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

204 researchers in the United States whose main subfield is Fisheries are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 0.3% of all listed authors in the United States, and 1st of 53 countries in the subfield. 51 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). College of the Environment has the most (8), followed by University of California, Davis (7) and Oregon State University (5). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors

204

0.3% of all in the United States

In the global top 100,000

25.0% of them

Country rank in the subfield

of 53 countries in Fisheries

Highest-ranked

#1,774

Bennett, Nathan J.

#	Institution	Listed authors	Top 100k	Rank worldwide	Highest-ranked author
1	College of the Environment	8	4	#8	Hilborn, Ray #10,684
2	University of California, Davis	7	3	#12	Alfaro, Andrea C. #61,146
3	Oregon State University	5	1	#27	Schreck, Carl B. #95,458
4	United States Geological Survey	5	0	#31	Lynch, Abigail J. #136,758
5	Auburn University	4	2	#33	Boyd, Claude Elson #4,009
6	University of Florida	4	2	#34	Asche, Frank #10,874
7	NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center	4	1	#35	Thorson, James T. #13,091
8	Stony Brook University	4	1	#43	Chen, Yong #79,261
9	NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center	4	0	#46	Cope, Jason Marc #115,783
10	Virginia Institute of Marine Science	4	0	#47	Musick, John A.Jack #148,842
11	Mississippi State University	4	0	#52	Miranda, L. E. #186,848
12	NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service	3	1	#59	Link, Jason S. #18,838
13	University of Idaho	3	2	#61	Hardy, Ronald W. #22,720
14	NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service Southwest Regional Office	3	1	#64	Mantua, Nathan J. #48,438
15	NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service Northeast Fisheries Science Center	3	1	#69	Hare, Jonathan A. #69,652
16	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	3	1	#73	Castello, Leandro #85,561
17	University of California, Santa Barbara	3	1	#74	Froehlich, Halley E. #89,549
18	University of Washington	3	1	#76	Hilborn, Ray W. #98,830
19	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution	3	0	#79	Fogarty, Michael J. #114,001
20	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	3	0	#80	Scavia, Donald #122,352
21	University of Alaska Fairbanks	3	0	#97	Mueter, Franz Josef #222,522

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

1
Bennett, Nathan J.
World Wildlife Fund
2
Boyd, Claude Elson
Auburn University
3
Hilborn, Ray
College of the Environment
4
Asche, Frank
University of Florida
5
Thorson, James T.
NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center
6
Patterson, David A.
Google LLC
7
Punt, André Eric
College of the Environment
8
Lightner, Donald V.
The University of Arizona
9
Link, Jason S.
NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service
10
Hardy, Ronald W.
University of Idaho
11
Lorenzen, Kai
University of Florida
12
McCormick, Stephen D.
University of Massachusetts Amherst
13
Rahel, Frank J.
University of Wyoming
14
Bakun, Andrew
Andrew Bakun Ocean Science
15
Gilman, Eric L.
Fisheries Research Group
16
Cortés, Enric
Florida State University
17
Belton, Ben
Michigan State University
18
Gatlin, Delbert Monroe
Texas A&M University
19
Romano, Nicholas
USDA Agricultural Research Service
20
Pomeroy, Robert S.
University of Connecticut Avery Point Campus
21
Cadrin, Steven X.
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
22
Quinn, Thomas P.
College of the Environment
23
Secor, David Hallock
University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
24
Mantua, Nathan J.
NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service Southwest Regional Office
25
Lewis, William M.
University of Colorado Boulder
26
Fausch, Kurt D.
Warner College of Natural Resources
27
Alfaro, Andrea C.
University of California, Davis
28
Smith, Martin D.
Duke University
29
Branch, Trevor A.
College of the Environment
30
Barton, Bruce A.
University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
31
Klimley, Abbott Peter
University of California, Davis
32
Kumar, Vikas A.
Bowling Green State University
33
Hare, Jonathan A.
NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service Northeast Fisheries Science Center
34
Summerfelt, Steven T.
LLC
35
Maunder, Mark N.
Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission
36
Limburg, Karin E.
SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
37
Davis, Donald Allen
Auburn University
38
Chen, Yong
Stony Brook University
39
Wurtsbaugh, Wayne A.
Utah State University
40
Moyle, Peter B.
University of California, Davis
41
Sydeman, William J.
Farallon Institute
42
Engle, Carole Ruth
Engle-Stone Aquatic$ LLC
43
Castello, Leandro
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
44
Conover, David O.
University of Oregon
45
Midway, Stephen R.
Louisiana State University
46
Liu, Zhangjiang
Tennessee Technological University
47
Froehlich, Halley E.
University of California, Santa Barbara
48
Schreck, Carl B.
Oregon State University
49
Sarker, Pallab Kumer
University of California, Santa Cruz
50
Hilborn, Ray W.
University of Washington
51
Small, Brian C.
University of Idaho
52
Jensen, Olaf P.
University of Wisconsin-Madison
53
Murawski, Steven A.
University of South Florida St. Petersburg
54
Rose, Kenneth Alan
University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
55
Dunham, Rex A.
Auburn University
56
Christie, Patrick J.
University of Washington
57
Fogarty, Michael J.
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
58
Baumann, Hannes
University of Connecticut Avery Point Campus
59
Sørensen, Peter William
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
60
Cope, Jason Marc
NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center
61
Zohar, Yonathan
Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology
62
Cushing, David H.
Stony Brook University
63
Magnuson, John J.
University of Wisconsin-Madison
64
Scavia, Donald
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
65
Palti, Yniv
USDA Agricultural Research Service
66
Essington, Timothy E.
College of the Environment
67
Hecky, Robert E.
University of Minnesota Duluth
68
Suski, Cory D.
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
69
Castro-Santos, Theodore
Harvard University
70
Diana, James S.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
71
Motta, Philip Jay
University of South Florida, Tampa
72
Lynch, Abigail J.
United States Geological Survey
73
Pikitch, Ellen K.
Stony Brook University
74
Friedland, Kevin D.
NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service
75
Szuwalski, Cody S.
College of the Environment
76
Da̧browski, Konrad R.
The Ohio State University
77
Hughes, Robert Mason
Oregon State University
78
Tlusty, Michael F.
University of Massachusetts Boston
79
Musick, John A.Jack
Virginia Institute of Marine Science
80
Klesius, Phillip H.
USDA ARS Aquatic Animal Health Research Laboratory
81
Sinha, Amit Kumar
University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff
82
Hallerman, Eric M.
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
83
Rypel, Andrew Lee
University of California, Davis
84
Fujita, Rodney M.
Environmental Defense Fund
85
Free, Christopher M.
University of California, Santa Barbara
86
Brooks, Cassandra M.
University of Colorado Boulder
87
Tidwell, James H.
Kentucky State University
88
Murua, Hilario
International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF)
89
Angermeier, Paul L.
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
90
Dey, Madan M.
Texas State University
91
Sandifer, Paul A.
College of Charleston
92
Garlock, Taryn Marie
Auburn University
93
Allen, Standish K.
Virginia Institute of Marine Science
94
Gjerde, Kristina Maria
Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey
95
Tucker, Craig S.
USDA Agricultural Research Service, Stoneville
96
Koslow, Julian Anthony
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
97
Squires, Dale E.
University of California, San Diego
98
Habte-Tsion, Habte Michael
Kentucky State University
99
Beechie, Timothy J.
NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service Northwest Regional Office
100
Miranda, L. E.
Mississippi State University

204 listed scientists in Fisheries in the United States

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