Top countries for Archaeology

38 countries · Archaeology

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

469 researchers whose main subfield is Archaeology 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 (152, 32.4%), followed by the United Kingdom (101) and Israel (26). 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 States1522832.4%Zeder, Melinda A. #9,266Harvard University
2 United Kingdom1011921.5%Fuller, Dorian Q. #3,885University of Cambridge
3 Israel2635.5%Weiner, Steve #5,626Tel Aviv University
4 Australia2535.3%Smith, Laurajane #2,719The Australian National University
5 Germany1863.8%Boivin, Nicole L. #35,619Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment
6 Canada1743.6%Richards, Michael P. #29,606Simon Fraser University
7 France1543.2%d'Errico, Francesco #22,751Université de Bordeaux
8 Spain1302.8%Alonso González, Pablo #102,688Universidad de Cantabria
9 Italy1302.8%Gliozzo, Elisabetta #111,944Sapienza Università di Roma
10 South Africa1122.3%Wadley, Lyn #44,529University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
11 Denmark1102.3%Vandkilde, Helle #140,344Aarhus Universitet
12 Austria721.5%Higham, Thomas F.G. #44,752Universität Wien
13 Sweden521.1%Kristiansen, Kristian #31,704Göteborgs Universitet
14 Greece511.1%Karkanas, Panagiotis #57,957Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
15 Norway501.1%Nicu, Ionut Cristi #102,789Norsk institutt for kulturminneforskning
16 Russia501.1%Derevyanko, A. P. #144,947Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
17 Belgium501.1%Gosselain, Olivier P. #231,626Université Libre de Bruxelles
18 Portugal310.6%Zilha̧o, João #60,049Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa
19 Netherlands300.6%Henry, Amanda Georganna #111,301Naturalis Biodiversity Center
20 Cyprus300.6%Rehren, Thilo H. #183,808The Cyprus Institute
21 China300.6%Hu, Yaowu #307,972Fudan University
22 Argentina300.6%Alberti, Benjamin #309,875Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
23 Egypt300.6%Hemeda, Sayed #361,739Cairo University
24 Ireland200.4%Brück, Joanna #182,006University College Dublin
25 New Zealand200.4%Higham, Charles F.W. #241,294University of Otago
26 Taiwan100.2%Turner-Walker, Gordon #114,464National Yunlin University of Science and Technology
27 Iceland100.2%Lucas, Gavin #125,938Haskoli Islands
28 Poland100.2%Fernandes, Ricardo #207,749Faculty of Archaeology
29 Kuwait100.2%Khalaf, Roha W. #262,582Consultant Architect and Independent Scholar
30 Lithuania100.2%Motuzaite-Matuzeviciute, Giedre #312,609Vilniaus Universitetas
31 Jordan100.2%Alshawabkeh, Yahya #327,324Hashemite University
32 Finland100.2%Heyd, Volker #346,529Helsingin Yliopisto
33 Türkiye100.2%Onar, Vedat #407,900Muğla Sıtkı Koçman Üniversitesi
34 Ukraine100.2%Ivashko, Yulia #412,382Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture
35 Brazil100.2%Villagran, Ximena Suarez #418,060Universidade de São Paulo
36 Chile100.2%Arriaza, Bernardo T. #441,357Universidad de Tarapacá
37 India100.2%Singh, Manager Rajdeo #480,461Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University
38 Uzbekistan100.2%Khanipour, Morteza #2,382,298«Silk Road» International University of Tourism