Top 100 Chemists 2000-2010 Ranked by Citation Impact (among those with 50 or more papers)

The top 100 is intended to celebrate the achievements of chemists who achieved the highest citation impact scores for chemistry papers (articles and reviews) published since January 2000. Thomson Reuters published the table in support of the International Year of Chemistry.

Rank	Institution	Papers	Citations	Impact
1	Charles M. LIEBER Harvard University	74	17,776	240.22
2	Omar M. YAGHI University of California Los Angeles	90	19,870	220.78
3	Michael O’KEEFFE Arizona State University	73	12,910	176.85
4	K. Barry SHARPLESS Scripps Research Institute	60	9,754	162.57
5	A. Paul ALIVISATOS University of California Berkeley	93	14,589	156.87
6	Richard E. SMALLEY† Formerly Rice University	60	9,217	153.62
7	Hongjie DAI Stanford University	88	12,768	145.09
8	Xiaogang PENG University of Arkansas	59	8,548	144.88
9	Valery V. FOKIN Scripps Research Institute	54	6,853	126.91
10 [MS 1]	Peidong YANG University of California Berkeley	95	11,167	117.55
11	Benjamin LIST Max Planck Institute for Coal Research	81	8,808	108.74
12 [MS 50]	Mark E. THOMPSON University of Southern California	53	5,394	101.77
13	Robert H HAUGE Rice University	55	5,566	101.20
14	Eric N. JACOBSEN Harvard University	81	7,985	98.58
15	Banglin CHEN University of Texas San Antonio	61	5,929	97.20
16	David W.C. MACMILLAN Princeton University	55	5,267	95.76
17	Mostafa EL-SAYED Georgia Institute of Technology	111	10,135	91.31
18	Ezio RIZZARDO Commonwealth Scientific And Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), Australia	52	4,747	91.29
19	Michael S. STRANO Massachusetts Institute of Technology	54	4,843	89.69
20	Michael J. ZAWOROTKO University of South Florida	83	7,403	89.19

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