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Which institutions in the United States have the most top-cited scientists in Optics?

497 researchers in the United States whose main subfield is Optics are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 0.7% of all listed authors in the United States, and 1st of 57 countries in the subfield. 141 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). College of Engineering has the most (20), followed by National Institute of Standards and Technology (20) and The University of Arizona (14). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors

497

0.7% of all in the United States

In the global top 100,000

141

28.4% of them

Country rank in the subfield

of 57 countries in Optics

Highest-ranked

#681

Boyd, Robert W.

#	Institution	Listed authors	Top 100k	Rank worldwide	Highest-ranked author
1	College of Engineering	20	6	#1	Zhang, Song #3,855
2	National Institute of Standards and Technology	20	2	#3	Newbury, Nathan R. #22,312
3	The University of Arizona	14	1	#5	Brady, David Jones #20,838
4	University of Central Florida	13	3	#6	Khanikaev, Alexander B. #32,784
5	University of Rochester Institute of Optics	12	5	#8	Agrawal, Govind P. #3,333
6	University of Colorado Boulder	10	4	#18	Diddams, Scott A. #9,687
7	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	7	3	#31	Fujimoto, James G. #6,340
8	California Institute of Technology Division of Engineering and Applied Science	6	1	#36	Váhala, Kerry J. #1,697
9	MIT School of Engineering	6	3	#45	Hu, Juejun Jun #58,142
10	Duke University	5	4	#55	Smith, David R. #3,224
11	USC Viterbi School of Engineering	5	2	#58	Christodoulides, Demetrios N. #5,564
12	The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science	5	3	#59	Lipson, Michal #8,889
13	Stanford Engineering	5	2	#62	Fan, Jonathan Albert #18,819
14	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	5	2	#66	Cundiff, Steven T. #47,879
15	UCLA Samueli School of Engineering	5	1	#67	Rivenson, Yair #52,643
16	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	5	0	#74	Grice, Warren P. #142,090
17	University of Rochester	4	3	#76	Boyd, Robert W. #681
18	Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science	4	2	#77	Cao, Hui #8,443
19	Los Alamos National Laboratory	4	2	#78	Chen, Houtong #10,596
20	Stanford University	4	2	#79	Byer, Robert L. #12,863
21	Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences	4	1	#80	Loncǎr, Marko #16,968
22	University of Washington	4	1	#82	Wang, Ruikang K. #21,173
23	Washington University in St. Louis	4	1	#90	Yang, Lan #38,665
24	School of Engineering and Applied Science	4	1	#92	Feng, Liang #42,700
25	Massachusetts General Hospital	4	1	#95	Tearney, Guillermo J. #53,079
26	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	4	2	#96	Popescu, Gabriel #57,657
27	Electrical and Computer Engineering Department	4	1	#101	Liu, Zhaowei #76,610
28	SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory	4	0	#102	Marchesini, Stefano #111,363
29	California Institute of Technology	3	2	#112	Wang, Lihong V. #706
30	UW College of Engineering	3	2	#113	Kutz, Jose Nathan #1,232
31	University of California, Los Angeles	3	2	#116	Ozcan, Aydogan #4,705
32	Boston University	3	3	#118	Boas, David A. #14,117
33	The Grainger College of Engineering	3	1	#119	Kwiat, Paul G. #14,118
34	Cornell University College of Engineering	3	2	#121	Wise, Frank W. #14,942
35	HyperLight	3	1	#127	Zhang, Mian #38,208
36	Boston University College of Engineering	3	1	#130	Tian, Lei #43,503
37	University of Maryland, College Park	3	1	#145	Srinivasan, Kartik A. #73,358
38	School of Electrical and Computer Engineering	3	1	#146	Cai, Wenshan #79,083
39	University of Rochester Laboratory for Laser Energetics	3	0	#154	Dorrer, Christophe #108,023
40	Northwestern University	3	0	#157	Zhang, Hao F. #131,071
41	University of California, Irvine	3	0	#159	Tromberg, Bruce J. #136,574
42	Tufts School of Engineering	3	0	#161	Fantini, Sergio #143,333
43	JILA	3	0	#164	Kapteyn, Henry C. #146,242
44	Michigan Engineering	3	0	#166	Winful, Herbert G. #159,501
45	NTT Research, Inc.	3	0	#167	Suh, Myoung Gyun #175,078
46	Meta	3	0	#179	Marsili, Francesco #229,622

