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

1,854 researchers whose main subfield is General Physics 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 (527, 28.4%), followed by China (237) and Germany (155). 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	527	197	28.4%	Preskill, John P. #199	Google LLC
2	China	237	53	12.8%	Pan, Jianwei #1,351	University of Science and Technology of China
3	Germany	155	49	8.4%	Plenio, Martin B. #1,388	Freie Universität Berlin
4	United Kingdom	117	41	6.3%	Pirandola, Stefano #2,312	University of Oxford
5	Japan	105	35	5.7%	Bliokh, Konstantin #2,369	The University of Tokyo
6	Italy	65	20	3.5%	Giovannetti, Vittorio #7,835	Università degli Studi di Milano
7	Canada	57	20	3.1%	Biamonte, J. D. #14,116	University of Waterloo
8	France	53	16	2.9%	Grover, Lov K. #4,024	Sorbonne Université
9	Spain	49	17	2.6%	Del Campo, A. #8,242	Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques
10	Switzerland	43	14	2.3%	Gisin, Nicolas #1,153	ETH Zürich
11	Austria	43	17	2.3%	Zeilinger, Anton #2,949	Universität Innsbruck
12	India	40	5	2.2%	Vickram, A. S. #1,141	Saveetha School of Engineering
13	Australia	33	14	1.8%	Wiseman, Howard M. #9,175	Monash University
14	Türkiye	24	8	1.3%	Inc, Mustafa #14,700	Firat Üniversitesi
15	Russia	22	3	1.2%	Volovik, Grigory E. #14,669	Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences
16	Israel	21	10	1.1%	Sompolinsky, Haim #18,773	Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
17	Poland	19	10	1.0%	Horodecki, Michał Ł. #7,536	Uniwersytet Gdański
18	Netherlands	18	6	1.0%	Terhal, Barbara Maria #4,189	Kavli Institute of Nanoscience Delft
19	Indonesia	16	1	0.9%	Jauhari, Wakhid Ahmad #68,729	Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember
20	South Korea	15	2	0.8%	Fischer, Uwe R. #75,698	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
21	Singapore	14	8	0.8%	Scarani, Valerio #12,878	National University of Singapore
22	Hong Kong	13	6	0.7%	Lo, Hoi Kwong #3,241	Chinese University of Hong Kong
23	Denmark	13	4	0.7%	Mølmer, Klaus #16,090	Niels Bohr Institutet
24	Sweden	13	3	0.7%	Tavakoli, Armin #50,067	Chalmers University of Technology
25	Pakistan	13	0	0.7%	Rehman, Hamood Ur #107,010	University of the Punjab
26	Iraq	9	0	0.5%	Khashan, Khawla S. #112,815	University of Technology- Iraq
27	Czechia	8	1	0.4%	Fiurášek, Jaromír Ír #86,696	Palacký University Olomouc
28	Ireland	8	3	0.4%	Woerner, Stefan #91,028	IBM Research Europe, Ireland
29	Brazil	8	0	0.4%	Adhikari, Sadhan K. #117,484	Universidade Federal Fluminense
30	Azerbaijan	7	3	0.4%	Manafian, Jalil #24,064	Institute of Physics Ministry of Science and Education of the Republic of Azerbaijan
31	Egypt	7	2	0.4%	Aly, Arafa H. #62,804	College of Science, Ain Shams University
32	Saudi Arabia	6	3	0.3%	R Seadawy, Aly Ramadan #4,708	College of Sciences
33	Finland	6	1	0.3%	Törmä, Päivi #10,391	Aalto University
34	Belgium	6	4	0.3%	Cerf, Nicolas J. #29,468	Université Libre de Bruxelles
35	Iran	5	1	0.3%	Ghanbari, Behzad #19,731	Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics, Tehran
36	New Zealand	5	3	0.3%	Gardiner, C. W. #44,754	University of Otago
37	United Arab Emirates	5	0	0.3%	Byrnes, Tim M.R. #116,368	Technology Innovation Institute
38	Malaysia	5	0	0.3%	Bin Ab Hamid, Mohd Rashid #155,979	Universiti Malaysia Pahang Al-Sultan Abdullah
39	Slovenia	4	2	0.2%	Prosen, Tomaž #4,482	Univerza v Ljubljani
40	Greece	4	0	0.2%	Paspalakis, Emmanuel #148,894	University of Crete
41	Taiwan	4	0	0.2%	Zhang, Wei Min #228,520	Academia Sinica, Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences
42	Bulgaria	3	1	0.2%	Vitanov, Nikolay V. #46,813	Faculty Of Physics At Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski
43	Slovakia	3	0	0.2%	Bužek, Vladimír #151,056	Institute of Electrical Engineering Slovak Academy of Sciences
44	South Africa	2	1	0.1%	Schuld, Maria #17,288	University of Johannesburg
45	Nigeria	2	1	0.1%	Sulaıman, Tukur Abdulkadir #93,427	Federal University Dutse
46	Lithuania	2	0	0.1%	Hamedi, Hamid Reza #192,700	Teorinės Fizikos ir Astronomijos Institutas
47	Uzbekistan	2	0	0.1%	Abdullaev, Fatkhulla Kh #265,370	Physical-Technical Institute Uzbekistan
48	Argentina	2	0	0.1%	Budini, Adrián A. #330,363	Centro Atomico Bariloche
49	Portugal	1	1	0.1%	Konotop, Vladimir V. #54,112	Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa
50	Bosnia & Herzegovina	1	1	0.1%	Milosevic, D. B. #90,842	Univerzitet u Sarajevu
51	Sri Lanka	1	1	0.1%	Mathanaranjan, Thilagarajah #98,678	University of Jaffna
52	Bahrain	1	0	0.1%	Abdel-Aty, Mahmoud A. #101,557	Ahlia University
53	Vietnam	1	0	0.1%	Boninsegni, Massimo #131,671	Phenikaa University
54	Jordan	1	0	0.1%	Zeidan, Dia #132,128	German Jordanian University
55	Philippines	1	0	0.1%	Dizon, John Ryan Cortez #149,870	Bataan Peninsula State University
56	Ukraine	1	0	0.1%	Ivanov, B. O. #164,006	V.G. Baryakhtar Institute of Magnetism of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
57	Hungary	1	0	0.1%	Vértesi, Tamás #207,880	HUN-REN Institute for Nuclear Research
58	Chile	1	0	0.1%	Walborn, Stephen P. #210,064	Universidad de Concepcion
59	Palestine	1	0	0.1%	Asad, Jihad H. #287,215	Palestine Technical University - Kadoorie
60	Cyprus	1	0	0.1%	Kontomaris, Stylianos Vasileios #302,396	European University Cyprus
61	North Macedonia	1	0	0.1%	Janev, Ratko K. #323,166	Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts
62	Tunisia	1	0	0.1%	Neffati, R. #354,144	Université de Tunis El Manar
63	Algeria	1	0	0.1%	Belhachi, S. #503,581	Centre Universitaire Salhi Ahmed -Naama