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Which countries have the most top-cited scientists in Experimental Psychology?

1,103 researchers whose main subfield is Experimental Psychology 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 (528, 47.9%), followed by the United Kingdom (145) and Germany (72). 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	528	509	47.9%	Gross, James J. #11	Stanford University
2	United Kingdom	145	143	13.1%	Spence, C. J. #250	University of Cambridge
3	Germany	72	70	6.5%	Gigerenzer, Gerd #1,187	Universität Potsdam
4	Canada	71	71	6.4%	Bialystok, Ellen #852	University of Toronto
5	Australia	49	47	4.4%	Lewandowsky, Stephan #1,241	UNSW Sydney
6	Netherlands	39	34	3.5%	Wagenmakers, Eric Jan M. #587	Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
7	Italy	28	27	2.5%	Gallese, Vittorio #1,970	Università degli Studi di Padova
8	France	26	23	2.4%	Dehaene, Stanislas #526	Institut Jean Nicod
9	Israel	18	14	1.6%	Tversky, Amos #240	Hebrew University of Jerusalem
10	Belgium	18	17	1.6%	Brysbaert, Marc #601	Universiteit Gent
11	Switzerland	13	10	1.2%	Oberauer, Klaus #2,989	Université de Genève
12	Austria	13	13	1.2%	Fitch, William Tecumseh S. #6,221	Central European University
13	Spain	13	13	1.2%	Simonsohn, Uri #8,736	BCBL – Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language
14	Sweden	11	9	1.0%	Juslin, Patrik N. #15,778	Uppsala Universitet
15	China	9	9	0.8%	Hommel, Bernhard #3,267	Shandong Normal University
16	Denmark	6	5	0.5%	Berntsen, Dorthe #15,361	Aarhus Universitet
17	Finland	6	6	0.5%	Hyönä, Jukka #45,736	Turun yliopisto
18	Norway	5	5	0.5%	Koelsch, Stefan #2,714	Universitetet i Bergen
19	New Zealand	4	4	0.4%	Corballis, Michael C. #14,342	University of Auckland
20	Hong Kong	4	4	0.4%	Yeung, Michael K. #43,596	The Education University of Hong Kong
21	Ireland	3	3	0.3%	Robertson, Ian H. #27,025	Trinity College Dublin
22	South Africa	3	1	0.3%	Solms, Mark Leonard #30,543	University of Cape Town
23	Japan	3	2	0.3%	Lau, Hakwan C. #39,180	RIKEN Center for Brain Science
24	Poland	3	2	0.3%	Thierry, Guillaume L. #77,526	Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
25	Hungary	2	2	0.2%	Winkler, István #60,980	HUN-REN Research Centre for Natural Sciences
26	Russia	1	1	0.1%	Ardila, Alfredo E. #19,766	Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University
27	Liberia	1	1	0.1%	Carruthers, Peter #21,745	University of Maryland
28	Czechia	1	1	0.1%	Hugdahl, Kenneth #24,592	Institute of Computer Science of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
29	Lebanon	1	1	0.1%	Dietrich, Arne #28,775	American University of Beirut
30	Taiwan	1	1	0.1%	Chao, Chengmin #33,311	National Taichung University of Science and Technology
31	Singapore	1	1	0.1%	Kozhevnikov, Maria #55,861	National University of Singapore
32	Egypt	1	1	0.1%	Kellogg, Ronald T. #67,236	Saint Louis University
33	Colombia	1	1	0.1%	Lindsay, D. Stephen #74,649	University of Victoria
34	South Korea	1	1	0.1%	Kim, Hongkeun #78,287	Daegu University
35	United Arab Emirates	1	1	0.1%	Melcher, David Paul #98,970	NYU Abu Dhabi
36	Iceland	1	0	0.1%	Kristjánsson, Árni Kjalar #136,246	Haskoli Islands