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Which countries have the most top-cited scientists in Chemistry?

16,855 researchers whose main field is Chemistry 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 (4,901, 29.1%), followed by the United States (2,290) and India (920). 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	4,901	1,212	29.1%	Sun, Runcang Cang #879	University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
2	United States	2,290	812	13.6%	Yaghi, Omar M. #73	Northwestern University
3	India	920	195	5.5%	Ali, Imran #1,379	Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR)
4	Germany	712	250	4.2%	Grimme, Stefan #5	Technische Universität München
5	Japan	651	169	3.9%	Gong, Jian Ping #924	The University of Tokyo
6	United Kingdom	649	230	3.9%	Thakur, Vijay Kumar #895	University of Oxford
7	Italy	540	137	3.2%	Supuran, Claudiu T. #769	Università di Pisa
8	Iran	440	121	2.6%	Salavati-Niasari, Masoud #1,425	University of Tehran
9	Saudi Arabia	429	115	2.5%	ALOthman, Zeid A. #1,489	King Saud University
10	Spain	422	109	2.5%	Corma, Avelino #222	Universitat de València
11	France	344	109	2.0%	Astruc, Didier D. #975	Université de Strasbourg
12	South Korea	315	73	1.9%	Park, Soo-jin #1,853	Yeungnam University
13	Egypt	314	64	1.9%	Abdelhamid, Hani Nasser #2,276	National Research Centre
14	Canada	284	98	1.7%	Liu, Juewen #1,839	University of Toronto
15	Türkiye	245	44	1.5%	Gülçın, İlhami #299	İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi
16	Australia	235	63	1.4%	Ashokkumar, Muthupandian #2,328	The University of Queensland
17	Poland	221	58	1.3%	Płotka-Wasylka, Justyna Małgorzata #1,128	Gdańsk University of Technology
18	Switzerland	203	79	1.2%	Pérez-Ramírez, Javier #2,223	ETH Zürich
19	Netherlands	172	63	1.0%	Koper, Marc T.M. #196	Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
20	Pakistan	170	29	1.0%	Kausar, Ayesha #1,092	Government College University Faisalabad
21	Brazil	154	21	0.9%	Varma, Rajender S. #386	Universidade de São Paulo
22	Russia	141	26	0.8%	Ananikov, Valentine P. #3,554	N.D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences
23	Portugal	118	31	0.7%	Mohan, Brij #11,002	Universidade do Porto
24	Sweden	114	38	0.7%	Wold, Svante #4,939	The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
25	Belgium	112	31	0.7%	Binnemans, Koen #619	KU Leuven
26	Singapore	98	31	0.6%	Zhao, Yanli #1,409	National University of Singapore
27	Austria	93	17	0.6%	Kappe, C. Oliver #3,502	Universität Wien
28	Malaysia	83	19	0.5%	Jawad, Ali H. #8,930	Universiti Sains Malaysia
29	Taiwan	82	18	0.5%	Kuo, Shiao Wei #12,341	National Taiwan University
30	South Africa	78	24	0.5%	Ray, Suprakas Sinha #3,316	University of South Africa
31	Hong Kong	77	21	0.5%	Bünzli, Jean-Claude Claude Georges #2,787	City University of Hong Kong
32	Czechia	77	23	0.5%	Homola, Jiri #4,811	Palacký University Olomouc
33	Greece	75	22	0.4%	Bikiaris, Dimitrios N. #4,907	Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
34	Thailand	71	11	0.4%	Siengchin, Suchart #698	Chulalongkorn University
