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

281 researchers in the United States whose main subfield is Environmental Sciences are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 0.4% of all listed authors in the United States, and 2nd of 87 countries in the subfield. 230 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). College of Engineering has the most (14), followed by United States Environmental Protection Agency (10) and University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (6). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors
281
0.4% of all in the United States
In the global top 100,000
230
81.9% of them
Country rank in the subfield
#2
of 87 countries in Environmental Sciences
Highest-ranked
#316
Elimelech, Menachem
#InstitutionListed authorsTop 100kRank worldwideHighest-ranked author
1College of Engineering1412#18Miller, Sabbie A. #5,880
2United States Environmental Protection Agency108#33Daughton, Christian G. #21,524
3University of Michigan, Ann Arbor65#76Keoleian, Gregory A. #22,054
4United States Geological Survey53#111Nassar, Nedal T. #55,189
5University of California, Santa Barbara44#116Geyer, Roland #1,601
6Yale University43#118Graedel, Thomas E. #3,797
7Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering44#120Halden, Rolf U. #7,428
8Stanford University44#128Fendorf, Scott E. #14,031
9Duke University43#139Vengosh, Avner #26,011
10University of California, Riverside41#152Schlenk, Daniel K. #67,951
11Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station33#177Dimkpa, Christian O. #7,417
12University of Delaware33#180Sparks, Donald Lewis #9,788
13Michigan State University32#186Bhatt, Pankaj #11,156
14Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University32#189Vikesland, Peter J. #13,417
15Arizona State University33#199Mojiri, Amin #21,766
16Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering32#204Boehm, Alexandria B. #25,169
17Washington University in St. Louis32#205He, Z. (Jason) #25,817
18Oregon State University32#219Liu, Hong #36,139
19Texas A&M University31#231Güneralp, Burak #42,440

