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

2,050 researchers whose main subfield is Chemical Engineering 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 (881, 43.0%), followed by the United States (165) and India (85). 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	881	328	43.0%	Xu, Tongwen #2,833	Tianjin University
2	United States	165	91	8.0%	Sloan, Earl Dendy #3,403	College of Engineering
3	India	85	35	4.1%	Gogate, Parag R. #2,978	Shoolini University
4	Iran	70	30	3.4%	Mahmoodi, Niyaz Mohammad #2,375	Razi University
5	Australia	55	30	2.7%	Wang, Shaobin #203	University of Technology Sydney
6	United Kingdom	55	20	2.7%	Thornton, Colin #9,822	University College London
7	Germany	52	27	2.5%	Caro, Jürgen #9,071	Hamburg University of Technology
8	South Korea	52	23	2.5%	Jhung, Sung Hwa #16,304	Korea University
9	Saudi Arabia	51	32	2.5%	Baig, Nadeem #2,730	King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
10	Canada	43	16	2.1%	Englezos, Peter #14,952	The University of British Columbia
11	Malaysia	40	20	2.0%	A.F., Ismail Fauzi Bin #5,023	Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
12	Spain	37	17	1.8%	Khayet, Mohamed #12,111	Universidad de Cantabria
13	Italy	34	11	1.7%	Drioli, Enrico #15,606	CNR- Istituto per la Tecnologia delle Membrane
14	United Arab Emirates	28	11	1.4%	Ihsanullah, Ihsanullah #2,575	Khalifa University
15	Taiwan	25	12	1.2%	Chung, Tai Shung #3,989	National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
16	Japan	24	7	1.2%	Awual, Md Rabiul #149	Hiroshima University
17	Netherlands	22	10	1.1%	Krishna, Rajamani #2,194	Delft University of Technology
18	Poland	21	7	1.0%	Castro‑Muñoz, Roberto #1,105	Gdańsk University of Technology
19	Türkiye	21	10	1.0%	Khataee, A. #4,083	Koç University
20	Singapore	17	10	0.8%	Tang, Chuyang Y. #6,789	National University of Singapore
21	Portugal	17	11	0.8%	Pereira Coutinho, João Araújo #11,408	Universidade do Porto
22	Greece	16	7	0.8%	Panagopoulos, Argyris #5,441	Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
23	Belgium	15	9	0.7%	van der Bruggen, Bart #822	KU Leuven
24	Qatar	15	8	0.7%	Hameed, Bassim H. #1,230	Qatar University
25	Brazil	15	8	0.7%	Lima, Eder C. #13,875	Universidade Estadual de Campinas
26	Egypt	14	4	0.7%	Mahmoud, Mohamed E. #20,559	Mansoura University
27	Pakistan	14	5	0.7%	Usman, Muhammad Rashid #25,406	University of the Punjab
28	France	13	6	0.6%	Guibal, Eric #9,439	Université de Lorraine
29	Hong Kong	12	5	0.6%	Chen, Guohua #5,099	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
30	Iraq	10	7	0.5%	Hama Aziz, Kosar Hikmat #6,569	University of Technology- Iraq
31	South Africa	10	8	0.5%	Malefane, Mope Edwin #29,975	University of South Africa
32	Denmark	10	4	0.5%	Kontogeorgis, Georgios M. #33,214	Technical University of Denmark
33	Israel	9	6	0.4%	Freger, Viatcheslav Slava #15,726	Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
34	Finland	8	5	0.4%	Bhatnagar, Amit #3,922	LUT University
35	Norway	8	3	0.4%	Skogestad, Sigurd #17,753	Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet
36	Indonesia	7	2	0.3%	Wenten, I. G. #50,963	Institut Teknologi Bandung
37	Switzerland	6	5	0.3%	Pratsinis, Sotiris E. #16,447	ETH Zürich
38	Slovenia	6	3	0.3%	Knez, Zeljko A. #21,099	Univerza v Mariboru
39	Ireland	6	4	0.3%	Kannuchamy, Vasanth Kumar #28,655	University of Limerick
40	Mexico	6	1	0.3%	Bonilla-Petriciolet, A. X.N. #71,452	Instituto Tecnológico de Aguascalientes
41	Oman	4	3	0.2%	Hayyan, Maan #18,368	Sultan Qaboos University
42	Sweden	4	2	0.2%	Chew, Jiawei #38,777	Chalmers University of Technology
43	Jordan	4	1	0.2%	Al-Qodah, Zakaria #46,127	Al-Balqa Applied University
44	Algeria	4	1	0.2%	Abbas, Moussa #73,949	Université de Boumerdes
45	New Zealand	4	2	0.2%	Baroutian, Saeid #82,947	University of Auckland
46	Chile	4	0	0.2%	Valderrama, Jose O. #104,451	Centro de Información Tecnológica
47	Morocco	3	1	0.1%	Belmabkhout, Youssef #52,547	Mohammed VI Polytechnic University
48	Czechia	3	1	0.1%	Wacławek, Stanisław #61,561	Technická Univerzita v Liberci
49	Nigeria	2	2	0.1%	Egbosiuba, Titus Chinedu #49,925	Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University
50	Vietnam	2	1	0.1%	Vo, The Ky #78,945	Industrial University of Ho Chi Minh City
51	Colombia	2	2	0.1%	Cardona, Carlos Ariel #80,063	Universidad Nacional de Colombia Manizales
52	Bangladesh	2	2	0.1%	Khan, Nazmul Abedin #82,737	East West University
53	Thailand	2	0	0.1%	Kulprathipanja, Santi #134,362	Chulalongkorn University
54	Austria	2	0	0.1%	Khinast, J. G. #178,844	Research Center Pharmaceutical Engineering GmbH
55	Russia	2	0	0.1%	Nikonenko, Victor V. #205,836	Kuban State University
56	Cyprus	1	1	0.0%	Hassani, Aydin #43,157	Yakın Doğu Üniversitesi
57	Brunei	1	1	0.0%	Bilad, Muhammad Roil #55,692	Universiti Brunei Darussalam
58	Tunisia	1	1	0.0%	Sellaoui, Lotfi #69,794	Université de Monastir
59	Iceland	1	0	0.0%	Wu, Bing #111,806	Haskoli Islands
60	Croatia	1	0	0.0%	Olujić, Žarko #131,959	Makarska Medical Centre
61	Romania	1	0	0.0%	Dragoi, Elena Niculina #132,603	Universitatea Tehnica Gh. Asachi din IasI
62	Belarus	1	0	0.0%	Ivanets, A. I. #152,481	Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus
63	Hungary	1	0	0.0%	Tóth, András József #152,672	Budapest University of Technology and Economics
64	Mauritius	1	0	0.0%	Mudhoo, Ackmez #175,199	University of Mauritius
65	Lithuania	1	0	0.0%	Peters, Bernhard J. #182,536	Vilniaus Gedimino Technikos Universitetas
66	Serbia	1	0	0.0%	Lazarević-Pašti, Tamara D. #229,462	Institut za Nuklearne Nauke Vinca