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28 institutions · Statistics & Probability · United States

Which institutions in the United States have the most top-cited scientists in Statistics & Probability?

260 researchers in the United States whose main subfield is Statistics & Probability 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 1st of 41 countries in the subfield. 236 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). University of California, Berkeley has the most (12), followed by Stanford University (12) and University of Washington (9). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors
260
0.4% of all in the United States
In the global top 100,000
236
90.8% of them
Country rank in the subfield
#1
of 41 countries in Statistics & Probability
Highest-ranked
#16
Breiman, Leo
#InstitutionListed authorsTop 100kRank worldwideHighest-ranked author
1University of California, Berkeley1212#1Breiman, Leo #16
2Stanford University1212#2Tibshirani, Robert John #21
3University of Washington98#3Raftery, Adrian E. #3,063
4Harvard University65#4Rubin, Donald B. #41
5University of Minnesota Twin Cities65#5Zou, Hui #1,182
6The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill66#7Sen, Pranab K. #9,714
7University of Pennsylvania54#8Cai, Tony Tony #6,805
8NC State University53#9Tsiatis, Anastasios Butch #27,938
9University of Michigan School of Public Health54#10Kalbfleisch, John D. #57,580
10University of Michigan, Ann Arbor43#11Little, Roderick J.A. #677
11Pennsylvania State University44#12Altman, Naomi Simone #1,395
12School of Computer Science44#14Wasserman, Larry A. #6,467
13School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences43#15Bates, Douglas M. #8,751
14College of Liberal Arts and Sciences44#16Agresti, Alan #9,925
15College of Engineering43#17Joseph, V. Roshan #18,940
16Duke University44#18Durrett, Rick Timothy #21,733
17Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University44#19Woodall, William H. #23,618
18Yale University44#22Li, Fan #39,217
19Columbia University33#25Gelman, Andrew E. #83
20Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania33#28Rosenbaum, Paul R. #1,433
21Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences33#29Imai, Kosuke #1,859
22UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health33#30Lin, Danyu #5,219
23Trinity College of Arts & Sciences33#35Dunson, David B. #10,651
24School of Public Health33#38Pan, Wei T. #19,745
25Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health32#39Lin, Xihong #23,395
26Texas A&M University33#40Carroll, Raymond J. #28,822
27National Cancer Institute (NCI)33#41Gail, Mitchell H. #30,852
28University of California, Los Angeles31#44Handcock, Mark S. #62,806

The top 100 in Statistics & Probability in the United States, in order

  1. 1
    Breiman, Leo
    University of California, Berkeley
  2. 2
    Tibshirani, Robert John
    Stanford University
  3. 3
    Rubin, Donald B.
    Harvard University
  4. 4
    Friedman, Jerome H.
    Stanford University
  5. 5
    Gelman, Andrew E.
    Columbia University
  6. 6
  7. 7
    Candés, Emmanuel J.
    Stanford University
  8. 8
    Hastie, Trevor J.
    Stanford University
  9. 9
    Efron, Bradley
    Stanford University
  10. 10
    Stuart, Elizabeth A.
    Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
  11. 11
    Little, Roderick J.A.
    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  12. 12
    Zou, Hui
    University of Minnesota Twin Cities
  13. 13
    Altman, Naomi Simone
    Pennsylvania State University
  14. 14
    Rosenbaum, Paul R.
    Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
  15. 15
    Fan, Jianqing
    Princeton University
  16. 16
    Imai, Kosuke
    Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
  17. 17
    Prentice, Ross L.
    Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
  18. 18
    Gneiting, Tilmann
    Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies
  19. 19
    Raftery, Adrian E.
    University of Washington
  20. 20
    Chernozhukov, Victor
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  21. 21
    Box, George E.P.
    University of Wisconsin-Madison
  22. 22
    Bonett, Douglas G.
    University of California, Santa Cruz
  23. 23
    Cook, R. Dennis
    University of Minnesota Twin Cities
  24. 24
    Lin, Danyu
    UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health
  25. 25
    Lin, Lifeng
    The University of Arizona Health Sciences
  26. 26
    Tukey, John W.
    Princeton University
  27. 27
    Cleveland, William S.
    College of Science
  28. 28
    Wasserman, Larry A.
    School of Computer Science
  29. 29
    Wilcox, Rand R.
    BIO5 Institute
  30. 30
    Ishwaran, Hemant
    University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine
  31. 31
    Cai, Tony Tony
    University of Pennsylvania
  32. 32
    Zhang, Cunhui
    Department of Statistics
  33. 33
    Murphy, Susan Allbritton
    Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
  34. 34
    Bates, Douglas M.
    School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences
  35. 35
    van der Laan, Mark J.
    University of California, Berkeley
  36. 36
    Laird, Nan Mckenzie
    Genetic Analysis Center
  37. 37
    Sen, Pranab K.
    The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  38. 38
    Agresti, Alan
    College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
  39. 39
    Schafer, Joseph L.
    U.S. Census Bureau
  40. 40
    Tibshirani, Ryan J.
    University of California, Berkeley
  41. 41
    Li, Hongzhe
    University of Washington School of Medicine
  42. 42
    Dunson, David B.
    Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
  43. 43
    Meng, Xiaoli
    Harvard University
  44. 44
    Hosmer, David W.
    University of Massachusetts Amherst
  45. 45
    Loh, Weiyin
    School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences
  46. 46
    Tchetgen, Eric J.
    Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
  47. 47
    Zeger, Scott L.
    Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
  48. 48
    Fine, Jason Peter
    University of Pittsburgh
  49. 49
    Scott, David W.
    George R. Brown School of Engineering and Computing
  50. 50
    Cattaneo, Matias Damian
    School of Engineering and Applied Science
  51. 51
    Keele, Luke J.
    Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
  52. 52
    Williams, Richard A.
    University of Notre Dame
  53. 53
    Lei, Jing
    Carnegie Mellon University
  54. 54
    Bickel, Peter J.
    University of California, Berkeley
  55. 55
    Gelfand, Alan E.
    Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
  56. 56
    Dunn, Olive Jean
    UCLA Fielding School of Public Health
  57. 57
    Yuan, Ming
    Columbia University
  58. 58
    Tsay, Ruey S.
    The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
  59. 59
    Ding, Peng
    University of California, Berkeley
  60. 60
    Hawkins, Douglas M.
    University of Minnesota Twin Cities
  61. 61
    Johnstone, Iain Murray
    Stanford University
  62. 62
    Pepe, Margaret Sullivan
    Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
  63. 63
    Geisser, Seymour
    University of Minnesota Twin Cities
  64. 64
    Mathur, Maya B.
    Stanford University School of Medicine
  65. 65
    Freedman, David A.
    University of California, Berkeley
  66. 66
    Stein, Michael L.
    Department of Statistics
  67. 67
    Owen, Art B.
    Stanford University
  68. 68
    Joseph, V. Roshan
    College of Engineering
  69. 69
    Chatterjee, Sourav
    Stanford University
  70. 70
    Pan, Wei T.
    School of Public Health
  71. 71
    Kulldorff, Martin
    Independent Biostatistician
  72. 72
    Carmona, René A.
    School of Engineering and Applied Science
  73. 73
    Berger, James O.
    Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
  74. 74
    Wager, Stefan
    Graduate School of Business
  75. 75
    Li, Runze
    Pennsylvania State University
  76. 76
    Durrett, Rick Timothy
    Duke University
  77. 77
    Smith, Eric Alden
    University of Washington
  78. 78
    Lin, Xihong
    Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
  79. 79
    Wakefield, Jon C.
    University of Washington
  80. 80
    Woodall, William H.
    Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
  81. 81
    Meerschaert, Mark M.
    Michigan State University
  82. 82
    Willis, Amy D.
    University of Washington
  83. 83
    Hilbe, Joseph M.
    Arizona State University
  84. 84
    Fay, Michael P.
    National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
  85. 85
    Lenth, Russell V.
    University of Iowa
  86. 86
    Westfall, Peter H.
    Texas Tech University
  87. 87
    Hoaglin, David C.
    University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
  88. 88
    Mair, Patrick
    Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
  89. 89
    Tsiatis, Anastasios Butch
    NC State University
  90. 90
    Witten, Daniela M.
    University of Washington
  91. 91
    Wei, Leejen Jen
    Harvard University
  92. 92
    Müller, Hans Georg
    University of California, Davis
  93. 93
    Heagerty, Patrick J.
    University of Washington
  94. 94
    Carroll, Raymond J.
    Texas A&M University
  95. 95
    Hunter, David R.
    Pennsylvania State University
  96. 96
    Kass, Robert E.
    School of Computer Science
  97. 97
    Kruskal, William H.
    Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
  98. 98
    Gail, Mitchell H.
    National Cancer Institute (NCI)
  99. 99
    Chen, Yen Chi
    School of Public Health
  100. 100
    Thall, Peter F.
    The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

260 listed scientists in Statistics & Probability 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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