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

  1. 1
    Elimelech, Menachem
    Rice University
  2. 2
    Logan, Bruce E.
    Penn State College of Engineering
  3. 3
    Sharma, Virender K.
    University of Miami
  4. 4
    Geyer, Roland
    University of California, Santa Barbara
  5. 5
    Kannan, Kurunthachalam
    Wadsworth Center for Laboratories and Research
  6. 6
    de Vries, Wim H.
    Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
  7. 7
    Xing, Baoshan
    University of Massachusetts Amherst
  8. 8
    Richardson, Susan D.
    University of South Carolina
  9. 9
    Lavender, Kara L.
    Sea Education Association
  10. 10
    Graedel, Thomas E.
    Yale University
  11. 11
    Gao, Bin
    Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  12. 12
    Brusseau, Mark L.
    College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
  13. 13
    Miller, Sabbie A.
    College of Engineering
  14. 14
    Eckelman, Matthew J.
    College of Engineering
  15. 15
    Ighalo, Joshua O.
    Kansas State University
  16. 16
    Lin, Shihong
    Vanderbilt University
  17. 17
    Dimkpa, Christian O.
    Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station
  18. 18
    Halden, Rolf U.
    Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering
  19. 19
    Keller, Arturo A.
    University of California, Santa Barbara
  20. 20
    Zimmerman, Andrew R.
    University of Florida
  21. 21
    Sunderland, Elsie M.
    Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
  22. 22
    XIAO, Feng
    University of Missouri
  23. 23
    White, Jason C.
    Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station
  24. 24
    Zhang, Wen
    Newark College of Engineering
  25. 25
    Sedlak, David L.
    Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
  26. 26
    Sparks, Donald Lewis
    University of Delaware
  27. 27
    Westerhoff, Paul K.
    Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering
  28. 28
    Pignatello, Joseph J.
    Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station
  29. 29
    Deng, Yang
    Montclair State University
  30. 30
    Nriagu, Jerome Okon
    University of Michigan School of Public Health
  31. 31
    Bhatt, Pankaj
    Michigan State University
  32. 32
    Hoffmann, Michael R.
    California Institute of Technology
  33. 33
    Pruden, Amy J.
    Virginia Tech College of Engineering
  34. 34
    Lohmann, Rainer
    University of Rhode Island
  35. 35
    Suh, Sangwon
    University of California, Santa Barbara
  36. 36
    Burger, Joanna
    Rutgers University–New Brunswick
  37. 37
    Tansel, Berrin
    FIU College of Engineering and Computing
  38. 38
    Vikesland, Peter J.
    Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
  39. 39
    Fendorf, Scott E.
    Stanford University
  40. 40
    Liu, Yang
    Rollins School of Public Health
  41. 41
    Alvarez, Pedro J.J.
    George R. Brown School of Engineering and Computing
  42. 42
    Oladoye, Peter Olusakin
    Florida International University
  43. 43
    Crittenden, John Charles
    College of Engineering
  44. 44
    Lowry, Gregory Victor
    College of Engineering
  45. 45
    Chertow, Marian R.
    Yale University
  46. 46
    Ren, Zhiyong Jason
    Princeton University
  47. 47
    Dembetembe, Gift Garikai
    University of Maine
  48. 48
    Gardea-Torresdey, Jorge Luis
    The University of Texas at El Paso
  49. 49
    Garcia-Segura, Sergi
    Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering
  50. 50
    Marshall, Julian D.
    UW College of Engineering
  51. 51
    McBride, Murray B.
    Cornell University
  52. 52
    Mensah, Justice Tei
    The World Bank, USA
  53. 53
    Salehi, Maryam
    College of Engineering
  54. 54
    Flury, Markus
    Washington State University
  55. 55
    Higgins, Christopher P.
    Colorado School of Mines
  56. 56
    Daughton, Christian G.
    United States Environmental Protection Agency
  57. 57
    Mojiri, Amin
    Arizona State University
  58. 58
    Keoleian, Gregory A.
    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  59. 59
    Remucal, Christina Keenan
    University of Wisconsin-Madison
  60. 60
    Batterman, Stuart A.
    University of Michigan School of Public Health
  61. 61
    Mitch, William A.
    Stanford University
  62. 62
    Kendall, Alissa M.
    College of Engineering
  63. 63
    Brooks, Bryan W.
    Baylor University
  64. 64
    Kim, Jaehong
    Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science
  65. 65
    Olivetti, Elsa A.
    MIT School of Engineering
  66. 66
    Boehm, Alexandria B.
    Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
  67. 67
    He, Z. (Jason)
    Washington University in St. Louis
  68. 68
    Vengosh, Avner
    Duke University
  69. 69
    Mueller, Nathaniel D.
    Warner College of Natural Resources
  70. 70
    Hites, Ronald A.
    Indiana University Bloomington
  71. 71
    Pankow, James F.
    Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science
  72. 72
    Rao, Narasimha D.
    Yale University
  73. 73
    Guo, Mingxin
    Delaware State University
  74. 74
    Eakin, Hallie C.
    Arizona State University
  75. 75
    Kumar, Rakesh
    Auburn University
  76. 76
    Buck, Robert C.
    The Chemours Company
  77. 77
    He, Zhenli
    University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences
  78. 78
    Roberts, J. Timmons
    Institute at Brown for Environment and Society
  79. 79
    Jambeck, Jenna R.
    University of Georgia
  80. 80
    Linkov, Igor I.
    U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center
  81. 81
    Zhang, Huichun
    Case Western Reserve University
  82. 82
    Mason, Robert Peter
    University of Connecticut Avery Point Campus
  83. 83
    Burney, Jennifer Anne
    Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability
  84. 84
    Horvath, Arpad
    Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
  85. 85
    Gleick, Peter H.
    Pacific Institute for Studies in Development
  86. 86
    Li, Simeng
    California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
  87. 87
    Gibbs, Ronald J.
    University of Delaware
  88. 88
    Hill, Jason D.
    Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering
  89. 89
    Brauman, Kate A.
    Alabama Water Institute
  90. 90
    Strathmann, Timothy J.
    Colorado School of Mines
  91. 91
    Stapleton, Heather M.
    Duke University
  92. 92
    Arnold, William A.
    College of Science and Engineering
  93. 93
    Kates, Robert W.
    Clark University
  94. 94
    Pichtel, John R.
    Ball State University
  95. 95
    Huisingh, Donald
    Tickle College of Engineering
  96. 96
    Liu, Hong
    Oregon State University
  97. 97
    Marr, Linsey C.
    Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
  98. 98
    Zimmerman, Julie Beth
    Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science
  99. 99
    Scown, Corinne Donahue
    University of California, Berkeley
  100. 100
    Ma, Xingmao
    College of Engineering

281 listed scientists in Environmental Sciences 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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