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Which institutions in the United States have the most top-cited scientists in Historical Studies?

477 researchers in the United States whose main field is Historical Studies are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 0.6% of all listed authors in the United States, and 1st of 48 countries in the field. 107 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). University of California, Berkeley has the most (19), followed by Columbia University (18) and Harvard University (17). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors

477

0.6% of all in the United States

In the global top 100,000

107

22.4% of them

Country rank in the field

of 48 countries in Historical Studies

Highest-ranked

#2,726

Chakrabarty, Dipesh

#	Institution	Listed authors	Top 100k	Rank worldwide	Highest-ranked author
1	University of California, Berkeley	19	6	#3	Mahmood, Saba #9,265
2	Columbia University	18	2	#4	Abu-Lughod, Lila #20,355
3	Harvard University	17	4	#6	Bar-Yosef, Ofer #23,457
4	New York University	16	2	#7	Appadurai, Arjun #7,661
5	Yale University	16	3	#8	Winter, Jay Murray #30,975
6	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	13	4	#10	Stoler, Ann Laura #7,555
7	Stanford University	13	2	#11	Scheidel, Walter #17,271
8	University of California, Los Angeles	13	4	#12	Ortner, Sherry B. #30,501
9	Princeton University	13	2	#13	Biehl, João Guilherme #46,443
10	Washington University in St. Louis	10	3	#17	Trinkaus, Erik #44,105
11	The University of Chicago	8	1	#24	Chakrabarty, Dipesh #2,726
12	The University of Arizona	8	3	#25	Stiner, Mary C. #24,764
13	Johns Hopkins University	7	2	#33	Das, Veena #9,546
14	University of California, Irvine	7	3	#34	Boellstorff, Tom Maurer #18,536
15	Arizona State University	7	2	#36	Smith, Michael E. #40,836
16	Cornell University	7	2	#38	Manning, Sturt W. #90,794
17	University of California, Santa Cruz	6	2	#40	Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt #3,844
18	University of Pennsylvania	6	1	#41	Meskell, Lynn M. #29,600
19	Brown University	6	1	#42	Hamilakis, Yannis #35,734
20	University of California, Santa Barbara	6	3	#44	Walker, Phillip L. #43,999
21	Duke University	6	0	#49	Kay, Richard F.D. #107,949
22	University of Washington	6	0	#51	D'Alpoim Guedes, Jade #176,643
23	Institute for Advanced Study	5	2	#53	Fassin, Didier #4,230
24	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	5	1	#54	Ambrose, Stanley H. #14,249
25	Emory University	5	1	#57	Stout, Dietrich W. #32,020
26	Stony Brook University	5	1	#61	Shea, John J. #80,261
27	University of California, Davis	5	0	#64	Lindert, Peter H. #115,537
28	Vanderbilt University	5	0	#65	Carse, Ashley D. #142,242
29	Northwestern University	4	2	#68	Mokyr, Joel #16,200
30	The Ohio State University	4	2	#69	Hodder, Ian #19,988
31	Georgetown University	4	1	#71	McNeill, John Robert #24,524
32	Rice University	4	2	#74	Domínguez-Rodrigo, Manuel #30,783
33	University of Wisconsin-Madison	4	1	#75	Cronon, William #34,340
34	University of Missouri	4	1	#76	Lyman, R. Lee #39,842
35	The City University of New York	4	1	#80	Asad, Talal #81,112
36	University of California	4	1	#81	Yurchak, Alexei #90,330
37	University at Buffalo, The State University of New York	4	0	#82	Lycett, Stephen J. #104,038
38	Boston University	4	0	#83	Guyer, Jane I. #110,445
39	The University of Texas at Austin	4	0	#84	Crosby, Alfred W. #114,831
40	Pennsylvania State University	4	0	#89	Hirth, Kenneth G. #235,285
41	Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History	3	3	#92	Zeder, Melinda A. #9,266
42	University of Connecticut	3	1	#94	Rohner, Ronald P. #35,432
43	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	3	1	#96	Helmreich, Stefan G. #36,626
44	University of Oregon	3	1	#97	Erlandson, Jon McVey #37,234
45	Tufts University	3	1	#98	Seaver, Nick #37,248
46	University of Colorado Boulder	3	1	#99	DeWitte, Sharon N. #50,449
47	University of Virginia	3	1	#101	Zigon, Jarrett #52,732
48	Rutgers University–New Brunswick	3	1	#103	Blumenschine, Robert J. #67,013
49	University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences	3	1	#104	Petryna, Adriana #84,032
50	University of Massachusetts Amherst	3	1	#105	Atalay, Sonya L. #89,458
51	University of Southern California	3	0	#110	Redfield, Peter #104,250
52	Indiana University	3	0	#125	Christ, Matthew R. #311,384

