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Which countries have the most top-cited scientists in Philosophy & Theology?

610 researchers whose main field is Philosophy & Theology 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 (269, 44.1%), followed by the United Kingdom (115) and Canada (33). 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	269	120	44.1%	Floridi, Luciano #49	New York University
2	United Kingdom	115	35	18.9%	Taddeo, Mariarosaria #5,223	University of Oxford
3	Canada	33	11	5.4%	Mills, Charles Wright #11,282	University of Toronto
4	Australia	31	14	5.1%	Levy, Neil L. #7,560	Monash University
5	Netherlands	30	16	4.9%	Robeyns, Ingrid A.M. #7,065	Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
6	Germany	21	10	3.4%	Mittelstadt, Brent Daniel #6,125	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
7	Switzerland	14	6	2.3%	Heidegger, Martin #44,037	University of St. Gallen
8	Israel	10	1	1.6%	Enoch, David #24,220	Hebrew University of Jerusalem
9	South Africa	9	3	1.5%	Metz, Thaddeus #17,475	University of Pretoria
10	Sweden	8	3	1.3%	Hansson, Sven Ove #18,685	The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
11	Norway	6	1	1.0%	Naess, Arne #93,272	Universitetet i Bergen
12	Denmark	5	2	0.8%	Zahavi, Dan #6,291	Aarhus Universitet
13	Italy	5	2	0.8%	Lavazza, Andrea #38,055	Università Telematica Pegaso
14	Spain	5	2	0.8%	Shepherd, Joshua #76,098	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
15	France	5	2	0.8%	Douven, Igor #82,744	Sorbonne Université
16	New Zealand	5	1	0.8%	Nie, Jingbao #90,819	Otago Medical School
17	Poland	5	0	0.8%	Oviedo, Lluís #265,426	Nicolaus Copernicus Superior School
18	China	4	1	0.7%	Dentith, M. R.X. #54,677	Beijing Normal University
19	Singapore	3	3	0.5%	Savulescu, Julian #3,829	National University of Singapore
20	Finland	3	1	0.5%	Pihkala, Panu #4,267	Helsingin Yliopisto
21	Belgium	3	2	0.5%	Nanay, Bence #28,406	KU Leuven
22	Portugal	3	0	0.5%	Macagno, Fabrizio #113,983	Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa
23	Austria	2	2	0.3%	Coeckelbergh, Mark #3,592	Universität Wien
24	Hong Kong	2	1	0.3%	Cappelen, Herman #52,005	The University of Hong Kong
25	Japan	2	0	0.3%	Bueno, Ot´avio A. #163,160	Tohoku University
26	South Korea	2	0	0.3%	Jung, Jong Hyun #303,513	Sungkyunkwan University
27	Ireland	1	1	0.2%	Danaher, John #8,132	University of Galway
28	India	1	1	0.2%	Setiya, Kieran #80,906	MIT
29	Luxembourg	1	0	0.2%	Dove, Edward S. #119,444	Luxembourg National Data Service
30	Russia	1	0	0.2%	Husserl, Edmund #148,936	HSE University
31	Taiwan	1	0	0.2%	Chan, Joseph C W C.W. #166,203	Academia Sinica, Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences
32	Brazil	1	0	0.2%	da Costa, Newton Carneiro Affonso D. #239,583	Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
33	Kenya	1	0	0.2%	Chitando, Ezra #254,472	Faith to Action Network
34	Ghana	1	0	0.2%	Asamoah-Gyadu, Johnson Kwabena #362,179	Trinity Theological Seminary
35	Macao	1	0	0.2%	Harrison, Victoria S. #586,671	University of Macau
36	Chile	1	0	0.2%	Fernández, Samuel E. #609,821	Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile