Top institutions in the United States for Nuclear & Particle Physics

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Which institutions in the United States have the most top-cited scientists in Nuclear & Particle Physics?

982 researchers in the United States whose main subfield is Nuclear & Particle Physics 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 82 countries in the subfield. 414 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). California Institute of Technology has the most (39), followed by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (30) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (22). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors

982

1.3% of all in the United States

In the global top 100,000

414

42.2% of them

Country rank in the subfield

of 82 countries in Nuclear & Particle Physics

Highest-ranked

#45

Witten, Edward

#	Institution	Listed authors	Top 100k	Rank worldwide	Highest-ranked author
1	California Institute of Technology	39	22	#3	Coleman, Sidney #3,570
2	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	30	11	#5	Klein, Spencer R. #23,781
3	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	22	8	#8	Jackiw, Roman W. #5,569
4	Stony Brook University	19	13	#10	Lattimer, James M. #2,097
5	University of Washington	18	6	#15	McLerran, Larry D. #18,720
6	Institute for Advanced Study	17	8	#17	Witten, Edward #45
7	Texas A&M University	16	7	#22	Unruh, William G. #6,450
8	Center for Theoretical Physics	16	7	#23	Guth, Alan H. #7,957
9	University of California, Santa Barbara	15	12	#25	Srednicki, Mark A. #7,624
10	Brookhaven National Laboratory Physics Department	15	8	#28	Schenke, Bjo¨rn #20,291
11	Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory	15	2	#29	Berlin, Asher #62,830
12	Harvard University	14	8	#31	Randall, Lisa J. #18,857
13	Los Alamos National Laboratory	14	4	#34	Möller, Peter M. #39,609
14	Stanford University	13	6	#36	Susskind, Leonard #1,905
15	Princeton University	13	9	#37	Steinhardt, Paul J. #3,277
16	The Ohio State University	13	8	#38	Wilson, Kenneth G. #5,708
17	Michigan State University	13	7	#41	Brown, B. Alex #11,718
18	University of Florida	13	4	#42	Whiting, Bernard F. #27,893
19	University of California, Los Angeles	12	7	#43	Turner, Michael S. #3,984
20	University of California, Berkeley	11	7	#51	Linder, Eric V. #2,812
21	Columbia University	11	7	#56	Hui, Lam #9,337
22	SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory	11	4	#57	Brodsky, Stanley J. #18,498
23	University of California, San Diego	11	2	#60	McGreevy, John A. #60,374
24	University of California, Davis	10	3	#66	Carlip, Steven J. #20,962
25	Pennsylvania State University	9	4	#68	Ashtekar, Abhay #3,320
26	College of Computer, Mathematical, & Natural Sciences	9	3	#72	Jacobson, Ted A. #10,107
27	College of Letters & Science	9	5	#76	Hooper, Dan W. #37,245
28	University of Pittsburgh	9	4	#77	Kosowsky, Arthur B. #42,941
29	Argonne National Laboratory	9	2	#78	Kondev, Filip G. #44,019
30	Syracuse University	8	5	#87	Nitz, Alexander H. #15,740
31	The Grainger College of Engineering	8	3	#88	Baym, Gordon A. #16,433
32	Arizona State University	8	3	#90	Davies, Paul C.W. #25,073
33	The Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics	8	3	#94	Ali-Haïmoud, Yacine #49,560
34	The University of Texas at Austin	7	3	#101	Weinberg, Steven #243
35	Indiana University Bloomington	7	2	#103	Kosteleckỳ, V. Alan #3,726
36	Johns Hopkins University	7	4	#105	Kamionkowski, Marc #6,261
37	University of Maryland, College Park	7	3	#107	Mohapatra, Rabindra Nath #7,853
38	College of Science and Engineering	7	4	#109	Pospelov, Maxim E. #10,959
39	University of Massachusetts Amherst	7	3	#110	Donoghue, John F. #12,975
40	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	7	3	#111	Huterer, Dragan #13,006
41	Yale University	7	3	#114	Iachello, Francesco #20,983
42	Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics	7	3	#117	Dine, Michael #28,191
43	Brookhaven National Laboratory	7	2	#119	Pisarski, Robert D. #41,954
44	The University of Tennessee, Knoxville	7	0	#129	Hagen, Gaute #131,252
