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Which countries have the most top-cited scientists in Human Factors?

336 researchers whose main subfield is Human Factors 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 (204, 60.7%), followed by the United Kingdom (37) and Canada (17). 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	204	143	60.7%	Endsley, Mica R. #737	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
2	United Kingdom	37	19	11.0%	Reason, James T. #4,617	University of Northumbria
3	Canada	17	12	5.1%	Nacke, Lennart E. #18,557	University of Toronto
4	Germany	13	7	3.9%	Hassenzahl, Marc #7,501	Universität Siegen
5	Australia	10	7	3.0%	Hollnagel, Erik #3,654	Queensland University of Technology
6	Denmark	9	7	2.7%	Hornbaek, Kasper #13,989	Aarhus Universitet
7	Sweden	6	5	1.8%	Bardzell, Shaowen #10,852	Malmö Universitet
8	South Korea	5	4	1.5%	Sundar, S. Shyam #920	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
9	Netherlands	5	4	1.5%	Dul, Jan #2,560	Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
10	China	5	3	1.5%	Qu, Xingda #24,010	Shenzhen University
11	Austria	3	2	0.9%	Spiel, Katta #20,096	TU Wien
12	Finland	3	3	0.9%	Oulasvirta, Antti #24,968	Aalto University
13	Hong Kong	3	3	0.9%	Kim, Ki Joon #39,004	City University of Hong Kong
14	France	3	1	0.9%	MacKay, Wendy E. #76,426	Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Sciences du Numérique
15	Italy	2	2	0.6%	Giaccardi, Elisa #42,131	Politecnico di Milano
16	Japan	2	1	0.6%	Rekimoto, Junichi #60,698	Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc.
17	Spain	2	1	0.6%	Marzo, Asier #81,378	Universidad Pública de Navarra (UPNA)
18	Singapore	1	1	0.3%	Lee, Kwan Min #17,990	Nanyang Technological University
19	New Zealand	1	1	0.3%	Lovreglio, Ruggiero #67,952	Massey University Auckland
20	Norway	1	1	0.3%	Rundmo, Torbjörn #72,440	Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet
21	Israel	1	1	0.3%	Tractinsky, Noam #76,424	Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
22	Switzerland	1	1	0.3%	Holz, Christian #97,030	ETH Zürich
23	Brazil	1	0	0.3%	Saurin, Tarcisio Abreu #100,641	Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
24	South Africa	1	0	0.3%	Thatcher, Andrew #130,421	University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg