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Which countries have the most top-cited scientists in Evolutionary Biology?

655 researchers whose main subfield is Evolutionary Biology 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 (281, 42.9%), followed by the United Kingdom (99) and Canada (37). 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	281	231	42.9%	Nowak, Martin A. #399	Harvard University
2	United Kingdom	99	86	15.1%	Yang, Ziheng #275	University of Oxford
3	Canada	37	35	5.6%	Rieseberg, Loren H. #3,007	The University of British Columbia
4	France	33	30	5.0%	Paradis, Emmanuel #3,983	Université de Montpellier
5	Australia	32	26	4.9%	Lanfear, Robert #4,455	ANU Research School of Biology
6	Germany	31	25	4.7%	Martin, William F. #4,914	Universität Bonn
7	Switzerland	24	22	3.7%	Excoffier, Laurent #5,242	Universität Zürich
8	Sweden	21	18	3.2%	Ronquist, Fredrik #1,238	Lunds Universitet
9	Japan	12	10	1.8%	Tamura, Koichiro #306	National Institute of Genetics Mishima
10	Spain	11	9	1.7%	Posada, D. Tatis #2,356	CSIC - Real Jardin Botanico (RJB)
11	Austria	10	8	1.5%	Barton, Nicholas H. #5,020	Universität Wien
12	New Zealand	9	7	1.4%	Drummond, Alexei J. #10,973	University of Otago
13	Norway	8	4	1.2%	Lande, Russell #2,673	Universitetet i Oslo
14	Netherlands	7	4	1.1%	Visser, Marcel E. #8,629	Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics - Amsterdam
15	Denmark	6	2	0.9%	Willerslev, Eske #20,011	Københavns Universitet
16	China	5	5	0.8%	Li, Dezhu #26,288	Kunming Institute of Botany
17	Israel	3	3	0.5%	Jablonka, Eva #29,230	Tel Aviv University
18	Hungary	3	2	0.5%	Szathmáry, Eörs #51,443	HUN-REN Centre for Ecological Research
19	Belgium	3	1	0.5%	Hardy, Olivier J. #57,504	Université Libre de Bruxelles
20	Finland	3	1	0.5%	Löytynoja, Ari P. #94,091	Helsingin Yliopisto
21	South Africa	2	1	0.3%	Johnson, Steven D. #15,404	University of KwaZulu-Natal
22	Poland	2	1	0.3%	Jasieńska, Grazyna #51,550	Jagiellonian University Medical College
23	Ireland	2	1	0.3%	Teeling, Emma C. #60,938	University College Dublin
24	Ecuador	1	1	0.2%	Jost, Lou #5,831	Fundación EcoMinga
25	Argentina	1	1	0.2%	Goloboff, Pablo A. #7,749	Fundacion Miguel Lillo
26	Taiwan	1	1	0.2%	Li, Wenhsiung #21,914	Academia Sinica, Biodiversity Research Center
27	Hong Kong	1	1	0.2%	Merilä, Juha A. #34,418	The University of Hong Kong
28	Thailand	1	1	0.2%	Quicke, Donald L.J. #89,653	Chulalongkorn University
29	Mexico	1	0	0.2%	Magallón, Susana #100,135	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
30	Portugal	1	0	0.2%	Pacheco, Jorge M. #116,761	Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores: Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa
31	Ethiopia	1	0	0.2%	Demissew, Sebsebe #119,370	Addis Ababa University
32	Brazil	1	0	0.2%	Werneck, F. P. #137,757	Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Da Amazonia
33	Italy	1	0	0.2%	Iamonico, Duilio #193,152	Sapienza Università di Roma
34	Kuwait	1	0	0.2%	Alhajeri, Bader H. #573,994	Kuwait University