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33 institutions · Nutrition & Dietetics · United States

Which institutions in the United States have the most top-cited scientists in Nutrition & Dietetics?

372 researchers in the United States whose main subfield is Nutrition & Dietetics 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 54 countries in the subfield. 200 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health has the most (15), followed by University of California, Davis (10) and Pennsylvania State University (9). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors
372
0.5% of all in the United States
In the global top 100,000
200
53.8% of them
Country rank in the subfield
#1
of 54 countries in Nutrition & Dietetics
Highest-ranked
#272
Popkin, Barry Michael
#InstitutionListed authorsTop 100kRank worldwideHighest-ranked author
1Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health159#1Rimm, Eric B. #8,059
2University of California, Davis107#3Lönnerdal, Bo L. #3,279
3Pennsylvania State University96#5Kris-Etherton, Penny M. #4,494
4Tufts University93#6Rosenberg, Irwin H. #9,480
5Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health95#8Christian, Parul S. #25,426
6University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign75#12Holscher, Hannah D. #8,902
7Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging76#13Lichtenstein, A. H. #11,568
8University of Connecticut72#15Fernández, Maria Luz #27,199
9Cornell University74#16Rasmussen, Kathleen Maher #37,046
10Department of Nutrition65#17Popkin, Barry Michael #272
11Harvard Medical School63#19Ludwig, David S. #7,307
12College of Health and Human Sciences63#22Mattes, Richard D. #22,122
13Pennington Biomedical Research Center42#31Heymsfield, Steven B. #2,082
14United States Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine42#39Lieberman, Harris R. #20,400
15Loma Linda University43#43Craig, Winston John #24,232
16National Cancer Institute (NCI)42#52Reedy, Jill L. #39,493
17School of Public Health32#62Drewnowski, Adam #1,006
18Florida State University32#65Bailey, Regan L. #6,117
19United States Department of Agriculture32#67Allen, Lindsay Helen #6,933
20University of Illinois at Chicago32#72Varady, Krista A. #11,903
21University of Michigan School of Public Health32#75Jones, Andrew D. #18,054
22Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine33#77Cornelis, Marylin C. #26,327
23National Institutes of Health (NIH)32#78Subar, Amy F. #27,656
24UCLA Center for Human Nutrition31#79Heber, David H. #29,551
25University of South Carolina32#83Frongillo, Edward A. #38,749
26Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine32#85Fahey, Jed W. #46,411
27Brigham and Women's Hospital31#88Bhupathiraju, Shilpa N. #51,971
28Boston Children's Hospital31#89Mehta, Nilesh M. #55,246
29Rollins School of Public Health33#93Young, Melissa Fox #62,277
30USDA ARS Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center31#96Reeves, Philip G. #71,051
31Baylor College of Medicine31#99Waterland, R. A. A. #88,248
32Centers for Disease Control and Prevention30#102Suchdev, Parminder S. #104,970
33Arizona State University Downtown Phoenix Campus30#105Johnston, Carol S. #140,156

