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

837 researchers whose main subfield is Acoustics 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 (226, 27.0%), followed by China (160) and the United Kingdom (94). A country with 100 or more opens its institutions in the subfield; the others open their scientists in the table of all authors.

#	Country	Listed authors	Top 100k	Share of subfield	Highest-ranked author	Top institution
1	United States	226	59	27.0%	Wang, Deliang L. #6,624	College of Engineering
2	China	160	41	19.1%	Lei, Yaguo #894	Northwestern Polytechnical University
3	United Kingdom	94	33	11.2%	Kang, Jian #6,069	University of Southampton
4	France	34	8	4.1%	Antoni, Jérôme #1,051	Laboratoire Vibrations Acoustiques
5	Italy	33	6	3.9%	Tronchin, Lamberto #51,035	Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna
6	Germany	31	4	3.7%	Babisch, Wolfgang #26,388	Universität Stuttgart
7	Canada	26	5	3.1%	Hynynen, Kullervo H. #7,631	University of Manitoba
8	Australia	23	5	2.7%	Randall, Robert Bond #3,069	UNSW Sydney
9	Belgium	23	7	2.7%	Reynders, Edwin P.B. #15,104	KU Leuven
10	Netherlands	15	5	1.8%	Stowell, Dan #34,888	Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek- TNO
11	Hong Kong	14	4	1.7%	Jing, Xingjian #8,225	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
12	South Korea	11	3	1.3%	Sohn, Hoon #7,317	Hanyang University
13	Denmark	11	4	1.3%	Jensen, Jørgen Arendt #11,886	Technical University of Denmark
14	India	11	0	1.3%	Mohanty, A. R. #110,637	Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
15	Spain	10	1	1.2%	Goebel, Kai #97,606	Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
16	Japan	10	0	1.2%	Morise, Masanori #132,743	NTT Communication Science Laboratories
17	Poland	9	2	1.1%	Ostachowicz, W. #57,084	AGH University of Krakow
18	Sweden	9	0	1.1%	Abdeljaber, Osama #114,369	Linnaeus University, Kalmar
19	Switzerland	9	0	1.1%	Brink, Mark #188,809	Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology
20	Finland	8	3	1.0%	Virtanen, Tuomas #32,218	Aalto University
21	Taiwan	7	0	0.8%	Kuo, Sen Maw #141,511	National Tsing Hua University
22	Russia	6	1	0.7%	Vavilov, V. P. #91,832	Lomonosov Moscow State University
23	Singapore	5	1	0.6%	Lee, Heow Pueh #13,974	School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
24	Israel	5	3	0.6%	Gendelman, Oleg V. #16,399	Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
25	Iran	5	0	0.6%	Aghababa, Mohammad Pourmahmood #147,988	Iran University of Science and Technology
26	Brazil	4	1	0.5%	Brennan, Michael John #26,338	Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho
27	Egypt	4	1	0.5%	Amer, T. S. #92,175	Tanta University
28	Greece	3	1	0.4%	Papadimitriou, Costas #26,075	University of Thessaly
29	United Arab Emirates	3	2	0.4%	Al-Shudeifat, Mohammad A. #36,597	Khalifa University
30	Türkiye	3	0	0.4%	Ozguven, H. Nevzat #149,540	Middle East Technical University (METU)
31	Portugal	3	0	0.4%	Figueiredo, Eloi #151,233	Universidade do Porto
32	Austria	3	0	0.4%	Lercher, Peter #173,434	Technische Universitat Graz
33	New Zealand	2	1	0.2%	Mace, Brian R. #43,244	University of Auckland
34	Macao	2	1	0.2%	To, Wai Ming #82,249	Macao Polytechnic University
35	Serbia	2	1	0.2%	Kovacic, Ivana N. #92,801	University of Novi Sad
36	Chile	2	0	0.2%	Arenas, Jorge P. #109,919	Universidad Austral de Chile
37	Ireland	2	0	0.2%	Murphy, Enda #117,996	University College Dublin
38	Slovenia	2	0	0.2%	Slavič, Janko #159,163	Univerza v Ljubljani
39	Jordan	1	1	0.1%	Nayfeh, Ali Hasan #17,363	The University of Jordan
40	Norway	1	1	0.1%	Holm, Sverre #94,162	Universitetet i Oslo
41	Slovakia	1	0	0.1%	Szabo, Tomáš L. #148,829	Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava
42	Qatar	1	0	0.1%	Hussein, Mohammed F.M. #223,027	Qatar University
43	Hungary	1	0	0.1%	Habib, Giuseppe #257,763	Budapest University of Technology and Economics
44	South Africa	1	0	0.1%	Heyns, Philippus Stephan #272,785	University of Pretoria
45	Libya	1	0	0.1%	Cummings, Alan #289,782	Libyan Academy for Postgraduate Studies