4	0	#510	Sung, Chihjen #111,109
53	Arizona State University	4	0	#517	Rashid, Naim U. #134,284
54	Edward E. Whitacre Jr. College of Engineering	3	2	#526	Sheng, J. J. #3,473
55	Southern Methodist University	3	1	#552	Wang, Jianhui #15,493
56	Department of Mechanical Engineering	3	2	#555	Frenklach, Michael Y. #17,311
57	Northeastern University	3	3	#330	Mukerjee, Sanjeev #18,434
58	Energy and Resources Group	3	3	#557	Kammen, Daniel M. #18,745
59	Johns Hopkins University	3	3	#561	Urpelainen, Johannes #19,716
60	A. James Clark School of Engineering	3	1	#564	Wachsman, Eric D. #20,202
61	University of California, San Diego	3	2	#566	Williams, Forman Arthur #20,646
62	UW College of Engineering	3	2	#569	Kirschen, Daniel S. #22,584
63	Rice University	3	2	#573	Lau, Hon Chung #22,969
64	The Robert Mehrabian College of Engineering	3	2	#578	McFarland, Eric W. #26,622
65	School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology	3	2	#597	Dubarry, Matthieu #34,311
66	NC State College of Engineering	3	3	#610	Baran, Mesut E. #42,923
67	The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science	3	1	#617	Esposito, Daniel V. #46,676
68	Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science	3	2	#621	Dunn, Jennifer B. #49,746
69	Michigan Engineering	3	0	#672	Hiskens, Ian A. #100,117
70	Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture	3	0	#673	Dubey, Anamika #100,198
71	Louisiana State University	3	0	#680	Kaiser, Mark J. #106,283
72	Washington State University Tri-Cities	3	0	#691	Khan, Muhammad Usman #117,538
73	University of Houston	3	0	#694	Mohammadi, Maedeh #119,881
74	The University of Tulsa	3	0	#723	Babu, Ponnivalavan #184,453

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

1
Xu, Kang W.
U.S. Army Research Laboratory
2
Zhang, Sheng S.
U.S. Army Research Laboratory
3
Lewis, Nathan S.
Beckman Institute
4
Bazant, Martin Z.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
5
Zinkle, Steven J.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
6
Bard, Allen J.
College of Natural Sciences
7
Law, Chung King
School of Engineering and Applied Science
8
Macdonald, Digby Donald
UC Berkeley’s Department of Nuclear Engineering
9
Wang, Chaoyang
Penn State College of Engineering
10
Rochelle, Gary Thomas
Cockrell School of Engineering
11
Sheng, J. J.
Edward E. Whitacre Jr. College of Engineering
12
Was, Gary S.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
13
Liu, Meilin
Georgia Institute of Technology
14
Okolie, Jude A.
Bucknell University
15
Burke, Andrew F.
University of California, Davis
16
Shahidehpour, Mohammad
Armour College of Engineering
17
Newman, John S.
University of California, Berkeley
18
Buongiorno, Jacopo
MIT School of Engineering
19
Gude, Veera Gnaneswar
Purdue University
20
Gueymard, Christian A.
Solar Consulting Services
21
Pope, Stephen B.
Cornell University College of Engineering
22
Ahmadi, Pouria
University of Central Florida
23
Weber, Adam Z.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
24
Knothe, Gerhard
USDA ARS National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research
25
Hosseini, Seyed Ehsan
Arkansas Tech University
26
Lackner, Klaus S.
Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering
27
Wang, Yun
Samueli School of Engineering
28
Turner, John A.
National Laboratory of the Rockies
29
Mardani, Abbas
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
30
Shao-Horn, Yang
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
31
Carley, Sanya R.
University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design
32
Bazilian, Morgan D.
Colorado School of Mines
33
Gür, Turgut M.
Stanford Engineering
34
Zhang, Zhien
University of Cincinnati
35
Terrani, Kurt A.
Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation
36
Speight, James G.
CD and W Incorporated
37
Brandt, Adam R.
Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability
38
Smith, Kirk R.
University of California, Berkeley
39
Thackeray, Michael M.
Argonne National Laboratory
40
Li, Fangxing Fran
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
41
Wu, Lei
Stevens Institute of Technology
42
Abdin, Z.
National Laboratory of the Rockies
43
Brown, Robert C.
Iowa State University
44
Mehrjerdi, Hasan
School of Engineering and Applied Science
45
Kusoglu, Ahmet
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
46
Kim, Yu Seung
Los Alamos National Laboratory
47
Nemet, G. F.
University of Wisconsin-Madison
48
Ju, Yiguang
Princeton University
49
Reitz, Rolf Deneys
UW-Madison College of Engineering
50
Koh, Carolyn Ann
Colorado School of Mines
51
Wilcox, Jennifer L.
School of Engineering and Applied Science
52
El-Genk, Mohamed S.
The University of New Mexico
53
Westbrook, Charles K.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
54
Hanson, Ronald Kenneth
Stanford Engineering
55
Wang, Hai
Stanford Engineering
56
Al-Ghussain, Loiy
Argonne National Laboratory
57
Burnham, Alan K.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
58
Abruña, Hèctor D.
Cornell University
59
Pham, Linh
Lake Forest College
60
Dreizin, Edward L.
New Jersey Institute of Technology
61
Minteer, Shelley D.
University of Utah, College Of Science
62
Lieuwen, Tim C.
College of Engineering
63
Zhang, Jinsuo
Virginia Tech College of Engineering
64
Wang, Jianhui
Southern Methodist University
65
Lasseter, Robert H.
UW-Madison College of Engineering
66
Orazem, Mark E.
University of Florida
67
Elsworth, Derek
Pennsylvania State University
68
Huggins, Robert A.
Stanford University
69
Fan, Lingling
College of Engineering
70
Frenklach, Michael Y.
Department of Mechanical Engineering
71
Plett, Gregory L.
College of Engineering and Applied Science
72
Ayers, Kathy E.
Nel Hydrogen US
73
Abraham, K. M.
E-KEM Sciences
74
Gaines, Linda L.
Argonne National Laboratory
75
Krarti, Moncef
College of Engineering and Applied Science
76
Mukerjee, Sanjeev
Northeastern University
77
Kammen, Daniel M.
Energy and Resources Group
78
Allendorf, Mark D.
Washington University in St. Louis
79
Durlofsky, Louis J.
Department of Energy Science and Engineering
80
Zhang, Xiangwu
NC State University
81
Olson, Jon E.
The University of Texas at Austin
82
Timilsina, Govinda R.
The World Bank, USA
83
Muratori, Matteo
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
84
Urpelainen, Johannes
Johns Hopkins University
85
Rubin, Edward S.
Carnegie Mellon University
86
Muradov, Nazim Z.
Florida Solar Energy Center
87
Wachsman, Eric D.
A. James Clark School of Engineering
88
Pesaran, Ahmad A.
National Laboratory of the Rockies
89
Yilmaz, Nadir
College of Engineering and Architecture
90
Williams, Forman Arthur
University of California, San Diego
91
Jonkman, Jason M.
National Laboratory of the Rockies
92
Kavan, Ladislav
The University of Utah
93
Cullen, David A.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
94
Ho, Clifford K.
Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico
95
Nešić, Srdjan
Russ College of Engineering and Technology
96
Orr, Franklin M.
Stanford University
97
Benson, Sally M.
Stanford University
98
Snead, Lance L.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
99
Kirschen, Daniel S.
UW College of Engineering
100
Liddle, Brantley
Independent Scholar

882 listed scientists in Energy in the United States

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