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Top institutions in the United States for Geological & Geomatics Engineering

27 institutions · Geological & Geomatics Engineering · United States

Which institutions in the United States have the most top-cited scientists in Geological & Geomatics Engineering?

310 researchers in the United States whose main subfield is Geological & Geomatics Engineering are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 0.4% of all listed authors in the United States, and 2nd of 61 countries in the subfield. 224 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). University of Maryland, College Park has the most (16), followed by California Institute of Technology (13) and College of Engineering (13). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors
310
0.4% of all in the United States
In the global top 100,000
224
72.3% of them
Country rank in the subfield
#2
of 61 countries in Geological & Geomatics Engineering
Highest-ranked
#620
Gitelson, Anatoly A.
#InstitutionListed authorsTop 100kRank worldwideHighest-ranked author
1University of Maryland, College Park1613#5Chang, Chein I. #2,376
2California Institute of Technology138#7Rosen, Paul A. #13,236
3College of Engineering139#8Reddy, Krishna R. #15,737
4NASA Goddard Space Flight Center85#24Tucker, Compton James #899
5Colorado School of Mines76#37Lu, Ning #7,103
6USDA ARS Beltsville Agricultural Research Center75#41Jackson, Thomas J. #21,772
7University of California, Santa Barbara66#44Goodchild, Michael F. #2,530
8University of Minnesota Twin Cities64#47Detournay, Emmanuel #9,875
9University of Wisconsin-Madison66#49Zhu, Anning Xing #13,097
10United States Geological Survey54#59Iverson, Richard M. #2,343
11Boston University44#79Myneni, Ranga B. #3,569
12Michigan State University43#86Roy, David P. #10,965
13South Dakota State University42#94Zhang, Xiaoyang #43,912
14Purdue University43#98Salgado, Rodrigo #68,804
15School of Natural Resources32#101Gitelson, Anatoly A. #620
16University of Connecticut32#102Zhu, Zhe #2,428
17Mississippi State University33#103Du, Qian #2,666
18University of California, Berkeley32#113Soga, Kenichi #10,614
19School of Engineering32#125Cheng, Alexander H.-D. #28,767
20UW-Madison College of Engineering33#129Benson, Craig H. #35,877
21University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign31#132Mesri, Gholamreza #42,915
22Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University33#134Duncan, James Michael #44,182
23The Ohio State University31#135Qin, Rongjun #45,335
24Cockrell School of Engineering32#138Zornberg, Jorge Gabriel #52,612
25University of Michigan, Ann Arbor33#139Ulaby, Fawwaz T. #52,847
26Pennsylvania State University32#140MacEachren, Alan M. #54,987
27The University of Texas at Austin32#142Miller, Jennifer A. #56,609

