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Which countries have the most top-cited scientists in Historical Studies?

1,240 researchers whose main field is Historical Studies are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list. The United States has the most (477, 38.5%), followed by the United Kingdom (326) and Germany (57). 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	United States	477	107	38.5%	Chakrabarty, Dipesh #2,726	University of California, Berkeley
2	United Kingdom	326	49	26.3%	Ingold, Tim #433	University of Cambridge
3	Germany	57	13	4.6%	Graeber, David #21,265	Freie Universität Berlin
4	Australia	52	6	4.2%	Smith, Laurajane #2,719	The Australian National University
5	Canada	45	11	3.6%	Li, Tania M. #7,427	University of Toronto
6	Israel	30	2	2.4%	Finkelstein, Israel #60,961	Tel Aviv University
7	Netherlands	28	2	2.3%	van Zanden, Jan Luiten #43,510	Universiteit Utrecht
8	Spain	24	1	1.9%	Bruner, Emiliano #91,659	CSIC - Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN)
9	France	23	5	1.9%	Hublin, Jean Jacques #16,958	Université de Bordeaux
10	Italy	22	0	1.8%	Sluga, Glenda A. #102,467	Sapienza Università di Roma
11	Denmark	20	3	1.6%	Mattingly, Cheryl F. #34,289	Aarhus Universitet
12	South Africa	17	3	1.4%	Mbembé, Achille #3,763	University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
13	Belgium	11	0	0.9%	Stengers, Isabelle #106,390	Universiteit Gent
14	Austria	10	2	0.8%	Higham, Thomas F.G. #44,752	Universität Wien
15	Norway	7	1	0.6%	Cabot, Heath #71,552	Universitetet i Bergen
16	Ireland	7	0	0.6%	Ó Gráda, Cormac Ó. #125,781	University College Dublin
17	Russia	7	0	0.6%	Korotaev, Andrey V. #135,958	HSE University
18	Sweden	6	2	0.5%	Kristiansen, Kristian #31,704	Göteborgs Universitet
19	Greece	6	1	0.5%	Karkanas, Panagiotis #57,957	American School of Classical Studies at Athens
20	China	5	0	0.4%	Malanima, Paolo #207,710	Guangxi Normal University
21	Switzerland	5	0	0.4%	Rodogno, Davide #277,513	Universität Basel
22	Portugal	4	1	0.3%	Zilha̧o, João #60,049	Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa
23	Finland	4	0	0.3%	Trentmann, Frank #166,824	Helsingin Yliopisto
24	Cyprus	4	0	0.3%	Rehren, Thilo H. #183,808	The Cyprus Institute
25	Poland	4	0	0.3%	Fernandes, Ricardo #207,749	Faculty of Archaeology
26	Argentina	4	0	0.3%	Alberti, Benjamin #309,875	Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
27	Czechia	3	1	0.2%	Brůžek, Jaroslav #56,225	Charles University
28	Brazil	3	1	0.2%	de Castro, Eduardo B.Viveiros #63,479	Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
29	India	3	0	0.2%	Guha, Ramachandra #176,747	Indian Institute of Science
30	New Zealand	3	0	0.2%	Higham, Charles F.W. #241,294	University of Otago
31	Egypt	3	0	0.2%	Hemeda, Sayed #361,739	Cairo University
32	United Arab Emirates	2	1	0.2%	Allen, Robert C. #13,869	NYU Abu Dhabi
33	Philippines	2	1	0.2%	Bankoff, Greg #55,217	Ateneo de Manila University
34	Türkiye	2	1	0.2%	Pamuk, Şevket #81,116	Boğaziçi Üniversitesi
35	Bosnia & Herzegovina	1	1	0.1%	Jansen, Stef #93,028	Univerzitet u Sarajevu
36	Malta	1	0	0.1%	Scerri, Eleanor M.L. #112,037	L-Università ta' Malta
37	Taiwan	1	0	0.1%	Turner-Walker, Gordon #114,464	National Yunlin University of Science and Technology
38	Iceland	1	0	0.1%	Lucas, Gavin #125,938	Haskoli Islands
39	Hong Kong	1	0	0.1%	Kipnis, Andrew Byron #136,997	Chinese University of Hong Kong
40	Estonia	1	0	0.1%	Tamm, Marek #197,312	Tallinn University
41	Kuwait	1	0	0.1%	Khalaf, Roha W. #262,582	Consultant Architect and Independent Scholar
42	Lithuania	1	0	0.1%	Motuzaite-Matuzeviciute, Giedre #312,609	Vilniaus Universitetas
43	Jordan	1	0	0.1%	Alshawabkeh, Yahya #327,324	Hashemite University
44	Ukraine	1	0	0.1%	Ivashko, Yulia #412,382	Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture
45	Chile	1	0	0.1%	Arriaza, Bernardo T. #441,357	Universidad de Tarapacá
46	Kazakhstan	1	0	0.1%	Morrison, Alexander #442,633	Nazarbayev University
47	Indonesia	1	0	0.1%	Djawas, Mursyid #607,666	Universitas Islam Negeri Ar-Raniry
48	Uzbekistan	1	0	0.1%	Khanipour, Morteza #2,382,298	«Silk Road» International University of Tourism