Top institutions in the United States for Geochemistry & Geophysics

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Which institutions in the United States have the most top-cited scientists in Geochemistry & Geophysics?

774 researchers in the United States whose main subfield is Geochemistry & Geophysics are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 1.0% of all listed authors in the United States, and 1st of 60 countries in the subfield. 520 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). United States Geological Survey Western Region has the most (23), followed by United States Geological Survey (23) and Stanford University (22). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors

774

1.0% of all in the United States

In the global top 100,000

520

67.2% of them

Country rank in the subfield

of 60 countries in Geochemistry & Geophysics

Highest-ranked

#1,133

Stern, Robert James

#	Institution	Listed authors	Top 100k	Rank worldwide	Highest-ranked author
1	United States Geological Survey Western Region	23	15	#4	Boore, David M. #1,888
2	United States Geological Survey	23	12	#6	Coplen, Tyler B. #19,273
3	Stanford University	22	15	#7	Ellsworth, William L. #5,423
4	Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences	19	18	#10	Kanamori, Hiroo M. #3,978
5	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	19	10	#13	Royden, Leigh H. #11,375
6	Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory	18	12	#15	Kelemen, Peter B. #4,238
7	University of California, Berkeley	17	13	#17	Bürgmann, Roland #7,787
8	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution	17	11	#19	Hart, Stanley R. #9,486
9	Scripps Institution of Oceanography	16	11	#21	Craig, Harmon #6,017
10	Jackson School of Geosciences	16	11	#22	Ketcham, Richard A. #7,373
11	College of Science	15	13	#24	Gehrels, George E. #4,177
12	Pennsylvania State University	14	9	#26	Kump, Lee R. #10,825
13	Rice University	12	5	#31	Lee, Cin Ty Aeolus #10,066
14	University of Southern California	12	10	#32	Ben-Zion, Yehuda #10,883
15	Yale University	11	8	#34	Berner, Robert A. #1,146
16	University of California, Santa Barbara	11	6	#35	Rudnick, Roberta L. #2,645
17	Oregon State University	11	8	#37	Simoneit, Bernd Rolf Tatsuo #7,906
18	University of Oregon	11	7	#38	Cashman, Katharine V. #14,717
19	Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP) at UCLA	10	9	#44	Yin, An #1,582
20	Carnegie Institution of Washington	10	8	#49	Hazen, Robert M. #16,228
21	University of Colorado Boulder	9	6	#51	Molnar, Peter H. #2,577
22	Harvard University	9	7	#52	Knoll, Andrew H. #3,199
23	School of Earth and Space Exploration	8	6	#60	Whipple, Kelin X. #4,421
24	United States Geological Survey Central Region	8	5	#66	Jibson, Randall W. #20,015
25	University of California, Santa Cruz	8	4	#67	Zachos, James C. #20,675
26	University of Wisconsin-Madison	8	5	#71	Thurber, Clifford H. #28,133
27	Brown University	8	4	#72	Herbert, Timothy D. #38,305
28	California Institute of Technology	7	3	#78	Farley, Kenneth A. #6,989
29	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	7	6	#80	Meyers, Philip A. #8,947
30	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	7	6	#81	Bodnar, Robert J. #10,096
31	Princeton University	7	6	#82	Tromp, J. #11,074
32	Colorado School of Mines	7	6	#83	Tahmasebi, Pejman #15,679
