Top institutions for Software Engineering

48 institutions · Software Engineering

Which institutions have the most top-cited scientists in Software Engineering?

507 researchers whose main subfield is Software Engineering are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list. NVIDIA has the most (13, 2.6%), followed by Monash University (8) and Adobe Inc. (7). A row opens its scientists in the subfield in the table of all authors.

#InstitutionCountryListed authorsTop 100kHighest-ranked author
1NVIDIA United States139Karras, Tero #1,558
2Monash University Australia85Tantithamthavorn, Kla (kla) #31,112
3Adobe Inc. United States73Levoy, Marc #8,566
4Microsoft Research United States74Godefroid, Patrice #25,149
5Carnegie Mellon University United States74Ozkaya, Ipek #56,345
6The University of British Columbia Canada61Munzner, Tamara #31,500
7Singapore Management University Singapore51Lo, David #9,883
8University College London United Kingdom52Harman, Mark #13,046
9Meta United States51Lipman, Yaron #15,349
10Delft University of Technology Netherlands53Panichella, Annibale #25,466
11ETH Zürich Switzerland53Sorkine-Hornung, Olga #32,794
12Massachusetts Institute of Technology United States52Solomon, Justin M. #38,741
13Stanford University United States53Fedkiw, Ronald P. #48,616
14University of California, Davis United States51Devanbu, Prem Thomas #86,821
15University of Washington United States43Heer, Jeffrey M. #5,269
16University of Maryland, College Park United States42Manocha, Dinesh #29,209
17Università della Svizzera italiana Switzerland42Bavota, Gabriele #34,356
18Georgia Institute of Technology United States42Staško, John T.Ga #37,920
19Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Italy40Cignoni, Paolo #104,532
20Northeastern University United States40Tory, Melanie K. #122,774
21Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Netherlands40Lago, Patricia #123,160
22University of Waterloo Canada40McIntosh, Shane #137,243
23Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation Australia40Whittle, Jon #147,494
24University of California, San Diego United States32Guo, Philip J. #18,476
25University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign United States31Zhang, Lingming #21,228
26Peking University China32Wang, Peng Shuai #30,452
27Google DeepMind United Kingdom32Wattenberg, Martin M. #35,865
28Aarhus Universitet Denmark31Elmqvist, Niklas #42,109
29TU Wien Austria32Kerbl, Bernhard #42,340
30Zhejiang University China31Xia, Xin #43,521
31Technische Universiteit Eindhoven Netherlands31Bosch, Jan #47,417
32Technische Universität München Germany32Thuerey, Nils #52,779
33National Key Laboratory of Computer-Aided Design and Graphics Systems China31Bao, Hujun #58,237
34Department of Computer Science United States31Zomorodian, Afra #61,602
35Universität Stuttgart Germany32Sedlmair, Michael #65,504
36Purdue University United States32Tan, Lin #67,525
37The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill United States31Brooks, Frederick P. #78,480
38Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Hong Kong31Kim, Sunghun #86,068
39Simon Fraser University Canada31Carpendale, Sheelagh #89,418
40The University of Utah United States31Yuksel, Cem #90,512
41Centre Inria d'Université Côte d'Azur France30Drettakis, George #116,346
42New York University United States30Zorin, Denis N. #136,166
43University of Luxembourg Luxembourg30Le Traon, Yves La #145,946
44Nanjing University China30Zhang, He #182,028
45Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Israel30Tal, Ayellet #182,124
46University of Toronto Canada30Easterbrook, Steve M. #185,297
47King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals Saudi Arabia30Niazi, Mahmood Khan #211,368
48Northern Arizona University United States30Groce, Alex D. #212,894