Top countries for Design Practice & Management

Which countries have the most top-cited scientists in Design Practice & Management?

254 researchers whose main subfield is Design Practice & Management 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 (74, 29.1%), followed by China (29) and the United Kingdom (23). 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 States742129.1%Dorst, Kees H. #12,409College of Engineering
2 China29311.4%Chen, Yan #45,806Shanghai Jiao Tong University
3 United Kingdom23129.1%Dai, Jian S. #9,973The Open University
4 Italy1917.5%Manzini, Ezio #93,886Politecnico di Milano
5 Denmark1144.3%Sigmund, Ole #167Technical University of Denmark
6 Canada1033.9%Gosselin, Clément M. #11,598Concordia University
7 Netherlands923.5%Langelaar, Matthijs #36,408Faculteit Industrieel Ontwerpen, TU Delft
8 France702.8%Lamé, Guillaume #116,187Centrale Nantes
9 Sweden612.4%Svanberg, Krister #23,611Chalmers University of Technology
10 Germany602.4%Zhu, Benliang #150,725Universität Duisburg-Essen
11 Japan512.0%Tachi, Tomohiro #52,080The University of Tokyo
12 India502.0%Das, Indraneel #165,363Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences
13 Hong Kong421.6%Luo, Jianxi #23,583Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
14 Israel421.6%Goldschmidt, Gabriela #39,587Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
15 Vietnam421.6%Nguyen, Hoang #78,018Duy Tan University
16 Belgium401.6%Heylighen, A. #207,288Université de Liège
17 Portugal311.2%Flores, Paulo #13,909Universidade do Minho
18 Australia311.2%Chen, Chao #58,412Monash University
19 Spain301.2%Escalona, José L. #203,849Universidad de Sevilla
20 Türkiye301.2%Erkaya, Selçuk #223,839Erciyes Üniversitesi
21 Singapore210.8%Rosen, David W. #17,191A-Star, Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology
22 South Korea210.8%Youn, Byengdong #46,697Seoul National University
23 Hungary220.8%Rozvany, George I.N. #54,915Budapest University of Technology and Economics
24 Austria210.8%Müller, Andreas #68,219Johannes Kepler University Linz
25 Taiwan200.8%Shih-Wen, Hsiao #200,653National Cheng Kung University
26 Brazil200.8%Silva, Emílio Carlos Nelli #205,497Universidade de São Paulo
27 Finland200.8%Mikkola, Aki Matti #252,797LUT University
28 Iran200.8%Safarpour, Mehran #293,103Tarbiat Modares University
29 Ireland110.4%Hao, Guangbo #89,214University College Cork
30 Norway110.4%Steinert, Martin #99,738Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet
31 Switzerland100.4%Shea, Kristina A. #154,380ETH Zürich
32 Saudi Arabia100.4%Rajab, Khairan D. #259,327Najran University
33 United Arab Emirates100.4%Saeed, Adnan S. #361,045Khalifa University
34 Romania100.4%Pîslǎ, Doina Liana #752,534Technical Sciences Academy of Romania