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Which countries have the most top-cited scientists in Clinical Psychology?

403 researchers whose main subfield is Clinical Psychology 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 (212, 52.6%), followed by the United Kingdom (44) and Australia (38). 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	212	187	52.6%	Beck, Aaron T. #236	Florida State University
2	United Kingdom	44	41	10.9%	Gilbert, Paul #520	University of Oxford Medical Sciences Division
3	Australia	38	32	9.4%	Linardon, Jake #3,052	Deakin University
4	Canada	34	30	8.4%	Klonsky, Elisha David #1,389	The University of British Columbia
5	Germany	15	11	3.7%	Hofmann, Stefan G. #496	Universität Kassel
6	Netherlands	14	12	3.5%	Muris, Peter E.H.M. #6,094	Universiteit van Amsterdam
7	Sweden	10	7	2.5%	Andersson, Gerhard #1,735	Karolinska Institutet
8	Italy	7	5	1.7%	Riva, Giuseppe #1,688	Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
9	Spain	5	4	1.2%	Calvete Zumalde, Esther #12,391	Universidad de Deusto
10	Switzerland	4	4	1.0%	Hopwood, Christopher James #12,071	University of Bern
11	Belgium	4	4	1.0%	Raes, Filip #13,845	KU Leuven
12	Israel	3	3	0.7%	Zilcha-Mano, Sigal #18,947	University of Haifa
13	Ireland	3	3	0.7%	Hevey, David #23,352	Trinity College Dublin
14	Romania	2	1	0.5%	David, Daniel Ovidiu #41,434	Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai
15	China	2	0	0.5%	He, Jinbo #105,435	Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
16	Denmark	1	1	0.2%	Micali, Nadia #40,371	Mental Health Center Sct. Hans
17	Singapore	1	1	0.2%	Power, Michael J. #44,447	National University of Singapore
18	Portugal	1	1	0.2%	Pinto-Gouveia, José Pinto #98,311	Universidade de Coimbra
19	Austria	1	0	0.2%	Blechert, Jens #111,539	Universität Salzburg
20	New Zealand	1	0	0.2%	Krägeloh, Christian Ulrich #118,544	Auckland University of Technology
21	Hong Kong	1	0	0.2%	Chan, Ka Shing Kevin #145,153	The Education University of Hong Kong