Top countries for Astronomy & Astrophysics

42 countries · Astronomy & Astrophysics

Which countries have the most top-cited scientists in Astronomy & Astrophysics?

1,786 researchers whose main subfield is Astronomy & Astrophysics 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 (779, 43.6%), followed by the United Kingdom (178) and Germany (141). 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 States77959243.6%Hopkins, Philip F. #397California Institute of Technology
2 United Kingdom17812510.0%Fabian, Andrew C. #1,781University of Oxford
3 Germany1411007.9%Springel, Volker #205Max Planck Institute for Astronomy
4 Italy96555.4%Madau, Piero #3,520Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova
5 France90615.0%Chabrier, Gilles #1,574Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris
6 Australia64473.6%Ho, Luis C. #2,687The Australian National University
7 Canada54443.0%Bovy, Jo #2,610University of Toronto
8 China52312.9%Bai, Xuening #16,342Peking University
9 Spain45262.5%García-Bellido, Juan #6,833CSIC - Instituto de Ciencias del Espacio (ICE)
10 Netherlands44292.5%Schaye, Joop #4,309Sterrewacht Leiden
11 Japan34291.9%Oguri, Masamune #5,169The University of Tokyo
12 Switzerland31241.7%Teyssier, Romain #8,072Universität Zürich
13 Israel26241.5%Piran, Tsvi #3,987Tel Aviv University
14 Denmark23171.3%Christensen-Dalsgaard, Joergen #18,963Niels Bohr Institutet
15 Chile1380.7%Tokovinin, Andreï A. #12,377Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
16 Sweden1360.7%Brandenburg, Axel #23,923Uppsala Universitet
17 Belgium1380.7%Sana, Hugues #51,051Universiteit Gent
18 Poland1190.6%Belczyński, Krzysztoff #27,048University of Warsaw
19 India850.4%More, Surhud Shrikant #29,318Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai
20 Austria840.4%Temmer, Manuela B. #54,179Institut fur Weltraumforschung
21 South Africa770.4%Dav́e, Romeel #9,716University of Cape Town
22 Russia750.4%Potekhin, Alexander Y. #50,754Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
23 Portugal640.3%Brinchmann, Jarle #16,813Universidade do Porto
24 Hong Kong530.3%Zhang, Bing #1,276The University of Hong Kong
25 Taiwan520.3%Pen, Ue Li #34,566Academia Sinica, Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics
26 Finland430.2%Usoskin, Ilya G. #17,031Helsingin Yliopisto
27 South Korea420.2%Yoon, Sungchul #38,719Seoul National University
28 Ireland330.2%Vink, Jorick S. #9,119Armagh Observatory and Planetarium
29 Mexico330.2%Masset, Frédéric S. #54,145Instituto de Radioastronomía y Astrofísica
30 Brazil320.2%Overzier, Roderik A. #57,609Observatório Nacional
31 Norway310.2%Werner, Stephanie C. #93,898Universitetet i Oslo
32 Greece210.1%Antoniadis, John #50,626Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas
33 United Arab Emirates210.1%Dutton, Aaron A. #72,029NYU Abu Dhabi
34 Slovakia110.1%Mészáros, Péter I. #7,116Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave
35 New Zealand110.1%Eldridge, Jan J. #27,032University of Auckland
36 Czechia110.1%Vokrouhlický, David #46,767Charles University
37 Ukraine110.1%Izotov, Yuri I. #70,183Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
38 Macao110.1%Fa, Wenzhe #72,394Macau University of Science and Technology
39 Croatia110.1%Vršnak, Bojan #96,395Sveučilište u Zagrebu, Geodetski fakultet
40 Slovenia110.1%Zwitter, Tomaž #96,882Univerza v Ljubljani
41 Armenia100.1%Sahakyan, Narek V. #148,443ICRANet-Armenia
42 Hungary100.1%Lugaro, M. A. #160,321Konkoly Observatory