Top institutions in the United States for Plant Biology & Botany

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Which institutions in the United States have the most top-cited scientists in Plant Biology & Botany?

759 researchers in the United States whose main subfield is Plant Biology & Botany are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 1.0% of all listed authors in the United States, and 1st of 82 countries in the subfield. 364 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). University of California, Davis has the most (50), followed by Cornell University (26) and Washington State University Pullman (25). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors

759

1.0% of all in the United States

In the global top 100,000

364

48.0% of them

Country rank in the subfield

of 82 countries in Plant Biology & Botany

Highest-ranked

#109

Mittler, Ron

#	Institution	Listed authors	Top 100k	Rank worldwide	Highest-ranked author
1	University of California, Davis	50	22	#2	Buckley, Thomas N. #10,184
2	Cornell University	26	16	#7	Niklas, Karl Joseph #5,600
3	Washington State University Pullman	25	10	#8	McDowell, Nate G. #1,768
4	Michigan State University	23	11	#10	Thomashow, Michael F. #7,470
5	University of Florida	20	8	#16	Khan, Naeem #8,016
6	University of Wisconsin-Madison	18	8	#24	Sharkey, Thomas David #4,074
7	University of California, Riverside	17	10	#28	Bailey-Serres, Julia N. #14,183
8	Iowa State University	17	9	#29	Munkvold, Gary P. #25,721
9	USDA Agricultural Research Service	17	7	#30	Wang, Shiow Ying #42,255
10	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	15	9	#35	Ainsworth, Elizabeth Anna #2,706
11	University of Georgia	14	8	#44	Paterson, Andrew H. #6,391
12	University of Missouri	12	8	#50	Mittler, Ron #109
13	University of Minnesota Twin Cities	12	7	#54	Glazebrook, Jane #17,869
14	University of Nebraska–Lincoln	11	5	#62	Schachtman, Daniel P. #28,931
15	Pennsylvania State University	10	7	#64	Lynch, Jonathan Paul Aul #492
16	Texas Tech University	10	4	#66	Jagadish, Krishna SV #6,073
17	College of Agriculture	10	7	#73	Dudareva, Natalia A. #22,350
18	Texas A&M University	10	4	#79	Budak, Hikmet #77,016
19	NC State University	9	7	#84	Sinclair, Thomas R. #11,971
20	Donald Danforth Plant Science Center	9	2	#87	Baxter, Ivan R. #40,947
21	Kansas State University	8	4	#95	Prasad, P. V.V. #10,687
22	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	8	3	#99	Pichersky, Eran #17,759
23	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	8	4	#103	Wullschleger, Stan Duane #43,047
24	University of California, Berkeley	7	3	#112	Luán, Sheng #8,449
25	University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences	7	4	#113	Wang, Nian #12,445
26	Boyce Thompson Institute	7	4	#119	Harrison, Maria J. #28,278