The top 100 in Nutrition & Dietetics in the United States, in order

  1. 1
    Popkin, Barry Michael
    Department of Nutrition
  2. 2
    Drewnowski, Adam
    School of Public Health
  3. 3
    Slavin, Joanne L.
    University of Minnesota Twin Cities
  4. 4
    Simopoulos, Artemis P.
    Center for Nutrition, Genetics & Health
  5. 5
    Heymsfield, Steven B.
    Pennington Biomedical Research Center
  6. 6
    Fanzo, Jessica C.
    Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies
  7. 7
    St-Onge, Marie Pierre
    Columbia University
  8. 8
    Lönnerdal, Bo L.
    University of California, Davis
  9. 9
    Sanders, Mary Ellen
    Mary Ellen Sanders LLC
  10. 10
    Zeisel, Steven H.
    The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  11. 11
    Weaver, Connie Marie
    San Diego State University
  12. 12
    Kris-Etherton, Penny M.
    Pennsylvania State University
  13. 13
  14. 14
    Dewey, Kathryn G.
    University of California, Davis
  15. 15
    Prasad, Ananda Shiva
    Wayne State University School of Medicine
  16. 16
    Flegal, Katherine M.
    Stanford University School of Medicine
  17. 17
    Black, Maureen M.
    University of Maryland School of Medicine
  18. 18
    Bailey, Regan L.
    Florida State University
  19. 19
    Allen, Lindsay Helen
    United States Department of Agriculture
  20. 20
    Ludwig, David S.
    Harvard Medical School
  21. 21
    Bode, Lars
    UC San Diego School of Medicine
  22. 22
    Semba, Richard D.
    Wilmer Eye Institute
  23. 23
    Rimm, Eric B.
    Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
  24. 24
    Holscher, Hannah D.
    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  25. 25
    Rosenberg, Irwin H.
    Tufts University
  26. 26
    van Dam, Robertus Martinus
    Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
  27. 27
    King, J. C.
    Department of Nutritional Sciences & Toxicology
  28. 28
    Hébert, James R.
    Connecting Health Innovations, LLC
  29. 29
    Wallace, Taylor C.
    The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences
  30. 30
    Grant, William B.
    Sunlight, Nutrition and Health Research Center
  31. 31
    Myers, Samuel S.
    Johns Hopkins University
  32. 32
    Lichtenstein, A. H.
    Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging
  33. 33
    Ruel, Marie T.
    International Food Policy Research Institute
  34. 34
    Varady, Krista A.
    University of Illinois at Chicago
  35. 35
    Heaney, Robert P.
    Creighton University
  36. 36
    Evans, William J.
    University of California, Berkeley
  37. 37
    Harris, William S.
    Fatty Acid Research Institute
  38. 38
    Martorell, Reynaldo
    Emory University
  39. 39
    Birch, Leann Lipps
    University of Georgia
  40. 40
    Messina, Mark J.
    Soy Nutrition Institute Global
  41. 41
    Neuhouser, Marian L.
    Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
  42. 42
    Liu, Simin
    The Warren Alpert Medical School
  43. 43
    Shivappa, Nitin
    Connecting Health Innovations, LLC
  44. 44
    Young, Sera L.
    Northwestern University
  45. 45
    Krebs, Nancy F.
    University of Colorado Anschutz Department of Pediatrics
  46. 46
    Wischmeyer, Paul Edmund
    Duke University School of Medicine
  47. 47
    Jones, Andrew D.
    University of Michigan School of Public Health
  48. 48
    Sun, Qi
    Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
  49. 49
    Compher, Charlene W.
    University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing
  50. 50
    Lieberman, Harris R.
    United States Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine
  51. 51
    Abrams, Steven A.
    Dell Medical School
  52. 52
    Adair, Linda S.
    Department of Nutrition
  53. 53
    Morley, John Edward
    Saint Louis University School of Medicine
  54. 54
    Rolls, Barbara J.
    Pennsylvania State University
  55. 55
    German, Bruce Bruce
    University of California, Davis
  56. 56
    Li, Yanping
    Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
  57. 57
    Guasch-Ferré, Marta
    Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
  58. 58
    Mattes, Richard D.
    College of Health and Human Sciences
  59. 59
    Tucker, Katherine L.
    University of Massachusetts Lowell
  60. 60
    Schoeller, Dale A.
    University of Wisconsin-Madison
  61. 61
    Manson, Jo Ann E.
    Harvard Medical School
  62. 62
    Hu, Frank B.
    Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
  63. 63
    Gearhardt, Ashley Nicole
    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  64. 64
    Craig, Winston John
    Loma Linda University
  65. 65
    Christian, Parul S.
    Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
  66. 66
    Selhub, Jacob S.
    Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging
  67. 67
    Taillie, Lindsey Smith
    Department of Nutrition
  68. 68
  69. 69
    Green, Ralph
    UC Davis Medical Center
  70. 70
    Cornelis, Marylin C.
    Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
  71. 71
    Tanumihardjo, Sherry Ann
    University of Wisconsin-Madison
  72. 72
    Butte, Nancy F.
    USDA ARS Children's Nutrition Research Center
  73. 73
    Fernández, Maria Luz
    University of Connecticut
  74. 74
    van Horn, Linda V.
    Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
  75. 75
    Subar, Amy F.
    National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  76. 76
    Dwyer, Johanna T.
    Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging
  77. 77
    Stover, Patrick John
    Florida State University
  78. 78
    Story, Mary T.
    Duke University School of Medicine
  79. 79
    Finke, Mark D.
    Mark Finke LLC
  80. 80
    Fulgoni, Victor L.I.I.I.
    Nutrition Impact LLC
  81. 81
    Heber, David H.
    UCLA Center for Human Nutrition
  82. 82
    Clifton, P. M.
    Royal Adelaide Hospital
  83. 83
    Rippe, James M.
    University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
  84. 84
    Martirosyan, D. M.
    Functional Food Institute
  85. 85
    Fraser, Gary Ernest
    Loma Linda University
  86. 86
    Mennella, Julie A.
    Monell Chemical Senses Center
  87. 87
    Batsis, John A.
    Department of Nutrition
  88. 88
    Donovan, Sharon M.
    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  89. 89
    Bouis, Howarth E.
    International Food Policy Research Institute
  90. 90
    Wolfe, Robert R.
    Donald W. Reynolds Department of Geriatrics
  91. 91
    McClave, Stephen A.
    University of Louisville School of Medicine
  92. 92
    Booth, Sarah L.
    Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging
  93. 93
    Caballero, Benjamín H.
    Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
  94. 94
    Brenna, J. Thomas
    The University of Texas at Austin
  95. 95
    Clinton, Steven K.
    The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center
  96. 96
    Pasiakos, Stefan M.
    National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  97. 97
    Beard, John L.
    Pennsylvania State University
  98. 98
    Gardner, Christopher D.
    Stanford University School of Medicine
  99. 99
    Tinsley, Grant M.
    Texas Tech University
  100. 100
    Frankel, Edwin N.
    University of California, Davis

372 listed scientists in Nutrition & Dietetics in the United States

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Data: Ioannidis, John P.A. (2026), ‘August 2026 data-update for “Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators”’, Mendeley Data, v9, doi:10.17632/btchxktzyw.9. 2026 list, ranked by composite citation score (c) excluding self-citations.

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