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933 researchers in the United States whose main field is Mathematics & Statistics are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 1.3% of all listed authors in the United States, and 1st of 80 countries in the field. 471 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). University of California, Berkeley has the most (41), followed by Princeton University (27) and Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (27). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors

933

1.3% of all in the United States

In the global top 100,000

471

50.5% of them

Country rank in the field

of 80 countries in Mathematics & Statistics

Highest-ranked

#16

Breiman, Leo

#	Institution	Listed authors	Top 100k	Rank worldwide	Highest-ranked author
1	University of California, Berkeley	41	24	#1	Breiman, Leo #16
2	Princeton University	27	12	#2	Fan, Jianqing #1,446
3	Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences	27	21	#3	Peskin, Charles S. #6,393
4	Stanford University	26	18	#4	Tibshirani, Robert John #21
5	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	23	16	#5	Lusztig, Gheorghe #15,462
6	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	19	7	#8	Little, Roderick J.A. #677
7	Harvard University	18	9	#9	Rubin, Donald B. #41
8	Brown University	17	8	#10	Karniadakis, George Em #206
9	University of California, Los Angeles	17	7	#11	Tao, Terence Chi Shen #1,983
10	University of Washington	17	11	#12	Tyrrel, Ralph Tyrrell Tyrrell #2,946
11	The University of Chicago	17	7	#13	Lim, Lek Heng #22,352
12	Texas A&M University	16	9	#15	Guermond, Jean Luc #27,763
13	Department of Mathematics	14	4	#16	Brézis, Haîm #1,780
14	The University of Texas at Austin	13	7	#17	Hughes, Thomas J.R. #1,493
15	Duke University	13	7	#18	Durrett, Rick Timothy #21,733
16	Cornell University	13	5	#19	Strichartz, Robert S. #40,276
17	NC State University	12	4	#20	Tsiatis, Anastasios Butch #27,938
18	College of Engineering	11	4	#24	Joseph, V. Roshan #18,940
19	Yale University	11	7	#25	Rokhlin, Vladimir #23,965
20	Columbia University	10	8	#26	Gelman, Andrew E. #83
21	University of Minnesota Twin Cities	10	7	#27	Zou, Hui #1,182
22	University of California, San Diego	9	2	#31	Benson, David J. #19,524
23	University of Iowa	9	4	#32	Lenth, Russell V. #25,857
24	Georgia Institute of Technology	9	2	#34	Koltchinskii, Vladimir I. #83,687
25	University of Wisconsin-Madison	8	4	#36	Box, George E.P. #4,592
26	University of California, Irvine	8	3	#37	Vershynin, Roman #5,051
27	Pennsylvania State University	8	5	#41	Andrews, George E. #11,386
28	College of Computer, Mathematical, & Natural Sciences	8	2	#42	Tadmor, Eitan #13,247
29	Stony Brook University	8	3	#46	Donaldson, Simon K. #23,762
30	Institute for Advanced Study	7	2	#56	Bourgain, Jean #2,126
31	College of Science and Engineering	7	4	#60	Serrín, James B. #16,023
32	Arizona State University	7	4	#61	Thieme, Horst R. #19,569
33	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	7	5	#63	Woodall, William H. #23,618
34	Indiana University Bloomington	7	3	#64	Témam, Roger M. #23,653
35	Johns Hopkins University	7	4	#66	Klainerman, Sergiu #44,424
36	Stanford Engineering	6	5	#71	Simo, Juan C. #3,586
37	Carnegie Mellon University	6	4	#75	Gurtin, Morton E. #5,237
38	College of Science	6	2	#76	Cleveland, William S. #5,635
39	College of Arts and Sciences	6	3	#78	Ruan, Shigui #8,273
40	School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences	6	3	#79	Bates, Douglas M. #8,751
41	California Institute of Technology	6	4	#81	Simon, Barry R. #9,960
42	College of Arts & Sciences	6	2	#85	Nikiforov, Vladimir #15,536
