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Which countries have the most top-cited scientists in Environmental Engineering?

1,448 researchers whose main subfield is Environmental Engineering 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 (348, 24.0%), followed by China (213) and the United Kingdom (110). 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	348	136	24.0%	Singh, Vijay P. #833	United States Geological Survey
2	China	213	70	14.7%	Hao, Zengchao #5,138	Hohai University
3	United Kingdom	110	45	7.6%	Beven, Keith J. #752	University of Leeds
4	Australia	86	43	5.9%	Chanson, Hubert #8,686	The University of Queensland
5	Canada	72	29	5.0%	Adamowski, Jan Franklin #11,996	University of Waterloo
6	Italy	69	20	4.8%	Capodaglio, Andrea G. #9,336	Università degli Studi di Padova
7	Netherlands	62	28	4.3%	Hoekstra, Arjen Y. #909	Wageningen University & Research
8	Germany	60	27	4.1%	Flemming, Hans Curt #1,626	Helmholtz Zentrum für Umweltforschung
9	India	42	12	2.9%	Subba Rao, N. V. #5,185	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
10	Switzerland	35	15	2.4%	Von Gunten, Urs #1,410	Eawag - Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
11	Iran	30	12	2.1%	Nourani, Vahid #10,478	University of Tabriz
12	Spain	24	4	1.7%	García, Joan #43,529	Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
13	Sweden	22	10	1.5%	Falkenmark, Malin #8,596	Uppsala Universitet
14	France	20	9	1.4%	Meybeck, Michel #7,313	Sorbonne Université
15	Greece	18	5	1.2%	Koutsoyiannis, Demetris #9,540	National Technical University of Athens (NTUA)
16	Türkiye	13	6	0.9%	Şen, Zekâi #4,228	İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi
17	South Korea	13	3	0.9%	Cho, Kyung Hwa #54,586	Korea University
18	Austria	12	3	0.8%	Blöschl, Günter #2,078	BOKU University
19	Poland	12	3	0.8%	Kundzewicz, Zbigniew W. #4,936	Institute of Geophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences
20	Saudi Arabia	11	4	0.8%	Yaseen, Zaher Mundher #1,399	King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
21	Japan	10	5	0.7%	Yamazaki, Dai #30,762	Institute of Industrial Science
22	Taiwan	10	2	0.7%	Shiau, Jenq Tzong #64,711	National Cheng Kung University
23	Hong Kong	9	4	0.6%	Yuan, Zhiguo #17,809	The University of Hong Kong
24	Singapore	9	5	0.6%	Chiew, Yeemeng #21,792	National University of Singapore
25	Belgium	8	3	0.6%	Tabari, Hossein #3,645	European Commission Joint Research Centre
26	South Africa	8	4	0.6%	Scholz, Miklas #10,928	University of Johannesburg
27	Israel	8	5	0.6%	Berkowitz, Brian #13,998	Hebrew University of Jerusalem
28	Denmark	8	4	0.6%	Brix, H. #16,615	Aarhus Universitet
29	Egypt	8	3	0.6%	Elbeltagi, Ahmed #27,175	University of Sadat City
30	Ireland	8	3	0.6%	Rathnayake, Upaka Sanjeewa #33,491	University of Galway
31	New Zealand	7	2	0.5%	Melville, Bruce W. #14,856	University of Auckland
32	Algeria	6	2	0.4%	Heddam, Salim #18,924	Université 20 Août 1955-Skikda
33	Norway	5	3	0.3%	Xu, Chong Yu #8,809	Universitetet i Oslo
34	Finland	5	4	0.3%	Kummu, Matti #12,152	Aalto University
35	United Arab Emirates	5	2	0.3%	Elshafie, Ahmed #17,344	United Arab Emirates University
36	Thailand	5	1	0.3%	Shrestha, Sangam L. #28,264	Asian Institute of Technology Thailand
37	Malaysia	4	3	0.3%	Ahmed, Ali Najah #9,582	Universiti Sains Malaysia
38	Serbia	4	2	0.3%	Kuriqi, Alban #51,181	University of Belgrade
39	Iraq	4	0	0.3%	Al-Mukhtar, Mustafa M. #106,050	University of Technology- Iraq
40	Brazil	3	2	0.2%	van Genuchten, Martinus Th. #686	Federal University of Rio the Janeiro
41	Portugal	3	1	0.2%	Marques, Rui Cunha #27,197	Lusófona University
42	Sri Lanka	3	2	0.2%	Vanham, Davy #68,121	International Water Management Institute (IWMI) Colombo
43	Czechia	2	1	0.1%	Vymazal, Jan #1,245	Czech University of Life Sciences Prague
44	Romania	2	1	0.1%	Gavrilescu, Maria #5,182	Universitatea Tehnica Gh. Asachi din IasI
45	Estonia	2	1	0.1%	Mander, Ülo #56,929	Tartu Ülikool
46	Bangladesh	2	0	0.1%	Islam, S. M.Didar Ul #113,512	Jahangirnagar University
47	Slovenia	2	0	0.1%	Bezak, Nejc #122,424	Univerza v Ljubljani
48	Vietnam	2	0	0.1%	Tran Anh, Duong Tran #132,934	Van Lang University
49	Hungary	2	0	0.1%	Szilagyi, Jozsef #140,890	Budapest University of Technology and Economics
50	Kuwait	2	0	0.1%	Chidambaram, Sabarathinam #163,681	Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research
51	Morocco	2	0	0.1%	El Bilali, Ali #215,229	Hassan II University of Casablanca
52	Kyrgyzstan	1	1	0.1%	Sidle, Roy Carl #30,075	University of Central Asia
53	Trinidad & Tobago	1	1	0.1%	Mohammad Azamathulla, Hazi Md #38,735	The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus
54	Luxembourg	1	1	0.1%	Schumann, Guy Jean Pierre #39,117	RSS-Hydro
55	Macao	1	1	0.1%	Hao, Tianwei #56,243	University of Macau
56	Uganda	1	1	0.1%	Onyutha, Charles #58,628	Kyambogo University
57	Nepal	1	1	0.1%	Nepal, Santosh #95,796	International Water Management Institute
58	Kenya	1	0	0.1%	Mukherji, Aditi #102,569	CGIAR
59	Croatia	1	0	0.1%	Bonacci, Ognjen #103,081	University of Split
60	Oman	1	0	0.1%	Nikoo, Mohammad Reza #110,437	Sultan Qaboos University
61	Bosnia & Herzegovina	1	0	0.1%	Duraković, Benjamin #119,584	International University of Sarajevo
62	Ethiopia	1	0	0.1%	Ayenew, Tenalem #123,952	Addis Ababa University
63	Mexico	1	0	0.1%	Jiménez, C. Blanca #140,560	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
64	Ghana	1	0	0.1%	Yafetto, Levi #141,623	University of Cape Coast Ghana
65	Slovakia	1	0	0.1%	Zeleňáková, Martina #191,071	Technická Univerzita v Košiciach
66	Tunisia	1	0	0.1%	Hamed, Younes #205,979	International Association of Water Resources in the Southern Mediterranean Basin
67	Russia	1	0	0.1%	Ayzel, Georgy V. #215,218	Yandex LLC
68	Bahrain	1	0	0.1%	Jayyousi, Odeh Al #224,387	Arabian Gulf University
69	Nigeria	1	0	0.1%	Edet, Aniekan #273,964	University of Calabar