Top countries for Geological & Geomatics Engineering

Which countries have the most top-cited scientists in Geological & Geomatics Engineering?

1,733 researchers whose main subfield is Geological & Geomatics Engineering are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list. China has the most (644, 37.2%), followed by the United States (310) and Australia (77). 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 China64438037.2%Zhang, Liangpei #803Wuhan University
2 United States31022417.9%Gitelson, Anatoly A. #620University of Maryland, College Park
3 Australia77524.4%Pradhan, Biswajeet K. #319University of Technology Sydney
4 Canada75454.3%Chen, Jing M. #2,651The University of British Columbia
5 United Kingdom73524.2%Foody, Giles M. #1,148Imperial College London
6 India52293.0%Samui, P. #5,948Indian Institute of Science
7 Italy48272.8%Vivone, Gemine #2,966Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
8 Germany44262.5%Pebesma, Edzer #1,988Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR)
9 Hong Kong37302.1%Gong, Peng #1,268The University of Hong Kong
10 France35212.0%Cui, Yujun #10,152Université de Toulouse
11 Netherlands33271.9%Helbich, Marco #8,092Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation – ITC
12 Japan29191.7%Estoque, Ronald C. #10,255RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project
13 Spain27231.6%Camps-Valls, Gustau #3,581Universitat de València
14 Iran25131.4%Sharifi, Alireza #10,989Tarbiat Modares University
15 Türkiye21161.2%Kutlug Sahin, Emrehan Kutluğ #12,822Hacettepe Üniversitesi
16 Belgium1550.9%Vanhellemont, Quinten #11,529Universiteit Gent
17 Switzerland1590.9%Laloui, Lyesse #14,950Gamma Remote Sensing
18 South Korea1480.8%Saro, Lee M. #2,934Sejong University
19 Austria1280.7%Blaschke, Thomas #2,587TU Wien
20 Singapore12100.7%Phoon, Kok Kwang #3,682National University of Singapore
21 Norway1190.6%Barton, Nicholas R.E. #3,300Norges Geotekniske Institutt
22 Sweden1070.6%Jing, Lanru #19,035The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
23 Saudi Arabia960.5%Santamarina, Carlos J. #8,158King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
24 Finland740.4%Zhang, Zongxian #25,379Oulun Yliopisto
25 Greece660.3%Gazetas, George C. #6,499National Technical University of Athens (NTUA)
26 Thailand650.3%Horpibulsuk, S. #11,866Suranaree University of Technology
27 Taiwan630.3%Juang, Charnghsein #19,874National Central University
28 Vietnam530.3%Pham, Binh Thai #5,427Đại học Công nghệ Giao thông vận tải
29 Portugal530.3%Jose M., Bioucas-Dias Manuel #6,180Instituto Superior Técnico
30 Denmark550.3%Fensholt, R. #9,595Københavns Universitet
31 Brazil540.3%Consoli, Nilo Cesar #25,277Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
32 Egypt520.3%Youssef, Ahmed Mohamed #47,556Tanta University
33 Malaysia520.3%Low, Bakkong #52,259Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
34 Ireland430.2%Brunsdon, Chris F. #22,203Maynooth University
35 South Africa430.2%Mutanga, Onisimo #29,457University of KwaZulu-Natal
36 Iraq430.2%Mohammadi, Mokhtar #60,485Lebanese French University
37 Poland410.2%Nitka, Michał #97,902Gdańsk University of Technology
38 Israel320.2%Ben-Dor, Eyal #23,145Tel Aviv University
39 United Arab Emirates310.2%Chakrabortty, Rabin #70,680American University of Sharjah
40 Iceland220.1%Ghamisi, Pedram #8,321Haskoli Islands
41 Romania210.1%Costache, Romulus #9,897Danube Delta National Institute for Research and Development, Tulcea
42 Kazakhstan210.1%Yagiz, Saffet #18,736Nazarbayev University
43 Nigeria210.1%Lawal, Abiodun Ismail #55,799Federal University of Technology, Akure
44 Russia200.1%Florinsky, Igor V. #102,556Institute of Mathematical Problems of Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences
45 Indonesia200.1%Wicaksono, Pramaditya #129,362Universitas Gadjah Mada
46 Estonia110.1%Kutser, Tiit #20,558Tartu Ülikool
47 Czechia110.1%Mašín, David #33,808Charles University
48 New Zealand110.1%Gao, Jay #44,414Faculty of Science
49 Cyprus110.1%Agapiou, A. #50,683Cyprus University of Technology
50 Bangladesh110.1%Chowdhury, Md Sharafat #54,731Jahangirnagar University
51 Mexico110.1%Mas-Caussel, Jean F. #72,847UNAM Campus Morelia
52 Botswana110.1%Ouma, Yashon O. #73,789University of Botswana
53 Croatia110.1%Gašparović, Mateo #85,085Sveučilište u Zagrebu, Geodetski fakultet
54 North Macedonia110.1%Mickovski, Slobodan B. #95,591Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje
55 Macao110.1%Zhou, Wanhuan #97,794University of Macau
56 Syria110.1%Habib, Maan #98,875Al-Sham Private University
57 Kuwait100.1%Mansour, S. A. #104,527Kuwait University
58 Hungary100.1%Vásárhelyi, Balázs #119,759Budapest University of Technology and Economics
59 Slovakia100.1%Vojtek, Matej #127,251Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra
60 Morocco100.1%Chehbouni, Abdelghani #132,267Mohammed VI Polytechnic University
61 Ukraine100.1%Kussul, Nataliia M. #138,271National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”