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Which countries have the most top-cited scientists in History of Science, Technology & Medicine?

69 researchers whose main subfield is History of Science, Technology & Medicine 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 (21, 30.4%), followed by the United Kingdom (17) and Germany (6). 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	21	1	30.4%	Shapin, Steven A. #30,177	Harvard University
2	United Kingdom	17	2	24.6%	Arnold, David #96,229	University College London
3	Germany	6	1	8.7%	Daston, Lorraine J. #24,851	Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
4	Australia	5	0	7.2%	Anderson, Warwick H. #108,819	The University of Sydney
5	France	5	0	7.2%	Raj, Kapil #109,892	Université Paris Cité
6	Canada	4	0	5.8%	Dyck, Erika #224,315	University of Saskatchewan
7	Spain	2	0	2.9%	Ignaciuk, Agata #437,706	Universidad de Granada
8	Denmark	1	0	1.4%	Kragh, Helge S. #138,214	Niels Bohr Institutet
9	Brazil	1	0	1.4%	Cueto, Marcos #196,125	Instituto Cayapiá de Defesa da Cultura e Conservação das Plantas Nativas Usadas pelo Povo Brasileiro
10	China	1	0	1.4%	Borowy, Iris #227,960	Shanghai University
11	Ireland	1	0	1.4%	Lu, Zhouxiang #398,202	Maynooth University
12	Czechia	1	0	1.4%	Lišková, Kateřina #462,095	Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
13	Norway	1	0	1.4%	Gradmann, Christoph #527,515	Universitetet i Oslo
14	Netherlands	1	0	1.4%	Van Der Veer, René #583,437	Universiteit Leiden
15	Italy	1	0	1.4%	Lippi, Donatella #607,289	Università degli Studi di Firenze, Facoltà di Medicina e Chirurgia
16	Philippines	1	0	1.4%	Aguilar, Filomeno V. #609,803	Ateneo de Manila University