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832 researchers in the United States whose main subfield is Materials are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 1.1% of all listed authors in the United States, and 2nd of 84 countries in the subfield. 390 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). College of Engineering has the most (79), followed by Oak Ridge National Laboratory (34) and Pennsylvania State University (16). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors

832

1.1% of all in the United States

In the global top 100,000

390

46.9% of them

Country rank in the subfield

of 84 countries in Materials

Highest-ranked

#140

Ritchie, Robert O.

#	Institution	Listed authors	Top 100k	Rank worldwide	Highest-ranked author
1	College of Engineering	79	43	#3	Pharr, G． M. #5,612
2	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	34	10	#15	Pint, Bruce A. #9,511
3	Pennsylvania State University	16	11	#59	Chen, Long qing #409
4	MIT School of Engineering	16	11	#61	Gibson, Lorna J. #2,876
5	National Institute of Standards and Technology	14	3	#73	Cahn, John Werner #1,953
6	Los Alamos National Laboratory	14	6	#76	Kocks, U. F. #13,249
7	UW-Madison College of Engineering	11	7	#97	Lakes, Roderic S. #1,345
8	Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science	10	7	#117	Wolverton, Chris M. #1,571
9	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	10	6	#127	Chiang, Yet Ming #9,290
10	The Robert Mehrabian College of Engineering	9	6	#141	Pollock, Tresa M. #1,449
11	Whiting School of Engineering	9	6	#143	Choudhary, Kamal #7,018
12	University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science	9	7	#144	Wadley, Hayden N.G. #8,867
13	Michigan Engineering	9	5	#153	Sodano, Henry Angelo #25,360
14	Colorado School of Mines	9	4	#154	Krauss, George #27,674
15	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	9	4	#155	Frazier, William E. #28,308
16	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	9	3	#159	Matthews, Manyalibo J. #39,743
17	Department of Materials Science and Engineering	8	5	#115	Ritchie, Robert O. #140
18	Air Force Research Laboratory	8	3	#169	Miracle, D. B. #437
19	School of Engineering	7	3	#185	Padture, Nitin P. #1,160
20	The University of Tennessee, Knoxville	7	5	#186	Liaw, Peter K. #3,881
21	The Ohio State University	7	2	#187	Frankel, Gerald S. #5,974
22	NASA Glenn Research Center	7	2	#191	Lee, Kang N. #25,536
23	Argonne National Laboratory	7	4	#193	Ilavský, Ján #31,861
24	The Grainger College of Engineering	7	4	#194	Sehitoglu, Hüseyin #32,034
25	University of California, San Diego	6	3	#220	Ong, Shyue Ping #1,660
26	UNT College of Engineering	6	2	#223	Mishra, Rajiv S. #4,701
27	University of Minnesota Twin Cities	6	3	#228	Bartel, Christopher J. #19,547
28	NC State College of Engineering	6	4	#230	Brenner, Donald W. #26,413
29	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	6	2	#245	Marquis, Emmanuelle A. #56,414
30	School of Engineering and Applied Science	5	3	#264	Scherer, G. W. #3,083
31	College of Engineering and Computer Science	5	2	#265	Suryanarayana, Challapalli #3,449
32	University of California, Los Angeles	5	2	#267	Dunn, Bruce S. #6,598
33	Stanford Engineering	5	2	#268	Nix, William D. #7,314
34	Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture	5	3	#271	Bandyopadhyay, Amit #9,890
