Top institutions in Belgium for Physics & Astronomy

Which institutions in Belgium have the most top-cited scientists in Physics & Astronomy?

165 researchers in Belgium whose main field is Physics & Astronomy are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 7.6% of all listed authors in Belgium, and 21st of 105 countries in the field. 57 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). Universiteit Gent has the most (31), followed by KU Leuven (25) and Université Libre de Bruxelles (24). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.