Top institutions in the United States for Fluids & Plasmas

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Which institutions in the United States have the most top-cited scientists in Fluids & Plasmas?

417 researchers in the United States whose main subfield is Fluids & Plasmas are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 0.6% of all listed authors in the United States, and 1st of 58 countries in the subfield. 226 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has the most (17), followed by General Atomics (15) and University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (13). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors

417

0.6% of all in the United States

In the global top 100,000

226

54.2% of them

Country rank in the subfield

of 58 countries in Fluids & Plasmas

Highest-ranked

#30

Newman, Mark E.J.

#	Institution	Listed authors	Top 100k	Rank worldwide	Highest-ranked author
1	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	17	8	#2	Zhou, Ye #14,468
2	General Atomics	15	6	#4	Rosenbluth, Marshall N. #20,920
3	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	13	8	#6	Newman, Mark E.J. #30
4	Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory	10	1	#7	White, R.B B. #93,335
5	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	9	6	#9	Bourouiba, Lydia #22,126
6	Los Alamos National Laboratory	9	3	#10	Daughton, William S. #53,893
7	Princeton University	8	4	#11	Torquato, Salvatore #3,061
8	College of Engineering	8	2	#14	Borazjani, Iman #77,680
9	Northeastern University	7	4	#15	Barabási, Albert Lásló #115
10	University of California, San Diego	7	4	#17	Miles, John W. #25,463
11	The University of Texas at Austin	7	4	#19	Moser, Robert D. #37,994
12	MIT School of Engineering	6	4	#22	Anderson, Daniel G. #2,351
13	Cornell University College of Engineering	6	4	#23	Williamson, Charles H.K. #2,397
14	California Institute of Technology	6	5	#25	Saffman, Philip G. #8,923
15	College of Science	6	3	#27	Zakharov, Vladimir E. #9,534
16	University of California, Los Angeles	6	5	#29	Mason, Thomas G. #18,011
17	Johns Hopkins University	6	4	#32	Phillips, Owen M. #32,464
18	University of Rochester Laboratory for Laser Energetics	6	2	#34	Betti, Riccardo #41,077
19	Plasma Science and Fusion Center	6	1	#38	Greenwald, M. J. #52,792
20	School of Engineering and Applied Science	5	5	#40	Stone, Howard A. #1,770
21	Whiting School of Engineering	5	4	#42	Meneveau, Charles #6,414
22	The James Franck Institute	5	4	#47	Jaeger, Heinrich M. #19,389
23	California Institute of Technology Division of Engineering and Applied Science	5	3	#49	Dabiri, John O. #23,373
24	Stanford Engineering	5	4	#50	McKeon, Beverley J. #35,194
25	Santa Fe Institute	4	3	#63	Redner, Sidney #22,565
26	Northwestern University	4	2	#68	Nunes Amaral, Luís A. #35,798
27	University of Iowa	4	3	#72	Merlino, Robert L. #50,269
28	University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences	4	4	#73	Lubensky, Tom C. #50,386
29	Cornell University	3	2	#79	Strogatz, Steven H. #635
30	Yale University	3	3	#84	Mandelbrot, Benoît B. #7,279
31	College of Computer, Mathematical, & Natural Sciences	3	3	#85	Jarzyński, Christopher #10,998
32	The Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics at University of Maryland	3	2	#86	Ott, Edward #12,503
33	Pennsylvania State University	3	2	#89	Aranson, Igor S. #20,593
34	UCLA Samueli School of Engineering	3	2	#92	Kim, John Y. #25,468
35	Columbia University	3	2	#94	Boozer, Allen H. #26,215
36	University of Massachusetts Amherst	3	2	#97	Kevrekidis, Panagiotis G. #30,658
37	College of Science and Engineering	3	2	#99	Joseph, Daniel D. #41,053
38	Syracuse University	3	1	#103	Manning, M. Lisa #51,684
39	University of Maryland, College Park	3	2	#107	Pecora, Louis M. #58,046
40	Michigan Engineering	3	2	#109	Ziff, Robert M. #60,569
41	College of Arts & Sciences	3	2	#113	Krapivsky, Paul L. #71,904
42	School of Engineering	3	1	#114	Petersen, Alexander Michael #72,843
43	USC Viterbi School of Engineering	3	1	#115	Campbell, Charles S. #84,337
44	Georgia Institute of Technology	3	2	#116	Wiesenfeld, Kurt A. #85,258
45	Rockefeller University	3	0	#122	Magnasco, Marcelo O. #154,079

