Top institutions in Switzerland for Applied Physics

Which institutions in Switzerland have the most top-cited scientists in Applied Physics?

107 researchers in Switzerland whose main subfield is Applied Physics are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 3.0% of all listed authors in Switzerland, and 11th of 91 countries in the subfield. 32 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne has the most (27), followed by ETH Zürich (20) and Paul Scherrer Institut (16). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.