Top countries for Forestry

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

781 researchers whose main subfield is Forestry 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 (167, 21.4%), followed by China (86) and Canada (74). 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 States1673121.4%Nowak, David J. #5,155USDA Forest Service
2 China861111.0%Wang, Shuangfei #23,873Nanjing Forestry University
3 Canada74149.5%Konijnendijk, Cecil C. #7,887The University of British Columbia
4 Finland4766.0%Hill, Callum Aidan Stephen #17,102Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke)
5 Germany46115.9%Pretzsch, Hans #1,448Technische Universität München
6 Spain3134.0%Camarero, Jesús Julio #10,274CSIC - Instituto de Ciencias Forestales (ICIFOR-INIA)
7 Sweden3154.0%Salmeń, Lennart #31,945Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
8 Australia3053.8%Forrester, David I. #5,160Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
9 Italy2523.2%Chirici, Gherardo #86,504Università degli Studi di Torino
10 France2242.8%Dupraz, Christian #38,411Université de Lorraine
11 Switzerland1712.2%Dobbertin, Matthias H. #69,109Eidgenössische Forschungsanstalt für Wald, Schnee und Landschaft WSL
12 Poland1411.8%Broda, Magdalena #54,645Uniwersytet Rolniczy im. Hugona Kołłątaja w Krakowie
13 Slovenia1401.8%Čufar, Katarina #138,383Univerza v Ljubljani
14 United Kingdom1111.4%Leakey, Roger R.B. #92,834Forest Research
15 Portugal1031.3%Pereira, Helena M. #16,139Centro de Estudos Florestais
16 India1021.3%Pandey, Krishna K. #20,948Institute of Wood Science and Technology (IWST), Bangalore
17 Austria1011.3%Jandl, Robert #92,854BOKU University
18 Netherlands931.2%Winkel, Georg #53,403Wageningen University & Research
19 Brazil911.2%Alvares, Clayton Alcarde #61,544Universidade Federal de Lavras
20 New Zealand811.0%Donaldson, Lloyd A. #28,664SCION
21 Japan811.0%Tsuchikawa, Satoru #74,861Nagoya University
22 Norway811.0%Sandberg, Dick #92,649Norges Miljø- og Biovitenskapelige Universitet
23 Czechia801.0%Svoboda, Miroslav #152,026Czech University of Life Sciences Prague
24 Türkiye720.9%Akpinar, Abdullah #67,161Kahramanmaras Sütçü Imam Üniversitesi
25 Indonesia600.8%Mwangi, Esther N. #182,121Center for International Forestry Research, West Java
26 Denmark520.6%Vesterdal, Lars #74,705Københavns Universitet
27 Greece500.6%Kamperidou, Vasiliki #134,773Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
28 Slovakia500.6%Jablonský, Michal #150,555Technická univerzita vo Zvolene
29 Malaysia500.6%Sreetheran, Maruthaveeran #177,760Universiti Putra Malaysia
30 South Korea500.6%Kang, Chunwon #224,947Korea University
31 Ethiopia410.5%Teketay, Demel #74,898Centre for International Forestry Research, Addis Ababa
32 Romania400.5%Bouriaud, Olivier B. #182,782Universitatea Transilvania din Brașov
33 Chile400.5%Dobbs, Cynnamon #199,182Universidad de los Andes, Chile
34 Hong Kong310.4%Jim, Chi Yung #1,890The Education University of Hong Kong
35 Estonia310.4%Stanturf, J. A. #75,765Eesti Maaülikool
36 Iran300.4%Kooch, Yahya #200,354Tarbiat Modares University
37 South Africa300.4%Sitholè, Bruce B. #322,359University of KwaZulu-Natal
38 Taiwan200.3%Chang, Shangtzen #105,600National Taiwan University
39 Hungary200.3%Mátyás, Csaba S. #204,439Soproni Egyetem
40 Nepal200.3%Pandey, Sudip #259,169Madan Bhandari University of Science and Technology
41 Belgium200.3%Beeckman, Hans #311,310Royal Museum for Central Africa
42 Argentina200.3%Area, Maria Cristina #318,515Instituto de Materiales de Misiones (IMAM)
43 Costa Rica100.1%Somarriba, Eduardo J. #143,800CATIE - Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza
44 Puerto Rico100.1%Parrotta, John A. #172,033USDA Forest Service International Institute of Tropical Forestry
45 Ukraine100.1%Bekhta, Pavlo #180,199Ukrainian National Forestry University
46 Burkina Faso100.1%Bayala, Jules #184,194CIFOR-ICRAF Sahel
47 Singapore100.1%Heinimann, Hans Rudolf #262,417Singapore-​ETH Centre
48 Pakistan100.1%Anees, Shoaib Ahmad #291,278The University of Agriculture Dera Ismail Khan
49 Mexico100.1%Sáenz-Romero, Cuauhtémoc #306,805Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo
50 Bangladesh100.1%Jahan, M. Sarwar #341,138Bangladesh Council of Scientific and industrial Research (BCSIR)
51 Thailand100.1%Pumijumnong, Nathsuda #356,011Faculty of Environment and Resource Studies, Mahidol University
52 Kenya100.1%Muthuri, Catherine #371,948World Agroforestry Centre
53 Ghana100.1%Nero, Bertrand Festus #383,716Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology
54 Russia100.1%Kirdyanov, Alexander V. #440,243Sukachev Institute of Forest of the Siberian Branch of the RAS
55 Iraq100.1%Al-Mayahi, Ahmed Madi Waheed #446,758University of Basrah
56 Cameroon100.1%Awazi, Nyong Princely #791,893University of Bamenda