In collaboration with Elsevier, Stanford University releases an annual ranking of the world’s most-cited scientists across various disciplines. In 2024, this list showcases the Top 100 Scientists in Chemistry – Stanford/Elsevier’s 2024 List, highlighting the global leaders whose research has profoundly impacted Chemistry. These rankings are determined based on multiple metrics that reflect each scientist’s contributions and influence. Each scientist on this list is recognized for prolific research output and lasting impact on the global scientific community. These metrics provide a holistic view of their influence and ensure that well-established and up-and-coming scholars are credited for their contributions to the field.
Rank | Name | Institute | Country | Subfield 1 | Subfield 2 |
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1 | Grimme, Stefan | Universität Bonn | Germany | Chemical Physics | Organic Chemistry |
2 | Neese, Frank | Max Planck Institute for Coal Research | Germany | Chemical Physics | Inorganic & Nuclear Chemistry |
3 | Nørskov, Jens K. | Technical University of Denmark | Denmark | Physical Chemistry | Chemical Physics |
4 | Yaghi, Omar M. | University of California, Berkeley | United States | General Chemistry | Organic Chemistry |
5 | Sheldrick, George M. | Georg-August-Universität Göttingen | Germany | Inorganic & Nuclear Chemistry | Organic Chemistry |
6 | Whitesides, George M. | Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences | United States | General Chemistry | Organic Chemistry |
7 | Wang, Joseph | University of California, San Diego | United States | Analytical Chemistry | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology |
8 | Corma, Avelino | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas | Spain | Physical Chemistry | Organic Chemistry |
9 | Sheldon, Roger A. | University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg | South Africa | Organic Chemistry | Physical Chemistry |
10 | Koper, Marc T.M. | Universiteit Leiden | Netherlands | Energy | Chemical Physics |
11 | Kanatzidis, Mercouri G. | Northwestern University | United States | Materials | General Chemistry |
12 | Jorgensen, William L. | Yale University | United States | Chemical Physics | General Chemistry |
13 | Weigend, Florian | Philipps-Universität Marburg | Germany | Chemical Physics | Inorganic & Nuclear Chemistry |
14 | Peppas, Nicholas A. | The University of Texas at Austin | United States | Polymers | Pharmacology & Pharmacy |
15 | Matyjaszewski, Krzysztof | Carnegie Mellon University | United States | Polymers | General Chemistry |
16 | Varma, Rajender S. | Universidade Federal de São Carlos | Brazil | Organic Chemistry | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology |
17 | Hartwig, John F. | University of California, Berkeley | United States | General Chemistry | Organic Chemistry |
18 | Gulçin, Ilhami | Atatürk Üniversitesi | Turkey | Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry | Organic Chemistry |
19 | Yu, Jiaguo | China University of Geosciences | China | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | Physical Chemistry |
20 | Salavati-Niasari, Masoud | University of Kashan | Iran | Materials | Applied Physics |
21 | Shannon, Robert D. | University of Colorado Boulder | United States | Inorganic & Nuclear Chemistry | Geochemistry & Geophysics |
22 | Trost, Barry M. | Stanford University | United States | General Chemistry | Organic Chemistry |
23 | Pearson, Ralph G. | University of California, Santa Barbara | United States | General Chemistry | Inorganic & Nuclear Chemistry |
24 | Tang, Ben Zhong | The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen | China | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | Polymers |
25 | Kamat, Prashant V. | University of Notre Dame | United States | Chemical Physics | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology |
26 | Dufresne, Alain | Université Grenoble Alpes | France | Polymers | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology |
27 | Schlögl, Robert | Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society | Germany | Physical Chemistry | Organic Chemistry |
28 | Binnemans, Koen | KU Leuven | Belgium | Organic Chemistry | Inorganic & Nuclear Chemistry |
