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

215 researchers whose main subfield is Anthropology 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 (122, 56.7%), followed by the United Kingdom (30) and Germany (11). 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 States1227356.7%Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt #3,844University of California, Berkeley
2 United Kingdom301714.0%Ingold, Tim #433University of Cambridge
3 Germany1145.1%Glick-Schiller, Nina Click #15,433Max-Planck-Institut für Evolutionäre Anthropologie
4 Canada863.7%Kohn, Eduardo O. #42,867Concordia University
5 Spain713.3%Bruner, Emiliano #91,659CSIC - Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN)
6 Denmark622.8%Mattingly, Cheryl F. #34,289Københavns Universitet
7 South Africa512.3%Mbembé, Achille #3,763University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
8 Australia421.9%Hage, Ghassan #59,166University of Melbourne
9 Sweden331.4%Hornborg, Alf #19,817Stockholms universitet
10 Netherlands321.4%Lan, Shanshan #69,077Universiteit van Amsterdam
11 Switzerland311.4%Rodgers, Dennis #81,558Universität Zürich
12 Norway210.9%Cabot, Heath #71,552Universitetet i Bergen
13 Israel200.9%Hershkovitz, Israel #156,110Tel Aviv University
14 France110.5%Hublin, Jean Jacques #16,958Collège de France
15 Czechia110.5%Brůžek, Jaroslav #56,225Charles University
16 Brazil110.5%de Castro, Eduardo B.Viveiros #63,479Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
17 Italy110.5%Gualdi-Russo, Emanuela #90,745University of Ferrara
18 Bosnia & Herzegovina110.5%Jansen, Stef #93,028Univerzitet u Sarajevu
19 Belgium100.5%Stengers, Isabelle #106,390Université Libre de Bruxelles
20 Russia100.5%Korotaev, Andrey V. #135,958HSE University
21 India100.5%Baviskar, Amita #136,579Ashoka University
22 Hong Kong100.5%Kipnis, Andrew Byron #136,997Chinese University of Hong Kong

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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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