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

6,862 researchers whose main subfield is Applied Physics 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 (1,589, 23.2%), followed by China (1,089) and India (450). 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	1,589	553	23.2%	Perdew, John #13	College of Engineering
2	China	1,089	225	15.9%	Wang, Weihua Hong #1,925	Nanjing University
3	India	450	71	6.6%	Dasgupta, Chandan I. #4,098	Indian Institute of Science
4	Germany	431	119	6.3%	Blöchl, Peter E. #181	Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
5	Japan	424	101	6.2%	Tokura, Yoshinori #465	The University of Tokyo
6	United Kingdom	246	85	3.6%	Geim, Andre K. #90	University of Oxford
7	South Korea	239	39	3.5%	Hwang, Cheolseong #7,579	Yeungnam University
8	France	217	49	3.2%	Feynman, Richard P. #712	Université Paris-Saclay
9	Saudi Arabia	187	55	2.7%	Shkir, Mohd #4,954	King Khalid University
10	Italy	137	27	2.0%	Ielmini, Daniele #2,315	Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati
11	Switzerland	107	32	1.6%	Spaldin, Nicola A. #1,167	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
12	Spain	100	25	1.5%	Bernevig, Bogdan Andrei #2,639	Donostia International Physics Center
13	Canada	95	27	1.4%	Biesinger, Mark C. #1,009	Simon Fraser University
14	Netherlands	88	29	1.3%	Dorenbos, Pieter #2,131	Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
15	Russia	86	14	1.3%	Oganov, Artem R. #5,628	Ioffe Institute
16	Australia	84	26	1.2%	Green, Martin A. #153	UNSW Sydney
17	Taiwan	79	10	1.2%	Hultman, Lars G. #3,865	National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
18	Egypt	76	23	1.1%	Hassanien, Ahmed Saeed #6,981	Faculty of Science
19	Sweden	73	25	1.1%	Greczynski, Grzegorz #1,962	Linköpings Universitet
20	Belgium	58	20	0.8%	Bogaerts, Annemie A.M.B. #1,908	Universiteit Gent
21	Türkiye	58	10	0.8%	Al-Buriahi, Mohammaed Sultan Abdulghaffar #5,570	Atatürk Üniversitesi
22	Pakistan	57	16	0.8%	Aman, Salma #16,836	Government College University Lahore
23	Hong Kong	56	22	0.8%	Chu, Paul K. #1,764	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
24	Poland	56	9	0.8%	Rogalski, Antoni #1,831	Instytut Niskich Temperatur i Badań Strukturalnych PAN
25	Iran	52	15	0.8%	Akhavan, Omid #2,090	Sharif University of Technology
26	Singapore	52	15	0.8%	Neto, Antonio H.Castro #2,118	National University of Singapore
27	Israel	47	13	0.7%	Kirkpatrick, Scott #4,549	Weizmann Institute of Science Israel
28	Austria	41	18	0.6%	Kresse, Georg #2	TU Wien
29	Czechia	37	6	0.5%	Tauc, Jan #5,439	Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences
30	Denmark	33	11	0.5%	Krebs, Frederik C. Christian #11,392	Technical University of Denmark
31	Iraq	32	9	0.5%	Kareem, Mustafa #3,907	University of Babylon
32	Bangladesh	29	6	0.4%	Alam, Muhammad Ashraful #7,885	University of Rajshahi
33	Greece	28	6	0.4%	Galanakis, Iosif #30,251	Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
34	Brazil	27	7	0.4%	Jório, Ado #17,960	Universidade de São Paulo
35	Finland	25	9	0.4%	Virtanen, Pauli #11,024	Aalto University
36	Malaysia	20	5	0.3%	Suresh, Sagadevan #3,964	Universiti Sains Malaysia
37	Algeria	20	6	0.3%	Berri, Saadi #6,868	University Mohamed Boudiaf of M‘sila
38	United Arab Emirates	19	8	0.3%	Al-Douri, Yaroub K. #13,045	Khalifa University
39	Portugal	19	5	0.3%	Martins, Rodrigo Ferrão Paiva #16,075	Universidade do Minho
40	Vietnam	18	4	0.3%	Hoat, D. M. #49,918	Duy Tan University
41	Morocco	18	1	0.3%	Masrour, Rachid #64,963	Mohammed V University in Rabat
42	Mexico	18	0	0.3%	Pal, Umapada #127,097	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
43	Ireland	17	7	0.2%	Coey, JMD Michael David #996	Trinity College Dublin
44	South Africa	17	3	0.2%	Kaviyarasu, K. #12,713	University of South Africa
45	Hungary	16	3	0.2%	Wigner, Eugene P. #2,257	HUN-REN Wigner Research Centre for Physics
