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Which countries have the most top-cited scientists in Criminology?

308 researchers whose main subfield is Criminology 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 (186, 60.4%), followed by the United Kingdom (48) and Australia (22). 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 States18613660.4%Nagin, Daniel S. #1,085University of Cincinnati
2 United Kingdom483715.6%Farrington, David P. #1,998Institute of Criminology
3 Australia22187.1%Henry, Nicola 3. #19,723The University of Queensland
4 Canada18115.8%Seto, Michael C. #12,745Simon Fraser University
5 Netherlands531.6%Nivette, Amy E. #60,972Universiteit Utrecht
6 Italy521.6%Maniglio, Roberto #83,199Universitas Mercatorum
7 Israel421.3%Weisburd, David L. #5,756Hebrew University of Jerusalem
8 Norway431.3%Sandberg, Sveinung #24,107Universitetet i Oslo
9 Sweden321.0%Ceccato, Vania Aparecida #24,068The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
10 Germany331.0%Tonry, Michael #82,222Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime
11 Switzerland200.6%Teichmann, Fabian Maximilian Johannes #107,453Teichmann International (Schweiz) AG
12 New Zealand110.3%Ward, Tony #10,178Victoria University of Wellington
13 Hong Kong110.3%Chan, Ko Ling #18,800The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
14 France110.3%Varese, Federico #66,543Centre d'Études Européennes et de Politique Comparée de Sciences Po
15 Ireland110.3%McElvaney, Rosaleen #86,875Dublin City University
16 Spain100.3%Pereda, N. #107,076Universitat de Barcelona
17 Denmark100.3%Hayward, Keith J. #121,294Københavns Universitet
18 Jordan100.3%Al-Makhzoumi, Omar Mahmoud #165,979Zarqa University
19 Nigeria100.3%Aborisade, Richard Abayomi #174,703Olabisi Onabanjo University

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Data: Ioannidis, John P.A. (2026), ‘August 2026 data-update for “Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators”’, Mendeley Data, v9, doi:10.17632/btchxktzyw.9. 2026 list, ranked by composite citation score (c) excluding self-citations.

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