35	National Energy Technology Laboratory, Albany	5	2	#274	Gao, Michael C. #13,822
36	NC State University	5	1	#277	Koch, Carl C. #18,676
37	Cornell University College of Engineering	5	3	#280	Giannelis, Emmanuel P. #22,941
38	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	5	1	#284	White, Scott R. #27,998
39	Department of Materials Science & Engineering	5	4	#285	Sohn, Hong Yong #28,313
40	Samueli School of Engineering	5	2	#302	Cao, Penghui #44,915
41	Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering	5	2	#315	SÃeradzki, Karl #66,230
42	Ames Laboratory	5	2	#321	Cui, Jun #81,907
43	University of Washington	5	0	#340	Mori, Tsutomu #199,688
44	Drexel University College of Engineering	4	2	#341	Barsoum, Michel W. #152
45	Northwestern University	4	4	#342	Kanatzidis, Mercouri G. #387
46	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	4	1	#343	Jain, Anubhav #1,358
47	Tickle College of Engineering	4	1	#344	George, Easo P. #4,396
48	Arizona State University	4	1	#345	Navrotsky, Alexandra #4,679
49	Georgia Institute of Technology	4	2	#350	Erturk, Alper #6,934
50	Missouri University of Science and Technology	4	2	#353	Fahrenholtz, W. G. #9,798
51	UCLA Samueli School of Engineering	4	2	#357	Ardell, Alan J. #15,480
52	USC Viterbi School of Engineering	4	3	#365	Mansfeld, Florian B. #20,491
53	Penn State College of Engineering	4	1	#378	Beese, Allison M. #33,978
54	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	4	3	#385	Yu, Hang Z. #40,595
55	Virginia Tech College of Engineering	4	1	#406	Farkas, Diana #53,361
56	University of California, Berkeley	4	2	#419	Zones, Stacey I. #74,642
57	Swanson School of Engineering	4	2	#423	To, Alber C. #84,290
58	U.S. Naval Research Laboratory	4	0	#457	Knipling, Keith E. #186,998
59	Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences	3	3	#461	Clarke, David R. #1,357
60	George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering	3	2	#467	Kalidindi, Surya R. #7,587
61	Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth	3	3	#472	Hautier, Geoffroy T.F. #11,708
62	Aiiso Yufeng Li Family Department of Chemical and Nano Engineering	3	3	#484	Vecchio, Kenneth S. #19,039
63	Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics	3	2	#497	Tsai, Stephen W.L. #29,681
64	Center for Composite Materials	3	2	#501	Advani, Suresh G. #30,959
65	Carnegie Mellon University	3	1	#525	Mullins, William W. #48,698
66	Case School of Engineering	3	2	#527	Lewandowski, John J. #52,030
67	University of Pittsburgh	3	1	#532	Coble, Robert L. #58,164
68	College of Engineering, Computing and Applied Sciences	3	1	#533	Grujicic, Mica #58,382
69	Purdue University	3	1	#536	Chawla, Nikhilesh #60,096
70	U.S. Army Research Laboratory	3	1	#548	Champagne, Victor Kenneth #67,701
71	Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering	3	1	#550	Phillpot, Simon R. #69,276
72	P.C. Rossin College of Engineering & Applied Science	3	1	#551	Marder, Arnold R. #69,340
73	NASA Langley Research Center	3	1	#562	Dávila, Carlos G. #75,709
74	John and Marcia Price College of Engineering	3	1	#566	Roundy, Shad J. #82,288
75	Clemson University	3	1	#570	Daw, Murray S. #86,601
76	College of Engineering and Computing	3	1	#571	Day, Delbert E. #86,906
77	Johns Hopkins University	3	0	#591	Ghosh, Somnath #107,746
78	UW College of Engineering	3	0	#596	Feraboli, Paolo J. #113,574
79	University of North Texas	3	0	#628	Scharf, Thomas W. #160,135