46	Slovenia	15	3	0.2%	Mozetič, Miran #22,949	Institut Jožef Stefan
47	Ukraine	13	1	0.2%	Pogrebnjak, Alexander D. #86,617	V.Ye. Lashkaryov Institute of Semiconductor Physics (ISP), NAS of Ukraine
48	Thailand	12	1	0.2%	Maensiri, Santi #85,575	Khon Kaen University
49	Romania	11	1	0.2%	Enesca, Ioan Alexandru #88,574	Universitatea Transilvania din Brașov
50	Qatar	8	3	0.1%	Ayesh, Ahmad I. #39,718	Hamad Bin Khalifa University
51	Norway	8	2	0.1%	Brataas, Arne #40,480	Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet
52	Slovakia	8	0	0.1%	Machala, Zdenko #136,451	Univerzita Komenského Fakulta matematiky, fyziky a informatiky
53	Jordan	7	2	0.1%	Sayyed, M. I. #2,031	Jordan University of Science and Technology
54	Serbia	7	1	0.1%	Dramićanin, Miroslav D. #8,800	University of Belgrade
55	Latvia	7	2	0.1%	Eglitis, R. I. #62,154	Institute of Solid State Physics University of Latvia
56	Nigeria	6	1	0.1%	Ezema, Fabian Ifeanyichukwu #76,927	University of Nigeria
57	Chile	6	0	0.1%	Foa Torres, Luis E.F. #114,837	Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas de la Universidad de Chile
58	Tunisia	6	0	0.1%	El-Mir, Lassaad Mabrouk #147,092	Université de Gabès
59	Palestine	5	3	0.1%	Badawi, Ali #22,172	An-Najah National University
60	Luxembourg	5	2	0.1%	Íñiguez, Jorge #43,823	University of Luxembourg
61	Yemen	5	1	0.1%	Rajeh, A. #45,879	Thamar University
62	Bulgaria	5	1	0.1%	Popov, Valentin N. #89,516	Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski
63	New Zealand	5	0	0.1%	Etchegoin, Pablo G. #124,650	Victoria University of Wellington
64	Moldova	4	1	0.1%	Korotcenkov, G. S. #12,555	Moldova State University
65	Lithuania	4	2	0.1%	Račiukaitis, Gediminas #83,086	Fizinių ir Technologijos Mokslų Centras
66	Kazakhstan	3	1	0.0%	Boukhvalov, Danil W. #27,304	Institute of Nuclear Physics ARKAE
67	Malta	3	1	0.0%	Grima, Joseph N. #40,893	L-Università ta' Malta
68	Macao	3	1	0.0%	Tang, Zikang #96,777	University of Macau
69	Colombia	3	0	0.0%	González-Hernández, Rafael J. #149,052	Universidad del Norte
70	Croatia	3	0	0.0%	Capan, Ivana #170,790	Institute of Physics Zagreb
71	Azerbaijan	3	0	0.0%	Balayeva, Ofeliya Oqtay #272,573	Baku State University
72	Belarus	2	1	0.0%	Trukhanov, Sergei Valentinovich #1,948	Scientific Practical Materials Research Centre of NAS of Belarus
73	Cyprus	2	1	0.0%	Ahmad, Hijaz #20,554	Near East University
74	Cuba	2	1	0.0%	Kim, Kwangho #55,328	Pusan National University
75	Ghana	2	2	0.0%	Asamoah, Joshua Kiddy Kwasi #67,158	Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology
76	Indonesia	2	0	0.0%	Pingak, Redi Kristian #126,419	Universitas Nusa Cendana
77	Bahrain	2	0	0.0%	Dakhel, A. A. #138,948	University of Bahrain
78	Kuwait	2	0	0.0%	Hajjiah, Ali T. #146,599	Kuwait University
79	Argentina	2	0	0.0%	Bringa, E. M. #175,612	Universidad de Mendoza
80	Uzbekistan	2	0	0.0%	Haq, Sirajul #224,398	Institute of Fundamental and Applied Research
81	Iceland	2	0	0.0%	Khan, Muhammad Isa #264,039	Raunvísindastofnun Háskólans
82	Estonia	1	1	0.0%	Brik, Mikhail G. #15,430	Tartu Ülikooli Füüsika Instituut
83	Brunei	1	1	0.0%	Chou Chau, Yuan Fong #19,453	Universiti Brunei Darussalam
84	Syria	1	1	0.0%	Al-Raeei, Marwan #60,084	Damascus University
85	Nepal	1	1	0.0%	Parajuli, Deependra #88,565	Tribhuvan University
86	Puerto Rico	1	0	0.0%	Katiyar, Rams Sharan #112,436	Universidad de Puerto Rico
87	Trinidad & Tobago	1	0	0.0%	Kumar, Vinod #153,896	The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus
88	Ethiopia	1	0	0.0%	Gemta, Abebe Belay #297,536	Adama Science and Technology University
89	Liechtenstein	1	0	0.0%	Höland, Wolfram #299,245	Ivoclar Vivadent AG
90	Oman	1	0	0.0%	El-Mahalawy, Ahmed M. #318,874	Sohar University
91	Sri Lanka	1	0	0.0%	Tennakone, Kirthi #338,122	National Institute of Fundamental Studies, Sri Lanka