43	The Ohio State University	6	2	#86	Xiu, Dongbin #16,156
44	University of Pennsylvania	5	5	#107	Cai, Tony Tony #6,805
45	The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	5	4	#110	Sen, Pranab K. #9,714
46	Department of Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering	5	1	#111	Chen, Bang Yen #10,760
47	University of Pittsburgh	5	2	#113	Fine, Jason Peter #12,436
48	George R. Brown School of Engineering and Computing	5	2	#114	Scott, David W. #12,490
49	School of Engineering and Applied Science	5	4	#115	Cattaneo, Matias Damian #12,597
50	University of California, Davis	5	1	#121	Müller, Hans Georg #28,329
51	University of California, Santa Barbara	5	4	#122	Crandall, Michael G. #36,543
52	University of Florida	5	2	#126	Qiu, Peihua #40,488
53	University of Missouri	5	2	#128	Wikle, Christopher K. #50,278
54	Vanderbilt University	5	1	#134	Webb, Glenn F. #77,065
55	University of Oregon	5	2	#136	Ostrik, Victor V. #84,369
56	University of California, Santa Cruz	4	3	#143	Bonett, Douglas G. #5,110
57	University of South Carolina	4	2	#145	Yang, Xiaofeng #6,198
58	College of Liberal Arts and Sciences	4	4	#148	Agresti, Alan #9,925
59	University of Notre Dame	4	2	#156	Balsara, Dinshaw S. #21,247
60	Florida International University	4	1	#161	Kibria, B. M. Golam #33,649
61	The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science	4	3	#162	Lacker, Daniel #35,662
62	Iowa State University	4	2	#169	Lieberman, Gary M. #57,107
63	University of Michigan School of Public Health	4	3	#170	Kalbfleisch, John D. #57,580
64	University of Connecticut	4	3	#174	Wang, Haiying #63,533
65	Kent State University	4	1	#177	Fridy, John A. #69,838
66	University of Southern California	4	1	#185	Jang, Juhi #86,302
67	University of Virginia	4	0	#192	Dunkl, Charles F. #113,931
68	University of Colorado Boulder	3	3	#198	Raissi, Maziar #1,201
69	Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania	3	3	#199	Rosenbaum, Paul R. #1,433
70	Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science	3	3	#202	Belytschko, T. #3,503
71	School of Computer Science	3	3	#204	Wasserman, Larry A. #6,467
72	MIT School of Engineering	3	1	#207	Bathe, Klaus JüRgen #9,363
73	Trinity College of Arts & Sciences	3	3	#208	Dunson, David B. #10,651
74	School of Public Health	3	3	#214	Pan, Wei T. #19,745
75	William & Mary	3	1	#222	Shi, Junping #24,600
76	University of Central Florida	3	2	#226	Yong, Jiongmin #31,437
77	University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences	3	1	#232	George, Edward I. #38,534
78	Washington University in St. Louis	3	2	#234	He, Xuming #41,543
79	Department of Computer Science	3	1	#237	Stewart, G. W.Pete #46,163
80	The University of Tennessee, Knoxville	3	3	#238	Wise, Steven M. #47,133
81	Simons Foundation	3	2	#240	Greengard, Leslie F. #48,878
82	Rutgers University–New Brunswick	3	1	#241	Coleman, Bernard D. #49,384
83	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	3	1	#245	Lazarov, Boyan Stefanov #54,831
84	University of Kansas	3	2	#249	Cai, Zongwu #57,578
85	Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences	3	1	#258	Oden, John Tinsley #62,826
86	College of Natural Sciences	3	1	#262	Tweedie, Richard L. #68,940
87	Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences	3	2	#272	McMullen, Curtis T. #77,603
88	Pomona College	3	0	#283	Garcia, Stephan Ramon #105,475
89	University of Delaware	3	0	#292	Monk, Peter B. #122,025
90	The University of Texas at San Antonio	3	0	#302	Stamova, Ivanka M. #148,286
91	Morgan State University	3	0	#308	Iyiola, Olaniyi S. #189,599
92	Northwestern University	3	0	#309	Székelyhidi, Gábor #201,883

