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Which countries have the most top-cited scientists in Accounting?

197 researchers whose main subfield is Accounting 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 (98, 49.7%), followed by the United Kingdom (31) and Australia (24). A country with 100 or more opens its institutions in the subfield; the others open their scientists in the table of all authors.

#CountryListed authorsTop 100kShare of subfieldHighest-ranked authorTop institution
1 United States989649.7%Campbell, John L. #3,578The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
2 United Kingdom313115.7%Parker, Lee David #5,801Alliance Manchester Business School
3 Australia242412.2%Linnenluecke, Martina K. #2,823The University of Sydney Business School
4 Canada10105.1%Hope, Ole Kristian #7,364Rotman School of Management
5 New Zealand663.0%Habib, Ahsan #9,484University of Auckland Business School
6 France331.5%Chiapello, Ève #39,596École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
7 Spain321.5%Larrinaga, Carlos #44,279Universidad de Burgos
8 Finland331.5%Lukka, Kari #63,064Turun yliopisto
9 Italy221.0%Michelon, Giovanna #13,277Università degli Studi di Padova
10 China221.0%Li, Feng #22,779Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance (SAIF)
11 Hong Kong221.0%Ohlson, James A. #30,317The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
12 Singapore110.5%Cheng, Qiang #23,769Singapore Management University
13 Cyprus110.5%Vafeas, Nikos #29,509University of Cyprus
14 Türkiye110.5%Kiliç, Merve #36,936Samsun University
15 Ireland110.5%Brennan, Niamh M. #41,748University College Dublin
16 Vietnam110.5%Abeysekera, Indra #41,778Ton-Duc-Thang University
17 Belgium110.5%Aerts, Walter #66,488Universiteit Antwerpen
18 Germany110.5%Reichelstein, Stefan J. #68,151Universität Mannheim
19 Austria110.5%Wagenhofer, Alfred #70,747Universität Graz
20 United Arab Emirates110.5%Ahrens, Thomas #77,375United Arab Emirates University
21 Saudi Arabia110.5%Hoque, Zahirul #78,603Prince Sultan University
22 Tunisia110.5%Khlif, Hichem #79,417University of Sfax
23 Netherlands110.5%Hooghiemstra, Reggy #82,239Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
24 Philippines110.5%Zhou, Haiyan #85,343Nueva Ecija University of Science and Technology (NEUST)

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Data: Ioannidis, John P.A. (2026), ‘August 2026 data-update for “Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators”’, Mendeley Data, v9, doi:10.17632/btchxktzyw.9. 2026 list, ranked by composite citation score (c) excluding self-citations.

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