Top countries for Complementary & Alternative Medicine

Which countries have the most top-cited scientists in Complementary & Alternative Medicine?

292 researchers whose main subfield is Complementary & Alternative Medicine 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 (87, 29.8%), followed by the United States (53) and South Korea (33). 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 China87529.8%Li, Jiansheng #54,814China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences
2 United States53618.2%Langevin, Hélène M. #28,236Harvard Medical School
3 South Korea33111.3%Lee, Myeong Soo #91,314Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine
4 Australia2357.9%Smith, Caroline A. #69,494Southern Cross University
5 Taiwan1404.8%Lin, Jaung Geng #208,304China Medical University
6 Germany1334.5%Cramer, Holger #9,780Universitätsklinikum und Medizinische Fakultät Tübingen
7 United Kingdom1113.8%MacPherson, Hugh #78,089University of York
8 Hong Kong722.4%Lyu, Aiping #18,306Hong Kong Baptist University
9 Malaysia702.4%Tan, Bee Ling #181,026Management & Science University, Malaysia
10 Norway501.7%Birch, Stephen #323,911UiT Norges Arktiske Universitet
11 Switzerland311.0%Witt, Claudia M. #53,513Universität Zürich
12 Canada311.0%Ng, Jeremy Y. #91,227Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
13 Italy311.0%Bellavite, Paolo #96,095Independent Researcher
14 Bangladesh301.0%Mitra, Saikat #124,290University of Dhaka
15 India301.0%Khuda-Bukhsh, Anisur Rahman #265,169University of Kalyani
16 Palestine200.7%Saad, B. #121,797Arab American University
17 Iran200.7%Hashempur, Mohammad Hashem #183,528Research Center for Traditional Medicine and History of Medicine (SUMS)
18 Nigeria200.7%Iyendo, Timothy O. #318,330Nile University of Nigeria
19 Lithuania110.3%Walach, Harald #45,112Kazimieras Simonavicius University
20 Poland100.3%Posadzki, Pawel Przemyslaw #142,518Akademia Wychowania Fizycznego im. Bronisława Czecha w Krakowie
21 Austria100.3%Litscher, Gerhard #170,555Medizinische Universität Graz
22 Morocco100.3%Naceiri Mrabti, Hanae #236,807Faculté de Médecine et de Pharmacie de Rabat
23 Pakistan100.3%Khan, Muhammad Rashid #245,426Quaid-i-Azam University
24 Singapore100.3%Zhong, Linda L.D. #257,271Nanyang Technological University
25 Iraq100.3%Ameen Abdulla, Mahmood S. #278,478Tishk International University
26 Israel100.3%Azaizeh, Hassan Ahmad #327,277Tel-Hai University of Kiryat Shmona in the Galilee
27 Greece100.3%Darviri, Christina #458,726School of Medicine
28 Brazil100.3%Berretta, Andresa Aparecida #473,627Apis Flora
29 Trinidad & Tobago100.3%Bahall, Mandreker #477,048The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus
30 Saudi Arabia100.3%Al-Rawaf, Hadeel A. #538,344College of Applied Medical Sciences
31 Jamaica100.3%Bradley, Ryan D. #553,374National University of Natural Medicine
32 Sudan100.3%Salama, Suzy Munir #558,003Ghibaish College of Science and Technology
33 Macao100.3%Cong, Weihong #605,411Macau University of Science and Technology
34 Kenya100.3%Ayeka, Peter Amwoga #652,152Egerton University
35 Japan100.3%Shimada, Yutaka #687,885University of Toyama
36 Cameroon100.3%Kuiaté, Jules Roger #771,323Evangelical University Institute of Cameroon