Top institutions in the United States for Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences

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Which institutions in the United States have the most top-cited scientists in Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences?

899 researchers in the United States whose main subfield is Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 1.2% of all listed authors in the United States, and 1st of 52 countries in the subfield. 830 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). National Center for Atmospheric Research has the most (48), followed by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (37) and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (27). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors

899

1.2% of all in the United States

In the global top 100,000

830

92.3% of them

Country rank in the subfield

of 52 countries in Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences

Highest-ranked

#263

Emanuel, Kerry A.

#	Institution	Listed authors	Top 100k	Rank worldwide	Highest-ranked author
1	National Center for Atmospheric Research	48	44	#1	Bonan, Gordon B. #1,483
2	National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration	37	35	#2	Milly, Paul Chris D. #11,186
3	NASA Goddard Space Flight Center	27	24	#3	Holben, Brent N. #4,442
4	University of Colorado Boulder	23	20	#4	Turetsky, Merritt R. #7,493
5	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	17	16	#6	Emanuel, Kerry A. #263
6	Scripps Institution of Oceanography	16	16	#8	Xie, Shangping #1,750
7	University of California, Los Angeles	14	13	#13	McWilliams, James Cyrus #1,820
8	University of California, Irvine	14	13	#14	Guenther, Alex B. #4,380
9	University of Wisconsin-Madison	14	12	#15	Vavrus, Stephen J. #31,175
10	Princeton University	13	12	#17	Held, Isaac M. #4,578
11	California Institute of Technology	13	11	#20	Schimel, David S. #7,571
12	Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory	13	13	#21	Broecker, Wallace S. #8,750
13	Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering	13	13	#22	Hurrell, James W. #9,817
14	University of Washington	12	12	#24	Ebi, Kristie L. #981
15	College of the Environment	11	10	#26	Houze, Robert A. #2,749
16	Oregon State University	10	7	#32	Behrenfeld, Michael J. #5,529
17	Pennsylvania State University	10	9	#33	Alley, Richard B. #11,522
18	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	10	9	#35	Bond-Lamberty, Ben P. #15,940
19	Stanford University	9	9	#36	Lobell, David B. #478
20	Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences	9	8	#37	Jacob, Daniel J. #2,347
21	University of Alaska Fairbanks	9	9	#40	Hock, Regine #7,883
22	NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies	9	6	#41	Rosenzweig, Cynthia E. #10,937
23	Arizona State University	8	8	#42	Famiglietti, James S. #1,902
24	College of Engineering	8	7	#48	Daly, Christopher P.Q. #42,962
25	University of California, Santa Barbara	7	7	#51	Jasechko, Scott #7,467
26	Columbia University	7	7	#52	DeFries, Ruth S. #8,142
27	Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science	7	6	#53	Prospero, Joseph M. #22,760
28	College of Science	7	6	#56	Laskin, Alexander #46,232
29	Applied Physics Laboratory	6	6	#61	Kwok, Ron #5,588
30	University of Maryland, College Park	6	6	#62	O'Neill, Brian C. #5,594
31	Florida State University	6	6	#64	Nicholson, Sharon E. #6,534
32	NorthWest Research Associates, Inc.	6	5	#71	Mahrt, Larry J. #14,722
33	The Ohio State University	6	6	#72	Liu, Zhengyu #21,920
34	The University of Arizona	6	5	#73	Liverman, Diana M. #22,899
35	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	6	6	#74	Jain, Atul K. #25,003
36	State University of New York Albany	5	4	#75	Dai, Aiguo #352
37	Woodwell Climate Research Center	5	3	#76	HOUGHTON, R. A. #1,065
38	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	5	5	#77	Taylor, Karl E. #1,348
39	University of Delaware	5	5	#82	Willmott’, Cort J. #4,174
40	University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa	5	5	#83	Qiu, Bo #6,462
41	Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences	5	5	#85	Mahowald, Natalie M. #7,042
42	College of Computer, Mathematical, & Natural Sciences	5	5	#90	Zeng, Ning #16,559
43	College of Engineering and Applied Science	5	4	#93	Forbes, Jeffrey M. #21,488
44	Texas A&M University	5	5	#95	Zhang, Renyi #24,210
45	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	5	5	#96	Lemos, Maria Carmen #25,183
46	The Earth and Sun Systems Laboratory	5	5	#99	Richmond, Arthur D. #27,216
47	Yale University	5	4	#101	Churkina, Galina #30,333
48	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution	5	4	#102	Mahadevan, Amala #30,792
49	International Research Institute for Climate and Society	5	5	#105	Hansen, James W. #39,986
50	NC State University	5	5	#106	Kunkel, Kenneth E. #46,751
51	University of California, Berkeley	4	4	#107	Baldocchi, Dennis D. #923
52	Yale School of the Environment	4	4	#110	Leiserowitz, Anthony A. #2,502
53	NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory	4	4	#111	McPhaden, Michael J. #2,700
54	University of New Hampshire Durham	4	3	#116	Xiao, Jingfeng #7,783
55	School of Engineering and Applied Science	4	4	#117	Wood, Eric F. #9,983
56	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	4	4	#118	Wehner, Michael F. #10,139
57	George Mason University	4	4	#119	Dirmeyer, Paul A. #10,742
58	Georgia Institute of Technology	4	4	#120	Webster, Peter John #11,099
59	University of Miami	4	4	#122	Biswas, Pratim M. #11,891
60	Brown University	4	4	#126	Smith, Laurence C. #21,283
61	Boston University	4	4	#127	Li, Dan #22,490
62	Michigan Engineering	4	4	#130	Tóth, Gabor #26,755
63	ORNL Environmental Sciences Division	4	3	#131	Gu, Lianhong #28,772
64	Indiana University Bloomington	4	4	#133	Novick, Kimberly A. #33,258
65	NASA Langley Research Center	4	3	#137	Winker, David M. #35,726
66	Jackson School of Geosciences	4	4	#139	Yang, Zongliang #39,545
67	The University of Oklahoma	4	2	#142	Xue, Ming #40,991
68	University of Iowa	4	3	#145	Halekas, Jazzman S. #49,592
69	Los Alamos National Laboratory	4	4	#147	Gary, S. Peter #56,068
70	NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory	3	2	#152	Wanninkhof, Rik H. #3,580
71	School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology	3	3	#153	Jin, Feifei #3,653
72	The World Bank, USA	3	3	#154	Hallegatte, Stéphane #4,362
73	Carnegie Institution of Washington	3	3	#155	Rosa, Lorenzo #5,806
74	California Institute of Technology Division of Engineering and Applied Science	3	3	#156	Seinfeld, John H. #6,026
75	Cornell University	3	3	#157	Ramanathan, Veerabhadran #6,633
76	Duke University	3	3	#158	Shindell, Drew T. #7,843
77	Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes	3	3	#159	Dettinger, Michael D. #8,522
78	The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science	3	3	#163	Gentine, Pierre #11,465
79	Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP) at UCLA	3	1	#165	Angelopoulos, Vassilis #12,457
80	Utah State University	3	3	#168	Fejer, Bela G. #14,827
81	University of Minnesota Twin Cities	3	3	#172	Ray, Deepak K. #23,226
82	Desert Research Institute	3	3	#173	Chow, Judith C. #23,849
83	Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics	3	3	#175	Rothman, L. S. #25,131
84	Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences	3	3	#178	Thompson, Andrew F. #27,277
85	Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere	3	2	#180	DeMaria, Mark #29,001
86	United States Environmental Protection Agency	3	3	#183	Wallace, Lance A. #31,030
87	Southwest Research Institute	3	2	#185	Burch, James L. #32,149
88	Cornell University College of Engineering	3	3	#188	Barthelmie, Rebecca J. #34,351
89	Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory	3	1	#190	Gjerloev, Jesper W. #35,232
90	United States Geological Survey	3	2	#197	Huntington, Thomas G. #50,179
91	Space Sciences Laboratory	3	2	#200	Luhmann, Janet G. #53,576

The top 100 in Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences in the United States, in order

1
Emanuel, Kerry A.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2
Dai, Aiguo
State University of New York Albany
3
Lobell, David B.
Stanford University
4
Abatzoglou, John T.
School of Engineering
5
Baldocchi, Dennis D.
University of California, Berkeley
6
Ebi, Kristie L.
University of Washington
7
HOUGHTON, R. A.
Woodwell Climate Research Center
8
Taylor, Karl E.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
9
Bonan, Gordon B.
National Center for Atmospheric Research
10
Jacobson, Mark Z.
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
11
Xie, Shangping
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
12
McWilliams, James Cyrus
University of California, Los Angeles
13
Famiglietti, James S.
Arizona State University
14
Doney, Scott C.
University of Virginia
15
Jacob, Daniel J.
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
16
Meehl, Gerald A.
National Center for Atmospheric Research
17
Leiserowitz, Anthony A.
Yale School of the Environment
18
McPhaden, Michael J.
NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
19
Houze, Robert A.
College of the Environment
20
Richardson, Andrew D.
Steve Sanghi College of Engineering
21
Foley, Jonathan A.
Project Drawdown
22
Deser, Clara
National Center for Atmospheric Research
23
Running, Steven W.
University of Montana College of Forestry and Conservation
24
Wanninkhof, Rik H.
NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory
25
Martin, Randall V.
Washington University in St. Louis
26
Jin, Feifei
School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology
27
Hansen, James E.
Earth Institute
28
Willmott’, Cort J.
University of Delaware
29
Hallegatte, Stéphane
The World Bank, USA
30
Guenther, Alex B.
University of California, Irvine
31
Holben, Brent N.
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
32
Dudhia, Jimy
National Center for Atmospheric Research
33
Held, Isaac M.
Princeton University
34
Hopke, Philip K.
Clarkson University
35
Davis, Steven Joseph
Stanford University
36
Oreskes, Naomi
Harvard University
37
Arrigo, Kevin Robert
Stanford University
38
Robock, Alan D.
Department of Environmental Sciences
39
Behrenfeld, Michael J.
Oregon State University
40
Kwok, Ron
Applied Physics Laboratory
41
O'Neill, Brian C.
University of Maryland, College Park
42
Schuur, Edward A.G.
Northern Arizona University
43
Rosa, Lorenzo
Carnegie Institution of Washington
44
Tollefson, Jeff
Alicia Patterson Foundation
45
Mann, Michael E.
University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences
46
Seinfeld, John H.
California Institute of Technology Division of Engineering and Applied Science
47
Galloway, James N.
University of Virginia
48
Weiss, Ray F.
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
49
Rignot, Eric J.M.
University of California, Irvine
50
O'Gorman, Paul A.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
51
Qiu, Bo
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
52
Raymond, Peter A.
Yale School of the Environment
53
Nicholson, Sharon E.
Florida State University
54
Solomon, Susan C.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
55
Lettenmaier, Dennis P.
University of California, Los Angeles
56
Ramanathan, Veerabhadran
Cornell University
57
Mahowald, Natalie M.
Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences
58
Hartmann, Dennis L.
College of the Environment
59
Tian, Hanqin
Boston College
60
Jasechko, Scott
University of California, Santa Barbara
61
Diffenbaugh, Noah S.
Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
62
Turetsky, Merritt R.
University of Colorado Boulder
63
Schimel, David S.
California Institute of Technology
64
Keith, David W.
Department of the Geophysical Sciences, The University of Chicago
65
Thorne, Richard Mansergh
University of California, Los Angeles
66
Xiao, Jingfeng
University of New Hampshire Durham
67
Shindell, Drew T.
Duke University
68
Hock, Regine
University of Alaska Fairbanks
69
Kossin, James P.
First Street
70
Russell, Christopher T.
Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics
71
Cai, Wei Jun
College of Earth, Ocean and Environment
72
DeFries, Ruth S.
Columbia University
73
Funk, Chris C.
University of California, Santa Barbara
74
Talley, Lynne D.
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
75
Dettinger, Michael D.
Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes
76
Bretherton, Christopher S.
The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
77
Broecker, Wallace S.
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
78
Moser, Susanne C.
Susanne Moser Research and Consulting
79
Kaufman, Yoram J.
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
80
Stephens, Graeme L.
California Institute of Technology
81
Burke, Marshall B.
National Bureau of Economic Research
82
Wallace, John Mike
University of Washington
83
Cummer, Steven A.
Duke University
84
Hurrell, James W.
Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering
85
Caldeira, Ken G.
Gates Ventures
86
Giglio, Louis
University of Maryland, College Park
87
Wood, Eric F.
School of Engineering and Applied Science
88
Wehner, Michael F.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
89
Villarini, Gabriele
School of Engineering and Applied Science
90
Wunsch, Carl I.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
91
Holland, Greg J.
National Center for Atmospheric Research
92
Rodell, Matthew
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
93
Wood, Robert A.
College of the Environment
94
Sailor, David J.
Arizona State University
95
Morrison, Hugh C.
National Center for Atmospheric Research
96
Dirmeyer, Paul A.
George Mason University
97
Rosenzweig, Cynthia E.
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
98
Webster, Peter John
Georgia Institute of Technology
99
Milly, Paul Chris D.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
100
Boykoff, Maxwell T.
University of Colorado Boulder

899 listed scientists in Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences in the United States

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