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Which countries have the most top-cited scientists in General Chemistry?

1,215 researchers whose main subfield is General Chemistry 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 (376, 30.9%), followed by China (286) and Japan (102). 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	376	97	30.9%	Yaghi, Omar M. #73	Northwestern University
2	China	286	29	23.5%	Peng, Xiaogang #5,815	Shanghai Jiao Tong University
3	Japan	102	13	8.4%	Kudo, Akihiko #5,515	The University of Tokyo
4	India	44	4	3.6%	Banerjee, Rahul #8,984	Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata
5	Egypt	34	2	2.8%	Abdel-Shafy, Hussein #43,948	National Research Centre
6	South Korea	33	2	2.7%	Nam, Wonwoo #12,880	Seoul National University
7	United Kingdom	28	3	2.3%	de Visser, Sam P. #30,921	University of Cambridge
8	Germany	27	0	2.2%	Bursch, Markus #112,238	Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion
9	Saudi Arabia	25	5	2.1%	Shah, Syed Shaheen #14,461	King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
10	Switzerland	22	7	1.8%	Wenger, Oliver S. #4,458	ETH Zürich
11	France	22	3	1.8%	Costentin, Cyrille #9,148	Université de Strasbourg
12	Pakistan	22	1	1.8%	Bhatti, Haq Nawaz #51,722	Government College University Faisalabad
13	Iran	19	1	1.6%	Saboury, Ali Akbar #30,553	Islamic Azad University
14	Canada	17	2	1.4%	Ingold, Keith U. #54,863	University of Ottawa
15	Italy	14	3	1.2%	Balzani, Vincenzo C. #25,934	Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna
16	Spain	12	0	1.0%	Casado, Juan #124,486	Universidad de Málaga
17	Singapore	10	0	0.8%	Tao, Shanshan #186,833	National University of Singapore
18	Sweden	8	2	0.7%	Hammarström, Leif #51,295	Ångströmlaboratoriet
19	Indonesia	8	0	0.7%	Darmokoesoemo, Handoko #263,532	Universitas Gadjah Mada
20	Israel	7	2	0.6%	Shaik, Sason S. #4,172	Weizmann Institute of Science Israel
21	Iraq	7	1	0.6%	Alshamsi, Hassan Abbas Habeeb #90,360	University of Al-Qadisiyah
22	Austria	7	0	0.6%	Kräutler, Bernhard #117,396	Universität Wien
23	South Africa	7	0	0.6%	Odularu, Ayodele Temidayo #132,375	University of Johannesburg
24	Romania	7	0	0.6%	Roman, Gheorghe #213,805	Petru Poni Institute of Macromolecular chemistry
25	Russia	7	0	0.6%	Aldoshin, Sergei M. #247,983	Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics of Russian Academy of Sciences
26	Australia	7	0	0.6%	Chen, Lijun #296,490	The Australian National University
27	Netherlands	6	2	0.5%	Meijer, E. W. #37,392	Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
28	Hong Kong	5	0	0.4%	Zhao, Xueze #208,413	The University of Hong Kong
29	Türkiye	5	0	0.4%	Ertürk, Ali Serol #387,348	Adiyaman Üniversitesi
30	Ethiopia	4	1	0.3%	Gebre, Shushay Hagos #84,233	Jigjiga University
31	Nigeria	4	0	0.3%	Anadebe, Valentine Chikaodili #141,604	Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu-Alike
32	Malaysia	4	0	0.3%	Lutfor, Md Rahman #201,074	Universiti Malaysia Sabah
33	Belgium	4	0	0.3%	Glaser, Felix #249,983	UCLouvain
34	Czechia	2	1	0.2%	Michl, Josef J. #53,711	Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
35	Morocco	2	0	0.2%	Merroun, Youssef #446,211	Faculty of Science, Ibn Tofail University
36	Croatia	2	0	0.2%	Miličević, A. #535,639	Institut za Medicinska Istrazivanja i Medicinu Rada
37	Sri Lanka	2	0	0.2%	Alahakoon, Sampath B. #583,067	University of Peradeniya
38	Vietnam	1	0	0.1%	Nguyen, Van Nghia #109,147	Hanoi University of Science and Technology
39	Bangladesh	1	0	0.1%	Ahmed, Yunus #238,300	Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology
40	Philippines	1	0	0.1%	Regulacio, Michelle D. #341,178	Institute of Chemistry, College of Science, University of the Philippines, Diliman
41	United Arab Emirates	1	0	0.1%	Azhar, Umair #357,229	American University of Sharjah
42	Slovakia	1	0	0.1%	Sǐma, Jozef #367,535	Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava
43	Nepal	1	0	0.1%	Parajuli, Niranjan #379,625	Tribhuvan University
44	Tunisia	1	0	0.1%	Srasra, Ezzeddine #404,455	Centre National de Recherches en Sciences des Matériaux
45	Ireland	1	0	0.1%	Sarkar, Shaheen M. #408,248	Technological University of the Shannon: Midlands Midwest (TUS)
46	Brunei	1	0	0.1%	Rahman, Ashmalina #444,580	Universiti Brunei Darussalam
47	Poland	1	0	0.1%	Srebro-Hooper, Monika #451,569	Uniwersytet Jagielloński
48	Yemen	1	0	0.1%	Al-Fakeh, Maged S. #484,923	Taiz University
49	Jordan	1	0	0.1%	Alaqarbeh, Marwa #532,357	The University of Jordan
50	Oman	1	0	0.1%	Mohd, Ayaz #561,892	University of Technology and Applied Sciences Sur
51	Chile	1	0	0.1%	Contreras, David R. #578,626	Universidad de Concepcion
52	Serbia	1	0	0.1%	Marinkovic̈, Aleksandar D. #592,873	University of Belgrade Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy
53	Denmark	1	0	0.1%	Wegeberg, Christina #609,510	Syddansk Universitet
54	Bulgaria	1	0	0.1%	Sapundzhi, Fatima I. #1,131,030	South-West University Neofit Rilski