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

1,671 researchers whose main subfield is General Mathematics 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 (508, 30.4%), followed by China (168) and France (129). 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	508	172	30.4%	Brézis, Haîm #1,780	University of California, Berkeley
2	China	168	42	10.1%	Gao, Xin Yi #4,243	Peking University
3	France	129	34	7.7%	Lions, Pierre Louis #832	Sorbonne Université
4	Italy	89	26	5.3%	Mainardi, Francesco #2,884	Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati
5	Germany	81	29	4.8%	Winkler, Michael #279	Universität Bonn
6	United Kingdom	77	25	4.6%	Atiyah, Michael F. #11,771	University of Oxford
7	Japan	49	15	2.9%	Sawano, Yoshihiro #31,492	The University of Tokyo
8	India	39	5	2.3%	Bhatia, Rajendra #23,159	Aligarh Muslim University
9	Spain	31	7	1.9%	Vázquez, Juan Luis #12,342	Universidad de Granada
10	Russia	31	4	1.9%	Zhikov, Vasiliǐ V. #46,094	Lomonosov Moscow State University
11	Türkiye	28	9	1.7%	Karapńar, Erdal #9,190	Düzce Üniversitesi
12	Saudi Arabia	26	5	1.6%	Samet, B. #22,527	College of Sciences
13	Canada	25	7	1.5%	Srivastava, Hari Mohan #1,883	University of Toronto
14	Israel	23	5	1.4%	Reich, Simeon #12,998	Hebrew University of Jerusalem
15	Australia	23	6	1.4%	Dragomir, S. S. #15,429	The Australian National University
16	Switzerland	17	6	1.0%	Weyl, Hermann #9,670	ETH Zürich
17	Poland	17	2	1.0%	Rădulescu, Vicenţiu D. #18,551	AGH University of Krakow
18	Hong Kong	16	9	1.0%	Smale, Stephen #16,272	Chinese University of Hong Kong
19	Jordan	16	3	1.0%	Kittaneh, Fuad #16,750	The University of Jordan
20	South Korea	16	6	1.0%	Das, Kinkar Chandra #22,417	Gyeongsang National University
21	Austria	15	5	0.9%	Constantin, Adrian #3,328	Universität Wien Institut für Mathematik
22	Brazil	14	4	0.8%	Alves, Claudianor Oliveira #17,508	Universidade Estadual de Campinas
23	Iran	13	2	0.8%	Jafari, Hossein #18,543	Imam Khomeini International University
24	Sweden	12	4	0.7%	Hörmander, Lars V. #15,818	The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
25	Romania	12	4	0.7%	Berinde, Vasile #18,971	Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai
26	Tunisia	12	1	0.7%	Aydi, Hassen #76,014	Faculté des Sciences de Monastir
27	Hungary	10	5	0.6%	Erdós, Paul #4,729	Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics
28	Serbia	9	3	0.5%	Gutman, Ivan #1,827	University of Niš
29	Finland	9	1	0.5%	Hästö, Peter A. #71,101	Helsingin Yliopisto
30	United Arab Emirates	8	3	0.5%	Agarwal, Praveen #30,346	University of Sharjah
31	Denmark	8	0	0.5%	Haagerup, Uffe #102,416	Københavns Universitet
32	Portugal	7	3	0.4%	Almeida, Ricardo #11,073	Universidade de Lisboa
33	Pakistan	7	2	0.4%	Noor, Muhammad Aslam #18,663	COMSATS University Islamabad
34	Egypt	7	1	0.4%	Youssri, Youssri Hassan #42,074	Cairo University
35	Belgium	7	2	0.4%	Schaftingen, Jean Van #60,227	UCLouvain
36	Netherlands	7	2	0.4%	van Benthem, Johan F.A.K. #65,898	Radboud Universiteit
37	Thailand	7	0	0.4%	Sintunavarat, Wutiphol #125,846	University of Phayao
38	Taiwan	6	2	0.4%	Liu, Taiping #37,721	National Taiwan University
39	Czechia	5	2	0.3%	Trojovský, Pavel #3,355	Charles University
40	Slovenia	5	2	0.3%	Brešar, Matej #27,839	Univerza v Ljubljani
41	Croatia	5	1	0.3%	Vukic̀ević, Damir #72,007	Faculty of Science, University of Split
42	Norway	5	0	0.3%	Auslander, Maurice #113,304	Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet
43	Slovakia	5	0	0.3%	Džurina, Jozef #124,467	Technická Univerzita v Košiciach
44	Greece	4	2	0.2%	Rassias, Th Michael #23,035	National Technical University of Athens (NTUA)
45	Iraq	4	1	0.2%	Ibrahim, Rabha W. #46,395	Al-Ayen Iraqi University, AUIQ
46	Oman	4	1	0.2%	Ben Makhlouf, Abdellatif #57,314	Sohar University
47	Uzbekistan	4	1	0.2%	Rozikov, Utkir A. #96,487	Institute of Mathematics Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences
48	Chile	4	0	0.2%	Lizama, Carlos #106,537	Universidad de Santiago de Chile
49	Azerbaijan	3	1	0.2%	Guliyev, Vagif Sabir #61,158	Baku State University
50	Ukraine	3	2	0.2%	Kochubeǐ, Anatoly N. #84,715	National Academy of Sciences in Ukraine, Institute of Mathematics
51	Colombia	3	1	0.2%	Rada, Juan #97,269	Universidad de Antioquia
52	Algeria	3	0	0.2%	Meftah, Badreddine #157,415	Université 8 Mai 1945 Guelma
53	Mexico	3	0	0.2%	Villarreal, R. H. #166,701	Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional
54	Vietnam	3	0	0.2%	Tuan, Nguyenhuy #169,730	Banking University of Ho Chi Minh City
55	Morocco	3	0	0.2%	Mahdou, Najib #304,680	Université Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah
56	Yemen	2	1	0.1%	Al-shami, T. M. #25,624	Sana'a University
57	Ireland	2	1	0.1%	O'Regan, Donal #33,666	University of Galway
58	Belarus	2	1	0.1%	Kilbas, Anatoly A. #36,039	Belarusian State University
59	Senegal	2	1	0.1%	Sene, Ndolane #46,212	Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar
60	South Africa	2	0	0.1%	Abbas, Mujahid #107,742	University of Johannesburg
61	Bulgaria	2	0	0.1%	Kiryakova, Virginia #124,494	The Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
62	Macao	2	0	0.1%	Qian, Tao #164,331	University of Macau
63	Singapore	2	0	0.1%	Gan, Wee Teck #218,943	National University of Singapore
64	Argentina	2	0	0.1%	Shmerkin, Pablo S. #227,844	Universidad Torcuato Di Tella
65	Cyprus	2	0	0.1%	Özarslan, Mehmet Ali #290,165	Faculty of Arts and Sciences
66	Kyrgyzstan	1	1	0.1%	Yavuz, Mehmet #59,012	Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University
67	Kuwait	1	1	0.1%	Sababheh, Mohammed S. #97,442	Abdullah Al Salem University
68	Estonia	1	0	0.1%	Vainikko, Gennadi M. #145,461	Tartu Ülikooli matemaatika ja statistika instituut
69	Indonesia	1	0	0.1%	Mawardi, Bahri #164,115	Hasanuddin University
70	New Zealand	1	0	0.1%	Downey, Rod Graham #216,977	Victoria University of Wellington
71	Kazakhstan	1	0	0.1%	Assanova, Anar Turmaganbetkyzy #226,021	Institute of Mathematics and Mathematical Modeling