Top institutions in the United States for Marine Biology & Hydrobiology

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Which institutions in the United States have the most top-cited scientists in Marine Biology & Hydrobiology?

350 researchers in the United States whose main subfield is Marine Biology & Hydrobiology 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 60 countries in the subfield. 168 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution has the most (12), followed by University of California, Santa Barbara (9) and Scripps Institution of Oceanography (8). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors

350

0.5% of all in the United States

In the global top 100,000

168

48.0% of them

Country rank in the subfield

of 60 countries in Marine Biology & Hydrobiology

Highest-ranked

#728

Paerl, Hans W.

#	Institution	Listed authors	Top 100k	Rank worldwide	Highest-ranked author
1	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution	12	4	#4	Anderson, Donald M. #7,156
2	University of California, Santa Barbara	9	7	#11	Melack, John M. #40,443
3	Scripps Institution of Oceanography	8	5	#13	Levin, Lisa Ann #3,505
4	University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa	8	6	#14	Karl, David M. #6,860
5	Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science	7	3	#20	Baker, Andrew C. #20,645
6	Oregon State University	7	2	#21	Weis, Virginia M. #46,191
7	University of Georgia	7	2	#22	Pringle, Catherine M. #68,083
8	University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science	6	4	#24	Glibert, Patricia M. #4,416
9	Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology	6	2	#31	Friedlander, Alan Marc #48,425
10	Smithsonian Environmental Research Center	5	3	#37	Thiel, Martin #12,374
11	Louisiana State University	5	5	#38	Rabalais, Nancy N. #16,346
12	University of Connecticut Avery Point Campus	5	2	#40	Shumway, Sandra E. #28,823
13	Moss Landing Marine Laboratories	5	3	#42	Graham, Michael H. #42,183
14	Institute of Ecosystem Studies	4	3	#47	Cole, Jonathan J. #10,131
15	University of Maine	4	2	#48	Steneck, Robert S. #11,133
16	United States Geological Survey	4	2	#49	Cloern, James E. #11,550
17	Florida International University	4	2	#53	Heithaus, Michael R. #16,232
18	University of South Carolina	4	3	#55	Benner, Ronald H. #25,534
19	Georgia Institute of Technology	4	1	#58	Hay, Mark E. #36,506
20	Duke University	4	2	#59	Read, Andrew J. #36,532
21	Virginia Institute of Marine Science	4	2	#61	Orth, Robert J.W. #43,964
22	University of Washington	4	1	#64	Keil, Richard G. #53,447
23	Friday Harbor Laboratories	4	1	#66	Strathmann, Richard R. #83,612
24	Cornell University	3	2	#68	Howarth, Robert W. #3,626
25	Stony Brook University	3	1	#71	Gobler, Christopher J. #4,964
26	Michigan State University	3	1	#72	Litchman, Elena #6,936
27	University of New Hampshire Durham	3	3	#73	Bianchi, Thomas S. #10,297
28	University of Minnesota Duluth	3	2	#74	Downing, John A. #10,993
29	University of Virginia	3	2	#79	Díaz, Robert J. #22,302
30	University of Washington School of Oceanography	3	1	#80	Armbrust, E. Virginia #22,634
31	Stanford University	3	3	#81	Block, Barbara A. #26,396
32	University of California, Santa Cruz	3	2	#83	Bruland, Kenneth W. #31,418
33	University of California, Davis	3	3	#85	Williams, Susan Lynn #33,790
34	The Ecosystems Center	3	2	#87	Peterson, Bruce J. #36,518
35	University of Southern California	3	2	#89	Caron, David A. #42,270
36	NC State University	3	1	#93	Burkholder, Jo Ann M. #59,461
37	San Francisco State University	3	1	#94	Carpenter, Edward J. #65,937
38	Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute	3	2	#97	Haddock, Steven H.D. #71,497
39	University of Montana	3	1	#100	Hall, Robert Ogden #76,271
40	Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute	3	0	#105	Ross Robertson, D. #132,145

