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Which countries have the most top-cited scientists in Developmental & Child Psychology?

655 researchers whose main subfield is Developmental & Child Psychology 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 (433, 66.1%), followed by the United Kingdom (66) and Canada (34). 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	433	418	66.1%	Arnett, Jeffrey Jensen #265	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
2	United Kingdom	66	65	10.1%	Baron-Cohen, Simon B. #184	King's College London
3	Canada	34	32	5.2%	Diamond, Adele #534	University of Toronto
4	Netherlands	22	22	3.4%	Branje, Susan J.T. #4,569	Universiteit Utrecht
5	Germany	21	20	3.2%	Pinquart, Martin #489	Philipps-Universität Marburg
6	Australia	21	20	3.2%	Pellicano, Liz #3,789	La Trobe University
7	Italy	9	7	1.4%	Del Giudice, Marco #8,315	Università degli Studi di Trieste
8	Israel	5	4	0.8%	Feldman, Ruth #1,029	Reichman University
9	Norway	5	5	0.8%	Olweus, Dan #8,485	Universitetet i Bergen
10	Sweden	5	5	0.8%	Gillberg, Christopher L. #8,766	Karolinska Institutet
11	Belgium	5	5	0.8%	Goossens, Luc #13,606	KU Leuven
12	Switzerland	5	5	0.8%	Roebers, Claudia Maria #19,291	Universität Zürich
13	Finland	3	3	0.5%	Salmivalli, Christina #5,647	Turun yliopisto
14	New Zealand	3	3	0.5%	Fergusson, David M. #25,295	University of Otago
15	Chile	2	2	0.3%	van IJzendoorn, Marinus H. #1,512	Universidad San Sebastián
16	Denmark	2	2	0.3%	Steinhausen, Hans Christoph #11,740	Syddansk Universitet
17	Macao	2	2	0.3%	Chang, Lei #17,996	University of Macau
18	South Africa	2	2	0.3%	Theron, Linda L.C. #38,352	University of Pretoria
19	Hong Kong	2	2	0.3%	Zhang, Xiao #57,113	The University of Hong Kong
20	China	2	2	0.3%	Cheung, Rebecca Y.M. #71,962	Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
21	Ireland	1	1	0.2%	Wright, Michelle F. #13,143	Dublin City University
22	Lithuania	1	1	0.2%	Laursen, Brett #30,745	Mykolas Romeris University
23	France	1	1	0.2%	Cohen, David #45,909	Sorbonne Université
24	Cyprus	1	1	0.2%	Fanti, Kostas A. #48,553	University of Cyprus
25	Singapore	1	1	0.2%	Ang, Rebecca P. #60,145	National Institute of Education
26	Greece	1	1	0.2%	Motti, Frosso #72,171	National and Kapodistrian University of Athens