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

408 researchers whose main subfield is Finance 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 (213, 52.2%), followed by the United Kingdom (26) and China (20). 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 States21321352.2%Fama, Eugene F. #323National Bureau of Economic Research
2 United Kingdom26266.4%Edmans, Alex #1,514Centre for Economic Policy Research, London
3 China20204.9%Zhang, Dongyang #443Capital University of EcoNomics and Business
4 France15153.7%Boubaker, Sabri #14,745INSEAD, Europe
5 Canada14143.4%El Ghoul, Sadok #14,696University of Toronto
6 Australia12122.9%Baur, Dirk G. #7,683The UWA Business School
7 Switzerland11112.7%Stahel, Walter R. #15,630Universität Zürich
8 United Arab Emirates10102.5%Naeem, Muhammad Abubakr #4,912United Arab Emirates University
9 Germany882.0%Laeven, Luc #4,315Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
10 Hong Kong661.5%Michael, Firth A. #16,899Lingnan University, Hong Kong
11 Vietnam431.0%Vo, Xuan Vinh #3,597University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City
12 Netherlands441.0%Renneboog, Luc D.R. #20,449Tilburg University
13 Ghana441.0%Abor, Joshua Yindenaba #24,350University of Ghana Business School
14 Singapore441.0%Agarwal, Sumit #27,916Nanyang Business School
15 India441.0%Pandey, Dharen Kumar #35,275Indian Institute of Management Sambalpur
16 Greece441.0%Chatziantoniou, Ioannis #41,429University of Thessaly
17 Italy330.7%Beck, Thorsten #716European University Institute, San Domenico di Fiesole
18 Ireland330.7%Lucey, Brian M. #7,685DCU Business School
19 Saudi Arabia320.7%Yousaf, Imran #9,058Prince Sultan University
20 Morocco330.7%Benlemlih, Mohammed #21,340International University of Rabat
21 Israel330.7%Avramov, Doron #45,504Reichman University
22 Denmark220.5%Pedersen, Lasse Heje #5,994Copenhagen Business School
23 Türkiye220.5%Karim, Sitara #14,397Arkin University of Creative Arts and Design
24 Sweden220.5%Giannetti, Mariassunta #15,541Handelshögskolan i Stockholm
25 Norway220.5%Shakil, Mohammad Hassan #30,310Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet
26 South Korea220.5%Choi, Sun-yong #31,345Gachon University
27 Portugal220.5%Ferreira, Miguel A. #43,537Nova School of Business and Economics, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
28 Poland220.5%Zaremba, Adam #52,062Poznań University of Economics and Business
29 Belgium220.5%Deloof, Marc #52,807Universiteit Antwerpen
30 Nigeria110.2%Ozili, Peterson K. #851Central Bank of Nigeria
31 Lebanon110.2%Bouri, Elie I. #867Lebanese American University
32 New Zealand110.2%Gabauer, David #5,141Lincoln University
33 Spain110.2%Vidal-Tomás, David #29,945Universidad Jaume I
34 Cambodia110.2%Van Nieuwerburgh, Stijn G. #31,788Columbia University Graduate School of Business
35 Kuwait110.2%Roubaud, David #35,901Gulf University for Science and Technology Kuwait
36 Iceland110.2%Demir, Ender #36,432Reykjavík University
37 Thailand110.2%Treepongkaruna, Sirimon #37,456Sasin School of Management, Bangkok
38 Macao110.2%(Wai Kong) Cheung, Adrian (Wai Kong) #37,463City University of Macau
39 Taiwan110.2%Hsu, Po Hsuan #38,532National Tsing Hua University
40 Chile110.2%Fernandez, Viviana P. #65,972Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez
41 Egypt110.2%Ahmed, Walid M.A. #82,556Ain Shams University
42 Finland110.2%Bossman, Ahmed #83,682LUT University
43 Malaysia110.2%Abdullah, Mohammad #90,995Universiti Putra Malaysia
44 Bangladesh110.2%Hoque, Mohammad Enamul #97,443BRAC University
45 Qatar110.2%Ben-Nasr, Hamdi #99,407Qatar University
46 Japan100.2%Kanamura, Takashi #117,666Graduate School of Advanced Integrated Studies in Human Survivability
47 Yemen100.2%Saif-Alyousfi, Abdulazeez Y.H. #120,825Taiz University