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

508 researchers in the United States whose main subfield is General Mathematics are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 0.7% of all listed authors in the United States, and 1st of 71 countries in the subfield. 172 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). University of California, Berkeley has the most (25), followed by Princeton University (24) and Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (22). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors

508

0.7% of all in the United States

In the global top 100,000

172

33.9% of them

Country rank in the subfield

of 71 countries in General Mathematics

Highest-ranked

#1,780

Brézis, Haîm

#	Institution	Listed authors	Top 100k	Rank worldwide	Highest-ranked author
1	University of California, Berkeley	25	8	#1	Kato, Tosio #13,759
2	Princeton University	24	10	#2	Fefferman, Charles L. #13,021
3	Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences	22	16	#3	Lax, Peter D. #8,330
4	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	19	13	#4	Lusztig, Gheorghe #15,462
5	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	15	4	#5	Harary, Frank #20,389
6	Harvard University	13	4	#6	Freedman, Michael Hartley #26,704
7	The University of Chicago	13	4	#7	Kenig, Carlos E. #34,663
8	Department of Mathematics	12	3	#8	Brézis, Haîm #1,780
9	Stanford University	12	5	#9	Carlsson, Gunnar E. #7,840
10	Brown University	12	5	#10	Guo, Yan #11,419
11	University of California, Los Angeles	10	3	#12	Tao, Terence Chi Shen #1,983
12	University of Washington	10	5	#13	Tyrrel, Ralph Tyrrell Tyrrell #2,946
13	Cornell University	9	2	#18	Strichartz, Robert S. #40,276
14	Texas A&M University	9	3	#19	Pisier, Gilles #81,741
15	Stony Brook University	8	3	#21	Donaldson, Simon K. #23,762
16	Institute for Advanced Study	7	2	#24	Bourgain, Jean #2,126
17	Johns Hopkins University	7	4	#26	Klainerman, Sergiu #44,424
18	Georgia Institute of Technology	7	0	#30	De La Llave, Rafael #143,101
19	College of Arts and Sciences	6	2	#32	Ruan, Shigui #8,273
20	Columbia University	6	4	#33	Brendle, Simon #18,121
21	Indiana University Bloomington	6	3	#35	Témam, Roger M. #23,653
22	Yale University	6	2	#37	Goncharov, Alexander B. #51,398
23	University of California, San Diego	6	0	#40	Gross, Benedict H. #143,565
24	The University of Texas at Austin	5	2	#41	Caffarelli, Luis A. #2,174
25	California Institute of Technology	5	3	#44	Simon, Barry R. #9,960
26	Department of Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering	5	1	#45	Chen, Bang Yen #10,760
27	College of Science and Engineering	5	3	#47	Serrín, James B. #16,023
28	Duke University	5	1	#57	Elgindi, Tarek Mohamed #67,670
29	University of Iowa	5	2	#58	Kirk, William A. #70,906
30	College of Science	5	1	#60	Lovelock, David #76,593
31	College of Computer, Mathematical, & Natural Sciences	5	1	#62	Levermore, C. David #81,175
32	University of California, Irvine	4	2	#66	Vershynin, Roman #5,051
33	Pennsylvania State University	4	2	#67	Andrews, George E. #11,386
34	The Ohio State University	4	1	#71	Friedman, Avner #20,849
35	Vanderbilt University	4	1	#78	Webb, Glenn F. #77,065
36	University of Oregon	4	2	#79	Ostrik, Victor V. #84,369
37	University of Southern California	4	1	#80	Jang, Juhi #86,302
38	University of Missouri	4	1	#85	Kalton, Nigel J. #96,088
39	University of Virginia	4	0	#90	Dunkl, Charles F. #113,931
40	University of Notre Dame	3	1	#106	Wu, Jiahong #24,562
41	University of Minnesota Twin Cities	3	1	#107	Krylov, Nicolai V. #29,045
42	University of Central Florida	3	2	#108	Yong, Jiongmin #31,437
43	University of California, Santa Barbara	3	3	#111	Crandall, Michael G. #36,543
44	College of Arts & Sciences	3	1	#119	Anastassiou, George A. #53,157
45	Iowa State University	3	2	#122	Lieberman, Gary M. #57,107
46	University of California, Santa Cruz	3	2	#129	Schonbek, María Elena #69,452
47	Kent State University	3	1	#131	Fridy, John A. #69,838
48	University of Florida	3	1	#132	Bubenik, Peter G. #74,286
49	Carnegie Mellon University	3	1	#135	Duffin, Richard J. #77,585
50	Pomona College	3	0	#142	Garcia, Stephan Ramon #105,475
51	University of Pittsburgh	3	0	#145	Wang, Dehua #119,758
52	The University of Texas at San Antonio	3	0	#151	Stamova, Ivanka M. #148,286
53	Florida International University	3	0	#154	Gal, Ciprian G. #170,542
54	Northwestern University	3	0	#161	Székelyhidi, Gábor #201,883
55	NC State University	3	0	#162	Reiten, Idun #211,333

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

1
Brézis, Haîm
Department of Mathematics
2
Bellman, Richard E.
RAND Corporation
3
Tao, Terence Chi Shen
University of California, Los Angeles
4
Bourgain, Jean
Institute for Advanced Study
5
Caffarelli, Luis A.
The University of Texas at Austin
6
Tyrrel, Ralph Tyrrell Tyrrell
University of Washington
7
Vershynin, Roman
University of California, Irvine
8
Wang, B.
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
9
Agarwal, Ravi P.
Texas A&M University-Kingsville
10
Carlsson, Gunnar E.
Stanford University
11
Ruan, Shigui
College of Arts and Sciences
12
Lax, Peter D.
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
13
Simon, Barry R.
California Institute of Technology
14
Chen, Bang Yen
Department of Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering
15
Andrews, George E.
Pennsylvania State University
16
Guo, Yan
Brown University
17
Lutwak, E.
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
18
Fefferman, Charles L.
Princeton University
19
Lin, Fanghua
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
20
Kato, Tosio
University of California, Berkeley
21
Masmoudi, Nader
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
22
Stein, Elias M.
Princeton University
23
Lusztig, Gheorghe
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
24
Rabinowitz, Paul H.
University of Wisconsin-Madison
25
Serrín, James B.
College of Science and Engineering
26
Kač, Victor G.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
27
von Neumann, Johann
Stanford University
28
Schoen, Richard M.
University of California, Irvine
29
Brendle, Simon
Columbia University
30
Deligne, Pierre
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
31
Li, Yanyan
Department of Mathematics
32
Constantin, Peter
Princeton University
33
Lloyd, Stuart P.
Nokia Bell Labs
34
Harary, Frank
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
35
Friedman, Avner
The Ohio State University
36
Silvestre, Luis Enrique
Department of Mathematics, The University of Chicago
37
Strauss, Walter A.
Brown University
38
Témam, Roger M.
Indiana University Bloomington
39
Donaldson, Simon K.
Stony Brook University
40
Diaconis, Persi W.
Stanford University
41
Wu, Jiahong
University of Notre Dame
42
Shi, Junping
William & Mary
43
Mumford, David B.
Brown University
44
Frank, Rupert L.
California Institute of Technology
45
Freedman, Michael Hartley
Harvard University
46
Bowen, Rufus
University of California, Berkeley
47
Uhlmann, Gunther A.
University of Washington
48
Krylov, Nicolai V.
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
49
Nirenberg, Louis
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
50
Cheeger, Jeff
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
51
Milnor, John Willard
Stony Brook University
52
Yong, Jiongmin
University of Central Florida
53
Kollár, János
Princeton University
54
Hamilton, Richard S.
Columbia University
55
Kenig, Carlos E.
The University of Chicago
56
Hanin, Boris
School of Engineering and Applied Science
57
Goodman, Jonathan B.
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
58
Crandall, Michael G.
University of California, Santa Barbara
59
Evans, Lawrence Craig
University of California, Berkeley
60
Okounkov, Andrei Yu
Columbia University
61
Wiener, Norbert
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
62
Strichartz, Robert S.
Cornell University
63
Kac, Mark
Rockefeller University
64
Yorke, James A.
University of Maryland, College Park
65
Colding, Tobias Holck
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
66
Rains, Eric M.
California Institute of Technology
67
Debnath, Lokenath
University of Central Florida
68
Klainerman, Sergiu
Johns Hopkins University
69
Zhang, Gaoyong
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
70
McKean, Henry P.
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
71
Koblitz, Neal I.
University of Washington
72
Hoff, David
Indiana University Bloomington
73
Weinstein, Alan
University of California, Berkeley
74
Zygmund, Antoni
The University of Chicago
75
Goncharov, Alexander B.
Yale University
76
Dafermos, Constantine M.
Brown University
77
Bedrossian, Jacob
University of California, Los Angeles
78
Bohner, Martin J. J.
Missouri University of Science and Technology
79
Francfort, Gilles A.
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
80
Anastassiou, George A.
College of Arts & Sciences
81
John, Fritz F.
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
82
Freed, Daniel S.
Harvard University
83
Varadhan, Srinivasa R.Srinivasa
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
84
Lieberman, Gary M.
Iowa State University
85
Lagarias, Jeffrey C.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
86
Birkhoff, Garrett D.
Harvard University
87
Jones, Vaughan F.R.
University of California, Berkeley
88
Rhoades, Billy E.
Indiana University Bloomington
89
Chen, Zhenqing
University of Washington
90
Cosner, Chris
College of Arts and Sciences
91
Lasiecka, Irena M.
University of Memphis
92
Sarnak, Peter C.
Princeton University
93
Sideris, Thomas C.
University of California, Santa Barbara
94
Browder, Felix E.
The University of Chicago
95
Fomin, Sergey
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
96
Xu, Chenyang
Princeton University
97
Olver, Peter J.
College of Science and Engineering
98
Shen, Wenxian
Auburn University
99
Elgindi, Tarek Mohamed
Duke University
100
Ponce, Gustavo
University of California, Santa Barbara

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