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Which countries have the most top-cited scientists in Cultural Studies?

183 researchers whose main subfield is Cultural Studies 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 (63, 34.4%), followed by the United Kingdom (26) and Australia (16). 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	63	16	34.4%	Chakrabarty, Dipesh #2,726	University of California, Los Angeles
2	United Kingdom	26	2	14.2%	Cheeseman, Nic #59,499	University of Oxford
3	Australia	16	3	8.7%	Aspinall, Edward #35,868	The Australian National University
4	Hong Kong	12	4	6.6%	Pun, Ngai #61,681	The University of Hong Kong
5	South Africa	10	1	5.5%	Nyamnjoh, Francis Beng #55,736	University of Cape Town
6	Canada	8	2	4.4%	Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Sábelo J. #3,366	University of Toronto
7	Germany	8	2	4.4%	Kostka, Genia #15,272	Freie Universität Berlin
8	Netherlands	6	3	3.3%	Van Schendel, Willem #30,128	Universiteit van Amsterdam
9	Singapore	6	1	3.3%	Liu, Hong #79,723	National University of Singapore
10	China	4	1	2.2%	Yan, Yunxiang #27,434	Renmin University of China
11	Taiwan	3	0	1.6%	Ho, Ming-Sho #137,920	National Taiwan University
12	France	3	0	1.6%	Cabestan, Jean Pierre #274,805	Asia Centre
13	Nigeria	2	0	1.1%	Falola, Toyin #101,086	Nigerian Academy of Letters
14	Belgium	2	0	1.1%	Reyntjens, Filip #120,153	Institute of Development Policy and Management (IOB)
15	Japan	2	0	1.1%	Iwabuchi, Koichi #160,577	Kwansei Gakuin University
16	Sweden	2	0	1.1%	Turner, Simon #199,973	Lunds Universitet
17	Norway	2	0	1.1%	Rippa, Alessandro #237,159	Universitetet i Oslo
18	Thailand	1	1	0.5%	Baird, Ian G. #48,529	Chiang Mai University
19	New Zealand	1	1	0.5%	Brady, Anne-Marie Marie #80,602	University of Canterbury
20	Niger	1	0	0.5%	de Sardan, Jean Pierre Olivier #197,884	Laboratory for Studies and Research on Social Dynamics and Local Development
21	Slovenia	1	0	0.5%	Vangeli, Anastas #248,712	Univerza v Ljubljani Ekonomska Fakulteta
22	Türkiye	1	0	0.5%	Bugra, Ayse #270,549	Boğaziçi Üniversitesi
23	Kenya	1	0	0.5%	Hagmann, Tobias #321,803	Rift Valley Institute and Somali Public Agenda
24	Malaysia	1	0	0.5%	Gomez, Edmund Terence #323,584	Universiti Malaya
25	Denmark	1	0	0.5%	Brødsgaard, Kjeld Erik #337,286	Copenhagen Business School