Top institutions in Saudi Arabia for Physics & Astronomy

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

238 researchers in Saudi Arabia 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: 8.9% of all listed authors in Saudi Arabia, and 16th of 105 countries in the field. 74 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University has the most (27), followed by King Khalid University (24) and College of Sciences (16). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.