33	University of California, Davis	7	3	#84	Turcotte, Donald L. #16,450
34	Washington University in St. Louis	7	4	#87	Jolliff, Bradley L. #43,613
35	College of the Environment	6	5	#90	Montgomery, David R. #2,430
36	Texas A&M University	6	4	#94	Caputo, Michele #4,046
37	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	6	4	#96	DePaolo, Donald J. #5,124
38	The University of New Mexico	6	5	#99	Sharp, Zachary D. #26,333
39	NASA Johnson Space Center	6	2	#106	Zolensky, Michael Ewing #59,914
40	University of California, Los Angeles	5	4	#109	Harrison, T. Mark #4,095
41	Columbia University	5	4	#111	Plank, Terry A. #6,178
42	University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa	5	3	#115	Wessel, Paul #10,205
43	Indiana University Bloomington	5	5	#124	Bish, David Lee #19,809
44	Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences	5	4	#129	Derry, Louis A. #32,498
45	Michigan State University	5	1	#134	Rooney, Tyrone O. #64,501
46	The University of Texas at Dallas	4	3	#139	Stern, Robert James #1,133
47	University of Maryland, College Park	4	3	#144	Brown, Michael #4,875
48	College of Science and Engineering	4	4	#145	Hirschmann, Marc M. #5,055
49	The University of Oklahoma	4	2	#146	London, David #5,103
50	Northwestern University	4	4	#147	Scotese, Christopher Robert #7,337
51	University of Washington	4	2	#159	Evans, Bernard W. #26,041
52	Arizona State University	4	1	#161	Hodges, K. V. #29,726
53	Cecil H. and Ida M. Green Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics	4	2	#163	Fialko, Yuri A. #30,787
54	Stony Brook University	4	3	#165	Wong, Tengfong #33,045
55	Department of the Geophysical Sciences, The University of Chicago	4	1	#166	Rowley, David B. #34,989
56	School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology	4	4	#171	Taylor, Graeme Jeffrey #59,808
57	Louisiana State University	3	2	#175	Clift, Peter D. #5,234
58	Boise State University	3	3	#176	Kohn, Matthew J. #5,536
59	University of California, Riverside	3	3	#177	Dieterich, James H. #5,842
60	The University of Texas at Austin	3	2	#178	Fomel, Sergey B. #6,109
61	University of Utah, College of Mines and Earth Sciences	3	3	#180	Cerling, Thure E. #9,795
62	Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science	3	2	#184	Swart, Peter Koenraad #14,546
63	College of Engineering and Physical Sciences	3	3	#186	Frost, Bryce Ronald #15,009
64	Johns Hopkins University	3	3	#187	Sverjensky, Dimitri A. #16,774
65	Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability	3	3	#189	Mäher, Kate M. #21,273
66	The Nevada Seismological Laboratory	3	2	#193	Wesnousky, Steven G. #26,292
67	Lunar and Planetary Institute	3	3	#194	Treiman, Allan H. #28,817
68	Berkeley Geochronology Center	3	3	#164	Balco, Greg A. #32,516
69	Bureau of Economic Geology	3	3	#198	Loucks, Robert G. #32,657
70	The University of Arizona	3	1	#202	Kapp, P. A. #35,769
71	University of South Florida, Tampa	3	1	#206	Defant, Marc J. #41,723
72	College of Computer, Mathematical, & Natural Sciences	3	1	#208	Candela, Philip A. #47,054
73	Duke University	3	1	#209	Froelich, Philip N. #52,543
74	Georgia Institute of Technology	3	2	#213	Reinhard, Christopher T. #61,184
75	Florida State University	3	1	#219	Burnett, William C. #72,775
76	Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History	3	1	#220	Cottrell, Elizabeth #76,240

