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32 institutions · Environmental Engineering · United States

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

348 researchers in the United States whose main subfield is Environmental Engineering are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 0.5% of all listed authors in the United States, and 1st of 69 countries in the subfield. 136 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). United States Geological Survey has the most (21), followed by College of Engineering (16) and Texas A&M University (6). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors
348
0.5% of all in the United States
In the global top 100,000
136
39.1% of them
Country rank in the subfield
#1
of 69 countries in Environmental Engineering
Highest-ranked
#833
Singh, Vijay P.
#InstitutionListed authorsTop 100kRank worldwideHighest-ranked author
1United States Geological Survey216#1Hirsch, Robert M. #28,677
2College of Engineering168#4Or, Dani #6,752
3Texas A&M University63#26Rodríguez-Iturbe, Ignacio #13,323
4College of Science and Engineering61#15Paola, Chris #39,634
5University of California, Davis60#36Howitt, Richard E. #118,140
6Arizona State University53#38Rittmann, Bruce Edward #8,063
7College of Science53#41Gupta, Hoshin Vijai #10,944
8Utah State University52#46Tarboton, David G. #24,438
9University of California, Santa Barbara52#47Loáiciga, Hugo A. #35,472
10Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering53#51Julien, Pierre Y. #54,362
11University of Colorado Boulder51#52Linden, Karl G. #54,548
12Oregon State University51#54Wolf, Aaron T. #57,440
13The Grainger College of Engineering52#55Garciá, Marcelo Horacio #62,707
14Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory42#63Pruess, Karsten #7,823
15University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign44#64Parker, Gary N. #9,536
16USDA Agricultural Research Service42#66Arnold, Jeffrey G. #15,046
17Cornell University College of Engineering41#72Brutsaert, Wilfried H. #30,097
18United States Geological Survey Central Region41#80Winter, Thomas C. #66,091
19The University of Arizona40#82Hawkins, Richard Pete #196,378
20Penn State College of Engineering32#86Shen, Chaopeng #4,037
21University of California, Berkeley31#87Dietrich, William Eric #7,400
22College of Agriculture and Life Sciences31#89Gerba, Charles Peter #9,965
23The University of Texas at Austin32#91Sun, Alexander Y. #11,977
24Samueli School of Engineering32#92Vrugt, Jasper Alexander #12,081
25Cornell University31#95Loucks, Daniel Pete #15,027
26School of Engineering and Applied Science33#99Maxwell, Robert S. #21,702
27Virginia Tech College of Engineering31#101Edwards, Marc A. #25,477
28Lyles School of Civil and Construction Engineering31#110Govindaraju, Rao S. #40,512
29University of Nevada, Reno31#126Harpold, Adrian Adam #85,857
30United States Environmental Protection Agency31#128Frey, H. Christopher #88,747
31Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University30#130Stewart, Ryan D. #104,314
32UW College of Engineering30#131Winkler, Mari Karoliina Henriikka #107,825

