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

2,432 researchers whose main subfield is Education 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 (930, 38.2%), followed by the United Kingdom (272) and Australia (242). 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	930	540	38.2%	Mayer, Richard E. #61	University of Wisconsin-Madison
2	United Kingdom	272	166	11.2%	Ball, Stephen John #473	UCL Institute of Education
3	Australia	242	135	10.0%	Sweller, John #59	Monash University
4	Germany	96	57	3.9%	Frenzel, Anne Christiane #5,658	Universität Potsdam
5	Hong Kong	92	64	3.8%	CHIU, Thomas K.F. #219	The Education University of Hong Kong
6	Canada	84	49	3.5%	Garrison, D. Randy #1,800	University of Toronto
7	Netherlands	59	29	2.4%	Paas, Fred G.W.C. #815	Universiteit Utrecht
8	China	54	30	2.2%	Yu, Zhonggen #2,047	Beijing Normal University
9	Taiwan	52	30	2.1%	Hwang, Gwojen #471	National Taiwan Normal University
10	Finland	44	22	1.8%	Salmela-Aro, Katariina #3,097	Helsingin Yliopisto
11	Israel	42	22	1.7%	Alt, Dorit #14,013	University of Haifa
12	Spain	30	10	1.2%	Moriña, Anabel #15,432	Universidad de Granada
13	Norway	29	17	1.2%	Scherer, Ronny #6,461	Universitetet i Oslo
14	Sweden	29	10	1.2%	Thornberg, Robert L. #8,717	Stockholms universitet
15	South Africa	28	15	1.2%	Mhlanga, David #2,571	University of South Africa
16	South Korea	23	10	0.9%	Linnenbrink-Garcia, Lisa #9,656	Korea University
17	Belgium	21	15	0.9%	Kelchtermans, Geert #8,426	KU Leuven
18	Türkiye	20	10	0.8%	Bozkurt, Aras #5,166	Anadolu Üniversitesi
19	Saudi Arabia	20	13	0.8%	Sobaih, Abu Elnasr E. #19,645	King Faisal University
20	Ireland	19	8	0.8%	Biesta, Gert J.J. #449	University College Dublin
21	New Zealand	18	14	0.7%	Brown, Gavin T.L. #8,326	University of Auckland
22	Greece	14	10	0.6%	Papadakis, Stamatios J. #5,214	University of Thessaly
23	Malaysia	14	3	0.6%	Yusoff, Muhamad Saiful Bahri #6,544	Universiti Sains Malaysia
24	Singapore	14	8	0.6%	Grover, Shuchi #26,242	National Institute of Education
25	Switzerland	12	6	0.5%	Kapur, Manu #8,483	Universität Zürich
26	Cyprus	11	6	0.5%	Zembylas, Michalinos #531	University of Cyprus
27	Iran	10	7	0.4%	Namaziandost, Ehsan #56,760	Islamic Azad University
28	Denmark	9	5	0.4%	Makransky, Guido #6,395	Københavns Universitet
29	Austria	9	4	0.4%	Goetz, Thomas #20,923	Universität Wien
30	Italy	9	4	0.4%	Moè, Angelica #34,843	Università degli Studi di Padova
31	United Arab Emirates	8	4	0.3%	Al-Emran, Mostafa #1,976	United Arab Emirates University
32	Macao	8	6	0.3%	Yuan, Rui (Eric) #6,077	University of Macau
33	India	8	5	0.3%	Raman, Raghu #12,250	Amrita School of Business
34	Japan	8	4	0.3%	Vickers, Edward #58,558	Kyushu University
35	Qatar	7	3	0.3%	Elkhatat, Ahmed M. #65,227	College of Education, Qatar University
36	Thailand	5	4	0.2%	Hallinger, Philip #763	Walailak University
37	Portugal	5	2	0.2%	Flores, Maria Assunção #12,025	Universidade do Minho
38	Chile	5	1	0.2%	Ávalos-Bevan, Beatrice #66,116	Universidad de Chile