The top 100 in Historical Studies in the United States, in order

1
Chakrabarty, Dipesh
The University of Chicago
2
Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt
University of California, Santa Cruz
3
Fassin, Didier
Institute for Advanced Study
4
Stoler, Ann Laura
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
5
Appadurai, Arjun
New York University
6
Mahmood, Saba
University of California, Berkeley
7
Zeder, Melinda A.
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
8
Das, Veena
Johns Hopkins University
9
Lovejoy, C. Owen
Kent State University
10
Ruff, Christopher B.
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
11
Ambrose, Stanley H.
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
12
Keane, Webb
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
13
Piperno, Dolores R.
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
14
Mokyr, Joel
Northwestern UniversityNobel laureate
15
Scheidel, Walter
Stanford University
16
Boellstorff, Tom Maurer
University of California, Irvine
17
Hodder, Ian
The Ohio State University
18
Abu-Lughod, Lila
Columbia University
19
Low, Setha M.
The Graduate Center
20
Cooper, Frederick
New York University
21
Bar-Yosef, Ofer
Harvard University
22
McNeill, John Robert
Georgetown University
23
Stiner, Mary C.
The University of Arizona
24
Fuentes, Alfredo F.
University of Notre Dame
25
Marcus, George E.
University of California, Irvine
26
Sahlins, Marshall D.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
27
Gupta, Akhil
Stanford University
28
Meskell, Lynn M.
University of Pennsylvania
29
Shapin, Steven A.
Harvard University
30
Ortner, Sherry B.
University of California, Los Angeles
31
Domínguez-Rodrigo, Manuel
Rice University
32
Winter, Jay Murray
Yale University
33
Stout, Dietrich W.
Emory University
34
Marean, Curtis W.
Institute of Human Origins
35
Cronon, William
University of Wisconsin-Madison
36
Larkin, Brian R.
Barnard College
37
Rohner, Ronald P.
University of Connecticut
38
Smith, Bruce D.
Smithsonian Institution
39
Hamilakis, Yannis
Brown University
40
Helmreich, Stefan G.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
41
Holston, James
University of California, San Diego
42
Erlandson, Jon McVey
University of Oregon
43
Seaver, Nick
Tufts University
44
Geertz, Clifford
Institute for Advanced Study
45
Subrahmanyam, Sanjay
University of California, Los Angeles
46
Scheper-Hughes, Nancy
University of California, Berkeley
47
Lyman, R. Lee
University of Missouri
48
Smith, Michael E.
Arizona State University
49
Bentley, R. Alexander
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
50
Throop, C. Jason
University of California, Los Angeles
51
Walker, Phillip L.
University of California, Santa Barbara
52
Trinkaus, Erik
Washington University in St. Louis
53
Ferguson, James G.
University of California, Irvine
54
Davis, Dána Ain
Queens College, City University of New York
55
Biehl, João Guilherme
Princeton University
56
Kennett, Douglas J.
University of California, Santa Barbara
57
Binford, Lewis R.
The University of New Mexico
58
DeWitte, Sharon N.
University of Colorado Boulder
59
Harper, Kyle
Santa Fe Institute
60
Clifford, James
University of California, Santa Cruz
61
Zigon, Jarrett
University of Virginia
62
Schoeninger, Margaret J.
Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny
63
Ungar, Peter S.
University of Arkansas
64
Wood, Bernard A.
Center for the Advanced Study of Human Paleobiology
65
Anthony, David W.
Hartwick College
66
Herzfeld, Michael
Harvard University
67
Larsen, Clark Spencer
The Ohio State University
68
Kuhn, Steven L.
The University of Arizona
69
White, Tim D.
University of California, Berkeley
70
Moses, A. Dirk
City College of New York
71
Green, Nile
University of California, Los Angeles
72
Ortner, Donald J.
Smithsonian Institution
73
Hill, Kim R.
Institute of Human Origins
74
Caldeira, Teresa P.R.
University of California, Berkeley
75
Buikstra, Jane Ellen
Arizona State University
76
Blumenschine, Robert J.
Rutgers University–New Brunswick
77
Wiessner, Polly W.
University of Utah, College of Social and Behavioral Science
78
Williamson, Jeffrey G.
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
79
Benton, Lauren
Yale University
80
Smith, Richard J.
Washington University in St. Louis
81
Schiffer, Michael Brian
The University of Arizona
82
Rick, Torben C.
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
83
Hale, Charles R.
University of California, Santa Barbara
84
Brown, Peter R.L.
Princeton University
85
Ruggles, Steven
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
86
Shea, John J.
Stony Brook University
87
Briggs, Charles L.
University of California, Berkeley
88
Asad, Talal
The City University of New York
89
Petryna, Adriana
University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences
90
Gershon, Ilana
Rice University
91
Reno, Joshua Ozias
Binghamton University State University of New York
92
Kelly, Robert L.
University of Wyoming
93
Ross, Callum F.
Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, The University of Chicago
94
Westad, Odd Arne
Yale University
95
Simpson, Audra
Columbia University
96
Atalay, Sonya L.
University of Massachusetts Amherst
97
Hull, Matthew S.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
98
Yurchak, Alexei
University of California
99
Manning, Sturt W.
Cornell University
100
Lamb, Sarah
Brandeis University

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