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Which countries have the most top-cited scientists in Building & Construction?

1,186 researchers whose main subfield is Building & Construction are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list. China has the most (326, 27.5%), followed by the United States (120) and the United Kingdom (84). 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	China	326	258	27.5%	Shi, Caijun #129	Southeast University
2	United States	120	95	10.1%	Li, Victor C. #248	College of Engineering
3	United Kingdom	84	72	7.1%	Blocken, B. J.E. #847	Loughborough University
4	Australia	79	63	6.7%	Santamouris, Matthaios J. #340	RMIT University
5	Hong Kong	58	48	4.9%	Poon, Chi-Sun #554	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
6	Saudi Arabia	41	30	3.5%	Amran, Mugahed Yahya Hussein #5,519	King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
7	Canada	37	25	3.1%	Nehdi, Moncef L. #2,910	The University of British Columbia
8	Türkiye	32	26	2.7%	GENCEL, OSMAN #5,424	Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi
9	South Korea	24	20	2.0%	Yoo, Doo-yeol #4,298	Yonsei University
10	Switzerland	21	18	1.8%	Scrivener, Karen Louise #134	Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology
11	Spain	21	13	1.8%	Andrade, Carmen #4,374	CSIC - Instituto de Ciencias de la Construcción Eduardo Torroja (IETCC)
12	India	20	15	1.7%	Siddique, Rafat #658	Indian Institute of Science
13	Singapore	20	17	1.7%	Gan, Vincent J.L. #12,895	National University of Singapore
14	Netherlands	18	16	1.5%	Brouwers, H. J. H. #3,386	Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
15	Egypt	17	12	1.4%	Rashad, Alaa M. #1,479	Faculty of Engineering
16	Germany	17	15	1.4%	Mechtcherine, Viktor #2,388	Technische Universität München
17	France	14	12	1.2%	Roussel, Nicolas #1,313	Université Gustave Eiffel
18	Belgium	14	12	1.2%	Snellings, Ruben A. #3,713	KU Leuven
19	Denmark	14	14	1.2%	Wargocki, Pawel #6,083	Technical University of Denmark
20	Italy	13	10	1.1%	Berardi, Umberto B. #1,248	Università Politecnica delle Marche
21	Malaysia	13	12	1.1%	Waqar, Ahsan #13,592	Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS
22	Iran	13	5	1.1%	Arabani, Mahyar P. #20,518	University of Guilan
23	Iraq	11	7	0.9%	Mohammed, Ahmed Salih #14,151	University of Sulaimani
24	Portugal	10	7	0.8%	Lourenço, Paulo B. #5,738	Universidade do Minho
25	Thailand	10	6	0.8%	Chindaprasirt, Prinya #7,092	Khon Kaen University
26	Sweden	10	9	0.8%	de Wilde, Pieter J.C.J. #17,828	Luleå University of Technology
27	United Arab Emirates	10	7	0.8%	El-Maaddawy, Tamer A. #36,767	United Arab Emirates University
28	South Africa	9	7	0.8%	Van Zijl, Gideon P.A.G. #32,908	Stellenbosch University
29	Israel	7	4	0.6%	Sacks, Rafael #16,300	Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
30	Brazil	7	7	0.6%	Toledo Filho, R. D. #30,940	Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
31	Finland	7	5	0.6%	Martinsuo, Miia Maarit #39,485	Oulun Yliopisto
32	Taiwan	6	4	0.5%	Chou, Juisheng #6,238	National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
33	Norway	6	5	0.5%	Jelle, Bjørn Petter #8,632	Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet
34	Greece	6	5	0.5%	Papadakis, V. G. #16,500	National Technical University of Athens (NTUA)
35	Poland	6	4	0.5%	Kim, Jeonghyun #36,094	Politechnika Wrocławska
36	Vietnam	5	2	0.4%	Hoang, Nhat Duc #5,151	Duy Tan University
37	Japan	5	5	0.4%	Tominaga, Yoshihide #5,315	Niigata Institute of Technology
38	Jordan	5	5	0.4%	Al-Rousan, Rajai Z. #22,305	Hashemite University
39	Pakistan	5	4	0.4%	Ali, Babar #29,127	COMSATS University Islamabad, Sahiwal Campus
40	New Zealand	5	4	0.4%	Durdyev, Serdar #29,709	Auckland University of Technology
41	Qatar	4	1	0.3%	Indraganti, Madhavi #45,437	Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, College of Engineering, Qatar University
42	Sri Lanka	3	1	0.3%	Sathiparan, Navaratnarajah #19,968	University of Jaffna
43	Oman	3	3	0.3%	Meddah, Mohammed Seddik #61,046	Sultan Qaboos University
44	Austria	3	2	0.3%	Mahdavi, Ardeshir #77,404	TU Wien
45	Macao	2	2	0.2%	Li, Zongjin #5,277	University of Macau
46	Lebanon	2	2	0.2%	Khatib, Jamal M. #18,219	Beirut Arab University
47	Nigeria	2	2	0.2%	Onyelowe, Kennedy Chibuzor #27,621	Michael Okpara University of Agriculture
48	Mexico	2	1	0.2%	Escalante-García, José Iván #34,393	Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional
49	Bangladesh	2	1	0.2%	Rahman, Md Zillur #35,383	Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology
50	Colombia	2	2	0.2%	Abellán-García, Joaquín #63,523	Universidad del Norte
51	Estonia	2	1	0.2%	Koskela, Lauri Jaakko #85,264	Tallinna Tehnikaülikool
52	Palestine	1	1	0.1%	Tayeh, Bassam A. #9,611	Islamic University of Gaza
53	Kazakhstan	1	1	0.1%	Memon, Shazim Ali #10,725	Nazarbayev University
54	Argentina	1	1	0.1%	Irassar, Edgardo Fabián #42,226	Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires
55	Czechia	1	1	0.1%	Černý, Robert #45,183	Czech Technical University in Prague
56	Ireland	1	1	0.1%	Khan, Mehran #48,549	University College Dublin
57	Cameroon	1	1	0.1%	Abanda, Fonbeyin Henry #66,453	Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Travaux Publics
58	Hungary	1	1	0.1%	Lublóy, Éva Eszter #77,637	Budapest University of Technology and Economics
59	Slovenia	1	1	0.1%	Turk, Žiga #78,756	Univerza v Ljubljani
60	Morocco	1	1	0.1%	Maqsoom, Ahsen #83,646	Mohammed VI Polytechnic University
61	Cyprus	1	0	0.1%	Luhar, Salmabanu #101,663	Frederick Research Center
62	Russia	1	0	0.1%	Rakhimova, N. R. #103,467	Kazan State University of Architecture and Engineering
63	Algeria	1	0	0.1%	Kenaï, Saïd #104,298	Université Blida 1
64	Libya	1	0	0.1%	Abdelgader, Hakim S. #128,002	University of Tripoli