39	Indonesia	5	2	0.2%	Eilks, Ingo #82,332	Universitas Negeri Malang
40	Jordan	4	2	0.2%	Al-Adwan, Ahmad Samed #988	Al-Ahliyya Amman University
41	Poland	4	4	0.2%	Strzelecki, Artur #6,857	University of Economics in Katowice
42	Vietnam	4	3	0.2%	Perkins, Mike #15,507	British University Vietnam
43	Philippines	3	3	0.1%	Barrot, Jessie S. #5,375	National University, Philippines
44	Palestine	3	2	0.1%	Khlaif, Zuheir N. #44,051	An-Najah National University
45	Oman	3	2	0.1%	Tarhini, Ali #49,307	Sultan Qaboos University
46	France	3	1	0.1%	Musselin, Christine #96,394	Centre de Sociologie des Organisations Sciences Po
47	Egypt	3	0	0.1%	Torgesen, Joseph K. #108,773	Faculty of Education
48	Czechia	2	2	0.1%	Klimova, Blanka Frydrychová #7,192	Univerzita Hradec Králové
49	Mexico	2	1	0.1%	Ramirez-Montoya, Maria Soledad #14,890	Tecnológico de Monterrey
50	Russia	2	1	0.1%	Grigorenko, Elena L. #26,115	Sirius University of Science and Technology
51	Colombia	2	1	0.1%	Garzón, Juan #34,673	Universidad Católica de Oriente
52	Lebanon	2	2	0.1%	Khishfe, Rola #57,664	American University of Beirut
53	Slovenia	2	2	0.1%	Aristovnik, Aleksander #70,120	Univerza v Ljubljani
54	Nigeria	2	1	0.1%	Zakariya, Yusuf F. #74,078	Ahmadu Bello University
55	Kuwait	2	1	0.1%	Alafnan, Mohammad Awad #88,583	American University of the Middle East
56	Kazakhstan	2	0	0.1%	Hajar, Anas #102,999	Nazarbayev University
57	Tanzania	2	0	0.1%	Amani, David #129,918	The University of Dodoma
58	Luxembourg	2	0	0.1%	Zapp, Mike #132,204	University of Luxembourg
59	Croatia	1	1	0.0%	Burić, Irena #21,738	University of Zadar
60	Romania	1	1	0.0%	Radu, Iulian Wande #42,539	Universitatea de Medicină și Farmacie “Grigore T. Popa” Iasi
61	Iceland	1	1	0.0%	Einarsdóttir, Jo´Hanna #48,772	Haskoli Islands
62	Hungary	1	1	0.0%	Bus, Adriana G. #66,490	Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem
63	Estonia	1	1	0.0%	Pedaste, Margus #67,513	Tartu Ülikool
64	Ukraine	1	1	0.0%	Tsekhmister, Ya V. #75,073	Bogomolets National Medical University
65	Slovakia	1	1	0.0%	Prokop, Pavol #88,367	Slovak Academy of Sciences
66	Brazil	1	1	0.0%	Street, Brian V. #95,375	Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
67	Bangladesh	1	0	0.0%	Ashraf, Mohammad Ali #102,321	United International University
68	Mauritius	1	0	0.0%	Teeroovengadum, Viraiyan #107,736	University of Mauritius
69	Latvia	1	0	0.0%	Daniela, Linda #108,610	Latvijas Universitāte
70	Morocco	1	0	0.0%	Boubker, Omar #109,743	Université Abdelmalek Essaadi
71	Peru	1	0	0.0%	Portuguez-Castro, May Iliana #113,768	CENTRUM PUCP Escuela de Negocios
72	Pakistan	1	0	0.0%	Asad, Muhammad Mujtaba #124,631	Sukkur IBA University
73	Ghana	1	0	0.0%	Sarfo, Jacob Owusu #138,391	University of Cape Coast Ghana
74	Ecuador	1	0	0.0%	Walsh, Catherine E. #147,548	Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Ecuador
75	Iraq	1	0	0.0%	Al-Obaydi, Liqaa Habeb #164,975	University of Diyala
76	Lithuania	1	0	0.0%	Dagiené, Valentina #173,638	Vilniaus Universitetas