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

1,037 researchers whose main subfield is Fisheries 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 (204, 19.7%), followed by China (185) and Canada (71). 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	204	51	19.7%	Bennett, Nathan J. #1,774	College of the Environment
2	China	185	24	17.8%	Tocher, Douglas R. #3,179	Shanghai Ocean University
3	Canada	71	20	6.8%	Pauly, Daniel #755	The University of British Columbia
4	Norway	69	12	6.7%	Ringø, Einar #6,427	Havforskningsinstituttet
5	United Kingdom	55	13	5.3%	Jennings, Simon #16,554	University of Stirling
6	Australia	54	11	5.2%	Hobday, Alistair James #5,838	Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
7	Spain	35	6	3.4%	Tort, L. B. #21,256	Universidad de Murcia
8	Egypt	29	5	2.8%	Dawood, Mahmoud A.O. #1,077	Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
9	India	26	8	2.5%	Nayak, Sukanta Kumar #24,339	Manonmaniam Sundaranar University
10	France	25	3	2.4%	Gozlan, Rodolphe Elie #41,285	IFREMER Institut Francais de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer
11	Denmark	20	3	1.9%	Buchmann, Kurt #16,682	Technical University of Denmark
12	Iran	18	4	1.7%	Hossein Hoseinifar, Seyed Hossein #18,935	Iranian Fisheries Research Organization
13	Germany	17	4	1.6%	Froese, Rainer #5,036	Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries
14	Malaysia	17	3	1.6%	Allison, Edward Hugh #31,931	Universiti Malaysia Terengganu
15	Japan	17	2	1.6%	Tsukamoto, Katsumi #45,428	Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology
16	Sweden	16	1	1.5%	Troell, Max Fredrik #24,604	Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
17	Thailand	13	2	1.3%	Van Doan, Hien V. #21,884	Chulalongkorn University
18	Brazil	12	2	1.2%	Tacon, Albert G.J. #10,610	Universidade de São Paulo
19	Bangladesh	12	2	1.2%	Shahjahan, Md #56,805	Bangladesh Agricultural University
20	Netherlands	11	4	1.1%	Verdegem, Marc C.Jarc #29,738	Wageningen University & Research
21	Italy	11	1	1.1%	Carnevali, O. #86,960	Università Politecnica delle Marche
22	Taiwan	10	0	1.0%	Chen, Jiann Chu #124,000	National Pingtung University of Science and Technology
23	Portugal	8	1	0.8%	Oliva-Teles, A. #21,613	Universidade do Porto
24	Türkiye	8	2	0.8%	Yilmaz, Sevdan #31,228	Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart Üniversitesi
25	Belgium	7	2	0.7%	Bossier, Peter #68,806	Universiteit Gent
26	Mexico	7	0	0.7%	Martinez-Porchas, Marcel #163,867	Centro de Investigaciones Biologicas Del Noroeste
27	Israel	6	1	0.6%	Avnimelech, Yoram A. #31,557	Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
28	South Korea	6	2	0.6%	Kim, Jun-hwan #59,272	Jeju National University
29	Saudi Arabia	5	2	0.5%	Mansour, Abdallah Tageldein #68,187	King Faisal University
30	Ireland	5	2	0.5%	Hynes, Stephen #84,823	University of Galway
31	New Zealand	5	1	0.5%	Millar, Russell Brian #91,747	University of Auckland
32	Indonesia	5	0	0.5%	Islamy, R. Adharyan #109,476	Brawijaya University
33	Singapore	4	1	0.4%	Yue, Gen Hua #41,676	James Cook University, Singapore
34	Russia	4	1	0.4%	Yousefi, Morteza #90,603	RUDN University
35	Greece	4	0	0.4%	Stergiou, Konstantinos I. #157,098	Hellenic Centre for Marine Research
36	Poland	4	0	0.4%	Paszczyk, Beata #174,339	Uniwersytet Warminsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie
37	Iceland	3	2	0.3%	Campana, Steven E. #9,037	Haskoli Islands
38	Finland	3	1	0.3%	Lindholm-Lehto, Petra Camilla #83,472	Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke)
39	South Africa	3	0	0.3%	Dube, Edith #151,571	Walter Sisulu University
40	Nigeria	3	0	0.3%	Okafor-Yarwood, Ifesinachi #197,627	Member of the Governing Board
41	Chile	3	0	0.3%	Yáñez, José Manuel #207,144	Universidad de Chile
42	Czechia	3	0	0.3%	Cosson, Jacky J. #227,092	Jihočeská Univerzita v Českých Budějovicích
43	Hong Kong	2	1	0.2%	Sadovy, Yvonne J. #61,839	The University of Hong Kong, Swire Institute of Marine Science
44	Austria	2	0	0.2%	Lahnsteiner, Franz #110,967	Federal Agency for Water Management
45	Vietnam	2	0	0.2%	Nguyen, V. T. #385,090	Dại học Nguyen Tat Thanh
46	Tanzania	1	1	0.1%	Limbu, Samwel Mchele #64,369	University of Dar es Salaam
47	Ghana	1	1	0.1%	Amenyogbe, Eric #93,729	University of Environment and Sustainable Development
48	Estonia	1	0	0.1%	Ojaveer, Henn #201,665	Tartu Ülikooli Pärnu Kolledž
49	Philippines	1	0	0.1%	Caipang, Christopher Marlowe A. #223,497	University of the Philippines Visayas
50	Jamaica	1	0	0.1%	Hyslop, Eric Joseph #237,875	The Faculty of Science and Technology
51	Namibia	1	0	0.1%	Gabriel, Ndakalimwe Naftal #239,532	University of Namibia
52	Hungary	1	0	0.1%	Hancz, Csaba #334,428	Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences
53	Croatia	1	0	0.1%	Kovačić, Marcelo #501,870	Natural History Museum Rijeka