Top countries for Behavioral Science & Comparative Psychology

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Which countries have the most top-cited scientists in Behavioral Science & Comparative Psychology?

284 researchers whose main subfield is Behavioral Science & Comparative Psychology 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 (114, 40.1%), followed by the United Kingdom (59) and Canada (16). 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	114	60	40.1%	Blumstein, Daniel T. #2,641	University of California, Davis
2	United Kingdom	59	35	20.8%	Dunbar, Robin I.M. #734	University of St Andrews
3	Canada	16	8	5.6%	Fraser, David #15,093	Université McGill
4	Germany	14	8	4.9%	Couzin, Iain D. #4,279	Leibniz-WissenschaftsCampus Primatenkognition
5	Australia	14	9	4.9%	McGreevy, Paul Damien #25,689	The University of Sydney
6	Switzerland	8	5	2.8%	van Schaik, Carel P. #10,554	Universität Zürich
7	Italy	7	3	2.5%	VALLORTIGARA, GIORGIO #16,019	Università degli Studi di Padova
8	Netherlands	6	3	2.1%	Slabbekoorn, Hans #17,561	Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
9	Sweden	5	4	1.8%	Sneddon, Lynne U. #13,342	Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
10	Austria	4	2	1.4%	Palme, Rupert G. #20,223	Universität Wien
11	Hungary	4	1	1.4%	Miklósi, Ádám #32,985	Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem
12	France	4	2	1.4%	Benhamou, Simon #47,990	Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive
13	Denmark	4	1	1.4%	Briefer, Elodie Floriane #50,058	Københavns Universitet
14	Portugal	3	1	1.1%	Oliveira, Rui Filipe #47,617	Instituto Gulbenkian de Medicina Molecular
15	Norway	3	1	1.1%	Newberry, Ruth C. #57,109	Norges Miljø- og Biovitenskapelige Universitet
16	Japan	3	1	1.1%	Suzuki, Toshitaka N. #74,571	University of Tokyo, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology
17	Spain	2	1	0.7%	Garamszegi, László Zsolt #37,286	CSIC - Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD)
18	South Africa	2	1	0.7%	Barrett, Louise #74,843	University of South Africa
19	Czechia	2	2	0.7%	Špinka, Marek #77,719	Filozofická Fakulta Univerzita Karlova
20	China	2	1	0.7%	Matsuzawa, Tetsuro #81,888	Northwest University
21	Costa Rica	1	1	0.4%	West-Eberhard, Mary Jane #29,882	Universidad de Costa Rica
22	Finland	1	1	0.4%	Candolin, Ulrika #34,576	Helsingin Yliopisto
23	Colombia	1	1	0.4%	Ruiz-Jiménez, Francisco J. #80,308	Fundación Universitaria Konrad Lorenz
24	Sri Lanka	1	1	0.4%	Huffman, Michael A. #80,441	University of Sri Jayewardenepura
25	Tanzania	1	1	0.4%	Goymann, Wolfgang #90,656	Coucal Project
26	Mexico	1	0	0.4%	Estrada, Alejandro #100,800	Colegio De Postgraduados Campus Montecillo
27	New Zealand	1	0	0.4%	Taylor, Nik #140,286	University of Canterbury
28	Israel	1	0	0.4%	Scharf, Inon #184,796	Tel Aviv University