Top countries for Bioinformatics

35 countries · Bioinformatics

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

502 researchers whose main subfield is Bioinformatics 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 (216, 43.0%), followed by China (60) and the United Kingdom (38). 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 States21613243.0%Li, Heng #17National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)
2 China603112.0%Yu, Guangchuang #268Huazhong University of Science and Technology
3 United Kingdom38167.6%Holm, Liisa U. #4,007University of Oxford
4 Germany28125.6%Stamatakis, Alexandros P. #195Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
5 Canada22104.4%Stothard, Paul M. #17,920University of Alberta
6 Australia15103.0%Pires, Douglas E.V. #24,282School of Mathematics and Statistics
7 Japan1372.6%Kanehisa, Minoru I. #68Institute for Chemical Research
8 Italy1152.2%Chicco, Davide #1,252Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna
9 Spain1052.0%Conesa, Ana #24,521CSIC-UV - Instituto de Biología Integrativa de Sistemas (I2SYSBIO)
10 India1052.0%Raghava, Gajendra Pal Singh #44,566Indian Institute of Technology Madras
11 Switzerland831.6%Schwede, Torsten F. #13,732Biozentrum, Universität Basel
12 South Korea641.2%Steinegger, Martin #9,420Sungkyunkwan University
13 Israel521.0%Friedman, Nir #21,728Tel Aviv University
14 France531.0%Vert, Jean Philippe #29,294Owkin
15 Sweden541.0%Elofsson, Arne #36,344Science for Life Laboratory
16 Hong Kong521.0%Yu, Jun #53,897Chinese University of Hong Kong
17 Singapore430.8%Zhang, Yang #1,154National University of Singapore
18 Austria430.8%Hofacker, Ivo L. #19,339Universität Wien
19 Belgium410.8%Vranken, Wim F. #82,961Vrije Universiteit Brussel
20 Denmark320.6%Krogh, Anders K. #4,316Københavns Universitet
21 Taiwan310.6%Le, Nguyen Quoc Khanh #6,847Taipei Medical University
22 Netherlands330.6%Diekmann, Odo #21,318Mathematisch Instituut
23 Norway320.6%Aittokallio, Tero A. #22,529Oslo Universitetssykehus
24 Finland320.6%Tang, Jing #24,815Helsingin Yliopisto
25 Saudi Arabia310.6%Gao, Xin #32,038King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
26 Ireland320.6%Higgins, Desmond G. #40,840University College Dublin
27 New Zealand210.4%Jones, David T. #3,816University of Otago
28 Türkiye220.4%Dogan, Tunca #6,099Hacettepe Üniversitesi
29 South Africa220.4%Dzobo, Kevin #18,449Groote Schuur Hospital
30 Hungary110.2%Albert, Réka #5,027Plant Protection Institute
31 Macao110.2%Wei, Leyi #35,639Macao Polytechnic University
32 Egypt110.2%Teklu, Shewafera Wondimagegnhu #66,481Faculty of Electronic Engineering
33 Mexico100.2%Vargas-De-León, Cruz #115,483Instituto Politécnico Nacional
34 Pakistan100.2%Akbar, Shahid #128,560The University of Haripur
35 Poland100.2%Deorowicz, Sebastian #182,805Silesian University of Technology