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

606 researchers in the United States whose main subfield is Organic Chemistry are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 0.8% of all listed authors in the United States, and 2nd of 74 countries in the subfield. 236 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). University of Michigan, Ann Arbor has the most (12), followed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (11) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (10). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors

606

0.8% of all in the United States

In the global top 100,000

236

38.9% of them

Country rank in the subfield

of 74 countries in Organic Chemistry

Highest-ranked

#978

Schreiber, Stuart L.

#	Institution	Listed authors	Top 100k	Rank worldwide	Highest-ranked author
1	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	12	2	#41	Sanford, Melanie S. #45,540
2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	11	5	#44	Jensen, Klavs F. #2,999
3	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	10	4	#52	Dai, Sheng #3,778
4	Scripps Research Institute	10	7	#53	Sharpless, K. Barry #9,837
5	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	10	4	#55	Wang, Yong #13,531
6	Merck & Co., Inc.	10	1	#58	Yeung, Charles S. #72,311
7	University of California, Davis	9	4	#64	Power, Philip P. #5,911
8	University of Wisconsin-Madison	9	3	#65	Yoon, Tehshik P. #6,021
9	University of California, Irvine	9	2	#70	Evans, William J. #17,471
10	Yale University	8	4	#74	Crabtree, Robert H. #2,274
11	Texas A&M University	8	3	#85	Burgess, Kevin M.N. #48,127
12	Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences	7	5	#91	Schreiber, Stuart L. #978
13	Stanford University	7	5	#95	Bertozzi, Carolyn R. #3,047
14	The University of Texas at Austin	7	5	#97	Sessler, Jonathan L. #10,520
15	Princeton University	7	4	#99	Chírik, Paul J. #10,885
16	National Laboratory of the Rockies	7	2	#101	Beckham, Gregg T. #14,743
17	Iowa State University	7	1	#112	Larock, Richard C. #54,494
18	University of Delaware	7	1	#116	Yang, Xuan #85,542
19	University of California, Santa Barbara	6	3	#125	Lipshutz, Bruce H. #9,426
20	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	6	1	#129	Denmark, Scott Eric #16,222
21	The University of Texas at Dallas	6	3	#138	Gevorgyan, Vladimir N. #44,405
22	University of California, Los Angeles	6	2	#146	Tang, Yi #87,873
23	University of Southern California	5	2	#153	Oláh, George Andrew #2,829
24	Scripps Research	5	3	#155	Baran, Phil S. #4,017
25	Georgia Institute of Technology	5	4	#157	Jones, Christopher W. #5,535
26	Rice University	5	2	#158	Nicolaou, K.C. Costa #5,605
27	University of Georgia	5	3	#162	von Ragué-Schleyer, Paul #6,416
28	Washington University in St. Louis	5	2	#168	Jiao, Feng #19,068
29	College of Arts and Sciences	5	1	#170	Nicewicz, David A. #21,409
30	University of Pittsburgh	5	3	#173	Curran, Dennis P. #35,591
