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Which countries have the most top-cited scientists in Applied Ethics?

142 researchers whose main subfield is Applied Ethics 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 (47, 33.1%), followed by the United Kingdom (20) and the Netherlands (15). 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	47	36	33.1%	Whyte, Kyle Powys #1,618	NIH Clinical Center (CC)
2	United Kingdom	20	14	14.1%	Taddeo, Mariarosaria #5,223	University of Oxford
3	Netherlands	15	11	10.6%	van de Poel, Ibo R. #12,059	Faculteit Techniek, Bestuur en Management, TU Delft
4	Australia	14	9	9.9%	Sparrow, Robert James #10,634	Monash University
5	Canada	11	7	7.7%	Schwartz, Mark S. #44,544	Université McGill
6	Germany	9	6	6.3%	Mittelstadt, Brent Daniel #6,125	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
7	Switzerland	8	7	5.6%	Vayena, Effy #16,711	ETH Zürich
8	Singapore	2	2	1.4%	Savulescu, Julian #3,829	National University of Singapore
9	Spain	2	2	1.4%	Melé, Domènec #36,406	IESE Business School
10	Belgium	2	2	1.4%	Gastmans, Chris A.E. #41,553	KU Leuven
11	Sweden	2	1	1.4%	Svenaeus, Fredrik #61,613	Södertörn University
12	Austria	1	1	0.7%	Coeckelbergh, Mark #3,592	Universität Wien
13	China	1	1	0.7%	Du, Xingqiang #5,704	Xiamen University
14	Ireland	1	1	0.7%	Danaher, John #8,132	University of Galway
15	Norway	1	1	0.7%	Hofmann, Bjørn Morten #17,749	Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet
16	Denmark	1	1	0.7%	Wicks, Andrew C. #65,986	Københavns Universitet
17	Italy	1	1	0.7%	Umbrello, Steven #67,663	Università degli Studi di Torino
18	South Africa	1	1	0.7%	Kass, Nancy E. #85,647	University of KwaZulu-Natal
19	New Zealand	1	1	0.7%	Nie, Jingbao #90,819	Otago Medical School
20	Luxembourg	1	0	0.7%	Dove, Edward S. #119,444	Luxembourg National Data Service
21	Portugal	1	0	0.7%	Raposo, Vera L.úcia #119,975	NOVA School of Law – Faculdade de Direito, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa