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

376 researchers in the United States whose main subfield is General Chemistry 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 54 countries in the subfield. 97 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). Northwestern University has the most (22), followed by Stanford University (12) and Berkeley College of Chemistry (11). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors

376

0.5% of all in the United States

In the global top 100,000

25.8% of them

Country rank in the subfield

of 54 countries in General Chemistry

Highest-ranked

#73

Yaghi, Omar M.

#	Institution	Listed authors	Top 100k	Rank worldwide	Highest-ranked author
1	Northwestern University	22	9	#1	Wasielewski, Michael R. #3,457
2	Stanford University	12	1	#3	Trost, Barry M. #1,122
3	Berkeley College of Chemistry	11	3	#4	Hartwig, John F. #711
4	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	11	4	#5	Swager, Timothy M. #5,809
5	Cornell University	9	2	#7	Hoffmann, Roald #2,667
6	Princeton University	8	5	#10	MacMillan, David W.C. #780
7	University of California, Berkeley	7	2	#12	Yaghi, Omar M. #73
8	Columbia University	7	2	#13	Breslow, Ronald #6,781
9	Yale University	7	3	#14	Mayer, James M. #6,899
10	University of California, Irvine	7	2	#15	Taft, Robert W. #32,840
11	Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences	6	4	#19	Whitesides, G. M. #121
12	Texas A&M University	6	1	#20	Zhou, Hongcai Joe #2,192
13	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	6	3	#21	Suslick, Kenneth S. #2,548
14	International Institute for Nanotechnology	6	1	#22	Farha, Omar K. #3,416
15	Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering	6	2	#23	Fu, Gregory C. #4,607
16	University of California, San Diego	6	1	#25	Urey, Harold C. #35,026
17	The University of Chicago	6	0	#31	Anderson, John S. #255,618
18	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	5	3	#36	Zhang, Jian #63,211
19	University of California, Santa Barbara	4	2	#40	Pearson, Ralph G. #723
20	California Institute of Technology	4	4	#41	Pauling, Linus C. #1,795
21	University of California, Riverside	4	2	#46	Feng, Pingyun #52,165
22	College of Arts and Sciences	4	1	#50	Dempsey, Jillian L. #63,646
23	Carnegie Mellon University	4	1	#52	Collins, Terrence J. #99,974
24	NC State University	4	0	#57	Li, Xiaotong #133,113
25	University of Wisconsin-Madison	4	0	#61	Zimmerman, Howard E. #177,523
26	University of California, Los Angeles	3	1	#74	Cram, Donald J. #31,277
27	College of Science and Engineering	3	3	#75	Que, Lawrence #34,162
28	College of Liberal Arts and Sciences	3	2	#76	Dewar, Michael J.S. #50,724
29	University of Oregon	3	1	#78	Hutchison, James Evan #53,861
30	Washington University in St. Louis	3	1	#80	Zheng, Zhiling #64,206
31	The Ohio State University	3	1	#82	Brus̈chweiler, Rafael P. #80,122
32	College of Natural Sciences	3	1	#83	Rapṕe, Anthony K. #82,622
33	DuPont	3	0	#92	Pedersen, Charles J. #160,534
34	Georgia Institute of Technology	3	0	#104	Schuster, Gary B.A. #320,387
35	Merck & Co., Inc.	3	0	#105	Crossley, Steven W.M. #324,686
36	Iowa State University	3	0	#110	Rundle, Robert E. #405,501

The top 100 in General Chemistry in the United States, in order

1
Yaghi, Omar M.
University of California, BerkeleyNobel laureate
2
Whitesides, G. M.
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
3
Hartwig, John F.
Berkeley College of Chemistry
4
Pearson, Ralph G.
University of California, Santa Barbara
5
MacMillan, David W.C.
Princeton UniversityNobel laureate
6
Trost, Barry M.
Stanford University
7
Flory, Paul J.
IBM Research - AlmadenNobel laureate
8
Pauling, Linus C.
California Institute of TechnologyNobel laureate
9
Nocera, Daniel G.
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
10
Zhou, Hongcai Joe
Texas A&M University
11
Kollman, Peter A.
University of California, San Francisco
12
Suslick, Kenneth S.
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
13
Hoffmann, Roald
Cornell UniversityNobel laureate
14
Coates, Geoffrey W.
Cornell University
15
Farha, Omar K.
International Institute for Nanotechnology
16
Wasielewski, Michael R.
Northwestern University
17
Chang, Christopher J.
Princeton University
18
Fu, Gregory C.
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
19
Swager, Timothy M.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
20
Breslow, Ronald
Columbia University
21
Mayer, James M.
Yale University
22
Marks, Tobin J.
Northwestern University
23
Solomon, Edward I.
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
24
Furukawa, Hiroyasu
Berkeley College of Chemistry
25
Hupp, Joseph T. T.
Northwestern University
26
Hehre, Warren J.
Wavefunction, Inc.
27
Gray, Harry B.
California Institute of Technology
28
Wiberg, Kenneth B.
Yale University
29
Long, Jeffrey R.
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
30
Dincă, Mircea
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
31
Lippard, Stephen J.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
32
Lu, Yi
The University of Texas at Austin
33
Doyle, Abigail G.
Princeton University
34
Bergman, Robert G.
Berkeley College of Chemistry
35
Haddon, Robert C.
Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering
36
Groves, John T.
Princeton University
37
Gellman, Samuel H.
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Chemistry
38
Cram, Donald J.
University of California, Los AngelesNobel laureate
39
Rosi, Nathaniel L.
University of Pittsburgh
40
Taft, Robert W.
University of California, Irvine
41
Weiss, Emily Allyn
Northwestern University
42
Que, Lawrence
College of Science and Engineering
43
Peters, Jonas C.
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
44
Urey, Harold C.
University of California, San DiegoNobel laureate
45
Dean Toste, F.
University of California, Berkeley
46
Chapman, Karena W.
Stony Brook University
47
Dichtel, William R.
Northwestern University
48
Mirica, Katherine A.
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
49
Holland, Patrick L.
Yale University
50
Huggins, Maurice L.
Arcadia Institute for Scientific Research
51
Surendranath, Yogesh
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
52
Guan, Zhibin
University of California, Irvine
53
White, Maria Christina
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
54
Feng, Dawei
UW-Madison College of Engineering
55
Bordwell, Frederick G.B.
Northwestern University
56
Feng, Liang
Northwestern University
57
Barton, Jacqueline K.
California Institute of Technology
58
Dewar, Michael J.S.
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
59
Etter, Margaret C.
College of Science and Engineering
60
Feng, Pingyun
University of California, Riverside
61
Diercks, Christian S.
Scripps Research Institute
62
Hutchison, James Evan
University of Oregon
63
Schrauzer, Gerhard Norbert
Biological Trace Element Research Institute
64
Sen, Ayusman
Penn State College of Engineering
65
Knowles, Robert R.
Princeton University
66
Craig, Stephen L.
Duke University
67
Mason, Jarad A.
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
68
Jencks, William P.
Brandeis University
69
Zink, Jeffrey I.
California NanoSystems Institute
70
Butler, Alison
University of California, Santa Barbara
71
Hoffman, Brian M.
Northwestern University
72
Zhang, Jian
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
73
Dempsey, Jillian L.
College of Arts and Sciences
74
Zheng, Zhiling
Washington University in St. Louis
75
Karlín, Kenneth D.
Johns Hopkins University
76
Zuckermann, Ronald N.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
77
Rajca, Andrzej
University of Nebraska–Lincoln
78
Zeng, Chenjie
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
79
Porter, Ned A.
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
80
Park, Jihye
College of Science and Engineering
81
Hartgerink, Jeffrey D.
George R. Brown School of Engineering and Computing
82
Yano, Junko
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
83
Wang, Kunyu
University of Pennsylvania
84
Brus̈chweiler, Rafael P.
The Ohio State University
85
Rossini, Aaron J.
Ames Laboratory
86
Rapṕe, Anthony K.
College of Natural Sciences
87
Burrows, Cynthia J.
The University of Utah
88
Richard, John P.
University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
89
Oldfield, Eric
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
90
Reed, Christopher A.
University of California, Riverside
91
Arduengo, Anthony Joseph Iii
Renewable Bioproducts Institute
92
Evans, Austin M.
Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering
93
Kahne, Daniel E.
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
94
Kirlikovali, Kent O.
Northwestern University
95
Steigerwald, Michael L.
Columbia University
96
Winkler, Jay R.R.
California Institute of Technology
97
Collins, Terrence J.
Carnegie Mellon University
98
Collman, James P.
Stanford University
99
Menger, Frederic M.
Emory University
100
Shustova, Natalia B.
University of South Carolina

376 listed scientists in General Chemistry in the United States

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