The top 100 in Geological & Geomatics Engineering in the United States, in order

  1. 1
    Gitelson, Anatoly A.
    School of Natural Resources
  2. 2
    Tucker, Compton James
    NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
  3. 3
    Seto, Karen C.
    Yale University
  4. 4
    Iverson, Richard M.
    United States Geological Survey
  5. 5
    Chang, Chein I.
    University of Maryland, College Park
  6. 6
    Zhu, Zhe
    University of Connecticut
  7. 7
    Goodchild, Michael F.
    University of California, Santa Barbara
  8. 8
    Du, Qian
    Mississippi State University
  9. 9
    Rutqvist, Jonny
    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  10. 10
    Stehman, Stephen V.
    SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
  11. 11
    Myneni, Ranga B.
    Boston University
  12. 12
    Bieniawski, Z. T.
    Bieniawski Design Enterprises
  13. 13
    Cundall, Peter A.
    Itasca Consulting Group, Inc.
  14. 14
    Zhang, Lianyang
    The University of Arizona
  15. 15
    Gao, Bocai
    U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
  16. 16
    Hu, Chuanmin
    University of South Florida St. Petersburg
  17. 17
    Kogan, Felix N.
    National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
  18. 18
    Lu, Ning
    Colorado School of Mines
  19. 19
    Hansen, Matthew C.
    University of Maryland, College Park
  20. 20
    Xiao, Xiangming
    The University of Oklahoma
  21. 21
    Elvidge, Christopher D.
    Colorado School of Mines
  22. 22
    Congalton, Russell G.
    University of New Hampshire Durham
  23. 23
    Lee, Jongsen
    Computational Physics, Inc.
  24. 24
    Li, Ziqi
    Florida State University
  25. 25
    Entekhabi, Dara
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  26. 26
    Griffiths, D. V.
    Colorado School of Mines
  27. 27
    Friedl, Mark A.
    Boston University
  28. 28
    Bobet, Antonio
    Lyles School of Civil and Construction Engineering
  29. 29
    Lade, Poul V.
    George Mason University
  30. 30
    Detournay, Emmanuel
    University of Minnesota Twin Cities
  31. 31
    Seed, Harry Bolton
    Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
  32. 32
    Soga, Kenichi
    University of California, Berkeley
  33. 33
    Roy, David P.
    Michigan State University
  34. 34
    Robertson, Peter K.
    PK Robertson Inc.
  35. 35
    Tariq, Aqil
    Mississippi State University
  36. 36
    Zebker, Howard A.
    Stanford Engineering
  37. 37
    Gamon, John A.
    School of Natural Resources
  38. 38
    Atzberger, C. G.
    CYCLOPS MRV
  39. 39
    Zhu, Anning Xing
    University of Wisconsin-Madison
  40. 40
    Rosen, Paul A.
    California Institute of Technology
  41. 41
    Dozier, Jeff C.
    University of California, Santa Barbara
  42. 42
    Michałowski, Radosław L.
    Michigan Engineering
  43. 43
    Puppala, Anand Jagadeesh
    Texas A&M University
  44. 44
    Wan, Zhengrning M.
    University of California, Santa Barbara
  45. 45
    Einstein, Herbert H.
    MIT School of Engineering
  46. 46
    Gao, Song
    University of Wisconsin-Madison
  47. 47
    Reddy, Krishna R.
    College of Engineering
  48. 48
    Potyondy, David Oskar
    Itasca Consulting Group, Inc.
  49. 49
    Song, Xiaopeng
    University of Maryland, College Park
  50. 50
    Woodcock, Curtis E.
    Boston University
  51. 51
    Borja, Ronaldo I.
    Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
  52. 52
    Rostami, Jamal
    Colorado School of Mines
  53. 53
    Li, Xiaojiang
    University of Pennsylvania
  54. 54
    Potapov, Peter V.
    World Resources Institute
  55. 55
    Hu, Chuanmin
    University of South Florida St. Petersburg
  56. 56
    Li, Wenwen
    Arizona State University
  57. 57
    Pu, Ruiliang
    University of South Florida (USF)
  58. 58
    Mcroberts, Ronald Edward
    University of Minnesota Twin Cities
  59. 59
    Wang, Menghua
    National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
  60. 60
    Saatchi, Sasan S.
    University of California, Los Angeles
  61. 61
    Giri, Chandra P.
    United States Environmental Protection Agency
  62. 62
    Dubayah, Ralph O.
    University of Maryland, College Park
  63. 63
    Han, Jie
    University of Kansas
  64. 64
    Pontius, Robert Gilmore
    Clark University
  65. 65
    Jackson, Thomas J.
    USDA ARS Beltsville Agricultural Research Center
  66. 66
    Anderson, Martha C.
    USDA ARS Beltsville Agricultural Research Center
  67. 67
    Justice, Christopher Owen
    University of Maryland, College Park
  68. 68
    Cohen, Warren B.
    Oregon State University
  69. 69
    Haimson, Bezalel C.
    University of Wisconsin-Madison
  70. 70
    Clarke, Keith C.
    University of California, Santa Barbara
  71. 71
    Gao, Feng
    USDA ARS Beltsville Agricultural Research Center
  72. 72
    Keefer, David K.
    University of Maine
  73. 73
    van Zyl, Jakob J.
    California Institute of Technology
  74. 74
    Murray, Alan T.
    University of California, Santa Barbara
  75. 75
    Idriss, Izzat M.
    College of Engineering
  76. 76
    Dronova, Iryna
    University of California, Berkeley
  77. 77
    Sutton, Paul C.
    University of Denver
  78. 78
    Townsend, Philip A.
    University of Minnesota Twin Cities
  79. 79
    Vermote, Éric F.
    NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
  80. 80
    Ustin, Susan L.
    University of California, Davis
  81. 81
    Cheng, Alexander H.-D.
    School of Engineering
  82. 82
    Daughtry, C. S. T.
    USDA ARS Beltsville Agricultural Research Center
  83. 83
    Morán, Emilio Federico
    Michigan State University
  84. 84
    Thenkabail, Prasad S.
    United States Geological Survey
  85. 85
    DeJong, Jason T.
    College of Engineering
  86. 86
    Briaud, Jean Louis
    College of Engineering
  87. 87
    Bray, Jonathan D.
    Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
  88. 88
    Ghassemi, Ahmad A.
    The University of Oklahoma
  89. 89
    Zhang, Jincai
    Shell Development Company
  90. 90
    Boulanger, Ross W.
    College of Engineering
  91. 91
    Green, Robert O.
    California Institute of Technology
  92. 92
    Benson, Craig H.
    UW-Madison College of Engineering
  93. 93
    Mayne, Paul W.
    College of Engineering
  94. 94
    Liang, Lu
    Department of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning
  95. 95
    Townshend, John R.G.
    University of Maryland, College Park
  96. 96
    Qi, Jiaguo Guo
    Michigan State University
  97. 97
    Ye, Xinyue
    The University of Alabama
  98. 98
    Popescu, Sorin C.
    Texas A&M University
  99. 99
    Rotta Loria, Alessandro F.
    Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
  100. 100
    Kustas, William P.
    USDA ARS Beltsville Agricultural Research Center

310 listed scientists in Geological & Geomatics Engineering 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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