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Top institutions in the United States for Polymers

30 institutions · Polymers · United States

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

318 researchers in the United States whose main subfield is Polymers are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 0.4% of all listed authors in the United States, and 2nd of 77 countries in the subfield. 145 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). College of Engineering has the most (11), followed by The Robert Mehrabian College of Engineering (8) and University of Delaware College of Engineering (8). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors
318
0.4% of all in the United States
In the global top 100,000
145
45.6% of them
Country rank in the subfield
#2
of 77 countries in Polymers
Highest-ranked
#413
Andrady, Anthony L.
#InstitutionListed authorsTop 100kRank worldwideHighest-ranked author
1College of Engineering113#17Hickner, Michael A. #29,270
2The Robert Mehrabian College of Engineering86#35Fredrickson, Glenn H. #11,485
3University of Delaware College of Engineering82#42Wagner, Norman J. #49,988
4MIT School of Engineering73#55McKinley, Gareth H. #23,719
5Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University71#59Edgar, Kevin J. #45,104
6College of Science and Engineering64#69Hillmyer, Marc A. #5,627
7School of Engineering and Applied Science63#79Winey, Karen I. #56,379
8Pennsylvania State University63#81Chung, Tze Chiang Mike #76,096
9Cockrell School of Engineering53#88Peppas, Nicholas A. #654
10The University of Akron52#98Gent, Alan N. #25,404
11The University of Tennessee, Knoxville52#99Sokolov, Alexei P. #30,604
12Cornell University52#104Uyar, Tamer #38,660
13North Dakota State University53#105Kessler, Michael R. #45,205
14NC State University51#113Lucia, Lucian Amerigo #84,009
15Case Western Reserve University42#125Zhu, Lei #10,006
16USDA Forest Products Laboratory42#137Agarwal, Umesh Prasad #27,556
17The Grainger College of Engineering43#139Wool, Richard P. #29,937
18Georgia Institute of Technology42#143Reynolds, John R. #53,314
19NC State College of Engineering32#173Andrady, Anthony L. #413
20University of Massachusetts Amherst32#180Russell, Thomas P. #10,106
21Florida State University31#185Schlenoff, Joseph B. #18,917
22Penn State College of Engineering32#190Colby, Ralph H. #23,279
23Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering32#191Rowan, Stuart J. #24,546
24University of Maine32#195Gardner, Douglas Jerome S. #28,587
25Daniel J. Riccio Jr. College of Engineering33#204Rothstein, Jonathan P. #40,251
26Stony Brook University32#215Hsiao, Benjamin S. #51,717
27Pittsburg State University31#218Petroviƈ, Z. S. #58,949
28University of Wisconsin-Madison31#228Turng, Lih Sheng #70,400
29Texas A&M University30#251Thomas, Edwin L. #105,454
30Case School of Engineering30#271Baer, Eric #179,073