The top 100 in Fluids & Plasmas in the United States, in order

1
Newman, Mark E.J.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
2
Barabási, Albert Lásló
Northeastern University
3
Strogatz, Steven H.
Cornell University
4
Brunton, Steven L.
UW College of Engineering
5
Stanley, H. Eugene
Boston University
6
Fortunato, Santo
Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering
7
Stone, Howard A.
School of Engineering and Applied Science
8
Anderson, Daniel G.
MIT School of Engineering
9
Williamson, Charles H.K.
Cornell University College of Engineering
10
Hoover, William Graham
Ruby Valley Research Institute
11
Torquato, Salvatore
Princeton University
12
Vespignani, Alessandro
Northeastern University
13
Vinuesa, Ricardo
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
14
Adrian, Ronald J.
Arizona State University
15
Meneveau, Charles
Whiting School of Engineering
16
Mandelbrot, Benoît B.
Yale University
17
Rowley, Clarence W.
School of Engineering and Applied Science
18
Sreenivasan, Katepalli R.
NYU Tandon School of Engineering
19
Prosperetti, Andrea
University of Houston
20
Saffman, Philip G.
California Institute of Technology
21
Sprott, Julien Clinton
College of Letters & Science
22
Zakharov, Vladimir E.
College of Science
23
Smits, Alexander J.
Princeton University
24
Laroussi, Mounir
Old Dominion University
25
Crooks, Gavin E.
Berkeley Institute for Data Science
26
Jarzyński, Christopher
College of Computer, Mathematical, & Natural Sciences
27
Orszag, Steven A.
Yale University
28
Onnela, Jukka Pekka J.
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
29
Ott, Edward
The Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics at University of Maryland
30
Lebowitz, Joel L.
Rutgers University
31
Zhou, Ye
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
32
Shi, Jinjun
Harvard Medical School
33
Hussain, Fazle
Texas Tech University
34
Mittal, Rajat
Whiting School of Engineering
35
Radicchi, Filippo
Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering
36
Bialek, William S.
The Graduate Center
37
Langer, James S.
Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics
38
Mason, Thomas G.
University of California, Los Angeles
39
Nelson, David R.
Harvard University
40
Durbin, Paul A.
Iowa State University
41
Ladd, Anthony J.C.
Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering
42
Jaeger, Heinrich M.
The James Franck Institute
43
Marchetti, Maria Cristina
University of California, Santa Barbara
44
Mahesh, Krishnan
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
45
Schultz, Michael P.
US Naval Academy
46
Aranson, Igor S.
Pennsylvania State University
47
Lai, Yingcheng
Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering
48
Rosenbluth, Marshall N.
General Atomics
49
Bourouiba, Lydia
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
50
Mahadevan, Lakshminarayana
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
51
Eyink, Gregory L.
Whiting School of Engineering
52
Redner, Sidney
Santa Fe Institute
53
Brady, J.F F.
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
54
Dabiri, John O.
California Institute of Technology Division of Engineering and Applied Science
55
Balachandar, Sivaramakrishnan R.
University of Florida
56
Lumley, John L.
Cornell University College of Engineering
57
Deffner, Sebastian
University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
58
Nagel, Sidney R.
The Enrico Fermi Institute
59
Miles, John W.
University of California, San Diego
60
Kim, John Y.
UCLA Samueli School of Engineering
61
Morris, Jeffrey F.
The Grove School of Engineering
62
Ivanov, Plamen Ch
Boston University
63
Boozer, Allen H.
Columbia University
64
Bush, John W.M.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
65
Kadanoff, Leo P.
The James Franck Institute
66
Deutsch, Joshua M.
University of California, Santa Cruz
67
Longuet-Higgins, Michael S.
University of California, San Diego
68
San, Omer
Oklahoma State University
69
Kevrekidis, Panagiotis G.
University of Massachusetts Amherst
70
Holmes, Philip J.
Princeton University
71
Brenner, Howard
MIT School of Engineering
72
Shelley, Michael J.
Simons Foundation
73
Phillips, Owen M.
Johns Hopkins University
74
Carroll, Thomas L.
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
75
Brenner, Michael P.
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
76
Makse, Hernán A.A.
City College of New York
77
Kaup, David J.
University of Central Florida
78
Crutchfield, James P.
University of California, Davis
79
McKeon, Beverley J.
Stanford Engineering
80
Lindl, John D.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
81
Kamrin, Ken
MIT School of Engineering
82
Nunes Amaral, Luís A.
Northwestern University
83
Masuda, Naoki
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
84
Taira, Kunihiko
UCLA Samueli School of Engineering
85
Deike, Luc
School of Engineering and Applied Science
86
Moser, Robert D.
The University of Texas at Austin
87
Porter, Mason A.
University of California, Los Angeles
88
Graham, Michael D.
UW-Madison College of Engineering
89
Motter, Adilson E.
Northwestern University
90
Ottino, Julio Mario
Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems
91
Ceccio, Steven L.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
92
Horowitz, Jordan M.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
93
Sader, John Elie
California Institute of Technology
94
Joseph, Daniel D.
College of Science and Engineering
95
González, Marta C. C.
University of California, Berkeley
96
Betti, Riccardo
University of Rochester Laboratory for Laser Energetics
97
Wu, Fa Yueh
Northeastern University
98
Maxey, Martin R.
Brown University
99
Morrison, Philip J.
The University of Texas at Austin
100
Wyart, Matthieu
Johns Hopkins University

417 listed scientists in Fluids & Plasmas in the United States

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