The top 100 in Marine Biology & Hydrobiology in the United States, in order

1
Paerl, Hans W.
College of Arts and Sciences
2
Falkowski, Paul G.
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
3
Levin, Lisa Ann
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
4
Howarth, Robert W.
Cornell University
5
Glibert, Patricia M.
University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
6
Gobler, Christopher J.
Stony Brook University
7
Strayer, David L.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
8
Karl, David M.
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
9
Litchman, Elena
Michigan State University
10
Anderson, Donald M.
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
11
Knowlton, Nancy
Smithsonian Institution
12
Smith, Val H.
University of Kansas
13
Dodds, Walter Kennedy
Kansas State University
14
McClanahan, Tim R.
Wildlife Conservation Society
15
Cole, Jonathan J.
Institute of Ecosystem Studies
16
Bianchi, Thomas S.
University of New Hampshire Durham
17
Downing, John A.
University of Minnesota Duluth
18
Steneck, Robert S.
University of Maine
19
Cloern, James E.
United States Geological Survey
20
Lesser, Michael P.
University of New Hampshire Durham
21
Thiel, Martin
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
22
Carlton, James T.
Williams-Mystic
23
Heithaus, Michael R.
Florida International University
24
Rabalais, Nancy N.
Louisiana State University
25
Azam, Farooq I.
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
26
Jackson, Jeremy B.C.
American Museum of Natural History
27
Kirchman, David L.
College of Earth, Ocean and Environment
28
Baker, Andrew C.
Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science
29
Moore, Charles James
Moore Institute for Plastic Pollution Research
30
Apprill, Amy M.
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
31
Díaz, Robert J.
University of Virginia
32
Armbrust, E. Virginia
University of Washington School of Oceanography
33
Edmunds, Peter J.
California State University, Northridge
34
Sterner, Robert W.
University of Minnesota Duluth
35
Sala, Enric
National Geographic Society
36
Benner, Ronald H.
University of South Carolina
37
Morel, François M.M.
Princeton University
38
Block, Barbara A.
Stanford University
39
Glynn, Peter W.
Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science
40
Stumpf, Richard P.
NOAA National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science
41
van Woesik, Robert
Florida Institute of Technology
42
Turner, R. Eugene
Louisiana State University
43
Shumway, Sandra E.
University of Connecticut Avery Point Campus
44
Breitburg, Denise L.
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
45
Lajeunesse, Todd C.
Pennsylvania State University
46
Lin, Senjie
University of Connecticut Avery Point Campus
47
Sunda, William G.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
48
Spalding, Mark D.
Nature Conservancy
49
Bruland, Kenneth W.
University of California, Santa Cruz
50
Smith, Craig R.
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
51
Mcknight, Diane M.
University of Colorado Boulder
52
Williams, Susan Lynn
University of California, Davis
53
Peterson, Charles H.
College of Arts and Sciences
54
Hanlon, Roger T.
Marine Biological Laboratory
55
Layman, Craig A.
Wake Forest University
56
Hay, Mark E.
Georgia Institute of Technology
57
Peterson, Bruce J.
The Ecosystems Center
58
Read, Andrew J.
Duke University
59
Helmuth, Brian S.T.
Northeastern University
60
Harvell, Catherine Drew
Cornell University
61
Kudela, Raphael M.
University of California, Santa Cruz
62
van Dover, Cindy Lee
Duke University
63
Guo, Ximing
Rutgers University–New Brunswick
64
Purcell, Jennifer E.
Western Washington University
65
Williamson, Craig E.
Miami University
66
Melack, John M.
University of California, Santa Barbara
67
Havens, Karl E.
University of Florida
68
Pace, Michael L.
University of Virginia
69
Kujawinski, Elizabeth B.
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
70
Smayda, Theodore J.
University of Rhode Island Narragansett Bay Campus
71
Graham, Michael H.
Moss Landing Marine Laboratories
72
Caron, David A.
University of Southern California
73
Warner, Robert R.
University of California, Santa Barbara
74
Orth, Robert J.W.
Virginia Institute of Marine Science
75
Morris, James T.
University of South Carolina
76
Laws, Edward Allen
Louisiana State University
77
Stoecker, Diane K.
University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
78
Weis, Virginia M.
Oregon State University
79
Hamilton, Stephen K.
Institute of Ecosystem Studies
80
Ducklow, Hugh W.
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
81
Brzezinski, Mark A.
University of California, Santa Barbara
82
Lapointe, Brian E.
Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute at Florida Atlantic University
83
Friedlander, Alan Marc
Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology
84
Müller-Karger, Frank Edgar
University of South Florida St. Petersburg
85
Houde, Edward D.
University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
86
Largier, John Louis
University of California, Davis
87
Riegl, Bernhard M.
Nova Southeastern University
88
Hammerschlag, Neil
University of Miami
89
Cahoon, Donald R.
United States Geological Survey
90
Denny, Mark W.
Stanford University
91
Rocha, Luiz Alves
California Academy of Sciences
92
Keil, Richard G.
University of Washington
93
Martin, John H.
Moss Landing Marine Laboratories
94
Moffett, James W.
University of Southern California
95
Eakin, C. Mark
Corals and Climate
96
Paul, Valerie J.
Smithsonian Marine Station
97
Franks, Peter J.S.
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
98
Turner, Jefferson T.
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
99
Brett, Michael T.
UW College of Engineering
100
Eriksen, Marcus
5 Gyres Institute

350 listed scientists in Marine Biology & Hydrobiology in the United States

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