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Top institutions in the United States for Food Science

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

160 researchers in the United States whose main subfield is Food Science are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 0.2% of all listed authors in the United States, and 2nd of 86 countries in the subfield. 106 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). University of Massachusetts Amherst has the most (9), followed by University of California, Davis (9) and Cornell University (6). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors
160
0.2% of all in the United States
In the global top 100,000
106
66.3% of them
Country rank in the subfield
#2
of 86 countries in Food Science
Highest-ranked
#14
McClements, David Julian
#InstitutionListed authorsTop 100kRank worldwideHighest-ranked author
1University of Massachusetts Amherst97#28McClements, David Julian #14
2University of California, Davis96#31Crozier, Alan A. #31,518
3Cornell University64#58Liu, Ruihai #1,650
4University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign64#71Kamruzzaman, M. #33,205
5USDA ARS Eastern Regional Research Center64#72Fan, Xuetong F. #35,466
6College of Agriculture54#79Liceaga-Gesualdo, Andrea M. #9,737
7North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University54#85Ibrahim, Salam Adnan #22,222
8Texas A&M University53#87Belwal, Tarun #34,193
9Department of Food Science44#100Ho, Chitang #6,055
10University of Arkansas41#102Prior, Ronald L. #7,160
11University of Wisconsin-Madison44#114Damodaran, Srinivasan #21,851
12NC State University44#120Drake, Maryanne #28,800
13The Ohio State University44#135Hatzakis, Emmanuel #64,114
14University of Nebraska–Lincoln40#140Taylor, Steve L. #103,701
15University of Missouri32#146Boateng, Isaac Duah #8,005
16Kansas State University33#150Awika, Joseph M. #11,502
17University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine32#152Penning, Trevor Martin #13,196
18Iowa State University32#158Jane, Jay Lin #17,943
19Washington State University Pullman32#174Sablani, Shyam S. #30,798
20Oregon State University32#176Zhao, Yanyun #31,219
21North Dakota State University32#178Rao, Jiajia #32,162
22University of Minnesota Twin Cities31#202Labuza, Theodore P. #64,617
23LSU Agricultural Center30#218Prinyawiwatkul, Witoon #106,847

