Subfield · Spectroscopy
Top Spectroscopy Researchers
John A. Pople ranks first, out of 5,687 ranked researchers.
Composite score: field-normalised excellence, output and total citations weighted 50 / 30 / 20, each as a percentile so no single heavy-tailed measure dominates. Floor: 15 works, and an institution the snapshot can resolve.
The ranking
- 1 John A. Pople United States · #77 worldwide 11k citations · 142 works
- 2 Matthias Mann Germany · #116 worldwide 5.1k citations · 154 works
- 3 Peter A. Kollman United States · #128 worldwide 6.3k citations · 134 works
- 4 Michele Parrinello Switzerland · #191 worldwide 5.6k citations · 175 works
- 5 William L. Jorgensen United States · #209 worldwide 4.5k citations · 119 works
- 6 Donald G. Truhlar United States · #255 worldwide 8.4k citations · 315 works
- 7 Elaine R. Mardis United States · #424 worldwide 3k citations · 123 works
- 8 J. Andrew McCammon United States · #959 worldwide 3.4k citations · 160 works
- 9 Michael J. S. Dewar United States · #993 worldwide 4.3k citations · 217 works
- 10 Corwin Hansch United States · #1,127 worldwide 2.9k citations · 94 works
- 11 Martin Karplus United States · #1,154 worldwide 4.7k citations · 163 works
- 12 Jack L. Koenig United States · #1,155 worldwide 2.9k citations · 117 works
- 13 Mostafa A. El‐Sayed United States · #1,236 worldwide 3.5k citations · 149 works
- 14 A. L’Huillier Sweden · #1,499 worldwide 2.4k citations · 105 works
- 15 Nicholas C. Handy United Kingdom · #1,548 worldwide 3.3k citations · 93 works
- 16 Ruedi Aebersold Switzerland · #1,595 worldwide 2.6k citations · 114 works
- 17 George M. Whitesides United States · #1,739 worldwide 4.8k citations · 265 works
- 18 Richard R. Ernst Switzerland · #1,796 worldwide 2.6k citations · 85 works
- 19 John C. Lindon United Kingdom · #1,909 worldwide 1.6k citations · 108 works
- 20 Warren J. Hehre United States · #1,992 worldwide 3.2k citations · 77 works
- 21 Lloyd M. Smith United States · #2,101 worldwide 1.8k citations · 89 works
- 22 N. Bloembergen United States · #2,137 worldwide 1.9k citations · 106 works
- 23 Jeremy K. Nicholson United Kingdom · #2,379 worldwide 1.9k citations · 124 works
- 24 Judith A. K. Howard United Kingdom · #2,575 worldwide 5.5k citations · 294 works
- 25 Bert L. Vallée United States · #2,811 worldwide 2.2k citations · 124 works
- 26 William Stafford Noble United States · #2,835 worldwide 2.3k citations · 74 works
- 27 Oliver Fiehn United States · #2,865 worldwide 1.8k citations · 97 works
- 28 Harvey I. Pass United States · #2,896 worldwide 2.2k citations · 186 works
- 29 Hans‐Joachim Werner Germany · #3,075 worldwide 1.8k citations · 110 works
- 30 H. J. Bernstein Germany · #3,227 worldwide 1.5k citations · 142 works
- 31 Kenneth M. Merz United States · #3,350 worldwide 2.1k citations · 95 works
- 32 Benjamin F. Cravatt United States · #3,445 worldwide 1.3k citations · 111 works
- 33 Ad Bax United States · #3,485 worldwide 1.5k citations · 80 works
- 34 Ronald Holzwarth Germany · #3,723 worldwide 1.7k citations · 121 works
- 35 G. Herzberg Canada · #3,884 worldwide 1.2k citations · 71 works
- 36 Robert D. Schreiber United States · #3,967 worldwide 1.3k citations · 80 works
- 37 Misha Ivanov United Kingdom · #4,079 worldwide 1.6k citations · 78 works
- 38 P. B. Corkum Canada · #4,425 worldwide 2.1k citations · 165 works
- 39 H. G. Hertz Germany · #4,626 worldwide 1.6k citations · 70 works
- 40 Svante Wold Sweden · #4,655 worldwide 2k citations · 63 works
- 41 K. Biemann United States · #4,787 worldwide 1.2k citations · 88 works
- 42 Vincenzo Barone Italy · #5,049 worldwide 3.9k citations · 210 works
- 43 Michael J. MacCoss United States · #5,249 worldwide 1.7k citations · 61 works
- 44 Norman F. Ramsey United States · #5,299 worldwide 1.1k citations · 99 works
- 45 Martin Head‐Gordon United States · #5,440 worldwide 2.6k citations · 153 works
- 46 W.J. Orville-Thomas United Kingdom · #5,597 worldwide 1.7k citations · 60 works
- 47 Jean M. J. Fréchet United States · #6,312 worldwide 2k citations · 130 works
- 48 Steven P. Gygi United States · #6,335 worldwide 1.8k citations · 114 works
- 49 Jacky W. Y. Lam Hong Kong · #6,351 worldwide 3.4k citations · 216 works
- 50 Akhilesh Pandey United States · #6,518 worldwide 1.4k citations · 97 works
- 51 R. W. TAFT United States · #6,568 worldwide 1.7k citations · 57 works
- 52 John R. Yates United States · #6,610 worldwide 1.6k citations · 157 works
- 53 Lance A. Liotta United States · #6,678 worldwide 1.5k citations · 132 works
- 54 Michael J. Frisch United States · #6,872 worldwide 1.7k citations · 57 works
- 55 Stefan Grimme Germany · #6,878 worldwide 1.8k citations · 134 works
- 56 Krishnan Raghavachari United States · #6,991 worldwide 1.7k citations · 74 works
- 57 Harold Edelhoch United States · #7,141 worldwide 1.1k citations · 63 works
- 58 John D. Roberts United States · #7,154 worldwide 1.2k citations · 64 works
- 59 Robert Verpoorte Netherlands · #7,192 worldwide 1.9k citations · 172 works
- 60 Junmei Wang United States · #7,215 worldwide 1.5k citations · 92 works
- 61 Hanno Steen United States · #7,558 worldwide 932 citations · 62 works
- 62 Ryōji Noyori Japan · #7,579 worldwide 2.4k citations · 168 works
- 63 William P. Jencks United States · #7,615 worldwide 1.5k citations · 120 works
- 64 Edwin B. Wilson United States · #8,277 worldwide 711 citations · 68 works
- 65 Theodor W. Hänsch Germany · #8,429 worldwide 1.3k citations · 139 works
- 66 Ole N. Jensen Denmark · #8,441 worldwide 1k citations · 87 works
- 67 Frank Weinhold United States · #8,665 worldwide 1.2k citations · 56 works
- 68 Harden M. McConnell United States · #8,833 worldwide 1.4k citations · 78 works
- 69 Günther K. Bonn Austria · #8,846 worldwide 877 citations · 59 works
- 70 Laurence S. Rothman United States · #9,700 worldwide 1.2k citations · 70 works
- 71 John M. Prausnitz United States · #9,885 worldwide 2k citations · 153 works
- 72 Wim Klopper Germany · #10,263 worldwide 1.3k citations · 63 works
- 73 Gerhard Wagner United States · #10,342 worldwide 1.1k citations · 136 works
- 74 Daan Frenkel Netherlands · #10,641 worldwide 1.8k citations · 127 works
- 75 P. H. Bucksbaum United States · #10,810 worldwide 1.2k citations · 136 works
- 76 Robert Tycko United States · #10,961 worldwide 1k citations · 57 works
- 77 D. J. Hollenbach United States · #11,309 worldwide 1.3k citations · 101 works
- 78 Juyoung Yoon South Korea · #11,313 worldwide 1.9k citations · 126 works
- 79 Janusz Pawliszyn Canada · #11,370 worldwide 1.8k citations · 150 works
- 80 Elkan Blout United States · #11,462 worldwide 751 citations · 60 works
- 81 Maciej Lewenstein Spain · #11,489 worldwide 3.4k citations · 245 works
- 82 C. Böttcher United States · #11,623 worldwide 1.1k citations · 71 works
- 83 Ulf-G. Meißner Germany · #11,819 worldwide 3.5k citations · 261 works
- 84 Péter Pulay United States · #11,857 worldwide 1.7k citations · 47 works
- 85 Barry L. Karger United States · #11,882 worldwide 651 citations · 69 works
- 86 Raymond A. Dwek United Kingdom · #11,910 worldwide 1.1k citations · 110 works
- 87 J. Calvin Giddings United States · #12,041 worldwide 820 citations · 93 works
- 88 E. J. Corey United States · #12,077 worldwide 3.6k citations · 298 works
- 89 Alexey I. Nesvizhskii United States · #12,090 worldwide 925 citations · 53 works
- 90 Alexander Pines United States · #12,167 worldwide 1.2k citations · 109 works
- 91 Peter J. Peters Netherlands · #12,173 worldwide 695 citations · 75 works
- 92 R. F. Curl United States · #12,225 worldwide 1.1k citations · 105 works
- 93 I.M. Mills United Kingdom · #12,258 worldwide 662 citations · 62 works
- 94 Ray Freeman United Kingdom · #12,265 worldwide 966 citations · 51 works
- 95 Philip J. Marriott Australia · #12,382 worldwide 897 citations · 90 works
- 96 P. G. Martin Canada · #12,476 worldwide 2.3k citations · 199 works
- 97 Gary Siuzdak United States · #12,534 worldwide 651 citations · 52 works
- 98 Manjula R. Canagaratna United States · #12,650 worldwide 1.2k citations · 86 works
- 99 Robert R. Gamache United States · #13,002 worldwide 981 citations · 62 works
- 100 Harold A. Scheraga United States · #13,281 worldwide 3.3k citations · 261 works
authors from the 6,000 highest-output in Spectroscopy, re-ranked on the composite score. Author identities come from OpenAlex disambiguation and inherit its errors: a merged record can put one name over two people’s work, and a split one can halve a career. Every row links out to the OpenAlex record so the underlying claim is checkable, and anything that looks wrong can be reported from the row. That report files a correction against the bibliographic record for a human to review — it is not a removal or delisting request, and no such route exists yet.