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

111 researchers whose main subfield is Development Studies are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list. The United Kingdom has the most (38, 34.2%), followed by the United States (35) and the Netherlands (7). 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 Kingdom383534.2%Kabeer, Naila #2,109Institute of Development Studies, Brighton
2 United States353031.5%Doss, Cheryl R. #7,468International Food Policy Research Institute
3 Netherlands766.3%Béné, Christophe #3,430Wageningen University & Research
4 China443.6%van der Ploeg, Jan Douwe #13,425China Agricultural University
5 Canada332.7%Li, Tania M. #7,427University of Toronto
6 Sweden322.7%Bali Swain, Ranjula #40,750Södertörn University
7 South Africa332.7%Devereux, Stephen #44,392University of the Western Cape
8 Germany221.8%Hoeffler, Anke E. #62,145Universität Konstanz
9 Belgium211.8%Platteau, Jean Philippe #84,276Université de Namur
10 Indonesia201.8%Schoneveld, George Christoffel #105,802Center for International Forestry Research, West Java
11 Denmark110.9%LUND, Christian #19,104Københavns Universitet
12 India110.9%Deshpande, Ashwini #56,828Ashoka University
13 Switzerland110.9%Haddad, Lawrence J. #62,984Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition
14 Japan110.9%Otsuka, Keijiro #70,887Kobe University
15 Finland110.9%Kröger, Markus #76,425Helsingin Yliopisto
16 Côte d’Ivoire110.9%Anyanwu, John C. #79,220Macroeconomic Policy
17 Norway110.9%Østby, Gudrun #81,289International Peace Research Institute, Oslo
18 Ghana110.9%Fosu, Augustin Kwasi #93,102University of Ghana
19 France110.9%Guérin, Isabelle #98,934Université Paris Cité
20 Australia100.9%McCarthy, J. F. #100,111The Australian National University
21 Laos100.9%Minten, Bart #108,383International Food Policy Research Institute
22 Qatar100.9%Cochrane, Logan #125,742Hamad Bin Khalifa 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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