29 | Jin, Rongchao | Carnegie Mellon University | United States | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | General Chemistry |
30 | Andrady, A. L. | NC State University | United States | Polymers | Organic Chemistry |
31 | Ackermann, Lutz | Georg-August-Universität Göttingen | Germany | Organic Chemistry | General Chemistry |
32 | Astruc, Didier | Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China | China | Organic Chemistry | General Chemistry |
33 | Supuran, Claudiu T. | Università degli Studi di Firenze | Italy | Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry | Organic Chemistry |
34 | Ali, Imran | Jamia Millia Islamia | India | Analytical Chemistry | Organic Chemistry |
35 | Crini, Grégorio | Université de Franche-Comté | France | Polymers | Environmental Sciences |
36 | AlOthman, Zeid A. | King Saud University | Saudi Arabia | Analytical Chemistry | Organic Chemistry |
37 | MacMillan, David W.C. | Princeton University | United States | General Chemistry | Organic Chemistry |
38 | Schreiber, Stuart L. | Broad Institute | United States | Organic Chemistry | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology |
39 | Stephan, Douglas W. | University of Toronto | Canada | Organic Chemistry | Inorganic & Nuclear Chemistry |
40 | Weckhuysen, Bert M. | Universiteit Utrecht | Netherlands | Organic Chemistry | Physical Chemistry |
41 | Jaroniec, Mietek | Kent State University | United States | Chemical Physics | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology |
42 | Vyazovkin, Sergey | The University of Alabama at Birmingham | United States | Physical Chemistry | Polymers |
43 | Halgren, Thomas A. | Schrödinger, LLC | United States | Chemical Physics | Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry |
44 | Gong, Jian Ping | Hokkaido University | Japan | Polymers | Chemical Physics |
45 | Bard, Allen J. | The University of Texas at Austin | United States | Energy | General Chemistry |
46 | Stoddart, J. Fraser | Zhejiang University | China | Organic Chemistry | General Chemistry |
47 | De Clercq, Erik | Rega Institute for Medical Research | Belgium | Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry | Virology |
48 | Desiraju, Gautam R. | Indian Institute of Science | India | Inorganic & Nuclear Chemistry | Organic Chemistry |
49 | Würthner, Frank | Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg | Germany | Organic Chemistry | General Chemistry |
50 | Barcelo, Damia | CSIC – Instituto de Diagnostico Ambiental y Estudios del Agua (IDAEA) | Spain | Analytical Chemistry | Environmental Sciences |
51 | Naushad, Mu | College of Sciences | Saudi Arabia | Chemical Engineering | Environmental Sciences |
52 | Li, Yadong | Tsinghua University | China | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | Organic Chemistry |
53 | Lehn, Jean Marie | Université de Strasbourg | France | Organic Chemistry | General Chemistry |
54 | Nocera, Daniel G. | Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences | United States | General Chemistry | Inorganic & Nuclear Chemistry |
55 | Gupta, Vinod K. | DIT University | India | Chemical Physics | Analytical Chemistry |
56 | Crabtree, Robert H. | Yale University | United States | Organic Chemistry | General Chemistry |
57 | Arnold, Frances H. | California Institute of Technology | United States | Organic Chemistry | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology |
58 | Flory, Paul J. | IBM Research – Almaden | United States | General Chemistry | Polymers |
59 | Thakur, Vijay Kumar | Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) | United Kingdom | Polymers | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology |
60 | Henkelman, Graeme | The University of Texas at Austin | United States | Chemical Physics | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology |
61 | Abbott, Andrew P. | University of Leicester | United Kingdom | Organic Chemistry | Chemical Physics |
62 | Cooper, Andrew I. | University of Liverpool | United Kingdom | Organic Chemistry | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology |
63 | Liu, Juewen | University of Waterloo | Canada | Analytical Chemistry | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology |
64 | Antonietti, Markus | Max-Planck-Institut für Kolloid- und Grenzflächenforschung | Germany | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | Organic Chemistry |
