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Which countries have the most top-cited scientists in Built Environment & Design?

1,562 researchers whose main field is Built Environment & Design are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list. China has the most (319, 20.4%), followed by the United States (234) and the United Kingdom (151). A country with 100 or more opens its institutions in the field; the others open their scientists in the table of all authors.

#	Country	Listed authors	Top 100k	Share of field	Highest-ranked author	Top institution
1	China	319	251	20.4%	Shi, Caijun #129	Southeast University
2	United States	234	171	15.0%	Li, Victor C. #248	College of Engineering
3	United Kingdom	151	123	9.7%	Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés #441	The University of Sheffield
4	Australia	98	76	6.3%	Tam, Vivian W.Y. #931	RMIT University
5	Hong Kong	66	56	4.2%	Poon, Chi-Sun #554	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
6	Canada	54	37	3.5%	Nehdi, Moncef L. #2,910	The University of British Columbia
7	Netherlands	42	36	2.7%	Brouwers, H. J. H. #3,386	Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
8	Italy	38	19	2.4%	Berardi, Umberto B. #1,248	Politecnico di Milano
9	Türkiye	37	24	2.4%	GENCEL, OSMAN #5,424	Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi
10	Saudi Arabia	34	27	2.2%	Thomas, Blessen Skariah #6,673	King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
11	Germany	32	27	2.0%	Mechtcherine, Viktor #2,388	Technische Universität München
12	South Korea	29	24	1.9%	Yoo, Doo-yeol #4,298	Yonsei University
13	Belgium	28	18	1.8%	Snellings, Ruben A. #3,713	KU Leuven
14	Spain	26	14	1.7%	Anguelovski, Isabelle #2,798	CSIC - Instituto de Ciencias de la Construcción Eduardo Torroja (IETCC)
15	Switzerland	25	19	1.6%	Scrivener, Karen Louise #134	ETH Zürich
16	India	24	13	1.5%	Siddique, Rafat #658	Indian Institute of Science
17	Singapore	23	18	1.5%	Gan, Vincent J.L. #12,895	National University of Singapore
18	France	22	15	1.4%	Roussel, Nicolas #1,313	Université Gustave Eiffel
19	Denmark	21	16	1.3%	Sigmund, Ole #167	Technical University of Denmark
20	Sweden	21	16	1.3%	de Wilde, Pieter J.C.J. #17,828	Lunds Universitet
21	Egypt	16	10	1.0%	Rashad, Alaa M. #1,479	Faculty of Engineering
22	Israel	16	10	1.0%	Sacks, Rafael #16,300	Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
23	Iran	14	6	0.9%	Arabani, Mahyar P. #20,518	University of Guilan
24	Finland	14	9	0.9%	Stead, Dominic #25,285	Aalto University
25	South Africa	13	11	0.8%	Watson, Vanessa J. #8,802	University of Cape Town
26	Malaysia	12	10	0.8%	Mo, Kim Hung #22,800	Universiti Malaya
27	Portugal	11	9	0.7%	Lourenço, Paulo B. #5,738	Universidade do Minho
28	Norway	11	9	0.7%	Jelle, Bjørn Petter #8,632	Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet
29	Thailand	10	6	0.6%	Chindaprasirt, Prinya #7,092	Khon Kaen University
30	United Arab Emirates	10	7	0.6%	El-Maaddawy, Tamer A. #36,767	United Arab Emirates University
31	Iraq	9	6	0.6%	Qaidi, Shaker M.A. #27,435	Nawroz University
32	Taiwan	8	6	0.5%	Chou, Juisheng #6,238	National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
33	Japan	8	5	0.5%	Ohtsu, Masayasu #23,237	Graduate School of Engineering
34	Vietnam	7	2	0.4%	Hoang, Nhat Duc #5,151	Duy Tan University
35	Austria	7	4	0.4%	Trippl, Michaela #18,724	TU Wien
36	Brazil	7	6	0.4%	Toledo Filho, R. D. #30,940	Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
37	Greece	6	4	0.4%	Papadakis, V. G. #16,500	Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
38	New Zealand	6	5	0.4%	Durdyev, Serdar #29,709	Auckland University of Technology
39	Ireland	4	4	0.3%	Cugurullo, Federico #12,487	University College Dublin
40	Pakistan	4	3	0.3%	Ali, Babar #29,127	COMSATS University Islamabad, Sahiwal Campus
41	Poland	4	2	0.3%	Kim, Jeonghyun #36,094	Politechnika Wrocławska
42	Estonia	4	3	0.3%	Bell, Simon M. #39,583	Tallinna Tehnikaülikool
43	Qatar	4	1	0.3%	Indraganti, Madhavi #45,437	Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, College of Engineering, Qatar University
44	Jordan	4	4	0.3%	Matarneh, Sandra T. #48,099	Hashemite University
45	Oman	3	3	0.2%	Meddah, Mohammed Seddik #61,046	Sultan Qaboos University
46	Lebanon	2	2	0.1%	Khatib, Jamal M. #18,219	Beirut Arab University
47	Nigeria	2	2	0.1%	Oke, Ayodeji Emmanuel #28,535	Federal University of Technology, Akure
48	Mexico	2	1	0.1%	Escalante-García, José Iván #34,393	Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional
49	Colombia	2	2	0.1%	Abellán-García, Joaquín #63,523	Universidad del Norte
50	Hungary	2	2	0.1%	Lublóy, Éva Eszter #77,637	Budapest University of Technology and Economics
51	Sri Lanka	2	0	0.1%	Thamboo, Julian Ajith #110,371	South Eastern University of Sri Lanka
52	Macao	1	1	0.1%	Li, Zongjin #5,277	University of Macau
53	Palestine	1	1	0.1%	Tayeh, Bassam A. #9,611	Islamic University of Gaza
54	Kazakhstan	1	1	0.1%	Memon, Shazim Ali #10,725	Nazarbayev University
55	Argentina	1	1	0.1%	Irassar, Edgardo Fabián #42,226	Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires
56	Cameroon	1	1	0.1%	Abanda, Fonbeyin Henry #66,453	Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Travaux Publics
57	Slovenia	1	1	0.1%	Turk, Žiga #78,756	Univerza v Ljubljani
58	Morocco	1	1	0.1%	Maqsoom, Ahsen #83,646	Mohammed VI Polytechnic University
59	Cyprus	1	0	0.1%	Luhar, Salmabanu #101,663	Frederick Research Center
60	Russia	1	0	0.1%	Rakhimova, N. R. #103,467	Kazan State University of Architecture and Engineering
61	Algeria	1	0	0.1%	Kenaï, Saïd #104,298	Université Blida 1
62	Bangladesh	1	0	0.1%	Sobuz, Habibur Rahman #106,790	Khulna University of Engineering and Technology
63	Serbia	1	0	0.1%	Marinković, Snežana B. #127,233	University of Belgrade
64	Libya	1	0	0.1%	Abdelgader, Hakim S. #128,002	University of Tripoli
65	Romania	1	0	0.1%	Pîslǎ, Doina Liana #752,534	Technical Sciences Academy of Romania