Top institutions for Oceanography

32 institutions · Oceanography

Which institutions have the most top-cited scientists in Oceanography?

350 researchers whose main subfield is Oceanography are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution has the most (24, 6.9%), followed by Scripps Institution of Oceanography (8) and Ocean University of China (8). A row opens its scientists in the subfield in the table of all authors.

#InstitutionCountryListed authorsTop 100kHighest-ranked author
1Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution United States248Buesseler, Ken O. #14,562
2Scripps Institution of Oceanography United States83Dickson, Andrew G. #12,601
3Ocean University of China China82Liu, Sumei #54,557
4Delft University of Technology Netherlands64Winterwerp, Johan Christian #25,255
5UNSW Sydney Australia63Turner, I. L. #46,053
6Oregon State University United States63Holman, Robert A. #65,143
7National Oceanography Centre Southampton United Kingdom61Lampitt, Richard S. #81,489
8Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute United States42Chávez de La O, Francisco P. #26,250
9State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research China41Yang, Shilun #49,788
10The Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Germany41Burchard, Hans #52,007
11University of Southampton United Kingdom40Haigh, Ivan David #101,544
12Bangor University United Kingdom40Thorpe, Steve A. #114,170
13United States Geological Survey United States40Warrick, Jonathan A. #120,083
14Applied Physics Laboratory United States40Gregg, Michael C. #187,737
15IHE Delft Institute for Water Education Netherlands32Roshanka, Ranasinghe H.K. #17,485
16Technical University of Denmark Denmark31Fredsøe, Jørgen #21,065
17Stony Brook University United States32Aller, Robert Curwood #26,571
18Massachusetts Institute of Technology United States31Ferrari, Raffaele #30,732
19University of Washington School of Oceanography United States32Devol, Allan H. #41,149
20University of Plymouth United Kingdom31Masselink, Gerd #46,014
21The University of Western Australia Australia32Jamieson, Alan J. #47,685
22College of Engineering United States31Liu, Phillip Li Fan #51,330
23University of Washington United States31Kessler, William S. #67,041
24The University of Queensland Australia31Nielsen, Peter #76,993
25University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science United States31Grebmeier, Jacqueline M. #77,452
26Shanghai Jiao Tong University China31Smith, Walker O. #81,666
27The University of Tokyo Japan30Yasuda, Ichiro #101,679
28Virginia Institute of Marine Science United States30Friedrichs, Carl T. #102,369
29Old Dominion University United States30Ezer, Tal #108,421
30Deltares Netherlands30Luijendijk, Arjen P. #118,689
31Louisiana State University United States30Roberts, Harry H. #129,694
32Universität Bremen Germany30Ittekkot, Venugopalan A. #195,296