65 | Kim, Se Kwon | Hanyang University | South Korea | Food Science | Biotechnology |
66 | Spek, Anthony L. | Universiteit Utrecht | Netherlands | Inorganic & Nuclear Chemistry | Organic Chemistry |
67 | Wang, Xinchen | Fuzhou University | China | Organic Chemistry | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology |
68 | Isogai, Akira | The University of Tokyo | Japan | Polymers | Forestry |
69 | Bell, Alexis T. | University of California, Berkeley | United States | Physical Chemistry | Chemical Physics |
70 | Férey, Gérard | Institut Universitaire de France | France | Inorganic & Nuclear Chemistry | Organic Chemistry |
71 | Gong, Jinlong | Tianjin University | China | Organic Chemistry | Physical Chemistry |
72 | Pauling, Linus | California Institute of Technology | United States | General Chemistry | General & Internal Medicine |
73 | Lipinski, Christopher A. | Melior Discovery | United States | Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry | Pharmacology & Pharmacy |
74 | Maeda, Kazuhiko | Tokyo Institute of Technology | Japan | Organic Chemistry | General Chemistry |
75 | Hutchings, Graham J. | Cardiff University | United Kingdom | Physical Chemistry | Organic Chemistry |
76 | Feringa, Ben L. | Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Netherlands | Organic Chemistry | General Chemistry |
77 | Asiri, Abdullah M. | King Abdulaziz University | Saudi Arabia | Organic Chemistry | Inorganic & Nuclear Chemistry |
78 | Schubert, Ulrich S. | Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena | Germany | Polymers | Organic Chemistry |
79 | Welton, Tom | Imperial College London | United Kingdom | Organic Chemistry | Chemical Physics |
80 | Beller, Matthias | Leibniz Institute for Catalysis | Germany | Organic Chemistry | General Chemistry |
81 | Kitagawa, Susumu | Kyoto University | Japan | Inorganic & Nuclear Chemistry | Organic Chemistry |
82 | Davis, Mark E. | California Institute of Technology | United States | Materials | Physical Chemistry |
83 | Zhou, Hong Cai | Texas A&M University | United States | General Chemistry | Organic Chemistry |
84 | Xu, Qiang | Southern University of Science and Technology | China | Organic Chemistry | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology |
85 | Dong, Fan | University of Electronic Science and Technology of China | China | Physical Chemistry | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology |
86 | Abdelhamid, Hani Nasser | Assiut University | Egypt | Analytical Chemistry | Organic Chemistry |
87 | Xie, Yi | University of Science and Technology of China | China | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | General Chemistry |
88 | Zhang, Tao | Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences | China | Physical Chemistry | Organic Chemistry |
89 | Pérez-Ramírez, Javier | ETH Zürich | Switzerland | Organic Chemistry | Physical Chemistry |
90 | Li, Chao Jun | Université McGill | Canada | Organic Chemistry | General Chemistry |
91 | Newman, David J. | NIH Special Volunteer | United States | Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry | Organic Chemistry |
92 | Zhao, Yanli | Nanyang Technological University | Singapore | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | Organic Chemistry |
93 | Kollman, Peter A. | University of California, San Francisco | United States | General Chemistry | Chemical Physics |
94 | Gascon, J. | King Abdullah University of Science and Technology | Saudi Arabia | Organic Chemistry | Physical Chemistry |
95 | Maleki, Ali | Daneshgahe Elm va Sanat e Iran | Iran | Organic Chemistry | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology |
96 | Hoffmann, Roald | Cornell University | United States | General Chemistry | Inorganic & Nuclear Chemistry |
97 | Bertozzi, Carolyn | Stanford University | United States | Organic Chemistry | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology |
98 | Bro, Rasmus | Københavns Universitet | Denmark | Analytical Chemistry | Food Science |
99 | Ariga, Katsuhiko | National Institute for Materials Science | Japan | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | General Chemistry |
100 | Li, Can | Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences | China | Physical Chemistry | Organic Chemistry |