35	Denmark	70	28	0.4%	NØrskov, Jens Kehlet #72	Technical University of Denmark
36	Morocco	55	10	0.3%	Habibi, Youssef #9,964	Mohammed VI Polytechnic University
37	Romania	53	20	0.3%	Vasile, Cornelia #11,594	Petru Poni Institute of Macromolecular chemistry
38	Finland	49	18	0.3%	Häkkinen, Hannu J. #8,861	Aalto University
39	Israel	48	16	0.3%	Shaik, Sason S. #4,172	Weizmann Institute of Science Israel
40	Hungary	44	9	0.3%	Héberger, Károly #28,901	Budapest University of Technology and Economics
41	Iraq	43	9	0.3%	Hama Aziz, Kosar Hikmat #6,569	University of Al-Qadisiyah
42	Ireland	42	13	0.2%	Collins, Maurice N. #23,332	University College Dublin
43	Serbia	35	3	0.2%	Berisha, Avni R. #30,314	University of Belgrade
44	United Arab Emirates	34	8	0.2%	Naumov, PanČe #20,535	Khalifa University
45	Norway	34	10	0.2%	Chinga-Carrasco, Gary #32,769	Universitetet i Oslo
46	Indonesia	31	3	0.2%	Fatimah, Is #19,850	Universitas Padjadjaran
47	Bangladesh	30	6	0.2%	Khan, M. Z.H. #27,562	University of Dhaka
48	New Zealand	29	7	0.2%	Waterhouse, Geoffrey I. N. #7,133	University of Auckland
49	Macao	28	6	0.2%	Wang, Xijun #27,298	University of Macau
50	Vietnam	25	2	0.1%	Phan-Thien, N. #30,343	Viet Nam National University Ho Chi Minh City
51	Nigeria	24	3	0.1%	Idumah, Christopher Igwe #7,503	Obafemi Awolowo University
52	Mexico	24	4	0.1%	Varela, Ana Sofía #22,828	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
53	Slovakia	23	3	0.1%	Valko, Marián #12,110	Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava
54	Slovenia	23	5	0.1%	Finšgar, Matjaž #15,718	Univerza v Ljubljani
55	Oman	23	9	0.1%	Eltaweil, Abdelazeem Saad #18,681	University of Nizwa
56	Argentina	18	2	0.1%	Olivieri, Alejandro César #19,419	Universidad Nacional de La Plata
57	Jordan	18	4	0.1%	Shakeel, Faiyaz #21,962	The University of Jordan
58	Chile	16	4	0.1%	Jadoun, Sapana #25,987	Universidad San Sebastián
59	Croatia	16	3	0.1%	Vukic̀ević, Damir #72,007	Institut Ruđer Bošković
60	Algeria	15	4	0.1%	Trache, Djalal #10,932	Université d’Echahid Hamma Lakhdar – El-oued
61	Bulgaria	14	4	0.1%	Hadjiivanov, Konstantin I. #8,676	Medical University of Sofia
62	Colombia	11	1	0.1%	Hernández, José G. #42,021	Universidad de Antioquia
63	Tunisia	10	1	0.1%	Boufi, Sami #33,392	Université de Monastir
64	Ethiopia	10	2	0.1%	Weldegebrieal, Getu Kassegn #72,008	Addis Ababa University
65	Lithuania	9	1	0.1%	Ramanavičius, Arũnas #34,830	Vilniaus Universitetas
66	Brunei	8	3	0.0%	Khan, Mohammad Mansoob #7,912	Universiti Brunei Darussalam
67	Qatar	8	3	0.0%	Zaidi, Shabi Abbas #55,391	Qatar University
68	Ukraine	7	1	0.0%	Mykhailiuk, Pavel K. #8,850	Enamine Ltd.
69	Georgia	6	3	0.0%	Bussmann, Rainer W. #20,082	The University of Georgia, Tbilisi
70	Cyprus	6	2	0.0%	Başer, K. Hüsnü Can #21,217	University of Cyprus
71	Palestine	6	2	0.0%	Hawash, Mohammed M.A. #57,727	An-Najah National University
72	Yemen	6	0	0.0%	Farea, Mohammed O. #145,040	Taiz University
73	Cameroon	5	2	0.0%	Kuete, Victor #11,593	University of Dschang
74	Sri Lanka	5	0	0.0%	Sanjeewa, K. K.Asanka #154,051	University of Sri Jayewardenepura