The top 100 in Materials in the United States, in order

1
Ritchie, Robert O.
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
2
Barsoum, Michel W.
Drexel University College of Engineering
3
Kanatzidis, Mercouri G.
Northwestern University
4
Chen, Long qing
Pennsylvania State University
5
Miracle, D. B.
Air Force Research Laboratory
6
Chung, Deborah D.L.
University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
7
Ceder, Gerbrand
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
8
Padture, Nitin P.
School of Engineering
9
Whittingham, M. Stanley
Binghamton University State University of New YorkNobel laureate
10
Lakes, Roderic S.
UW-Madison College of Engineering
11
Clarke, David R.
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
12
Jain, Anubhav
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
13
Senkov, Oleg N.
Air Force Research Laboratory
14
Pollock, Tresa M.
The Robert Mehrabian College of Engineering
15
Wolverton, Chris M.
Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
16
Ong, Shyue Ping
University of California, San Diego
17
Cahn, John Werner
National Institute of Standards and Technology
18
Murr, Lawrence Eugene
The University of Texas at El Paso College of Engineering
19
Davis, Mark E.
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
20
Meyers, Marc André
University of California, San Diego
21
Gibson, Lorna J.
MIT School of Engineering
22
Evans, Anthony G.
The Robert Mehrabian College of Engineering
23
Scherer, G. W.
School of Engineering and Applied Science
24
Süresh, Subra
MIT School of Engineering
25
Suryanarayana, Challapalli
College of Engineering and Computer Science
26
Schuh, Christopher A.
Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
27
Liaw, Peter K.
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
28
Liu, Zi Kui
Pennsylvania State University
29
George, Easo P.
Tickle College of Engineering
30
Navrotsky, Alexandra
Arizona State University
31
Mishra, Rajiv S.
UNT College of Engineering
32
Mishin, Yuri M.
George Mason University
33
Pharr, G． M.
College of Engineering
34
Frankel, Gerald S.
The Ohio State University
35
German, R. M.
San Diego State University
36
Misra, Raja Devesh Kumar
Lawrence Technological University College of Engineering
37
Luo, Alan A.
College of Engineering
38
Ewing., Rrodney Charles
Stanford University
39
Dunn, Bruce S.
University of California, Los Angeles
40
Jennings, Hamlin M.
MIT School of Engineering
41
Erturk, Alper
Georgia Institute of Technology
42
Choudhary, Kamal
Whiting School of Engineering
43
DebRoy, Tarasankar A.
Pennsylvania State University
44
Nix, William D.
Stanford Engineering
45
Kou, Sindo
UW-Madison College of Engineering
46
Kalidindi, Surya R.
George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering
47
Luo, Jian
University of California, San Diego
48
Semiatin, Sheldon Lee
MRL Materials Resources LLC
49
Wang, Jian
College of Engineering
50
Brinker, Charles Jeffrey
The University of New Mexico
51
Wadley, Hayden N.G.
University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science
52
Chiang, Yet Ming
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
53
Pint, Bruce A.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
54
Fahrenholtz, W. G.
Missouri University of Science and Technology
55
Bandyopadhyay, Amit
Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture
56
Seidman, David N.
Northwestern University
57
Karma, Alain S.
Northeastern University
58
van de Walle, Axel
School of Engineering
59
Gu, Tingyue
Ohio University
60
Olson, Gregory B.
MIT School of Engineering
61
Fergus, Jeffrey W.
Samuel Ginn College of Engineering
62
Hautier, Geoffroy T.F.
Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth
63
Robertson, Ian M.
UW-Madison College of Engineering
64
Babu, Sudarsanam Suresh
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
65
Komarneni, Sridhar
Pennsylvania State University
66
Lawn, Brian R.
National Institute of Standards and Technology
67
Opila, Elizabeth J.
University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science
68
Scully, John R.
University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science
69
Kocks, U. F.
Los Alamos National Laboratory
70
Argon, Ali S.
MIT School of Engineering
71
Rollett, Anthony D.Tony
College of Engineering
72
Gao, Michael C.
National Energy Technology Laboratory, Albany
73
Pilania, Ghanshyam
General Electric Company
74
Rose, Joseph L.
Guidedwave
75
Qi, Hang Jerry
George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering
76
Narayan, Roger Jagdish
Lampe Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering
77
Haile, Sossina M.
Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
78
Hui, David
University of New Orleans
79
Rahaman, Mohamed N.
Missouri University of Science and Technology
80
Voorhees, Peter W.
Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
81
Greer, Julia R.
California Institute of Technology
82
Schroers, Jan
Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science
83
Ardell, Alan J.
UCLA Samueli School of Engineering
84
Murray, Joanne L.
Alcoa Technical Center
85
Curtarolo, Stefano
Pratt School of Engineering
86
Rohrer, Gregory S.
College of Engineering
87
Baskes, M. I.
Los Alamos National Laboratory Materials Science and Technology Division
88
Sangid, Michael David
College of Engineering
89
Oliver, Warren Carl
KLA Corporation
90
Raj, Rishi
College of Engineering and Applied Science
91
White, William B.
Pennsylvania State University
92
Randall, Clive A.
Pennsylvania State University
93
Dunand, David C.
Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
94
Hirth, John P.
College of Engineering
95
Koch, Carl C.
NC State University
96
Vecchio, Kenneth S.
Aiiso Yufeng Li Family Department of Chemical and Nano Engineering
97
Perepezko, John H.
UW-Madison College of Engineering
98
Brinson, Lynda Catherine
Pratt School of Engineering
99
Bartel, Christopher J.
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
100
Boyer, Rodney R.
RBTi Consulting

832 listed scientists in Materials in the United States

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