31	University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences	5	1	#179	Kozlowski, Marisa C. #48,166
32	College of Engineering	5	2	#188	Carreon, Maria L. #70,050
33	Cornell University	5	1	#193	Chang, Pamela V. #76,960
34	Berkeley College of Chemistry	4	2	#207	Skrzyńska, Anna N. #2,691
35	University of California, San Diego	4	2	#208	Cohen, Seth M. #3,488
36	The University of Tennessee, Knoxville	4	3	#209	Ragauskas, Arthur J. #4,293
37	College of Natural Sciences	4	1	#212	Chen, Eugene You Xian #8,115
38	Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering	4	3	#214	Grubbs, Robert H. #8,392
39	MIT School of Engineering	4	2	#220	Roman-Leshkov, Yuriy #17,198
40	Purdue University	4	4	#223	BeMiller, James N. #21,057
41	Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry	4	1	#226	Devaraj, Neal Krishna #25,117
42	University of North Texas	4	1	#228	Ma, Shengqian #28,877
43	Herbert Wertheim UF Scripps Institute for Biomedical Innovation & Technology	4	2	#229	Disney, Matthew David #29,920
44	University of Colorado Boulder	4	3	#231	Zhang, Wei #36,114
45	Columbia University	4	1	#239	Rovis, Tomislav #46,162
46	Indiana University Bloomington	4	2	#246	Lewis, Jared C. #52,668
47	College of Computer, Mathematical, & Natural Sciences	4	2	#250	Isaacs, Lyle D. #55,875
48	College of Liberal Arts and Sciences	4	1	#255	Dolbier, William R. #64,985
49	The Ohio State University	4	1	#264	RajanBabu, T. V.Babu #85,667
50	The University of Chicago	4	1	#268	Levin, Mark D. #96,541
51	Boston College	4	1	#269	Weerapana, Eranthie #98,000
52	California Institute of Technology	3	2	#290	Arnold, Frances H. #1,386
53	The Robert Mehrabian College of Engineering	3	3	#295	Christopher, Phillip #11,580
54	University of California, Riverside	3	1	#296	Schrock, Richard R. #12,472
55	University of Utah, College Of Science	3	2	#298	Stang, Peter J. #14,178
56	Emory University	3	2	#301	Davies, Huw Madoc Lynn #18,850
57	University of Virginia	3	1	#315	Pu, Lin #30,225
58	Washington State University Pullman	3	1	#319	Matteson, Donald S. #39,058
59	University of Oregon	3	3	#327	Pluth, Michael D. #46,721
60	Michigan Engineering	3	1	#341	Zhang, Bingxing #66,166
61	College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics	3	2	#352	Brookhart, Maurice S. #73,074
62	University of Massachusetts Amherst	3	1	#354	Skouta, Rachid #74,522
63	National Cancer Institute at Frederick	3	1	#356	Schnermann, Martin J. #74,962
64	International Institute for Nanotechnology	3	1	#370	Nguyen, Son Binh T. #96,767
65	University of Minnesota Twin Cities	3	0	#376	Grabow, Lars C. #103,157
66	Louisiana State University	3	0	#381	Elgrishi, Noémie #111,054
67	The University of Utah	3	0	#387	Schmidt, Eric W. #119,248
68	University at Buffalo, The State University of New York	3	0	#390	Chemler, Sherry R. #120,322
69	Georgia State University	3	0	#391	Wang, Binghe #121,461
70	University of Missouri	3	0	#395	Handa, Sachin #130,155
71	College of Science	3	0	#417	Uyeda, Christopher #172,915

