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Top institutions in the United States for Strategic, Defence & Security Studies

13 institutions · Strategic, Defence & Security Studies · United States

Which institutions in the United States have the most top-cited scientists in Strategic, Defence & Security Studies?

194 researchers in the United States whose main subfield is Strategic, Defence & Security Studies are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 0.3% of all listed authors in the United States, and 1st of 58 countries in the subfield. 61 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). Texas A&M University has the most (8), followed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (6) and Tufts University (6). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors
194
0.3% of all in the United States
In the global top 100,000
61
31.4% of them
Country rank in the subfield
#1
of 58 countries in Strategic, Defence & Security Studies
Highest-ranked
#577
Slovic, Paul
#InstitutionListed authorsTop 100kRank worldwideHighest-ranked author
1Texas A&M University83#2Khan, Faisal I. #4,933
2Massachusetts Institute of Technology64#9Fravel, M. Taylor #51,266
3Tufts University62#11Toft, Monica Duffy #64,153
4College of Engineering43#14Lindell, Michael K. #4,829
5University of Maryland, College Park41#22Cunningham, Kathleen Gallagher #45,727
6The Ohio State University40#26Quarantelli, Enrico L. #133,028
7University of Michigan, Ann Arbor31#31Guikema, Seth David #33,227
8Arizona State University32#33Helton, Jon C. #43,890
9UCLA Samueli School of Engineering31#34Stewart, Jonathan P. #50,624
10USC Viterbi School of Engineering31#35Trifunac, Mihailo D. #59,355
11Georgetown University31#36Zhukov, Yuri M. #60,344
12The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill30#43Snyder, Glenn H. #101,288
13USDA ARS Eastern Regional Research Center30#44Smith, James L. #151,604

The top 100 in Strategic, Defence & Security Studies in the United States, in order

