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 Engineering– Stanford/Elsevier’s 2024 List, highlighting the global leaders whose research has profoundly impacted Engineering. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Awual, Md Rabiul | WA School of Mines: Minerals, Energy and Chemical Engineering | Australia | Chemical Engineering | Environmental Sciences |
| 2 | Ivanov, Dmitry | Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Recht Berlin | Germany | Operations Research | Industrial Engineering & Automation |
| 3 | Blaabjerg, Frede | Aalborg University | Denmark | Electrical & Electronic Engineering | Energy |
| 4 | Sheikholeslami, M. | Babol Noshirvani University of Technology | Iran | Mechanical Engineering & Transports | Chemical Physics |
| 5 | Govindan, Kannan | Shanghai Maritime University | China | Operations Research | Environmental Sciences |
| 6 | Chamkha, Ali J. | Kuwait College of Science & Technology | Kuwait | Mechanical Engineering & Transports | Energy |
| 7 | Pradhan, Biswajeet | University of Technology Sydney | Australia | Geological & Geomatics Engineering | Geochemistry & Geophysics |
| 8 | Chua, L. O. | University of California, Berkeley | United States | Electrical & Electronic Engineering | Fluids & Plasmas |
| 9 | Reddy, J. N. | Texas A&M University | United States | Mechanical Engineering & Transports | Applied Mathematics |
| 10 | Saaty, Thomas L. | University of Pittsburgh | United States | Operations Research | Numerical & Computational Mathematics |
| 11 | Elimelech, Menachem | Yale University | United States | Environmental Sciences | Chemical Engineering |
| 12 | Choi, Tsan Ming | University of Liverpool Management School | United Kingdom | Operations Research | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing |
| 13 | Menter, Florian | ANSYS, Inc. | Germany | Aerospace & Aeronautics | Fluids & Plasmas |
| 14 | Gunasekaran, Angappa | Penn State Harrisburg | United States | Operations Research | Business & Management |
| 15 | Bažant, Zdenek P. | Northwestern University | United States | Civil Engineering | Mechanical Engineering & Transports |
| 16 | Mahmoodi, Niyaz Mohammad | Institute for Color Science and Technology | Iran | Chemical Engineering | Polymers |
| 17 | Rice, James R. | Harvard University | United States | Mechanical Engineering & Transports | Geochemistry & Geophysics |
| 18 | Ren, Wei | University of California, Riverside | United States | Industrial Engineering & Automation | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing |
| 19 | Huete, Alfredo | University of Technology Sydney | Australia | Geological & Geomatics Engineering | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
| 20 | Hill, Rodney | Gonville and Caius College | United Kingdom | Mechanical Engineering & Transports | General Mathematics |
| 21 | van Genuchten, Martinus Theodorus | Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro | Brazil | Environmental Engineering | Agronomy & Agriculture |
| 22 | Thrun, Sebastian | Stanford University | United States | Industrial Engineering & Automation | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing |
| 23 | Sitti, Metin | Koç Üniversitesi | Turkey | Industrial Engineering & Automation | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology |
| 24 | Laporte, Gilbert | HEC Montréal | Canada | Operations Research | Logistics & Transportation |
| 25 | Guerrero, Josep M. | Aalborg University | Denmark | Electrical & Electronic Engineering | Energy |
| 26 | Lewis, Frank L. | The University of Texas at Arlington | United States | Industrial Engineering & Automation | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing |
| 27 | Gitelson, Anatoly | School of Natural Resources | United States | Geological & Geomatics Engineering | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
| 28 | Tucker, Compton J. | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | United States | Geological & Geomatics Engineering | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
| 29 | Boyd, Stephen | Stanford University | United States | Industrial Engineering & Automation | Operations Research |
| 30 | Turkyilmazoglu, Mustafa | Hacettepe Üniversitesi | Turkey | Mechanical Engineering & Transports | Applied Mathematics |
| 31 | von Gunten, Urs | Eawag – Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology | Switzerland | Environmental Engineering | Environmental Sciences |