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

  1. 1
    Andrady, Anthony L.
    NC State College of Engineering
  2. 2
    Peppas, Nicholas A.
    Cockrell School of Engineering
  3. 3
    Matyjaszewski, Krzysztof
    Carnegie Mellon University
  4. 4
    Paul, Donald Ross
    Cockrell School of Engineering
  5. 5
    Robeson, Lloyd M.
    P.C. Rossin College of Engineering & Applied Science
  6. 6
    Hillmyer, Marc A.
    College of Science and Engineering
  7. 7
    French, Alfred D.
    United States Department of Agriculture
  8. 8
    Bates, Frank S.
    University of Minnesota Twin Cities
  9. 9
    Larson, Ronald Gary
    Michigan Engineering
  10. 10
    Zhu, Lei
    Case Western Reserve University
  11. 11
    Russell, Thomas P.
    University of Massachusetts Amherst
  12. 12
    Fredrickson, Glenn H.
    The Robert Mehrabian College of Engineering
  13. 13
    Rubinstein, Michael H.
    Pratt School of Engineering
  14. 14
    Ishida, Hatsuo
    Case Western Reserve University
  15. 15
    Hawker, Craig J.
    The Robert Mehrabian College of Engineering
  16. 16
    Sumerlin, Brent S.
    Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering
  17. 17
    Tomalia, Donald A.
    Nanosynthons LLC
  18. 18
    Lodge, Timothy P.
    College of Science and Engineering
  19. 19
    Schlenoff, Joseph B.
    Florida State University
  20. 20
    Fréchet, Jean M.J.
    Berkeley College of Chemistry
  21. 21
    Schmidt-Rohr, Klaus R.
    Brandeis University
  22. 22
    Colby, Ralph H.
    Penn State College of Engineering
  23. 23
    McKinley, Gareth H.
    MIT School of Engineering
  24. 24
    Deming, Timothy J.
    UCLA Samueli School of Engineering
  25. 25
    Rowan, Stuart J.
    Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering
  26. 26
    Nadagouda, Mallikarjuna N.
    United States Environmental Protection Agency
  27. 27
    Gent, Alan N.
    The University of Akron
  28. 28
    Stansbury, Jeffrey W.
    University of Colorado School of Dental Medicine
  29. 29
    Advincula, Rigoberto C.
    Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  30. 30
    Agarwal, Umesh Prasad
    USDA Forest Products Laboratory
  31. 31
    Leal, L. Gary
    The Robert Mehrabian College of Engineering
  32. 32
    Gardner, Douglas Jerome S.
    University of Maine
  33. 33
    Dobrynin, Andrey V.
    College of Arts and Sciences
  34. 34
    Moore, Jeffrey S.
    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  35. 35
    Hickner, Michael A.
    College of Engineering
  36. 36
    Bowman, Christopher N.
    College of Engineering and Applied Science
  37. 37
    Pittman, Charles U.
    Mississippi State University
  38. 38
    Hsieh, Y. L.
    Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering
  39. 39
    Wool, Richard P.
    The Grainger College of Engineering
  40. 40
    Sokolov, Alexei P.
    The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
  41. 41
    Auras, Rafael A.
    College of Agriculture & Natural Resources
  42. 42
    Rogers, Simon A.
    Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
  43. 43
    Ewoldt, Randy H.
    The Grainger College of Engineering
  44. 44
    Wunderlich, Bernhard B.
    Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  45. 45
    DeSimone, Joseph Mark
    Stanford Engineering
  46. 46
    Macosko, Christopher W.
    College of Science and Engineering
  47. 47
    Long, Timothy Edward
    Arizona State University
  48. 48
    Abidi, Noureddine
    Texas Tech University
  49. 49
    Urban, Marek W.
    College of Engineering, Computing and Applied Sciences
  50. 50
    Bahar, Ivet
    Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University
  51. 51
    Uyar, Tamer
    Cornell University
  52. 52
    Zarrintaj, Payam
    E3 Enterprises
  53. 53
    Rothstein, Jonathan P.
    Daniel J. Riccio Jr. College of Engineering
  54. 54
    Lovinger, Andrew J.
    Lucent Technologies
  55. 55
    Edgar, Kevin J.
    Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
  56. 56
    Kessler, Michael R.
    North Dakota State University
  57. 57
    Sun, Gang
    Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering
  58. 58
    Winter, Horst Henning
    Daniel J. Riccio Jr. College of Engineering
  59. 59
    Du, Haishun
    Michigan State University
  60. 60
    Ober, Christopher K.
    Cornell University College of Engineering
  61. 61
    Sing, Charles E.
    The Grainger College of Engineering
  62. 62
    Johnson, Jeremiah A.
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  63. 63
    MacKay, Michael E.
    University of Delaware
  64. 64
    Milner, Scott T.
    Penn State College of Engineering
  65. 65
    Tirrell, Matthew V.
    Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering
  66. 66
    Wagner, Norman J.
    University of Delaware College of Engineering
  67. 67
    Percec, Virgil
    University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences
  68. 68
    Hsiao, Benjamin S.
    Stony Brook University
  69. 69
    Celina, Mathias C.
    Los Alamos National Laboratory Materials Science and Technology Division
  70. 70
    Stark, Nicole M.
    USDA Forest Products Laboratory
  71. 71
    Verduzco, Rafael
    George R. Brown School of Engineering and Computing
  72. 72
    Reynolds, John R.
    Georgia Institute of Technology
  73. 73
    Kumar, Sanat K.
    The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
  74. 74
    Hammouda, Boualem H.
    NIST Center for Neutron Research
  75. 75
    Foudazi, Reza
    Gallogly College of Engineering
  76. 76
    Bhowmick, Anil Kumar
    University of Houston
  77. 77
    Wu, Qinglin Lin
    LSU Agricultural Center
  78. 78
    McKenna, Gregory B.
    Texas Tech University
  79. 79
    Winey, Karen I.
    School of Engineering and Applied Science
  80. 80
    Islam, Shahid ul
    University of California, Davis
  81. 81
    Cebe, Peggy
    Tufts University
  82. 82
    Hu, Xiao
    Rowan University
  83. 83
    Morgan, Alexander B.
    University of Dayton Research Institute
  84. 84
    Petroviƈ, Z. S.
    Pittsburg State University
  85. 85
  86. 86
    Segalman, Rachel A.
    The Robert Mehrabian College of Engineering
  87. 87
    Fong, Hao
    South Dakota School of Mines & Technology
  88. 88
    Qin, Jian
    Stanford Engineering
  89. 89
    Zhang, Wei
    College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
  90. 90
    Levchik, Sergei V.
    ICL-IP America
  91. 91
    García, Jeannette M.
    International Business Machines
  92. 92
    Reneker, Darrell H.
    The University of Akron
  93. 93
    Wilker, Jonathan J.
    College of Science
  94. 94
    Hedrick, James L.
    International Business Machines
  95. 95
    Nielsen, Lawrence E.
    Monsanto Company
  96. 96
    Donald, Athene M.
    Cornell University
  97. 97
    Perry, Sarah L.
    Daniel J. Riccio Jr. College of Engineering
  98. 98
    Rutledge, Gregory Charles
    MIT School of Engineering
  99. 99
    Pilla, Srikanth
    Center for Composite Materials
  100. 100
    Turng, Lih Sheng
    University of Wisconsin-Madison

318 listed scientists in Polymers 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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