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

1,238 researchers whose main subfield is Anesthesiology 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 (501, 40.5%), followed by Canada (101) and the United Kingdom (100). 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	501	124	40.5%	Sessler, Daniel I. #1,031	Harvard Medical School
2	Canada	101	26	8.2%	Carli, Franco M. #8,679	University of Toronto
3	United Kingdom	100	24	8.1%	Cook, Timothy M. #6,329	Imperial College London
4	Germany	83	12	6.7%	Treede, Rolf Detlef #2,650	BG-Kliniken Bergmannstrost Halle
5	Australia	57	16	4.6%	Myles, Paul S. #2,508	The University of Sydney
6	Italy	50	7	4.0%	Mercadante, S. G. #13,943	Università degli Studi di Padova
7	France	42	5	3.4%	Bouhassirà, Didier #6,542	Hopital Cochin AP-HP
8	Denmark	33	9	2.7%	Kehlet, Henrik Fs #818	Aarhus Universitet
9	Netherlands	32	7	2.6%	Schober, Patrick R. #13,766	Erasmus MC
10	Belgium	25	9	2.0%	Lavand'Homme, Patricia M. #10,565	Universiteit Gent
11	South Korea	23	7	1.9%	Kang, Hyun #2,478	Seoul National University College of Medicine
12	Switzerland	23	5	1.9%	Spahn, Donat R. #13,799	Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève
13	China	22	4	1.8%	Ma, Daqing #53,334	Tianjin Medical University
14	Sweden	20	6	1.6%	McCracken, Lance M. #6,832	Karolinska Institutet
15	Spain	17	0	1.4%	Miró, Jordi #131,830	Hospital General Universitario de Valencia
16	Japan	14	0	1.1%	Sawa, Teiji #122,958	Graduate School of Medicine
17	Hong Kong	11	3	0.9%	Ho, Kwok Ming #51,206	Chinese University of Hong Kong
18	India	9	1	0.7%	Ranganathan, Priya #32,710	All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Jodhpur
19	New Zealand	9	3	0.7%	Anderson, Brian J. #53,959	University of Auckland
20	Norway	9	1	0.7%	McQuay, Henry J. #94,189	Oslo Universitetssykehus
21	Austria	8	0	0.6%	Hiesmayr, Michael J. #112,913	Medizinische Universität Wien
22	Israel	8	0	0.6%	Defrin, Ruth #153,006	Tel Aviv University
23	Türkiye	7	0	0.6%	Tulgar, Serkan #130,093	Bahçeşehir Üniversitesi
24	Finland	5	1	0.4%	Kalso, Eija Anneli #39,630	Helsinki University Hospital
25	South Africa	3	1	0.2%	Biccard, Bruce Mclure #49,102	University of Cape Town
26	Taiwan	3	1	0.2%	Hung, Kuo Chuan #90,178	Chi Mei Medical Center
27	Ireland	3	0	0.2%	Buggy, Donal J. #122,779	University College Dublin
28	United Arab Emirates	3	0	0.2%	Blanco, Rafael #166,415	Corniche Hospital
29	Poland	3	0	0.2%	Ba̧bel, Przemysław #361,524	Uniwersytet Jagielloński
30	Iran	2	0	0.2%	Imani, Farnad #237,359	Iran University of Medical Sciences
31	Portugal	2	0	0.2%	Azevedo, Luís F. #320,441	Universidade do Porto
32	Singapore	2	0	0.2%	Tan, Hon Sen #419,894	KK Women's And Children's Hospital
33	Oman	1	0	0.1%	Nair, Abhijit Sukumaran #137,221	Ministry of Health Oman, Ibra Hospital
34	Vietnam	1	0	0.1%	Capdevila, Xavier J. #200,071	VinUniversity
35	Brazil	1	0	0.1%	Silva, Pedro Leme #241,464	Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
36	Egypt	1	0	0.1%	Hasanin, Ahmed Mohamed #277,011	Cairo University
37	Saudi Arabia	1	0	0.1%	El-Dawlatly, Abdelazeem Ali #355,790	King Saud University
38	Russia	1	0	0.1%	Likhvantsev, V. V. #446,923	Moscow Regional Research and Clinical Institute
39	Argentina	1	0	0.1%	Tusman, Gerardo #543,595	Hospital Privado de Comunidad
40	Puerto Rico	1	0	0.1%	Epstein, Richard H. #590,174	University of Miami