75	Lebanon	4	1	0.0%	Patra, Digambara #87,315	American University of Beirut
76	Estonia	4	0	0.0%	Leito, Ivo #160,413	Tartu Ülikool
77	Kazakhstan	4	0	0.0%	Berillo, Dmitriy A. #167,802	M.kozybayev North Kazakhstan University
78	Ecuador	3	2	0.0%	Alexis, Frank #27,279	Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas ESPE
79	Bahrain	3	1	0.0%	Khan, Ezzat #36,199	University of Bahrain
80	Uzbekistan	3	1	0.0%	Abdusalomov, Akmalbek Bobomirzaevich #51,320	Tashkent University of Information Technologies named after Muhammad al-Khwarizmi
81	Iceland	3	2	0.0%	Skúlason, Egill #71,726	Atmonia ehf.
82	Trinidad & Tobago	3	0	0.0%	Kenny, Peter W. #129,202	The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus
83	Azerbaijan	3	0	0.0%	Mahmudov, Kamran T. #217,401	Baku State University
84	Nepal	2	1	0.0%	Bhattarai, Ajaya #58,004	Tribhuvan University
85	Mauritius	2	1	0.0%	Gurib-Fakim, Ameenah #91,265	CIDP Research and Innovation
86	Botswana	2	0	0.0%	Singh, Girija Shankar #110,119	University of Botswana
87	Kenya	2	0	0.0%	Noah, Naumih M. #121,059	United States International University, Africa
88	Belarus	2	0	0.0%	Ivanets, A. I. #152,481	Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus
89	Syria	2	0	0.0%	Al Lafi, Abdul G. #202,835	Atomic Energy Commission of Syria
90	Uruguay	2	0	0.0%	Gambino, Dinorah #232,633	Universidad de la República Facultad de Química
91	Sudan	2	0	0.0%	Yagi, Sakina Mohamed Ahmed #448,855	Khartoum University
92	Puerto Rico	1	1	0.0%	Chen, Zhongfang #18,825	Universidad de Puerto Rico
93	Papua New Guinea	1	1	0.0%	Murthy, H. C.Ananda #40,376	Papua New Guinea University of Technology
94	Peru	1	1	0.0%	Torres, Fernando G. #56,235	Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru
95	Cuba	1	1	0.0%	Pino, J. A. #68,702	Universidad de La Habana
96	Libya	1	0	0.0%	Yahya, Esam Bashir #103,359	Alasmarya Islamic University
97	Namibia	1	0	0.0%	Chinsembu, Kazhila Croffat #111,476	University of Namibia
98	North Korea	1	0	0.0%	Yu, Chol-jun #134,054	Kim Il Sung University
99	Luxembourg	1	0	0.0%	White, Robin J. #142,787	Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology
100	Ghana	1	0	0.0%	Asase, Alex #168,354	Centre for Plant Medicine Research
101	Armenia	1	0	0.0%	Kaviani, Sadegh #169,881	Institute of Chemical Physics National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia
102	Malta	1	0	0.0%	Attard, Everaldo #216,567	L-Università ta' Malta
103	North Macedonia	1	0	0.0%	Mirçeski, Valentin #256,018	Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts
104	Jamaica	1	0	0.0%	Vandebroek, Ina #278,599	The University of the West Indies Mona Campus
105	Burkina Faso	1	0	0.0%	Bassolé, Imaël Henri Nestor #289,502	Université Joseph Ki-Zerbo
106	Uganda	1	0	0.0%	Anywar, Godwin Upoki #297,761	Makerere University
107	Latvia	1	0	0.0%	Viter, Roman V. #321,431	Latvijas Universitāte
108	Philippines	1	0	0.0%	Regulacio, Michelle D. #341,178	Institute of Chemistry, College of Science, University of the Philippines, Diliman
109	New Caledonia	1	0	0.0%	Chassagne, François #394,866	Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement Noumea