Top countries for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Which countries have the most top-cited scientists in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology?

4,513 researchers whose main subfield is Biochemistry & Molecular Biology 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 (1,771, 39.2%), followed by the United Kingdom (341) and Germany (271). 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 States1,77165939.2%Semenza, Gregg L. #107Harvard Medical School
2 United Kingdom3411467.6%Murphy, Michael P. #347University of Cambridge
3 Germany271916.0%Sies, Helmult #164Max-Planck-Institut für Biochemie
4 Japan264745.8%Mizushima, Noboru N. #190Graduate School of Medicine
5 China226405.0%Junying Yuan, Junying #3,985China Agricultural University
6 Italy225515.0%Sandri, Marco F. #2,709Università degli Studi di Padova
7 Canada140483.1%Wang, Rui #6,740University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine
8 France119262.6%Ricard-Blum, Sylvie #9,667Institut de Pharmacologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire
9 South Korea109222.4%Rhee, Sue Goo #7,900Kyungpook National University (KNU)
10 Australia104352.3%Bröer, Stefan #10,464The University of Queensland
11 Sweden85341.9%Uhleń, Mathias #3,793Karolinska Institutet
12 Spain85201.9%Cuadrado, A. #7,793Universitat de València
13 Switzerland66241.5%Aebersold, Ruedi H. #7,006ETH Zürich
14 Netherlands61121.4%Heck, Albert J.R. #10,730Universitair Medisch Centrum Groningen
15 Belgium57181.3%Vandenabeele, Peter #2,099Departement Cellulaire en Moleculaire Geneeskunde
16 India5481.2%Bhutia, Sujit K. #26,543University of Allahabad
17 Russia5261.2%Kagan, Valerian E. #6,394Lomonosov Moscow State University
18 Denmark48161.1%Davies, Michael J. #2,352Københavns Universitet
19 Israel48171.1%Ciechanover, Aaron J. #3,225Weizmann Institute of Science Israel
20 Poland31110.7%Carlberg, Carsten #12,616Uniwersytet Jagielloński
21 Iran30100.7%Mortezaee, Keywan #3,644Tabriz University of Medical Sciences
22 Austria30110.7%Sazanov, Leonid A. #27,239Universität Graz
23 Taiwan2450.5%Wei, Yau Huei #44,642Taipei Medical University
24 Singapore2070.4%HALLIWELL, Barry B. #178National University of Singapore
25 Ireland1980.4%Taylor, Cormac T. #11,180UCD School of Medicine
26 Finland1880.4%Eskelinen, Eeva Liisa #11,923Oulun Yliopisto
27 Saudi Arabia1640.4%Chaires, Jonathan Brad #31,582University of Ha'il
28 Hungary1590.3%Arnér, Elias S.J. #15,335Általános Orvostudományi Kar
29 Greece1450.3%Karamanos, Nikos K. #21,229University of Patras
30 Brazil1430.3%Franco, Octavio Luiz #28,637Universidade de São Paulo
31 Portugal1430.3%Vitorino, R. Miguel Pinheiro #29,700Universidade de Aveiro
32 Norway1250.3%Lamark, Trond #51,535Norges Miljø- og Biovitenskapelige Universitet
33 Hong Kong1140.2%Jia, Wei #13,066The University of Hong Kong Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine
34 New Zealand1030.2%Winterbourn, Christine C. #1,717University of Otago, Christchurch
35 Chile920.2%Videla, Luis Alberto #85,911Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad de Chile
36 Slovenia820.2%Turk, Boris #17,460Institut Jožef Stefan
37 Mexico820.2%Pedraza-Chaverri, José #42,199Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
38 Türkiye700.2%Dilsiz, Nihat #124,327Çukurova Üniversitesi
39 Czechia650.1%Pospíšil, Pavel #35,029Institute of Physiology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
40 Croatia610.1%Žarković, Neven #35,814Institut Ruđer Bošković
41 Argentina610.1%Barrantes, F. J. #87,605Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
42 Slovakia500.1%Ďuračková, Zdeňka #142,330Comenius University Medical School
43 Qatar430.1%Thornalley., Paul J. #5,135Hamad Bin Khalifa University, College of Health and Life Sciences
44 Thailand410.1%Thongboonkerd, Visith #29,298Siriraj Hospital
45 Romania410.1%Popov, Doina L. #80,753Institute of Cellular Biology and Pathology Nicolae Simionescu
46 United Arab Emirates410.1%Qaisar, Rizwan #87,447College of Medicine
47 Iraq320.1%Mustafa, Yasser Fakri #10,081University of Mosul
48 Pakistan320.1%Akash, Muhammad Sajid Hamid #42,600Government College University Faisalabad
49 Egypt300.1%Abdel-Moneim, Adel #166,407Faculty of Sciences
50 Ukraine210.0%Lushchak, Volodymyr I. #3,130Vasyl Stefanyk Carpathian National University
51 Uruguay220.0%Radi, R. A. #4,203Universidad de la Republica Facultad de Medicina
52 Macao220.0%Shen, Hanming #43,024University of Macau
53 Kuwait200.0%Benov, L. T. #111,347Kuwait University
54 Lithuania200.0%Glorieux, Christophe #129,451Lietuvos Sveikatos Mokslų Universitetas
55 Serbia200.0%Santibanez, Juan F. #177,383University of Belgrade
56 Malaysia200.0%Sato, Shigeharu #248,299Universiti Malaysia Sabah
57 Luxembourg200.0%Domon, Bruno M. #265,014Luxembourg Clinical Proteomics Center
58 Ecuador110.0%Sharifi-Rad, Javad #794Universidad Espíritu Santo
59 Puerto Rico110.0%Javadov, Sabzali #25,302University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine
60 South Africa110.0%Pepper, Michael S. #57,435University of Pretoria
61 Philippines110.0%Vriend, Gert #65,759Baco Institute of Protein Science
62 Cyprus100.0%Papaneophytou, Christos P. #118,380University of Nicosia
63 Oman100.0%Qoronfleh, M. Walid #142,449Healix Lab
64 Bangladesh100.0%Al-Bari, Md Abdul Alim #151,486University of Rajshahi
65 Lebanon100.0%Haddad, John J. #154,426Faculty of Medicine
66 Armenia100.0%Trchounian, Armen #162,016Yerevan State University
67 Kazakhstan100.0%Barlev, Nikolai A. #226,702Nazarbayev University School of Medicine
68 Nepal100.0%Agrawal, Ganesh Kumar #242,923Research Laboratory for Agricultural Biotechnology and Biochemistry Nepal
69 Bulgaria100.0%Mitev, Vanyo Ivanov #286,782Medical University of Sofia
70 Latvia100.0%Tars, Kaspars #316,758Latvian Biomedical Research and Study Centre