Top Astronomy and Astrophysics researchers in United States

603 researchers on ScholarList. Ordered by h-index as reported by OpenAlex, a published citation metric and not a ScholarList ranking. Showing the first 100.

# Researcher Institution h-index Citations
1 Keith Bechtol University of Wisconsin–Madison 139 85,341
2 Risa Wechsler Stanford University 136 86,103
3 Michael Coughlin University of Minnesota 132 146,910
4 Marco Ajello Clemson University 130 61,125
5 shrinivas Kulkarni California Institute of Technology 128 66,098
6 Elina Keihänen University of Helsinki 123 133,050
7 Alex Drlica-Wagner University of Chicago 119 59,942
8 Edo Berger 118 59,751
9 E. Sanchez Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas 114 69,912
10 Ashley Ross The Ohio State University 114 67,237
11 Stephen Cenko National Aeronautics and Space Administration 113 44,049
12 Aurelio Carnero Rosell Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias 112 67,280
13 Andreas Quirrenbach Heidelberg University 112 57,406
14 Paul Martini The Ohio State University 111 60,915
15 Nikhil Mukund Menon Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics 109 111,795
16 Adam Riess 109 99,133
17 Ryan Chornock University of California 109 54,859
18 Brian Yanny 107 84,950
19 Michele Vallisneri ETH Zurich 105 86,027
20 Edwin Bergin University of Michigan 105 38,123
21 Paul T. Baker Widener University 104 99,657
22 Eli Rykoff 102 59,171
23 John Silverman Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe 102 35,452
24 Dragan Huterer University of Michigan 101 50,549
25 Timothy Abbott CTIO/NOAO 101 47,921
26 Steven Allen Stanford University 101 35,227
27 Eric Herbst 99 36,979
28 Mansi Kasliwal 98 42,946
29 Matias Carrasco Kind NCSA 98 41,652
30 Mark Sullivan University of Southampton 98 40,269
31 Erin Sheldon 97 51,006
32 Ignacio Sevilla-Noarbe Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas 97 45,041
33 Sergey Koposov University of Edinburgh 95 54,252
34 Alan Marscher 95 50,151
35 David Bacon University of Portsmouth 95 43,759
36 Gary Bernstein University of Pennsylvania 95 33,367
37 Michael Zevin Adler Planetarium 94 91,188
38 D. Andrew Howell University of California 94 39,994
39 THOMAS CRAWFORD University of Chicago 93 37,868
40 Dale Frail National Radio Astronomy Observatory 92 32,703
41 Anchal Gupta Blue Laser Fusion 91 66,160
42 Roger Chevalier 91 27,573
43 Elisabeth Krause California Institute of Technology 90 34,134
44 Zoheyr Doctor WattTime 89 70,351
45 Alexie Leauthaud University of California 89 45,065
46 Sahar Allam Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory 89 41,086
47 Stefano VALENTI University of California Davis Department of Physics 89 28,669
48 Rachel Mandelbaum Carnegie Mellon University 87 43,900
49 Sarbani Basu Yale University 87 30,752
50 Richard Kessler 86 43,316
51 Svetlana Jorstad Boston University 86 42,098
52 Piero Madau University of Milano-Bicocca 86 35,706
53 Arjun Dey 86 33,954
54 Adam Leroy 86 30,299
55 Gary P Zank 86 29,600
56 S. George Djorgovski California Institute of Technology 86 28,282
57 Bhuvnesh Jain University of Pennsylvania 85 31,824
58 Tamas Gombosi University of Michigan 85 28,051
59 Tim Eifler 85 25,394
60 David Sing Johns Hopkins University 85 23,921
61 Clarence Chang Argonne National Laboratory 84 25,125
62 Lindsey Bleem Argonne National Laboratory 84 23,791
63 Antonella Palmese Carnegie Mellon University 83 42,910
64 Paul Torrey University of Virginia 83 40,855
65 Jason Dexter 83 37,271
66 Angelos Vourlidas Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory 83 22,458
67 Matthew Ashby Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian 82 29,037
68 Joe Zuntz University of Edinburgh 82 28,312
69 Daniel Scolnic Duke University 81 39,617
70 William Cochran 81 31,210
71 Karl Gebhardt 80 32,769
72 Jonathan P. Williams University of Hawaii System 80 25,567
73 Michael Troxel 79 30,788
74 S. A. Stanford 78 32,134
75 Niall MacCrann University of Cambridge 78 24,600
76 Karin Oberg 78 21,974
77 Joaquin Vieira University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 78 21,626
78 Aaron J. Barth University of California 78 18,253
79 Geoffrey Mo 77 41,772
80 Paul Goldsmith Jet Propulsion Laboratory 77 24,226
81 Neal Evans University of California 77 22,796
82 Michael Briggs University of Alabama in Huntsville 76 27,985
83 Eduardo Rozo University of Arizona 75 26,393
84 Guillermo A. Blanc Carnegie Institution for Science 75 23,498
85 Wen-fai Fong 74 25,143
86 Raffaella Margutti University of California 73 26,035
87 Zaven Arzoumanian NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center 73 23,110
88 David Law Space Telescope Science Institute 72 26,429
89 Travis Metcalfe 72 15,756
90 Deep Chatterjee Massachusetts Institute of Technology 71 48,923
91 Sheperd Doeleman Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian 71 31,724
92 Steve Schulze Weizmann Institute of Science 70 25,932
93 Hsiao-Wen Chen University of Chicago 70 15,143
94 David Neufeld 70 14,171
95 Matthew Graham California Institute of Technology 69 20,199
96 Timothy McKay 68 51,369
97 Michael Johnson Smithsonian Institution 68 30,028
98 Michael Endl 68 29,856
99 Christopher Davis 68 24,110
100 Jonathan P. Gardner Goddard Space Flight Center 68 23,542

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