Top institutions in Switzerland for Physics & Astronomy

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

379 researchers in Switzerland 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: 10.5% of all listed authors in Switzerland, and 11th of 105 countries in the field. 150 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). ETH Zürich has the most (80), followed by École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (64) and Organisation Européenne pour la Recherche Nucléaire (52). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.