  1. 1
    Slovic, Paul
    Oregon Research Institute
  2. 2
    Cutter, Susan C.
    University of South Carolina
  3. 3
    Baker, Jack W.
    Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
  4. 4
    Fischhoff, Baruch
    Carnegie Mellon University
  5. 5
    Lindell, Michael K.
    College of Engineering
  6. 6
    Khan, Faisal I.
    Texas A&M University
  7. 7
    Aldrich, Daniel P.
    Northeastern University
  8. 8
    Piazza, James A.
    Pennsylvania State University
  9. 9
    Rose, Adam Z.
    University of Southern California
  10. 10
    Horowitz, Michael C.
    University of Pennsylvania
  11. 11
    Jonkman, S. N.
    Texas A and M University at Galveston
  12. 12
    Xing, Liudong
    University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
  13. 13
    Levy, Jack S.
    Rutgers University
  14. 14
    Campbell, Kenneth W.
    Kenneth W Campbell Consulting LLC
  15. 15
    Tierney, Kathleen J.
    University of Colorado Boulder
  16. 16
    Tate, Eric Christopher
    Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
  17. 17
    Borgonovo, Emanuele
    MIT School of Engineering
  18. 18
    Chenoweth, Erica
    John F. Kennedy School of Government
  19. 19
    Yang, Janet Z.
    University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
  20. 20
    Gartzke, Erik A.
    University of California, San Diego
  21. 21
    Mostafavi, Ali
    Texas A&M University
  22. 22
    Guikema, Seth David
    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  23. 23
    Kunreuther, Howard C.
    Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
  24. 24
    Chopra, Anil K.
    University of California, Berkeley
  25. 25
    Todd, E. Cameron David
    Ewen Todd Consulting
  26. 26
    Helton, Jon C.
    Arizona State University
  27. 27
    Bartone, Paul T.
    Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
  28. 28
    Peek, Lori A.
    University of Colorado Boulder
  29. 29
    Mannan, Mahboobul Sam
    College of Engineering
  30. 30
    Cunningham, Kathleen Gallagher
    University of Maryland, College Park
  31. 31
    Knapik, Joseph J.
    United States Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine
  32. 32
    Oliver-Smith, Anthony
    College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
  33. 33
    Stewart, Jonathan P.
    UCLA Samueli School of Engineering
  34. 34
    Hendrix, Cullen S.
    Peterson Institute for International Economics
  35. 35
    Fravel, M. Taylor
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  36. 36
    Yarhi-Milo, Keren
    Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA)
  37. 37
    Morgan, M. Granger
    College of Engineering
  38. 38
    Asal, Victor H.
    State University of New York Albany
  39. 39
    Wisner, Ben
    Oberline College
  40. 40
    Cox, Louis Anthony Tony
    University of Colorado Denver
  41. 41
    Trifunac, Mihailo D.
    USC Viterbi School of Engineering
  42. 42
    Zhukov, Yuri M.
    Georgetown University
  43. 43
    Mitchell, Sara Mc Laughlin
    University of Iowa
  44. 44
    Toft, Monica Duffy
    Tufts University
  45. 45
    Pape, Robert A.
    The University of Chicago
  46. 46
    Perry, Ronald W.
    Arizona State University
  47. 47
    Finucane, Melissa L.
    Stony Brook University
  48. 48
    Kausel, Eduardo A.M.
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  49. 49
    Regan, Patrick M.
    University of Notre Dame
  50. 50
    Posen, Barry R.
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  51. 51
    Beckley, Michael
    Tufts University
  52. 52
    Lindsay, Jon Randall
    Georgia Institute of Technology
  53. 53
    Maoz, Zeev
    University of California, Davis
  54. 54
    Zarei, Esmaeil
    Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott
  55. 55
    Meyer, Michelle Annette
    Texas A&M University
  56. 56
    Reiter’, Dan
    Emory University
  57. 57
    Bostrom, Ann
    University of Washington, Evans School of Public Affairs
  58. 58
    Glaser, Charles L.
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  59. 59
    Lemly, A. Dennis
    Wake Forest University
  60. 60
    Paté-Cornell, M. Elisabeth
    Stanford Engineering
  61. 61
    Feaver, Peter D.
    Duke University
  62. 62
    Snyder, Glenn H.
    The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  63. 63
    Deuster, Patricia Anne
    F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine
  64. 64
    Cunningham, David E.
    University of Maryland, College Park
  65. 65
    Doyle, Michael P.
    College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Griffin Campus
  66. 66
    Sofos, John N.
    Colorado State University
  67. 67
    Fuhrmann, Matthew
    Texas A&M University
  68. 68
    Burton, Christopher G.
    University of Connecticut
  69. 69
    Butler, Frank K.
    Joint Trauma System
  70. 70
    Nateghi, Roshanak
    Georgetown University
  71. 71
    Bozorgnia, Yousef
    UCLA Samueli School of Engineering
  72. 72
    Singer, J. David
    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  73. 73
    Árvai, Joseph L.
    University of Southern California
  74. 74
    Emrich, Christopher T.
    University of Central Florida
  75. 75
    Shapiro, Jacob N.
    Princeton University
  76. 76
    Ramírez-Márquez, José Emmanuel
    Charles V. Schaefer, Jr. School of Engineering and Science
  77. 77
    Trumbo, Craig W.
    Colorado State University
  78. 78
    Wang, Qingsheng
    Texas A&M University
  79. 79
    McManus, Roseanne W.
    Pennsylvania State University
  80. 80
    Sutton, Jeannette N.
    State University of New York Albany
  81. 81
    Johnson, Branden B.
    Decision Research
  82. 82
    Quarantelli, Enrico L.
    The Ohio State University
  83. 83
    Sageman, Marc
    Sageman Consulting, LLC.
  84. 84
    Biddle, Stephen D.
    Columbia University
  85. 85
    Sagan, Scott D.
    Stanford University
  86. 86
    Lee, Vincent Wo Sang
    USC Viterbi School of Engineering
  87. 87
    Kane, Shawn F.
    UNC School of Medicine
  88. 88
    Thyne, Clayton L.
    University of Kentucky
  89. 89
    Brooks, Risa A.
    Marquette University
  90. 90
    Goemans, Henk E.
    University of Rochester
  91. 91
    Braddock, Kurt H.
    American University
  92. 92
    Zhuang, Jun
    School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
  93. 93
    Gregory, Robin S.
    Oregon Research Institute
  94. 94
    Zhang, Yupeng
    Texas A&M University
  95. 95
    Peacock, Walter Gillis
    Texas A&M University
  96. 96
    Groth, Katrina M.
    A. James Clark School of Engineering
  97. 97
    Earle, Timothy C.
    Western Washington University
  98. 98
    Smith, James L.
    USDA ARS Eastern Regional Research Center
  99. 99
    von Winterfeldt, Detlof
    USC Viterbi School of Engineering
  100. 100
    Murphy, Colleen
    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

194 listed scientists in Strategic, Defence & Security Studies 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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