The top 100 in Organic Chemistry in the United States, in order

1
Schreiber, Stuart L.
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
2
Arnold, Frances H.
California Institute of TechnologyNobel laureate
3
Crabtree, Robert H.
Yale University
4
Skrzyńska, Anna N.
Berkeley College of Chemistry
5
Oláh, George Andrew
University of Southern CaliforniaNobel laureate
6
Jensen, Klavs F.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
7
Bertozzi, Carolyn R.
Stanford UniversityNobel laureate
8
Coley, Connor W.
MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
9
Anastas, Paul Thomas
Yale School of Medicine
10
Cohen, Seth M.
University of California, San Diego
11
Dai, Sheng
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
12
Baran, Phil S.
Scripps Research
13
Ragauskas, Arthur J.
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
14
Jones, Christopher W.
Georgia Institute of Technology
15
Nicolaou, K.C. Costa
Rice University
16
Corey, Elias James
Harvard Faculty of Arts and SciencesNobel laureate
17
Crews, Craig M.
Yale University
18
Power, Philip P.
University of California, Davis
19
Yoon, Tehshik P.
University of Wisconsin-Madison
20
von Ragué-Schleyer, Paul
University of Georgia
21
Jiang, De'en
Vanderbilt University School of Engineering
22
Stahl, Shannon S.
University of Wisconsin-Madison
23
Balasubramanian, Shankar
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
24
Chen, Eugene You Xian
College of Natural Sciences
25
Grubbs, Robert H.
Division of Chemistry and Chemical EngineeringNobel laureate
26
Buchwald, Stephen L.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
27
Lipshutz, Bruce H.
University of California, Santa Barbara
28
Weix, Daniel J.
University of Wisconsin-Madison
29
Sharpless, K. Barry
Scripps Research InstituteNobel laureate
30
Sessler, Jonathan L.
The University of Texas at Austin
31
Chírik, Paul J.
Princeton University
32
Christopher, Phillip
The Robert Mehrabian College of Engineering
33
Wu, Gang W.
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
34
Jacobsen, Eric N.
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
35
Emran, Talha Bin
Brown University
36
Schrock, Richard R.
University of California, RiversideNobel laureate
37
Blackmond, Donna G.
Scripps Research
38
Baltrušaitis, Jonas
P.C. Rossin College of Engineering & Applied Science
39
Nguyen, Ha Lac
Tennessee Technological University
40
Wang, Yong
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
41
Aprahamian, Ivan
Dartmouth College
42
Stang, Peter J.
University of Utah, College Of Science
43
Beckham, Gregg T.
National Laboratory of the Rockies
44
Huber, George W.
UW-Madison College of Engineering
45
Tao, Franklin (Feng)
KU School of Engineering
46
Denmark, Scott Eric
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
47
Crich, David
University of Georgia
48
Rogers, Robin D.
The University of Alabama
49
Roman-Leshkov, Yuriy
MIT School of Engineering
50
Evans, William J.
University of California, Irvine
51
Gómez-Bombarelli, Rafael
MIT School of Engineering
52
Davies, Huw Madoc Lynn
Emory University
53
Grinstaff, Mark W.
Boston University
54
Jiao, Feng
Washington University in St. Louis
55
Ojima, Iwao
Stony Brook University
56
Szostak, Michal L.
Department of Chemistry
57
Dougherty, Dennis A.
California Institute of Technology
58
Yu, Jin-Quan
Scripps Research Institute
59
BeMiller, James N.
Purdue University
60
Nicewicz, David A.
College of Arts and Sciences
61
Abu-Omar, Mahdi M.
The Robert Mehrabian College of Engineering
62
Benner, Steven A.
Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution
63
Manoharan, Muthiah A.
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
64
Wender, Paul A.
Stanford University
65
Devaraj, Neal Krishna
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
66
Scott, Susannah L.
The Robert Mehrabian College of Engineering
67
Boger, Dale L.
Scripps Research Institute
68
Bullock, R. Morris
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
69
Frenkel, Anatoly I.
Stony Brook University
70
Surya Prakash, Gubbi Krishnamurthy
University of Southern California
71
Lin, Song
OWiC Technologies
72
Ghosh, Arun K.
Purdue University College of Pharmacy
73
Ma, Shengqian
University of North Texas
74
Schultz, Peter G.
Scripps Research Institute
75
Clardy, John C.
Harvard Medical School
76
Bertrand, Guy H.V.
University of California, San Diego
77
Disney, Matthew David
Herbert Wertheim UF Scripps Institute for Biomedical Innovation & Technology
78
Pu, Lin
University of Virginia
79
Moore, Bradley S.
Skaggs School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences
80
Soloveichik, Grigorii L.
SolEXS Consulting
81
Kool, Eric T.
Stanford University
82
Yu, Guocan
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)
83
Tantillo, Dean Joseph
University of California, Davis
84
Custelcean, Radu
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
85
Nomura, Daniel Koji
Berkeley College of Chemistry
86
Ma, Shengqian
University of South Florida, Tampa
87
Seyedsayamdost, Mohammad R.
Princeton University
88
Curran, Dennis P.
University of Pittsburgh
89
Chen, Xi
University of California, Davis
90
Zhang, Wei
University of Colorado Boulder
91
Wipf, Peter A.
University of Pittsburgh
92
Engle, Keary M.
Scripps Research Institute
93
Fenical, William H.
Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine
94
Ulijn, Rein V.
The City University of New York
95
Matteson, Donald S.
Washington State University Pullman
96
Shenvi, Ryan A.
Scripps Research
97
Overman, Larry E.
University of California, Irvine
98
Doyle, Michael P.
The University of Texas at San Antonio
99
Shen, Ben
Herbert Wertheim UF Scripps Institute for Biomedical Innovation & Technology
100
Shamshina, Julia L.
Texas Tech University

606 listed scientists in Organic Chemistry in the United States

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