| 32 | Venkata Rao, Ravipudi | S. V. National Institute of Technology | India | Mechanical Engineering & Transports | Industrial Engineering & Automation |
| 33 | Van der Bruggen, Bart | KU Leuven | Belgium | Chemical Engineering | Environmental Sciences |
| 34 | Bejan, Adrian | Duke University | United States | Mechanical Engineering & Transports | Energy |
| 35 | Zadpoor, Amir A. | Delft University of Technology | Netherlands | Biomedical Engineering | Materials |
| 36 | Singh, Vijay P. | Texas A&M University | United States | Environmental Engineering | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
| 37 | Vymazal, Jan | Czech University of Life Sciences Prague | Czech Republic | Environmental Engineering | Environmental Sciences |
| 38 | Kaveh, Ali | Daneshgahe Elm va Sanat e Iran | Iran | Civil Engineering | Applied Mathematics |
| 39 | Adeli, Hojjat | The Ohio State University | United States | Civil Engineering | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing |
| 40 | Hoekstra, Arjen Y. | Universiteit Twente | Netherlands | Environmental Engineering | Environmental Sciences |
| 41 | Kisi, Ozgur | Ilia State University (ISU) | Georgia | Environmental Engineering | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
| 42 | Silling, Stewart A. | Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico | United States | Mechanical Engineering & Transports | Applied Mathematics |
| 43 | Xie, Heping | Shenzhen University | China | Geological & Geomatics Engineering | Energy |
| 44 | McKay, Gordon | Hamad Bin Khalifa University | Qatar | Chemical Engineering | Environmental Sciences |
| 45 | Han, Linhai | Guangxi University | China | Civil Engineering | Building & Construction |
| 46 | Hutchinson, John W. | Harvard University | United States | Mechanical Engineering & Transports | Materials |
| 47 | Lei, Yaguo | Xi’an Jiaotong University | China | Acoustics | Mechanical Engineering & Transports |
| 48 | Tone, Kaoru | National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies | Japan | Operations Research | Economics |
| 49 | Beven, K. J. | Lancaster University | United Kingdom | Environmental Engineering | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
| 50 | Fossen, Thor I. | Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet | Norway | Industrial Engineering & Automation | Chemical Engineering |
| 51 | Hashin, Z. | Tel Aviv University | Israel | Mechanical Engineering & Transports | Materials |
| 52 | Hutmacher, Dietmar W. | Queensland University of Technology | Australia | Biomedical Engineering | Polymers |
| 53 | Rus, Daniela | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | United States | Industrial Engineering & Automation | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing |
| 54 | Zhang, Liangpei | Wuhan University | China | Geological & Geomatics Engineering | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing |
| 55 | Carrera, E. | Politecnico di Torino | Italy | Materials | Mechanical Engineering & Transports |
| 56 | Eringen, A. Cemal | Princeton University | United States | Mechanical Engineering & Transports | Applied Physics |
| 57 | Gibson, Lorna J. | London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine | United Kingdom | Materials | Biomedical Engineering |
| 58 | Wang, Lihui | The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) | Sweden | Industrial Engineering & Automation | Operations Research |
| 59 | Zenkour, Ashraf M. | King Abdulaziz University | Saudi Arabia | Mechanical Engineering & Transports | Materials |
| 60 | Shen, Hui Shen | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | China | Mechanical Engineering & Transports | Materials |
| 61 | Ding, Feng | Jiangnan University | China | Industrial Engineering & Automation | Networking & Telecommunications |
| 62 | Foody, Giles M. | University of Nottingham | United Kingdom | Geological & Geomatics Engineering | Ecology |
| 63 | Choi, Stephen U.S. | University of Illinois at Chicago | United States | Mechanical Engineering & Transports | Applied Physics |
| 64 | Gong, Peng | The University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong | Geological & Geomatics Engineering | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
| 65 | Kruth, Jean Pierre | Flanders Make | Belgium | Industrial Engineering & Automation | Materials |
| 66 | Majumdar, Arun | Stanford University | United States | Mechanical Engineering & Transports | Applied Physics |
| 67 | Han, Qing Long | Swinburne University of Technology | Australia | Industrial Engineering & Automation | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing |
| 68 | Dragicevic, Tomislav | Technical University of Denmark | Denmark | Electrical & Electronic Engineering | Energy |
| 69 | Tang, Christopher S. | University of California, Los Angeles | United States | Operations Research | Business & Management |
| 70 | Chen, Guanrong | City University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong | Fluids & Plasmas | Industrial Engineering & Automation |
| 71 | Badylak, Stephen F. | University of Pittsburgh | United States | Biomedical Engineering | Surgery |
| 72 | Lee, Saro | Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources | South Korea | Geological & Geomatics Engineering | Environmental Engineering |
| 73 | Krishna, Rajamani | Van ‘t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences | Netherlands | Chemical Engineering | Organic Chemistry |
| 74 | Sontag, Eduardo D. | Northeastern University | United States | Industrial Engineering & Automation | Bioinformatics |
| 75 | Krstic, Miroslav | University of California, San Diego | United States | Industrial Engineering & Automation | Energy |
| 76 | He, Manchao | China University of Mining & Technology, Beijing | China | Geological & Geomatics Engineering | Energy |
| 77 | Mourtzis, Dimitris | University of Patras | Greece | Industrial Engineering & Automation | Operations Research |
| 78 | Erdemir, Ali | Texas A&M University | United States | Mechanical Engineering & Transports | Applied Physics |
| 79 | Gardner, Leroy | Imperial College London | United Kingdom | Civil Engineering | Materials |
| 80 | Ma, Peter X. | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | United States | Biomedical Engineering | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology |
| 81 | Kandlikar, Satish G. | Rochester Institute of Technology | United States | Mechanical Engineering & Transports | Energy |
| 82 | Xu, Xun | The University of Auckland | New Zealand | Industrial Engineering & Automation | Operations Research |
| 83 | Flemming, Hans Curt | Universität Duisburg-Essen | Germany | Environmental Engineering | Microbiology |
| 84 | Levant, Arie | Tel Aviv University | Israel | Industrial Engineering & Automation | Aerospace & Aeronautics |
| 85 | Yaseen, Zaher Mundher | King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals | Saudi Arabia | Environmental Engineering | Energy |
| 86 | Khatib, Oussama | Stanford University | United States | Industrial Engineering & Automation | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing |
| 87 | Olfati-Saber, Reza | Sanofi S.A. | France | Industrial Engineering & Automation | Bioinformatics |
| 88 | Scaramuzza, Davide | Universität Zürich | Switzerland | Industrial Engineering & Automation | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing |
| 89 | Peng, Fang Zheng | Florida State University | United States | Electrical & Electronic Engineering | Energy |
| 90 | Kolar, Johann W. | ETH Zürich | Switzerland | Electrical & Electronic Engineering | Networking & Telecommunications |
| 91 | Weng, Qihao | The Hong Kong Polytechnic University | Hong Kong | Geological & Geomatics Engineering | Environmental Sciences |
| 92 | Jiang, Zhong Ping | New York University | United States | Industrial Engineering & Automation | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing |
| 93 | Blaschke, Thomas | Universität Salzburg | Austria | Geological & Geomatics Engineering | Ecology |
| 94 | Kazimieras Zavadskas, Edmundas | Vilniaus Gedimino Technikos Universitetas | Lithuania | Civil Engineering | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing |
| 95 | Chang, Chein I. | College of Engineering and Information Technology | United States | Geological & Geomatics Engineering | Optoelectronics & Photonics |
| 96 | Gao, Zhiqiang | Cleveland State University | United States | Industrial Engineering & Automation | Electrical & Electronic Engineering |
| 97 | Kusiak, Andrew | University of Iowa | United States | Operations Research | Energy |
| 98 | Yang, Shengqi | China University of Mining and Technology | China | Geological & Geomatics Engineering | Mechanical Engineering & Transports |
| 99 | Tabuada, Paulo | University of California, Los Angeles | United States | Industrial Engineering & Automation | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing |
| 100 | Xie, Lihua | Nanyang Technological University | Singapore | Industrial Engineering & Automation | Networking & Telecommunications |