| Rank | Name | Number of papers | Total citations | E-index |
| 1 | Axel D. Becke | 90 | 159,005 | 3,169.69 |
| 2 | Richard D. Piner | 84 | 66,639 | 2,353.06 |
| 3 | Andre K. Geim | 390 | 243,029 | 2,229.73 |
| 4 | James E. Gunn | 151 | 73,985 | 2,037.86 |
| 5 | Jon Brinkmann | 115 | 59,043 | 2,006.92 |
| 6 | Kostya S. Novoselov | 466 | 242,210 | 1,911.32 |
| 7 | Berk Hess | 76 | 60,228 | 1,803.85 |
| 8 | John P. Perdew | 385 | 262,441 | 1,801.58 |
| 9 | Mark Newman | 268 | 121,060 | 1,721.28 |
| 10 | Mark SubbaRao | 59 | 32,618 | 1,700.72 |
| 11 | Hongjie Dai | 474 | 157,012 | 1,700.31 |
| 12 | Jeffrey R. Pier | 80 | 39,832 | 1,698.0 |
| 13 | Charles H. Bennett | 93 | 48,723 | 1,697.7 |
| 14 | Georg Kresse | 390 | 247,952 | 1,695.62 |
| 15 | Matthias Ernzerhof | 93 | 155,309 | 1,683.79 |
| 16 | Dan Long | 96 | 44,076 | 1,683.76 |
| 17 | Jeffrey A. Munn | 139 | 57,175 | 1,633.68 |
| 18 | Albert-László Barabási | 384 | 147,602 | 1,574.09 |
| 19 | Constance M. Rockosi | 83 | 38,629 | 1,542.78 |
| 20 | R. Kennedy | 64 | 32,135 | 1,506.12 |
| 21 | L. E. Wade | 70 | 33,411 | 1,476.19 |
| 22 | Stephen M. Kent | 73 | 34,869 | 1,471.18 |
| 23 | Edward Witten | 408 | 119,528 | 1,459.82 |
| 24 | Aniruddha R. Thakar | 64 | 27,658 | 1,452.56 |
| 25 | A. Samajdar | 72 | 33,250 | 1,435.37 |
| 26 | Masaharu Tanabashi | 61 | 35,533 | 1,433.69 |
| 27 | Torbjörn Sjöstrand | 137 | 58,342 | 1,410.38 |
| 28 | Michael R. Blanton | 188 | 60,153 | 1,406.39 |
| 29 | A. Perreca | 74 | 33,269 | 1,398.29 |
| 30 | Gary Hinshaw | 113 | 49,042 | 1,393.57 |
| 31 | E. A. Quintero | 104 | 44,493 | 1,369.0 |
| 32 | D. Huet | 68 | 31,351 | 1,367.83 |
| 33 | Rodney S. Ruoff | 617 | 180,619 | 1,362.44 |
| 34 | Irina V. Grigorieva | 127 | 88,300 | 1,359.78 |
| 35 | A. Pal-Singh | 79 | 33,704 | 1,347.03 |
| 36 | Janet Weiland | 76 | 37,118 | 1,346.36 |
| 37 | M. Phelps | 67 | 30,391 | 1,340.47 |
| 38 | E. A. Houston | 67 | 30,334 | 1,332.29 |
| 39 | David J. Schlegel | 336 | 98,219 | 1,330.75 |
| 40 | I. Di Palma | 61 | 28,720 | 1,330.23 |
| 41 | A. D. Silva | 81 | 33,807 | 1,323.77 |
| 42 | Serena Vinciguerra | 61 | 28,262 | 1,313.21 |
| 43 | Idit Zehavi | 125 | 43,120 | 1,310.55 |
| 44 | H. N. Isa | 86 | 34,777 | 1,308.51 |
| 45 | M. Steinke | 83 | 34,000 | 1,301.36 |
| 46 | E. E. Cowan | 84 | 34,160 | 1,299.47 |
| 47 | T. P. Downes | 73 | 31,672 | 1,298.08 |
| 48 | H. Fair | 71 | 31,000 | 1,291.95 |
| 49 | Robert H. Lupton | 305 | 84,401 | 1,291.65 |