The top 100 in Mathematics & Statistics in the United States, in order

1
Breiman, Leo
University of California, Berkeley
2
Tibshirani, Robert John
Stanford University
3
Rubin, Donald B.
Harvard University
4
Friedman, Jerome H.
Stanford University
5
Gelman, Andrew E.
Columbia University
6
Wickham, Hadley
PBC
7
Karniadakis, George Em
Brown University
8
Candés, Emmanuel J.
Stanford University
9
Hastie, Trevor J.
Stanford University
10
Efron, Bradley
Stanford University
11
Little, Roderick J.A.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
12
Shu, Chi Wang
Brown University
13
Zou, Hui
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
14
Raissi, Maziar
University of Colorado Boulder
15
Rosenbaum, Paul R.
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
16
Fan, Jianqing
Princeton University
17
Hughes, Thomas J.R.
The University of Texas at Austin
18
Brézis, Haîm
Department of Mathematics
19
Bellman, Richard E.
RAND Corporation
20
Tao, Terence Chi Shen
University of California, Los Angeles
21
Bourgain, Jean
Institute for Advanced Study
22
Caffarelli, Luis A.
The University of Texas at Austin
23
Gneiting, Tilmann
Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies
24
Tyrrel, Ralph Tyrrell Tyrrell
University of Washington
25
Raftery, Adrian E.
University of Washington
26
Osher, Stanley Joel
University of California, Los Angeles
27
Belytschko, T.
Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
28
Simo, Juan C.
Stanford Engineering
29
Babus̆ka, Ivo M.
The University of Texas at Austin
30
Liu, Guirong
College of Engineering and Applied Science
31
Box, George E.P.
University of Wisconsin-Madison
32
Vershynin, Roman
University of California, Irvine
33
Bonett, Douglas G.
University of California, Santa Cruz
34
Cook, R. Dennis
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
35
Lin, Danyu
UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health
36
Gurtin, Morton E.
Carnegie Mellon University
37
Tukey, John W.
Princeton University
38
Stuart, Andrew M.
California Institute of Technology Division of Engineering and Applied Science
39
Cleveland, William S.
College of Science
40
Sethian, James A.
University of California, Berkeley
41
Wang, B.
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
42
Agarwal, Ravi P.
Texas A&M University-Kingsville
43
Yang, Xiaofeng
University of South Carolina
44
Peskin, Charles S.
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
45
Wasserman, Larry A.
School of Computer Science
46
Wilcox, Rand R.
BIO5 Institute
47
Cai, Tony Tony
University of Pennsylvania
48
Zhang, Cunhui
Department of Statistics
49
Carlsson, Gunnar E.
Stanford University
50
Ruan, Shigui
College of Arts and Sciences
51
Lax, Peter D.
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
52
Bates, Douglas M.
School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences
53
van der Laan, Mark J.
University of California, Berkeley
54
Bathe, Klaus JüRgen
MIT School of Engineering
55
Trefethen, Lloyd Nick
Harvard University
56
Sen, Pranab K.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
57
Agresti, Alan
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
58
Simon, Barry R.
California Institute of Technology
59
Schafer, Joseph L.
U.S. Census Bureau
60
Tibshirani, Ryan J.
University of California, Berkeley
61
Li, Hongzhe
University of Washington School of Medicine
62
Dunson, David B.
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
63
Meng, Xiaoli
Harvard University
64
Chen, Bang Yen
Department of Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering
65
Loh, Weiyin
School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences
66
Rothstein, Hannah R.
Baruch College
67
Andrews, George E.
Pennsylvania State University
68
Tchetgen, Eric J.
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
69
Guo, Yan
Brown University
70
Lutwak, E.
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
71
Lu, Lu
Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science
72
Fornberg, Bengt
University of Colorado Boulder
73
van Leer, Bram
Michigan Engineering
74
Fine, Jason Peter
University of Pittsburgh
75
Scott, David W.
George R. Brown School of Engineering and Computing
76
Cattaneo, Matias Damian
School of Engineering and Applied Science
77
Fefferman, Charles L.
Princeton University
78
Du, Qiang
Columbia University
79
Tadmor, Eitan
College of Computer, Mathematical, & Natural Sciences
80
Lin, Fanghua
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
81
Kato, Tosio
University of California, Berkeley
82
Masmoudi, Nader
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
83
Stein, Elias M.
Princeton University
84
Chorin, Alexandre Joel
University of California, Berkeley
85
Lei, Jing
Carnegie Mellon University
86
Bickel, Peter J.
University of California, Berkeley
87
Golub, Gene H.
Stanford Engineering
88
Lusztig, Gheorghe
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
89
Nikiforov, Vladimir
College of Arts & Sciences
90
Rabinowitz, Paul H.
University of Wisconsin-Madison
91
Serrín, James B.
College of Science and Engineering
92
Xiu, Dongbin
The Ohio State University
93
Kač, Victor G.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
94
Gelfand, Alan E.
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
95
Kolda, Tamara G.
MathSci.ai
96
Dunn, Olive Jean
UCLA Fielding School of Public Health
97
von Neumann, Johann
Stanford University
98
Yuan, Ming
Columbia University
99
Tsay, Ruey S.
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
100
Ding, Peng
University of California, Berkeley

933 listed scientists in Mathematics & Statistics in the United States

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