45	Leinweber Institute for Theoretical Physics at Stanford	6	4	#132	Linde, Andrei D. #947
46	The University of Chicago	6	3	#136	Wald, Robert M. #1,851
47	The Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics	6	5	#138	Hu, Wayne #5,168
48	Harvard University Jefferson Physical Laboratory	6	3	#141	Vafa, Cumrun #7,482
49	University of California, Irvine	6	3	#143	Feng, Jonathan L. #15,408
50	Rochester Institute of Technology	6	3	#146	Loustó, Carlos O. #20,577
51	The Enrico Fermi Institute	6	2	#149	Nambu, Yoichiro #22,893
52	Wayne State University	6	3	#150	Voloshin, Sergei A. #23,077
53	University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee	6	3	#152	Parker, Leonard Alden #26,955
54	University of Connecticut	6	2	#154	Dünne, Gerald V. #29,377
55	College of Science	6	1	#155	Gralla, Samuel E. #32,099
56	Rutgers University–New Brunswick	6	3	#157	Moore, Gregory W. #34,382
57	University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences	6	3	#158	Khoury, Justin #34,862
58	Los Alamos National Laboratory Theoretical Division	6	1	#174	Tews, Ingo #86,490
59	William & Mary	6	0	#176	Dudek, Jozef J. #106,822
60	Tufts University	5	3	#180	Vilenkin, Alexander V. #2,770
61	New York University	5	3	#184	Cranmer, Kyle S. #10,796
62	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	5	2	#194	Li, Wei #31,761
63	Cornell Laboratory for Elementary Particle Physics	5	1	#195	Lepage, G. Peter #33,743
64	Carnegie Mellon University	5	2	#199	Wolfenstein, Lincoln #37,384
65	Northwestern University	5	1	#201	de Gouvêa, André Luiz C. #48,230
66	University of Notre Dame	5	1	#203	Frauendorf, Stefan G. #52,278
67	Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility	5	2	#208	Burkert, Volker D. #71,304
68	The University of Oklahoma	4	1	#221	Abbott, Benjamin P. #1,846
69	Washington University in St. Louis	4	3	#226	Bender, Carl M. #4,311
70	University of Virginia	4	4	#240	Yagi, Kent #24,478
71	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	4	1	#244	Shapiro, Stuart L. #33,687
72	NC State University	4	3	#245	Brown, J. David #38,820
73	College of Arts and Sciences	4	1	#251	Engel, Jonatllan #55,620
74	Duke University	4	2	#253	Müller, Berndt #58,398
75	Case Western Reserve University	4	2	#255	Hinterbichler, Kurt #66,352
76	Vanderbilt University	4	1	#261	Scherrer, Robert J. #90,966
77	The Bartol Research Institute	4	0	#265	Seckel, David #114,007
78	Santa Fe Institute	3	3	#281	Carroll, Sean M. #4,965
79	College of Liberal Arts and Sciences	3	1	#282	Sikivie, Pierre #5,895
80	Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics	3	2	#285	Gross, David J. #9,550
81	Vanderbilt University School of Engineering	3	1	#287	Fleetwood, Danielm M. #11,136
82	Brandeis University	3	2	#288	Deser, Stanley #12,235
83	California State University, Fullerton	3	2	#292	Read, Jocelyn S. #16,752
84	Cornell University College of Engineering	3	1	#294	Flanagan, Eanna Ẽ. #18,325
85	Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science	3	3	#295	Teukolsky, Saul A. #19,136
86	Cornell University	3	2	#297	Bojowald, Martin #21,985
87	Brown University	3	1	#298	Serre, Thomas #23,386
88	Department of Physics	3	3	#151	Manohar, Aneesh V. #24,653
89	College of Engineering	3	1	#314	AN, Qi #37,856
90	The University of Texas at Dallas	3	1	#315	Ishak, Mustapha #38,205
91	University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa	3	1	#318	Giaré, William #40,629
92	College of Engineering and Physical Sciences	3	1	#325	Foucart, François #53,865
93	College of Natural Sciences	3	1	#328	Karch, Andreas #55,590
94	Louisiana State University	3	1	#338	Singh, Parampreet #64,359
95	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	3	2	#341	Loizides, Constantinos A. #69,459
96	The University of Utah	3	2	#348	Gondolo, Paolo #83,146
97	Iowa State University	3	0	#356	Maris, Pieter #104,813
98	University of Colorado Boulder	3	0	#358	DeGrand, Thomas A. #113,298
99	LIGO Hanford	3	0	#361	Sigg, Daniel #123,055
100	Ohio University	3	0	#367	Prakash, Madappa #148,211
101	University of Nevada, Las Vegas	3	0	#368	Tsukada, Leo #148,225
102	College of Arts & Sciences	3	0	#374	Brower, Richard C. #165,981
103	University of South Carolina	3	0	#376	Anandan, Jeeva S. #169,944

The top 100 in Nuclear & Particle Physics in the United States, in order

1
Witten, Edward
Institute for Advanced Study
2
Maldacena, Juan M.
Institute for Advanced Study
3
Weinberg, Steven
The University of Texas at AustinNobel laureate
4
Linde, Andrei D.
Leinweber Institute for Theoretical Physics at Stanford
5
Strominger, Andrew
OpenAI
6
Abbott, Benjamin P.
The University of Oklahoma
7
Wald, Robert M.
The University of Chicago
8
Susskind, Leonard
Stanford University
9
Lattimer, James M.
Stony Brook University
10
Cornish, Neil J.
Montana State University
11
Vilenkin, Alexander V.
Tufts University
12
Seiberg, Nathan
Institute for Advanced Study
13
Linder, Eric V.
University of California, Berkeley
14
Barad, Karen
University of California
15
Steinhardt, Paul J.
Princeton University
16
Ashtekar, Abhay
Pennsylvania State University
17
Coleman, Sidney
California Institute of Technology
18
Kosteleckỳ, V. Alan
Indiana University Bloomington
19
Turner, Michael S.
University of California, Los Angeles
20
Bender, Carl M.
Washington University in St. Louis
21
Carroll, Sean M.
Santa Fe Institute
22
Hu, Wayne
The Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
23
Jackiw, Roman W.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
24
Wilson, Kenneth G.
The Ohio State UniversityNobel laureate
25
Sikivie, Pierre
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
26
Thorne, Kip S.
California Institute of TechnologyNobel laureate
27
Favata, Marc
Montclair State University
28
Šeljak, Uroš
University of California, Berkeley
29
Kamionkowski, Marc
Johns Hopkins University
30
Unruh, William G.
Texas A&M University
31
Arkani-Hamed, Nima
Institute for Advanced Study
32
Berti, Emanuele
Johns Hopkins University
33
Son, Damthanh
The University of Chicago
34
Gubser, Steven S.
Princeton University
35
Vafa, Cumrun
Harvard University Jefferson Physical Laboratory
36
Srednicki, Mark A.
University of California, Santa Barbara
37
Polchinski, Joseph G.
University of California, Santa Barbara
38
Mohapatra, Rabindra Nath
University of Maryland, College Park
39
Guth, Alan H.
Center for Theoretical Physics
40
Murase, Kohta
Pennsylvania State University
41
Sathyaprakash, B. S.
Eberly College of Science
42
Buonanno, Alessandra
University of Maryland, College Park
43
Hui, Lam
Columbia University
44
Stephanov, Mikhail A.
University of Illinois at Chicago
45
Gross, David J.
Kavli Institute for Theoretical PhysicsNobel laureate
46
Kharzeev, Dmitri E.
Brookhaven National Laboratory Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department
47
Evans, Matthew R.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
48
Horowitz, Gary T.
University of California, Santa Barbara
49
Caldwell, Robert R.
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
50
Jacobson, Ted A.
College of Computer, Mathematical, & Natural Sciences
51
Chatziioannou, Katerina
California Institute of Technology
52
Cranmer, Kyle S.
New York University
53
Pospelov, Maxim E.
College of Science and Engineering
54
Fleetwood, Danielm M.
Vanderbilt University School of Engineering
55
Dodelson, Scott
The Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
56
Brown, B. Alex
Michigan State University
57
Polyakov, Alexander M.
Princeton University
58
Cutler, Curt J.
California Institute of Technology
59
Vitale, Salvatore
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
60
Deser, Stanley
Brandeis University
61
Balasubramanian, Vijay
Santa Fe Institute
62
Zurek, Kathryn M.
California Institute of Technology
63
Georgi, Howard M.
Harvard University Jefferson Physical Laboratory
64
Lange, David J.
Princeton University
65
West, Geoffrey B.
Santa Fe Institute
66
Donoghue, John F.
University of Massachusetts Amherst
67
Virbhadra, Kumar S.
Drexel University
68
Huterer, Dragan
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
69
Bern, Zvi
University of California, Los Angeles
70
Swingle, Brian G.
Brandeis University
71
Bousso, Raphael
University of California, Berkeley
72
Zamolodchikov, Alexander B.
Stony Brook University
73
Lee, Tsung Dao
Columbia UniversityNobel laureate
74
Ma, Ernest
University of California, Riverside
75
Feng, Jonathan L.
University of California, Irvine
76
Owen, Benjamin J.
University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
77
Nitz, Alexander H.
Syracuse University
78
Farhi, Edward
Google LLC
79
Littenberg, Tyson B.
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
80
Zaldarriaga, Matías
Institute for Advanced Study
81
Baym, Gordon A.
The Grainger College of Engineering
82
Collins, John C.
Pennsylvania State University
83
Read, Jocelyn S.
California State University, Fullerton
84
Chen, Yanbei
California Institute of Technology
85
Alford, Mark G.
Washington University in St. Louis
86
Kaplan, David B.
Institute for Nuclear Theory
87
Harlow, Daniel
Center for Theoretical Physics
88
Flanagan, Eanna Ẽ.
Cornell University College of Engineering
89
Pürrer, Michael
University of Rhode Island
90
Brodsky, Stanley J.
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
91
Hughes, Scott A.
MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
92
McLerran, Larry D.
University of Washington
93
Jaffe, Robert L.
Center for Theoretical Physics
94
Randall, Lisa J.
Harvard University
95
Olive, Keith A.
College of Science and Engineering
96
Harry, Gregory M.
American University
97
Teukolsky, Saul A.
Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science
98
Radyushkin, Anatoly V.
Old Dominion University
99
Isi, Maximiliano
Simons Foundation
100
Schenke, Bjo¨rn
Brookhaven National Laboratory Physics Department

982 listed scientists in Nuclear & Particle Physics in the United States

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