Top countries for Environmental & Occupational Health

Which countries have the most top-cited scientists in Environmental & Occupational Health?

325 researchers whose main subfield is Environmental & Occupational Health 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 (84, 25.8%), followed by Italy (29) and Germany (27). A country with 100 or more opens its institutions in the subfield; the others open their scientists in the table of all authors.

#CountryListed authorsTop 100kShare of subfieldHighest-ranked authorTop institution
1 United States84925.8%Howard, John J. #31,664National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
2 Italy2958.9%Magǹavita, Nicola #21,214Università degli Studi di Milano
3 Germany2738.3%Groneberg, David Alexander #81,820Robert Koch Institute
4 Sweden2016.2%Knutsson, Anders K. #53,088Sahlgrenska Akademin
5 Denmark1955.8%Rugulies, Reiner #17,781Det Nationale Forskningscenter for Arbejdsmiljø
6 Netherlands1835.5%Vermeulen, Roel C.H. #28,965Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences
7 United Kingdom1725.2%Järup, Lars #17,936University of Stirling
8 Australia1524.6%Driscoll, Tim Robert #35,003Monash University
9 Japan1414.3%Kawakami, Norito #12,793Graduate School of Medicine
10 Canada1404.3%Smith, Peter Matthew #129,850Institute for Work and Health Toronto
11 Finland1354.0%Virtanen, Marianna #36,169Työterveyslaitos
12 Poland1304.0%Charkiewicz, Angelika Edyta #124,682Instytut Medycyny Pracy im. Prof. J. Nofera
13 South Korea1003.1%Kim, Yangho #115,749Ulsan University Hospital
14 France702.2%Niedhammer, Isabelle #106,918Centre international de Recherche sur le Cancer
15 Iran601.8%Mohammadfam, Iraj M. #243,626Hamadan University of Medical Sciences
16 Norway310.9%Birkeland Nielsen, Morten Birkeland #33,102Statens arbeidsmiljøinstitutt
17 New Zealand200.6%Douwes, Jeroen E. #134,956Centre for Public Health Research
18 Hong Kong200.6%Yu, Ignatius Tak Sun #313,393Chinese University of Hong Kong
19 Taiwan200.6%Wang, Jung Der #383,384National Cheng Kung University
20 Ireland110.3%Williams, Nerys R. #24,424University College Dublin
21 India110.3%Tiwari, Rajnarayan Ramshankar #96,691ICMR-National Institute for Research in Environmental Health
22 Greece100.3%Alexopoulos, Evangelos C. #103,080National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
23 Switzerland100.3%Guseva-Canu, Irina #221,240Centre Universitaire de Médecine Générale et Santé Publique, Lausanne
24 Tunisia100.3%Msaada, Kamel #291,756Centre de Biotechnologie de Borj Cédria
25 Kazakhstan100.3%Vinnikov, Denis V. #362,622Farabi University
26 Belgium100.3%Braeckman, Lutgart A.C.M. #426,173Universiteit Ghent, Faculteit Geneeskunde en Gezondheidswetenschappen
27 Thailand100.3%Chaiklieng, Sunisa #501,950Khon Kaen University
28 South Africa100.3%Ehrlich, Rodney I. #504,637University of Cape Town
29 Spain100.3%Julià, Mireia #529,596Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona