Top countries for Computation Theory & Mathematics

Which countries have the most top-cited scientists in Computation Theory & Mathematics?

443 researchers whose main subfield is Computation Theory & Mathematics 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 (215, 48.5%), followed by Israel (41) and Canada (25). 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 United States21510048.5%Dwork, Cynthia #288Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2 Israel41159.3%Alon, Noga #2,495Tel Aviv University
3 Canada2575.6%Chvátal, Václav #25,985University of Toronto
4 Germany2385.2%Grohe, Martin #11,943Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen
5 United Kingdom1763.8%Seymour, Paul D. #16,879University of Oxford
6 China1413.2%Yao, Andrew Chi Chih #2,906Zhejiang Normal University
7 Hungary942.0%Lovász, László #5,863Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics
8 Netherlands952.0%Bodlaender, Hans L. #21,196Universiteit van Amsterdam
9 France821.8%Courcelle, Bruno #61,289Université de Bordeaux
10 Switzerland711.6%Bringmann, Karl #70,691ETH Zürich
11 Japan511.1%Kawarabayashi, Kenichi #48,498Research Organization of Information and Systems National Institute of Informatics
12 Australia511.1%McKay, Brendan D. #64,261Monash University
13 Italy511.1%Trevisan, Luca #88,166Università Bocconi
14 Poland501.1%Cygan, Marek #123,359University of Warsaw
15 Austria430.9%Edelsbrunner, Herbert #16,237Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA)
16 Sweden420.9%Janson, Svante #26,105The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
17 Czechia410.9%Matousěk, Jǐrí #39,709Charles University
18 Taiwan420.9%Lee, Der-Tsai Tsai #47,264Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica
19 Denmark320.7%Thorup, Mikkel #39,917Københavns Universitet
20 Slovenia310.7%Klavžar, Sandi #52,299Univerza v Ljubljani
21 Finland300.7%Odlyzko, Andrew M. #139,333Turun yliopisto
22 South Africa210.5%Henning, Michael A. #49,084University of Johannesburg
23 Russia210.5%Razborov, Alexander A. #62,446Steklov Mathematical Institute of RAS
24 Spain200.5%Rodríguez-Velázquez, Juan Alberto #103,574Universitat Rovira i Virgili
25 Saudi Arabia200.5%Imran, Muhammad #119,453Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University
26 Mexico200.5%Valle-Cruz, David #121,239Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México
27 Hong Kong200.5%Vũ, Van Huong #127,826The University of Hong Kong
28 India200.5%Arockiaraj, Micheal #162,462Loyola College, Chennai
29 Norway200.5%Fomin, Fedor V. #175,127Universitetet i Bergen
30 Latvia110.2%Ambainis, Andris #18,679Latvijas Universitāte
31 Greece110.2%Achlioptas, Dimitris #59,954National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
32 United Arab Emirates110.2%Faccia, Alessio #96,194University of Birmingham Dubai
33 Romania100.2%Páun, Gheorgjie #112,382Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy
34 Chile100.2%Barceló, Pablo #120,503Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
35 Brazil100.2%Chaitin, Gregory J. #142,795Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
36 Kuwait100.2%Manuel, Paul D. #143,360Kuwait University
37 Singapore100.2%Chang, Yi Jun #191,013National University of Singapore
38 Malta100.2%Moşteanu, Narcisa Roxana #207,140American University of Malta
39 Iceland100.2%Halldórsson, Magnús M. #238,142Reykjavík University
40 Croatia100.2%Došlić, Tomislav #244,289University of Zagreb
41 Iran100.2%Akbari, Saieed #256,223Sharif University of Technology
42 Portugal100.2%Ilić, Aleksandar #281,126Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores: Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa
43 South Korea100.2%Oum, Sang-il #284,935Institute for Basic Science, Daejeon