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Which countries have the most top-cited scientists in Biomedical Engineering?

1,558 researchers whose main subfield is Biomedical Engineering 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 (482, 30.9%), followed by China (286) and the United Kingdom (86). 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	482	157	30.9%	Langer, Robert Samuel M. #116	College of Engineering
2	China	286	52	18.4%	Wu, Chengtie #8,912	Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai JiaoTong University School of Medicine
3	United Kingdom	86	23	5.5%	Farina, Dario #3,579	Imperial College London
4	Italy	76	12	4.9%	Merletti, Roberto #30,541	Politecnico di Torino
5	South Korea	62	12	4.0%	Kim, Hae-won #21,866	Kangwon National University
6	Australia	59	15	3.8%	Acharya, U. R. #1,393	The University of Sydney
7	Canada	54	20	3.5%	Winter, David A. #2,437	University of Toronto
8	Germany	54	15	3.5%	Witte, Frank #9,222	Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
9	Netherlands	50	12	3.2%	Zadpoor, Amir A. #934	Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
10	Switzerland	30	9	1.9%	Bohner, Marc #26,582	ETH Zürich
11	Japan	27	10	1.7%	Kokubo, Tadashi #8,235	The University of Osaka
12	Spain	25	3	1.6%	Vallet-Regí, María #2,059	Universidad de Zaragoza
13	India	25	2	1.6%	Mandal, Biman B. #45,299	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
14	Portugal	24	8	1.5%	Mano, João F. #4,651	Universidade do Minho
15	France	23	5	1.5%	Lotte, Fabien #16,035	Université Grenoble Alpes
16	Ireland	21	9	1.3%	O’Brien, Fergal J. #3,614	University of Galway
17	Hong Kong	20	8	1.3%	Tuan, Rocky Sung Chi #17,730	Chinese University of Hong Kong
18	Singapore	19	10	1.2%	Guan, Cuntai #31,592	Nanyang Technological University
19	Iran	15	3	1.0%	Kharaziha, Mahshid #46,861	Hamadan University of Medical Sciences
20	Taiwan	12	3	0.8%	Lai, Juiyang #17,074	China Medical University
21	Austria	11	4	0.7%	Müller-Putz, Gernot R. #21,913	BioTechMed-Graz
22	United Arab Emirates	9	3	0.6%	Elgendi, Mohamed #7,051	Khalifa University
23	Israel	8	2	0.5%	Gefen, Amit #13,813	Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
24	Sweden	8	3	0.5%	Shah, Furqan Ali #37,346	The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
25	Denmark	7	1	0.4%	Khare, Smith K. #65,773	Aalborg University
26	Belgium	7	1	0.4%	Van-Huffel, Sabine V. #82,788	Universiteit Gent
27	Türkiye	7	2	0.4%	Altunbey Özbay, Feyza #85,459	Ankara Üniversitesi
28	New Zealand	7	0	0.4%	Besier, Thor F. #115,884	University of Auckland
29	Greece	6	1	0.4%	Fotiadis, Dimitris Ioannis Phd #77,034	University of Ioannina
30	Saudi Arabia	4	2	0.3%	Hasan, Anwarul Ul #15,812	King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
31	Finland	4	0	0.3%	Tarvainen, Mika P. #121,468	Itä-Suomen yliopisto
32	Norway	3	3	0.2%	Holzapfel, Gerhard A. #5,021	Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet
33	Poland	3	1	0.2%	Przekora-Kuśmierz, Agata #20,902	Medical University of Lublin
34	Mexico	3	1	0.2%	Jakus, Adam E. #97,535	Tecnológico de Monterrey
35	Malaysia	3	0	0.2%	Venugopal, J. Reddy #188,308	Universiti Malaysia Pahang Al-Sultan Abdullah
36	Slovenia	2	2	0.1%	Miklavčič, Damijan #23,982	Univerza v Ljubljani
37	Czechia	2	0	0.1%	Bačáková, Lucie E. #112,673	Institute of Physiology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
38	Serbia	2	0	0.1%	Filipovic, Nenad D. #194,744	University of Kragujevac
39	Russia	1	1	0.1%	Mironov, Vladimir A. #58,584	Ministry of Health of Russian Federation
40	Ukraine	1	1	0.1%	Ortiz-Catalan, Max J. #69,292	Prometei Pain Rehabilitation Center
41	Bosnia & Herzegovina	1	0	0.1%	Badnjevic, Almir #146,300	Univerzitet u Sarajevu
42	Macao	1	0	0.1%	Wang, Chunming #151,076	University of Macau
43	Egypt	1	0	0.1%	El-Fiqi, Ahmed #164,749	National Research Centre
44	Pakistan	1	0	0.1%	Noor, Fatima #214,424	University of Lahore
45	Iraq	1	0	0.1%	Al-Timemy, Ali H. #221,401	University of Baghdad
46	Cyprus	1	0	0.1%	Pattichis, C. S. #276,651	University of Cyprus
47	Jordan	1	0	0.1%	Al-Fahoum, Amjed S. #286,513	Yarmouk University
48	Argentina	1	0	0.1%	Torres, María Eugenia #290,128	Universidad Nacional de Entre Rios
49	Indonesia	1	0	0.1%	Ana, Ika Dewi #381,235	Universitas Gadjah Mada
50	Morocco	1	0	0.1%	Fatimi, A. #443,714	Faculté Polydisciplinaire Beni Mellal