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Which countries have the most top-cited scientists in Econometrics?

83 researchers whose main subfield is Econometrics 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 (47, 56.6%), followed by the United Kingdom (9) and China (3). 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	47	47	56.6%	Imbens, Guido W. #247	Michigan State University
2	United Kingdom	9	9	10.8%	Pesaran, M. Hashem #48	Trinity College Cambridge
3	China	3	3	3.6%	Lee, Lungfei #9,588	Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
4	Netherlands	3	3	3.6%	Franses, Philip Hans #49,902	Erasmus School of Economics
5	Spain	2	2	2.4%	Arellano, Manuel #724	Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo, Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros
6	Denmark	2	2	2.4%	Johansen, Søren #10,886	Københavns Universitet
7	Canada	2	2	2.4%	Mackinnon, James G. #10,903	Queen’s University
8	Germany	2	2	2.4%	Lütkepohl, Helmut #15,707	Freie Universität Berlin
9	Italy	2	2	2.4%	Corsi, Fulvio #55,564	Università di Pisa
10	France	2	2	2.4%	Zakoïan, Jean Michel #65,369	Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique
11	Sweden	1	1	1.2%	Westerlund, Joakim #1,376	Lunds Universitet
12	New Zealand	1	1	1.2%	Phillips, Peter C.B. #1,498	University of Auckland
13	Cyprus	1	1	1.2%	Makridakis, S. G. #2,374	University of Nicosia
14	Austria	1	1	1.2%	Koop, Gary M. #17,812	Universität Salzburg
15	Brazil	1	1	1.2%	Firpo, Sergio P. #64,474	Insper, Sao Paulo
16	South Korea	1	1	1.2%	Choi, In #65,531	Sogang University
17	Macao	1	1	1.2%	Yu, Jun #66,692	Faculty of Business Administration
18	Greece	1	1	1.2%	Assimakopoulos, Vassilios #92,148	National Technical University of Athens (NTUA)
19	Switzerland	1	1	1.2%	Huber, Martin #98,500	University of Fribourg