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

1
Boyd, Robert W.
University of Rochester
2
Wang, Lihong V.
California Institute of Technology
3
Kutz, Jose Nathan
UW College of Engineering
4
Váhala, Kerry J.
California Institute of Technology Division of Engineering and Applied Science
5
Smith, David R.
Duke University
6
Agrawal, Govind P.
University of Rochester Institute of Optics
7
Zhang, Song
College of Engineering
8
Shalaev, Vladimir M.
College of Engineering
9
Ozcan, Aydogan
University of California, Los Angeles
10
Fienup, James R.
University of Rochester Institute of Optics
11
Christodoulides, Demetrios N.
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
12
Shapiro, Jeffrey H.
MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
13
Fujimoto, James G.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
14
Khurgin, Jacob B.
Johns Hopkins University
15
Cao, Hui
Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science
16
Mittleman, Daniel M.
School of Engineering
17
Lipson, Michal
The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
18
Diddams, Scott A.
University of Colorado Boulder
19
Chen, Houtong
Los Alamos National Laboratory
20
Yu, Nanfang
The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
21
Rechtsman, Mikael C.
Eberly College of Science
22
Byer, Robert L.
Stanford University
23
Gaeta, Alexander L.
The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
24
Boas, David A.
Boston University
25
Kwiat, Paul G.
The Grainger College of Engineering
26
Yang, Jianke
College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences
27
Fejer, Martin M.
Ginzton Laboratory
28
Wise, Frank W.
Cornell University College of Engineering
29
Padilla, Willie J.
Duke University
30
Cheng, Jixin Xing
College of Arts & Sciences
31
Grier, David G.
New York University
32
Bohren, Craig F.
Pennsylvania State University
33
Loncǎr, Marko
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
34
Boltasseva, Alexandra E.
College of Engineering
35
Dowling, Jonathan P.
Louisiana State University
36
Fan, Jonathan Albert
Stanford Engineering
37
Gordon, Howard R.
College of Arts and Sciences
38
Javidi, Bahram
UConn College of Engineering
39
Brady, David Jones
The University of Arizona
40
Wang, Ruikang K.
University of Washington
41
Yin, Xiaobo
University of Colorado Boulder
42
Newbury, Nathan R.
National Institute of Standards and Technology
43
Kitching, John E.
University of Colorado Boulder
44
Zheng, Guoan
Biomedical Engineering Department
45
Moerner, W. E.
Stanford UniversityNobel laureate
46
Johnson, Steven G.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
47
Zhang, Xi Cheng
University of Rochester Institute of Optics
48
Raman, Aaswath P.
University of California, Los Angeles
49
Ji, Na
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
50
Maleki, Lute
OEwaves, Inc.
51
Arbabi, Amir
Daniel J. Riccio Jr. College of Engineering
52
Ozdemir, Sahin Kaya
School of Science and Engineering
53
Kildishev, Alexander V.
College of Engineering
54
Chen, Weiting
SNOChip Inc.
55
Yun, Seok-hyun Andy
Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology
56
Khanikaev, Alexander B.
University of Central Florida
57
Yao, Junjie
Duke University
58
Alfano, Robert R.
City College of New York
59
Wolf, Emil
University of Rochester
60
Genevet, Patrice
Colorado School of Mines
61
Hillman, Elizabeth M.C.
Columbia University
62
Zhang, Mian
HyperLight
63
Yang, Lan
Washington University in St. Louis
64
de Groot, Peter J.
Zygo Corporation
65
Yu, Zongfu
UW-Madison College of Engineering
66
Gordon, James P.
Nokia Bell Labs
67
Korotkova, Olga
College of Arts and Sciences
68
Jacob, Zubin
College of Engineering
69
Mobley, Curtis D.
Sequoia Scientific, Inc.
70
Feng, Liang
School of Engineering and Applied Science
71
Fairchild, Mark D.
Rochester Institute of Technology
72
Tian, Lei
Boston University College of Engineering
73
Hsu, Chiawei
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
74
Khorasaninejad, Mohammadreza
Magic Leap, Inc.
75
Cundiff, Steven T.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
76
Omenetto, Fiorenzo G.
Los Alamos National Laboratory
77
Painter, Oskar Jon
AWS Center for Quantum Computing
78
Kim, Myung K.
University of South Florida, Tampa
79
Rivenson, Yair
UCLA Samueli School of Engineering
80
Tearney, Guillermo J.
Massachusetts General Hospital
81
Tang, Hong X.
Yale University
82
Fan, Xudong Sherman
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
83
El-Ganainy, Ramy A.
School of Science and Engineering
84
Berggren, Karl K.
MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
85
Li, Mo
UW College of Engineering
86
Fang, Qianqian
Northeastern University
87
Overvig, Adam Christopher
Charles V. Schaefer, Jr. School of Engineering and Science
88
Popescu, Gabriel
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
89
Hu, Juejun Jun
MIT School of Engineering
90
Litchinitser, Natalia M.
Duke University
91
Safavi-Naeini, Amir H.
Ginzton Laboratory
92
Rolland, Jannick P.V.
University of Rochester Institute of Optics
93
Coddington, Ian R.
National Institute of Standards and Technology
94
Weiss, Shimon
California NanoSystems Institute
95
Gauthier, Daniel J.
ResCon Technologies, LLC
96
Gbur, Greg J.
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
97
Mertz, Jerome C.
Boston University
98
Guo, Chunlei
University of Rochester
99
Xu, Chris
Cornell University
100
Matsko, Andrey B.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory

497 listed scientists in Optics in the United States

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