| 50 | P. Bacon | 77 | 32,470 | 1,291.5 |
| 51 | Walter Kohn | 183 | 106,777 | 1,278.38 |
| 52 | Andrea Taracchini | 88 | 34,683 | 1,277.68 |
| 53 | F. Cleva | 87 | 34,612 | 1,277.17 |
| 54 | Peidong Yang | 539 | 133,256 | 1,272.86 |
| 55 | G. Wang | 81 | 33,080 | 1,271.3 |
| 56 | Charles M. Lieber | 452 | 115,057 | 1,259.14 |
| 57 | Satyanarayan Ray Pitambar Mohapatra | 71 | 30,472 | 1,250.55 |
| 58 | Herman J. C. Berendsen | 143 | 68,073 | 1,244.35 |
| 59 | Laleh Sadeghian | 63 | 27,617 | 1,243.66 |
| 60 | Quyen Nguyen | 63 | 27,530 | 1,237.99 |
| 61 | Chris Stoughton | 76 | 31,153 | 1,236.79 |
| 62 | T. T. Nguyen | 75 | 30,887 | 1,234.3 |
| 63 | Daniel E. Vanden Berk | 93 | 33,987 | 1,227.29 |
| 64 | M. Ducrot | 70 | 29,863 | 1,227.0 |
| 65 | Jens K. Nørskov | 685 | 153,779 | 1,219.93 |
| 66 | S. E. Barclay | 94 | 34,895 | 1,211.26 |
| 67 | Jocelyn Read | 71 | 26,679 | 1,210.22 |
| 68 | V. Frey | 97 | 35,267 | 1,209.57 |
| 69 | R. T. DeRosa | 63 | 27,081 | 1,208.04 |
| 70 | V. Germain | 83 | 32,237 | 1,203.57 |
| 71 | Nils A. Tornqvist | 79 | 36,235 | 1,202.27 |
| 72 | Geoffrey Ingram Taylor | 139 | 42,920 | 1,200.51 |
| 73 | Douglas P. Finkbeiner | 147 | 48,198 | 1,195.88 |
| 74 | G. Bergmann | 67 | 26,281 | 1,195.52 |
| 75 | J. L. Wright | 100 | 35,642 | 1,192.14 |
| 76 | J.-P. Coulon | 95 | 34,886 | 1,190.84 |
| 77 | Debnandini Mukherjee | 96 | 35,075 | 1,190.0 |
| 78 | B. D. Lackey | 118 | 39,564 | 1,188.95 |
| 79 | Rodney Hill | 80 | 30,846 | 1,187.68 |
| 80 | John David Jackson | 66 | 30,459 | 1,185.22 |
| 81 | R. Quitzow-James | 80 | 31,480 | 1,182.5 |
| 82 | P. Schale | 88 | 32,412 | 1,181.56 |
| 83 | Tom Darden | 60 | 46,353 | 1,179.67 |
| 84 | Yuanbo Zhang | 85 | 34,355 | 1,178.95 |
| 85 | Yi Cui | 963 | 196,250 | 1,176.4 |
| 86 | D. J. McManus | 86 | 31,878 | 1,173.47 |
| 87 | V. B. Adya | 89 | 33,071 | 1,166.04 |
| 88 | Gregory S. Hennessy | 83 | 30,054 | 1,164.78 |
| 89 | Charles L. Kane | 131 | 47,732 | 1,163.7 |
| 90 | P. Brockill | 89 | 32,234 | 1,161.2 |
| 91 | M. J. Hart | 79 | 30,644 | 1,161.04 |
| 92 | M. Fletcher | 86 | 31,490 | 1,160.12 |
| 93 | D. M. Shoemaker | 94 | 33,251 | 1,160.02 |
| 94 | B. L. Pearlstone | 91 | 32,560 | 1,158.15 |
| 95 | Michael S. Vogeley | 106 | 36,236 | 1,156.38 |
| 96 | D. Steinmeyer | 98 | 33,976 | 1,154.96 |
| 97 | D. J. Vine | 93 | 32,932 | 1,154.37 |
| 98 | William K. Wootters | 80 | 35,290 | 1,153.58 |
| 99 | C. Graef | 80 | 30,253 | 1,152.77 |
| 100 | Collin D. Capano | 82 | 30,998 | 1,152.49 |