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

  1. 1
    Singh, Vijay P.
    Texas A&M University-San Antonio
  2. 2
    Nepf, Heidi Margaret
    MIT School of Engineering
  3. 3
    Scanlon, Bridget R.
    Bureau of Economic Geology
  4. 4
    Shen, Chaopeng
    Penn State College of Engineering
  5. 5
    Allen, Richard Glen
    University of Idaho
  6. 6
    Or, Dani
    College of Engineering
  7. 7
    Dietrich, William Eric
    University of California, Berkeley
  8. 8
    Pruess, Karsten
    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  9. 9
    Rittmann, Bruce Edward
    Arizona State University
  10. 10
    Parker, Gary N.
    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  11. 11
    Gleick, Peter H.
    Pacific Institute
  12. 12
    Madani, Kaveh
    City College of New York
  13. 13
    Gerba, Charles Peter
    College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
  14. 14
    Mishra, Ashok Kumar
    College of Engineering
  15. 15
    Gupta, Hoshin Vijai
    College of Science
  16. 16
    Richter, Brian D.
    Sustainable Waters
  17. 17
    Sivapalan, Murugesu
    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  18. 18
    Sun, Alexander Y.
    The University of Texas at Austin
  19. 19
    Vrugt, Jasper Alexander
    Samueli School of Engineering
  20. 20
    Kondolf, George Mathias
    Department of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning
  21. 21
    Rodríguez-Iturbe, Ignacio
    Texas A&M University
  22. 22
    Fan, Ying
    Rutgers University–New Brunswick
  23. 23
    Tiquia, Sonia M.
    University of Michigan-Dearborn
  24. 24
    Mekonnen, Mesfin M.
    The University of Alabama
  25. 25
    Moradkhani, Hamid
    Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering
  26. 26
    Loucks, Daniel Pete
    Cornell University
  27. 27
    Arnold, Jeffrey G.
    USDA Agricultural Research Service
  28. 28
    Mitsch, William J.
    Florida Gulf Coast University
  29. 29
    Wutich, Amber Y.
    Arizona State University
  30. 30
    Neuman, Shlomo P.
    College of Science
  31. 31
    Amy, Gary L.
    College of Engineering
  32. 32
    Maxwell, Robert S.
    School of Engineering and Applied Science
  33. 33
    Porporato, Amilcare M.
    School of Engineering and Applied Science
  34. 34
    Vogel, Richard M.
    Tufts University
  35. 35
    Helsel, Dennis R.
    Practical Stats LLC
  36. 36
    Brunner, Manuela Irene
    National Center for Atmospheric Research
  37. 37
    Tarboton, David G.
    Utah State University
  38. 38
    Chang, Heejun
    Portland State University
  39. 39
    Hodson, Timothy O.
    U.S. Geological Survey Water Resources Mission Area
  40. 40
    Cai, X. M.
    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  41. 41
    ŠimŮnek, Jiří
    University of California, Riverside
  42. 42
    Edwards, Marc A.
    Virginia Tech College of Engineering
  43. 43
    Hirsch, Robert M.
    United States Geological Survey
  44. 44
    Cardenas, Meinhard Bayani
    The University of Texas at Austin
  45. 45
    Brutsaert, Wilfried H.
    Cornell University College of Engineering
  46. 46
    Valipour, Mohammad
    Metropolitan State University of Denver
  47. 47
    McMillan, Hilary K.
    San Diego State University
  48. 48
    HONG, Yang
    Gallogly College of Engineering
  49. 49
    Celia, Michael A.
    Princeton University
  50. 50
    Sanders, Brett F.
    Samueli School of Engineering
  51. 51
    Senay, Gabriel B.
    United States Geological Survey
  52. 52
    Melesse, Assefa Mekonnen
    Florida International University
  53. 53
    Loáiciga, Hugo A.
    University of California, Santa Barbara
  54. 54
    Lall, Upmanu
    Earth Institute
  55. 55
    Ringler, Claudia
    International Food Policy Research Institute
  56. 56
    Daigger, Glen T.
    Michigan Engineering
  57. 57
    Paola, Chris
    College of Science and Engineering
  58. 58
    Böhlke, J. K.
    United States Geological Survey
  59. 59
    Govindaraju, Rao S.
    Lyles School of Civil and Construction Engineering
  60. 60
    Davis, Allen P.
    A. James Clark School of Engineering
  61. 61
    Haas, Charles N.
    Drexel University College of Engineering
  62. 62
  63. 63
    Sophocleous, Marios A.
    Kansas Geological Survey
  64. 64
    Pokhrel, Yadu Nath
    Michigan State University
  65. 65
    Srinivasan, Raghavan
    Texas A&M University
  66. 66
    Boyer, Treavor H.
    Arizona State University
  67. 67
    Ebel, Brian A.
    United States Geological Survey
  68. 68
  69. 69
    Dunne, Thomas
    University of California, Santa Barbara
  70. 70
    Wu, Weiming
    Clarkson University
  71. 71
    Sun, Ge
    USDA Forest Service
  72. 72
    Zhang, Tiancheng
    College of Engineering
  73. 73
    Smith, James A.
    School of Engineering and Applied Science
  74. 74
    Nimmo, John Robert
    United States Geological Survey
  75. 75
    Julien, Pierre Y.
    Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering
  76. 76
    Linden, Karl G.
    University of Colorado Boulder
  77. 77
    Michael, Holly A.
    College of Earth, Ocean and Environment
  78. 78
    Knappe, Detlef R.U.
    NC State College of Engineering
  79. 79
    Kitanidis, Peter K.
    Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
  80. 80
    Wilcock, Peter R.
    Utah State University
  81. 81
    Karanfil, Tanju
    College of Engineering, Computing and Applied Sciences
  82. 82
    Wolf, Aaron T.
    Oregon State University
  83. 83
    Bouwer, Herman M.
    USDA ARS US Water Conservation Lab
  84. 84
    Whittington, Dale
    UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health
  85. 85
    Pavlostathis, Spyros G.
    College of Engineering
  86. 86
    Sadegh, Mojtaba
    College of Engineering
  87. 87
    Zhang, Xuesong
    USDA ARS Beltsville Agricultural Research Center
  88. 88
    Grigg, Neil S.
    Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering
  89. 89
    Gorelick, Steven M.
    Stanford University
  90. 90
    Garciá, Marcelo Horacio
    The Grainger College of Engineering
  91. 91
    Constantinescu, S. G.
    University of Iowa
  92. 92
    Adams, Ellis Adjei
    University of Notre Dame
  93. 93
    Konikow, Leonard F.
    Leonard Konikow Hydrogeologist
  94. 94
    Clow, David W.
    United States Geological Survey
  95. 95
    Tokunaga, Tetsu K.
    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  96. 96
    Winter, Thomas C.
    United States Geological Survey Central Region
  97. 97
    Hanif Chaudhry, M.
    Molinaroli College of Engineering and Computing
  98. 98
    Li, Li
    Penn State College of Engineering
  99. 99
    McCarty, Perry L.
    Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
  100. 100
    Costa, John E.
    USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory

348 listed scientists in Environmental 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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