The top 100 in Food Science in the United States, in order

  1. 1
    McClements, David Julian
    University of Massachusetts Amherst
  2. 2
    Punia Bangar, Sneh
    Rochester Institute of Technology
  3. 3
    Friedman, Mendel M.
    USDA ARS Western Regional Research Center (WRRC)
  4. 4
    Liu, Ruihai
    Cornell University
  5. 5
    Xiong, Youling
    University of Kentucky
  6. 6
    Luo, Yangchao
    University of Connecticut
  7. 7
    Ho, Chitang
    Department of Food Science
  8. 8
    Wu, Felicia
    Michigan State University
  9. 9
    Casida, John E.
    University of California, Berkeley
  10. 10
    Prior, Ronald L.
    University of Arkansas
  11. 11
    Boateng, Isaac Duah
    University of Missouri
  12. 12
    Decker, Eric Andrew
    University of Massachusetts Amherst
  13. 13
    Liceaga-Gesualdo, Andrea M.
    College of Agriculture
  14. 14
    Awika, Joseph M.
    Kansas State University
  15. 15
    Penning, Trevor Martin
    University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
  16. 16
    Grossmann, Lutz
    University of Massachusetts Amherst
  17. 17
    Hamaker, Bruce Rankin
    College of Agriculture
  18. 18
    Peleg, Micha
    University of Massachusetts Amherst
  19. 19
    Jane, Jay Lin
    Iowa State University
  20. 20
    Regenstein, Joe Mac
    Cornell University
  21. 21
    Seeram, Navindra P.
    College of Pharmacy
  22. 22
    Tang, Juming
    UW College of Engineering
  23. 23
    Damodaran, Srinivasan
    University of Wisconsin-Madison
  24. 24
    Ibrahim, Salam Adnan
    North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
  25. 25
    Burdock, George A.
    Burdock Group Consultants
  26. 26
    Gunasekaran, Sundaram
    University of Wisconsin-Madison
  27. 27
    Huang, Qingrong
    Department of Food Science
  28. 28
    Datta, Ashim Kumar
    Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering
  29. 29
    Yu, Liangli (Lucy)
    University of Maryland, College Park
  30. 30
    Drake, Maryanne
    NC State University
  31. 31
    Sablani, Shyam S.
    Washington State University Pullman
  32. 32
    Zhao, Yanyun
    Oregon State University
  33. 33
    Cardello, Armand V.
    A.V. Cardello Consulting and Editing Services
  34. 34
    Crozier, Alan A.
    University of California, Davis
  35. 35
    Rao, Jiajia
    North Dakota State University
  36. 36
    Guo, Mingruo
    The University of Vermont
  37. 37
    Kamruzzaman, M.
    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  38. 38
    Gonzalez de Mejia, Elvira
    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  39. 39
    Chen, Bingcan
    North Dakota State University
  40. 40
    Belwal, Tarun
    Texas A&M University
  41. 41
    Fan, Xuetong F.
    USDA ARS Eastern Regional Research Center
  42. 42
    Kinsella, John E.
    Cornell University
  43. 43
    Wrolstad, Ronald E.
    Oregon State University
  44. 44
    Foegeding, Edward Allen
    NC State University
  45. 45
    Schaich, Karen M.
    Department of Food Science
  46. 46
    Lila, Mary Ann
    NC State University
  47. 47
    Cisneros-Zevallos, Luis A.
    Texas A&M University
  48. 48
    Sang, Shengmin
    North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
  49. 49
    Xiao, Hang
    University of Massachusetts Amherst
  50. 50
    Hartel, Richard W.
    University of Wisconsin-Madison
  51. 51
    Niemira, Brendan A.
    USDA ARS Eastern Regional Research Center
  52. 52
    Ferruzzi, Mario G.
    NC State University
  53. 53
    Bolling, Bradley W.
    University of Wisconsin-Madison
  54. 54
    Lordan, Ronan
    University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
  55. 55
    Lin, Mengshi
    University of Missouri
  56. 56
    Li, Yonghui
    Kansas State University
  57. 57
    Zhong, Qixin
    The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
  58. 58
    Lee, Jungmin
    United States Department of Agriculture
  59. 59
    Api, Anne Marie
    Research Institute for Fragrance Materials, Inc.
  60. 60
    Zhou, Kequan Kevin
    Wayne State University
  61. 61
    Chambers, Edgar
    Kansas State University
  62. 62
    Meiselman, Herbert L.
    Herb Meiselman Training and Consulting
  63. 63
    Lamsal, Buddhi P.
    Iowa State University
  64. 64
    Waterhouse, Andrew L.
    University of California, Davis
  65. 65
    Feng, Hao
    North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
  66. 66
    Jin, Tony Z.
    USDA ARS Eastern Regional Research Center
  67. 67
    Shibamoto, Takayushi Yuki
    University of California, Davis
  68. 68
    Brewer, Mary Susan
    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  69. 69
    Akoh, Casimir C.
    College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Athens Campus
  70. 70
    Hatzakis, Emmanuel
    The Ohio State University
  71. 71
    Labuza, Theodore P.
    University of Minnesota Twin Cities
  72. 72
    Singleton, Vernon L.
    University of California, Davis
  73. 73
  74. 74
    Pan, Zhongli J.
    Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering
  75. 75
    Giusti, M. Mónica
    The Ohio State University
  76. 76
    Ross, Carolyn Felicity
    Washington State University
  77. 77
    Huang, Lihan
    USDA ARS Eastern Regional Research Center
  78. 78
    Islam, Shahidul
    University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff
  79. 79
    Singh, Rajinder Paul
    University of California, Davis
  80. 80
    Torrico, Damir Dennis
    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  81. 81
    Sathe, Shridhar Shridhar
    Florida State University
  82. 82
    Kokini, Jozef L.
    College of Agriculture
  83. 83
    Liu, Zhigang
    Cornell University
  84. 84
    Liu, Keshun
    USDA ARS Small Grains and Potato Germplasm Research Unit
  85. 85
  86. 86
    Jones, Owen Griffith
    College of Agriculture
  87. 87
    Yu, Jianmei
    North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
  88. 88
    Abbaspourrad, Alireza
    Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
  89. 89
    Sastry, Sudhir K.
    The Ohio State University
  90. 90
    Gu, Liwei
    University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences
  91. 91
    Barbosa-Cánovas, Gustavo Victor
    Washington State University Pullman
  92. 92
    Kong, Lingyan
    Department of Human Nutrition, Hospitality and Sport Management
  93. 93
    Yam, Kit L.
    Department of Food Science
  94. 94
    Ramachandraiah, Karna
    University of North Florida
  95. 95
    Park, Yeonhwa
    University of Massachusetts Amherst
  96. 96
    Şimşek, Şenay
    Purdue University
  97. 97
    Belsito, Donald Vincent
    Columbia University Irving Medical Center
  98. 98
    Luthria, Devanand L.
    USDA Agricultural Research Service
  99. 99
    Suh, Joon Hyuk
    University of Georgia
  100. 100
    Balasubramaniam, V. M.
    The University of Georgia Griffin Campus

160 listed scientists in Food Science 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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