The top 100 in Geochemistry & Geophysics in the United States, in order

1
Stern, Robert James
The University of Texas at Dallas
2
Berner, Robert A.
Yale University
3
Yin, An
Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP) at UCLA
4
Boore, David M.
United States Geological Survey Western Region
5
Montgomery, David R.
College of the Environment
6
Molnar, Peter H.
University of Colorado Boulder
7
Zoback, Mark D.
ResFrac Corporation
8
Rudnick, Roberta L.
University of California, Santa Barbara
9
Condie, Kent C.
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
10
Newville, Matthew G.
The University of Chicago
11
Knoll, Andrew H.
Harvard University
12
Kanamori, Hiroo M.
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences
13
Watson, E. Bruce
School of Science
14
Caputo, Michele
Texas A&M University
15
Harrison, T. Mark
University of California, Los Angeles
16
Gehrels, George E.
College of Science
17
Kelemen, Peter B.
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
18
Whipple, Kelin X.
School of Earth and Space Exploration
19
Scholz, Christopher H.
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
20
Brown, Michael
University of Maryland, College Park
21
Hirschmann, Marc M.
College of Science and Engineering
22
London, David
The University of Oklahoma
23
DePaolo, Donald J.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
24
Clift, Peter D.
Louisiana State University
25
Ellsworth, William L.
Stanford University
26
Kohn, Matthew J.
Boise State University
27
Dieterich, James H.
University of California, Riverside
28
Avouac, Jean Philippe
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences
29
Lyons, Timothy W.
University of California, Riverside
30
Craig, Harmon
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
31
Fomel, Sergey B.
The University of Texas at Austin
32
Plank, Terry A.
Columbia University
33
Chen, Yangkang
The University of Texas at Austin
34
Karato, Shun Ichiro
Yale University
35
Farley, Kenneth A.
California Institute of Technology
36
Dickinson, William R.
College of Science
37
DeCelles, Peter G.
College of Science
38
Scotese, Christopher Robert
Northwestern University
39
Ketcham, Richard A.
Jackson School of Geosciences
40
Eiler, John M.
California Institute of Technology
41
Bürgmann, Roland
University of California, Berkeley
42
Simoneit, Bernd Rolf Tatsuo
Oregon State University
43
Putirka, Keith D.
California State University, Fresno
44
Segall, Paul
Stanford University
45
Teng, Fangzhen
College of the Environment
46
Meyers, Philip A.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
47
Ogg, James G.
College of Science
48
Sandwell, David T.
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
49
Hart, Stanley R.
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
50
Zhan, Zhongwhen
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences
51
Egbert, Gary D.
Oregon State University
52
Cerling, Thure E.
University of Utah, College of Mines and Earth Sciences
53
Nordstrom, Darrell Kirk
Texas A&M University
54
Valley, John W.
University of Wisconsin
55
Lee, Cin Ty Aeolus
Rice University
56
Bodnar, Robert J.
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
57
Wessel, Paul
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
58
Planavsky, Noah J.
Environmental Defense Fund
59
Beroza, Gregory C.
Stanford University
60
Bowen, Gabriel J.
University of Utah, College of Mines and Earth Sciences
61
Kump, Lee R.
Pennsylvania State University
62
Ben-Zion, Yehuda
University of Southern California
63
McCollom, Thomas M.
University of Colorado Boulder
64
Brantley, Susan L.
Pennsylvania State University
65
Tromp, J.
Princeton University
66
Anbar, Ariel D.
School of Earth and Space Exploration
67
Royden, Leigh H.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
68
Haq, Bilal Ul
George Mason University
69
Korenaga, Jun
Yale University
70
Peters, Kenneth E.
Schlumberger NExT Training
71
Dilek, Yildirim R.
Miami University
72
Hacker, Bradley R.
University of California, Santa Barbara
73
Zeebe, Richard E.
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
74
Moore, Willard S.
University of South Carolina
75
Holland, Heinrich Dick
University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences
76
Luther, George W.III I.
University of Delaware
77
DeNiro, Michael Joseph Di Giacomo
University of California, Santa Barbara
78
Burdige, David J.
Old Dominion University
79
Hedges, John I.
University of Washington School of Oceanography
80
Marfurt, Kurt J.
The University of Oklahoma
81
Cherniak, Daniele J.
State University of New York Albany
82
Swart, Peter Koenraad
Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science
83
Cashman, Katharine V.
University of Oregon
84
Lockner, David A.
United States Geological Survey Western Region
85
Frost, Bryce Ronald
College of Engineering and Physical Sciences
86
Schumm, Stanley A.
Mussetter Engineering, Inc.
87
Bilham, Roger G.
University of Colorado Boulder
88
Elkins-Tanton, Linda T.
University of California, Berkeley
89
Raymo, Maureen E.
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
90
Mousavi, S. Mostafa
Harvard University
91
Tahmasebi, Pejman
Colorado School of Mines
92
Schoene, R. Blair
Princeton University
93
Hazen, Robert M.
Carnegie Institution of Washington
94
Dasgupta, Rajdeep
Rice University
95
Tauxe, Lisa
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
96
Turcotte, Donald L.
University of California, Davis
97
Sverjensky, Dimitri A.
Johns Hopkins University
98
Herzberg, Claude T.
Rutgers University
99
Cullers, Robert L.
Kansas State University
100
Berryman, James G.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

774 listed scientists in Geochemistry & Geophysics in the United States

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