27	University of Massachusetts Amherst	7	5	#126	Vierling, Elizabeth #39,049
28	Colorado State University	7	2	#129	Vivanco, Jorge M. #55,455
29	University of Kentucky	7	2	#131	Baskin, Jerry Mack #66,276
30	Duke University	6	5	#140	Dong, Xinnian #11,750
31	Oregon State University	6	4	#153	Tyler, Brett M. #38,015
32	The University of Tennessee, Knoxville	6	5	#155	Binder, Brad M. #41,081
33	The Ohio State University	6	3	#157	Ou, Shujun #43,146
34	University of Washington	6	2	#158	Imaizumi, Takato #45,031
35	United States Department of Agriculture	6	2	#163	Walters, Christina T. #60,104
36	College of Agriculture and Life Sciences	6	1	#133	Galbraith, David William #83,057
37	USDA ARS Beltsville Agricultural Research Center	5	1	#180	Ziska, Lewis Hans #11,345
38	Rutgers University–New Brunswick	5	2	#181	Ràskin, Ilya #14,899
39	Stanford University	5	2	#187	DInneny, José R. #22,124
40	Carnegie Institution of Washington	5	2	#195	Grossman, Arthur R. #35,849
41	University of California, San Diego	4	4	#220	Zhao, Yunde #5,153
42	University of California, Los Angeles	4	2	#222	Sack, Lawren #6,782
43	Washington University in St. Louis	4	2	#224	Vierstra, Richard David #8,791
44	The University of Texas at Austin	4	2	#227	Chen, Zengjian Jeffrey #11,668
45	Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology	4	3	#229	Howe, Gregg A. #13,217
46	Purdue University	4	2	#242	Hasegawa, Paul Michael #33,981
47	Oklahoma State University	4	1	#247	Sunkar, Ramanjulu #39,592
48	Brookhaven National Laboratory Biology Department	4	1	#251	Liu, Changjun #49,349
49	New York University	4	1	#263	Bergelson, Joy M. #60,917
50	University of Arkansas	4	1	#272	Pereira, Andy #70,603
51	University of Missouri School of Medicine	4	1	#275	Zhang, Shuqun #80,351
52	The University of Arizona	4	0	#291	Waqas, Muhammad #156,125
53	University of North Texas	3	3	#297	Dixon, Richard Arthur #1,855
54	USDA ARS Robert W. Holley Center for Agriculture and Health	3	3	#299	Giovannoni, James J. #4,967
55	UNC School of Medicine	3	2	#307	Dangl, Jeffery L. #7,777
56	Faculty of Arts and Sciences	3	3	#313	Guerinot, Mary Lou #10,304
57	College of Natural Sciences	3	1	#315	Pilon-Smits, Elizabeth A.H. #10,859
58	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	3	2	#318	Tholl, Dorothea B. #13,391
59	University of Kentucky College of Agriculture, Food and Environment	3	2	#324	Baskin, Carol Caudle #19,414
60	East Carolina University	3	2	#331	Zhang, Baohong #23,888
61	Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute	3	1	#339	Winter, Klaus #37,470
62	University of Nevada, Reno	3	2	#367	Cushman, John C. #71,883
63	University of Maryland, College Park	3	1	#384	Murphy, Angus S. #92,005
64	College of Engineering	3	0	#401	Gamage, Ashoka #115,453

The top 100 in Plant Biology & Botany in the United States, in order

1
Mittler, Ron
University of Missouri
2
Lynch, Jonathan Paul Aul
Pennsylvania State University
3
Cosgrove, Daniel J.
Pennsylvania State University
4
McDowell, Nate G.
Washington State University Pullman
5
Dixon, Richard Arthur
University of North Texas
6
Ainsworth, Elizabeth Anna
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
7
Long, Stephen Patrick
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
8
Duke, Stephen O.
University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy
9
Sharkey, Thomas David
University of Wisconsin-Madison
10
Giovannoni, James J.
USDA ARS Robert W. Holley Center for Agriculture and Health
11
Zhao, Yunde
University of California, San Diego
12
Ralph, John
University of Wisconsin-Madison
13
Niklas, Karl Joseph
Cornell University
14
Sperry, John S.
The University of Utah
15
Jagadish, Krishna SV
Texas Tech University
16
Paterson, Andrew H.
University of Georgia
17
Sheen, Jenq Yunn
Harvard Medical School
18
Khan, Abdul Latif
Cullen College of Engineering
19
Sack, Lawren
University of California, Los Angeles
20
Thomashow, Michael F.
Michigan State University
21
Dangl, Jeffery L.
UNC School of Medicine
22
Khan, Naeem
University of Florida
23
Lawson, Tracy
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
24
McCouch, Susan R.
Cornell University
25
Luán, Sheng
University of California, Berkeley
26
Vierstra, Richard David
Washington University in St. Louis
27
Kochian, Leon V.
USDA ARS Robert W. Holley Center for Agriculture and Health
28
Grotewold, Erich
Michigan State University
29
Buckley, Thomas N.
University of California, Davis
30
Guerinot, Mary Lou
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
31
Prasad, P. V.V.
Kansas State University
32
Pilon-Smits, Elizabeth A.H.
College of Natural Sciences
33
Chory, Joanne
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
34
Blumwald, Eduardo
University of California, Davis
35
Ziska, Lewis Hans
USDA ARS Beltsville Agricultural Research Center
36
Chen, Zengjian Jeffrey
The University of Texas at Austin
37
Dong, Xinnian
Duke University
38
Sinclair, Thomas R.
NC State University
39
Niyogi, Krishna K.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
40
Klee, Harry J.
University of Florida
41
Wang, Nian
University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences
42
Howe, Gregg A.
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
43
Tholl, Dorothea B.
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
44
Schroeder, Julian I.
University of California, San Diego
45
Tran, Lam Son Phan
Texas Tech University
46
Harman, Gary E.
Cornell University
47
Ort, Donald R.
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
48
Eissenstat, David M.
Pennsylvania State University
49
Bailey-Serres, Julia N.
University of California, Riverside
50
Sun, Taiping
Duke University
51
Ràskin, Ilya
Rutgers University–New Brunswick
52
Ma, Hong
Eberly College of Science
53
Bruns, Thomas D.
University of California, Berkeley
54
Norby, Richard J.
ORNL Environmental Sciences Division
55
Setzer, William N.
Aromatic Plant Research Center
56
Browse, John A.
Washington State University Pullman
57
Weng, Jingke
Northeastern University
58
Raguso, Robert A.
Cornell University
59
Ploetz, Randy C.
Tropical Research & Education Center
60
Tanksley, Steven D.
Nature Source Improved Plants, LLC
61
Axtell, Michael J.
Pennsylvania State University
62
Winkel, Brenda S.J.
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
63
Somerville, Chris R.
Department of Plant & Microbial Biology
64
Pichersky, Eran
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
65
Glazebrook, Jane
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
66
Kliebenstein, Daniel J.
University of California, Davis
67
Ronald, Pamela C.
Joint BioEnergy Institute
68
Bennetzen, Jeffrey L.
University of Georgia
69
Bernardo, Rex N.
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
70
Baskin, Carol Caudle
University of Kentucky College of Agriculture, Food and Environment
71
Amasino, Richard Mark
University of Wisconsin-Madison
72
Tegeder, Mechthild
Washington State University Pullman
73
Comai, Luca
University of California, Davis
74
Mohnen, Debra
Franklin College of Arts and Sciences
75
Brown, Patrick H.
University of California, Davis
76
DInneny, José R.
Stanford University
77
Dudareva, Natalia A.
College of Agriculture
78
Buckler, Ed S.
Cornell University
79
Melis, Anastasios
University of California
80
Quail, Peter H.
USDA Plant Gene Expression Center
81
Huang, Bingru
Rutgers University
82
Zhang, Baohong
East Carolina University
83
Chen, Liqing
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
84
Munkvold, Gary P.
Iowa State University
85
Bloom, Arnold J.
University of California, Davis
86
Schmutz, Jeremy
HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology
87
Springer, Nathan Michael
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
88
Elmer, Wade H.
Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station
89
Jannink, Jean Luc
Cornell University
90
Demmig-Adams, Barbara
University of Colorado Boulder
91
Ogwu, Matthew Chidozie
Appalachian State University
92
Bent, Andrew F.
University of Wisconsin-Madison
93
Kieber, Joseph J.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
94
Endelman, Jeffrey B.
University of Wisconsin-Madison
95
Savary, Serge K.J.Udumala
University of California, Davis
96
Dubcovsky, Jorge
University of California, Davis
97
Kloepper, Joseph W.
Auburn University
98
Bugbee, Bruce G.
Utah State University
99
Chen, Xianming
Washington State University Pullman
100
Foolad, Majid R.
Pennsylvania State University

759 listed scientists in Plant Biology & Botany in the United States

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