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Which countries have the most top-cited scientists in Aerospace & Aeronautics?

1,445 researchers whose main subfield is Aerospace & Aeronautics 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 (650, 45.0%), followed by China (326) and the United Kingdom (70). 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	650	93	45.0%	Spalar̀t, Philippe R. #2,265	College of Engineering
2	China	326	17	22.6%	Yang, Chen #3,901	Beihang University
3	United Kingdom	70	7	4.8%	Giles, Michael B. #17,554	University of Southampton
4	Italy	54	3	3.7%	Benini, Ernesto #48,274	Politecnico di Milano
5	Germany	47	2	3.3%	Menter, Florian R. #381	Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR)
6	Japan	33	2	2.3%	Kawai, Soshi #55,227	Tohoku University
7	South Korea	31	1	2.1%	Myong, Rhoshin #83,117	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
8	Netherlands	29	3	2.0%	Izzo, Dario R. #36,812	Delft University of Technology
9	France	28	1	1.9%	Deck, S. #63,900	Université Paris-Saclay
10	Canada	25	2	1.7%	Moreau, Stéphane #62,937	Carleton University
11	Australia	19	4	1.3%	Bird, Graeme A. #18,164	The University of Queensland
12	Israel	18	2	1.2%	Shima, Tal Y. #35,548	Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
13	India	15	0	1.0%	Ratnoo, Ashwini #126,853	Indian Institute of Science
14	Russia	14	1	1.0%	Smirnov, Nickolay N. #47,793	Lomonosov Moscow State University
15	Türkiye	13	0	0.9%	Acar, Erdem #119,147	Middle East Technical University (METU)
16	United Arab Emirates	7	0	0.5%	Sabatini, Roberto #148,066	Khalifa University
17	Spain	7	0	0.5%	Lara, M. #286,574	Universitat de Barcelona
18	Poland	5	1	0.3%	Wolański, Piotr #43,274	Politechnika Warszawska
19	Saudi Arabia	4	0	0.3%	Feron, Eric #269,762	King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
20	Brazil	4	0	0.3%	Prado, Antônio Fernando Bertachini De Almeida #406,841	Instituto Tecnologico de Aeronautica
21	Hong Kong	3	2	0.2%	Shyy, Wei #28,392	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
22	Sweden	3	1	0.2%	Fureby, Christer #62,315	Lunds Universitet
23	Belgium	3	0	0.2%	Dimitriadis, Grigorios #129,412	Université Libre de Bruxelles
24	Singapore	3	0	0.2%	Ng, Bingfeng #169,365	School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
25	Ireland	3	0	0.2%	Young, Trevor M. #279,898	University of Limerick
26	Switzerland	3	0	0.2%	Schildknecht, Thomas #292,422	Space Eye Observatory
27	Taiwan	3	0	0.2%	Chang, Chaulyan #296,163	National Center for High-Performance Computing Taiwan
28	Pakistan	3	0	0.2%	Gul, Faiza #313,602	Air University Islamabad
29	New Zealand	2	0	0.1%	Armellin, Roberto #144,218	University of Auckland
30	Norway	2	0	0.1%	Sandal, G. M. #242,452	Universitetet i Bergen
31	Portugal	2	0	0.1%	Suleman, Afzal #252,209	Instituto de Engenharia Mecânica
32	South Africa	2	0	0.1%	Venter, Gerhard #368,332	Stellenbosch University
33	Greece	2	0	0.1%	Panagiotou, Pericles #477,138	Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
34	Egypt	2	0	0.1%	Abdalla, Mostafa M. #540,022	Zewail City of Science and Technology
35	Iran	1	0	0.1%	Bahrami, Mohsen #247,537	Amirkabir University of Technology
36	Serbia	1	0	0.1%	Rašuo, Boško P. #279,900	University of Belgrade
37	Lebanon	1	0	0.1%	Elkhoury, Michel #374,716	Lebanese American University
38	Indonesia	1	0	0.1%	Satria Palar, Pramudita Satria #390,729	Institut Teknologi Bandung
39	Thailand	1	0	0.1%	Baxter, Glenn S. #551,380	Suan Dusit University
40	Austria	1	0	0.1%	Krejci, David #592,282	Vienna Airport
41	Hungary	1	0	0.1%	Rohács, Daniel #617,050	Budapest University of Technology and Economics
42	Bulgaria	1	0	0.1%	Dachev, Ts P. #674,169	Space Research and Technology Institute
43	Romania	1	0	0.1%	Condurache, D. #827,053	Universitatea Tehnica Gh. Asachi din IasI
44	Jordan	1	0	0.1%	Alharasees, Omar #1,178,468	Jerash Private University