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Which countries have the most top-cited scientists in Developmental Biology?

3,458 researchers whose main subfield is Developmental Biology 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 (1,841, 53.2%), followed by the United Kingdom (350) and Germany (221). 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	1,841	1,141	53.2%	Stockwell, Brent R. #51	Harvard Medical School
2	United Kingdom	350	219	10.1%	Scheres, Sjors H.W. #640	University of Cambridge
3	Germany	221	134	6.4%	Mann, Matthias #574	German Cancer Research Center
4	China	180	92	5.2%	Chen, Lingling #866	Peking University
5	Japan	104	53	3.0%	Yamanaka, Shinya #2,307	The University of Osaka
6	Switzerland	93	57	2.7%	Auwerx, Johan H. #2,845	ETH Zürich
7	Canada	85	50	2.5%	Wishart, David S. #92	University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine
8	France	70	39	2.0%	Thèry, Clotilde #938	Université Paris Cité
9	Netherlands	69	36	2.0%	Clevers, Hans C. #46	University Medical Center Utrecht
10	Australia	60	32	1.7%	Smyth, Gordon K. #500	The University of Queensland
11	Israel	46	28	1.3%	Milo, Ron #2,370	Weizmann Institute of Science Israel
12	Spain	44	28	1.3%	Lopez-Otin, Carlos Ló #3,301	Centro de Regulacion Genomica, Barcelona
13	Denmark	36	19	1.0%	Loos, Ruth J.f. #2,270	Aarhus Universitet
14	Austria	32	18	0.9%	Knoblich, Juergen Arthur #8,003	Medizinische Universität Wien
15	Sweden	32	27	0.9%	Betsholtz, Christer A. #9,418	Karolinska Institutet
16	Italy	31	19	0.9%	Bianchi, Marco E. #9,238	Università degli Studi di Padova
17	Singapore	25	13	0.7%	Brenner, Seymour M. #4,953	A-Star, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology
18	Belgium	20	7	0.6%	Fendt, Sarah Maria #6,688	KU Leuven
19	Finland	18	12	0.5%	Alitalo, Kari K. #6,033	Helsingin Yliopisto
20	South Korea	16	9	0.5%	Kim, V. Narry #9,096	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
21	Norway	12	6	0.3%	Fang, Evandro Fei #7,404	Universitetet i Oslo
22	Estonia	7	2	0.2%	Metspalu, Andres H. #69,269	Tartu Ülikool
23	Ireland	6	3	0.2%	Wolfe, Kenneth H. #20,702	University College Dublin
24	Iceland	6	5	0.2%	Stéfansson, Kári #22,166	deCODE genetics
25	Hungary	5	2	0.1%	Ungvári, Zoltán I. #11,499	Semmelweis Egyetem
26	Poland	5	1	0.1%	Bujnicki, Janusz M. #48,055	Międzynarodowy Instytut Biologii Molekularnej i Komórkowej w Warszawie
27	Portugal	5	2	0.1%	Seabra, Miguel C. #78,627	NOVA Medical School - Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
28	Czechia	4	4	0.1%	Sabatini, David M. #1,239	Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
29	Greece	4	2	0.1%	Tavernarakis, Nektarios #20,621	University of Crete
30	India	3	1	0.1%	Panda, Amaresh Chandra #41,810	Institute of Life Sciences India
31	New Zealand	3	1	0.1%	Fineran, Peter C. #58,411	University of Auckland
32	Hong Kong	3	1	0.1%	Dalton, Stephen #76,712	Chinese University of Hong Kong
33	Qatar	2	1	0.1%	Suhre, Karsten #11,450	Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar
34	Iran	2	2	0.1%	Mostafavi, Sara Mostafa #60,186	Shiraz University of Medical Sciences
35	Mexico	2	1	0.1%	Montesinos-López, Osval Antonio #65,088	Universidad de Colima
36	Argentina	2	1	0.1%	Andreatta, Massimo #75,349	Universidad Nacional de San Martín
37	South Africa	2	1	0.1%	Bergmann, Sven Michael #93,214	University of Cape Town
38	Croatia	2	0	0.1%	Domazet-Lošo, Tomislav #113,520	Catholic University of Croatia
39	Saudi Arabia	2	0	0.1%	Aranda, Manuel #132,932	King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
40	Macao	1	1	0.0%	Deng, Chuxia #9,870	University of Macau
41	Chile	1	1	0.0%	Mayor, Roberto #37,767	Universidad Mayor
42	Puerto Rico	1	0	0.0%	Chen, Jiandong #117,334	Moffitt Cancer Center
43	Lithuania	1	0	0.0%	Mazutis, Linas #123,469	Vilniaus Universitetas
44	Taiwan	1	0	0.0%	Chen, Ruey-Hwa Hwa #137,790	National Taiwan University
45	Liberia	1	0	0.0%	Tessarollo, Lino #138,418	NIH
46	Uruguay	1	0	0.0%	Tosar, Juan Pablo #141,132	Universidad de la Republica