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Which countries have the most top-cited scientists in Immunology?

3,650 researchers whose main subfield is Immunology 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 (1,700, 46.6%), followed by Germany (275) and the United Kingdom (251). 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	1,700	894	46.6%	Medzhitov, Ruslan M. #166	Harvard Medical School
2	Germany	275	120	7.5%	Murray, Peter J. #919	Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
3	United Kingdom	251	120	6.9%	Gabrilovich, Dmitry I. #688	Imperial College London
4	Italy	183	72	5.0%	Mantovani, Alberto R. #328	Università degli Studi di Pavia
5	France	162	76	4.4%	Kroemer, Guido #62	Université Paris Cité
6	China	141	47	3.9%	Sun, Shaocong #1,597	Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology
7	Japan	129	50	3.5%	Akira, Shizuo #430	Graduate School of Medicine
8	Australia	123	51	3.4%	Man, Si Ming #5,392	University of Melbourne
9	Netherlands	90	34	2.5%	Netea, Mihai Gheorghe #673	Leids Universitair Medisch Centrum
10	Canada	80	38	2.2%	Kubes, Paul #3,523	University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine
11	Switzerland	65	34	1.8%	Broz, Petr #4,435	Universität Zürich
12	Spain	43	19	1.2%	Campo, Elías #9,243	Hospital Clínic de Barcelona
13	Sweden	41	14	1.1%	Henter, Jan Inge #10,556	Karolinska Institutet
14	Belgium	33	15	0.9%	Lambrecht, Bart Norbert #4,445	Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie
15	Israel	29	14	0.8%	Elinav, Eran #4,987	Weizmann Institute of Science Israel
16	Austria	28	11	0.8%	Smyth, Mark J. #5,669	Medizinische Universität Wien
17	South Korea	27	8	0.7%	Karki, Rajendra #17,779	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
18	Ireland	18	8	0.5%	O’Neill, Luke A. #461	Trinity College Dublin
19	Denmark	18	11	0.5%	Mogensen, Trine Hyrup #9,154	Aarhus Universitet
20	India	18	6	0.5%	Kondreddy, Vijay Kumar Reddy #20,774	All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
21	Poland	16	8	0.4%	Szukiewicz, Dariusz #12,411	Maria Sklodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology
22	Singapore	15	11	0.4%	Ginhoux, Florent #3,745	Duke-NUS Medical School
23	Brazil	15	4	0.4%	Teixeira, Mauro Martins #58,701	Universidade de São Paulo
24	Greece	14	4	0.4%	Dimopoulos, Meletios Athanasios #6,240	School of Medicine
25	Iran	13	6	0.4%	Rezaei, Nima A. #2,363	Tehran University of Medical Sciences
26	Saudi Arabia	12	4	0.3%	Allemailem, Khaled S. #20,727	Qassim University
27	Norway	10	5	0.3%	Brandtzaeg, Per #12,766	Universitetet i Oslo
28	Finland	9	1	0.2%	Meri, Seppo K. #79,719	Lääketieteellinen Tiedekunta
29	Portugal	8	3	0.2%	Veldhoen, Marc #33,617	Instituto Gulbenkian de Medicina Molecular
30	Czechia	7	2	0.2%	Hrncir, Tomas #53,836	Institute of Microbiology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
31	Taiwan	6	2	0.2%	Gordon, Siamon #1,278	Chang Gung University College of Medicine
32	Hong Kong	6	3	0.2%	Mak, Tak Wah #6,619	The University of Hong Kong Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine
33	United Arab Emirates	6	2	0.2%	Maghazachi, Azzam #48,937	University of Sharjah
34	Russia	5	2	0.1%	Kzhyshkowska, Julia G. #40,252	Tomsk State University
35	Hungary	4	4	0.1%	Búzás, Edit Irén #3,293	Általános Orvostudományi Kar
36	Lebanon	3	2	0.1%	Taher, Ali T. #32,914	American University of Beirut
37	New Zealand	3	2	0.1%	Bhatia, Madhav #56,204	University of Otago, Christchurch
38	Türkiye	3	1	0.1%	Gunaydin, Gurcan #66,376	Hacettepe Üniversitesi
39	Kuwait	3	1	0.1%	Raghupathy, Raj Gopal #86,502	Kuwait University
40	South Africa	3	1	0.1%	Scriba, Thomas Jens #97,871	South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative
41	Chile	3	0	0.1%	Kalergis, Alexis Mikes #100,211	Escuela de Medicina
42	Egypt	3	0	0.1%	Salem, Mohamed Labib #130,998	Tanta University
43	Malaysia	3	0	0.1%	Wong, Won Fen #138,663	Universiti Malaya
44	Mexico	2	1	0.1%	Rosales, Carlos #13,335	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
45	Argentina	2	1	0.1%	Rabinovich, Gabriel Adrián #19,103	Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
46	Pakistan	2	0	0.1%	Malik, Shiza #105,437	Bridging Health Foundation
47	Thailand	2	0	0.1%	Dunachie, Susanna J. #109,356	Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University
48	Puerto Rico	2	0	0.1%	Pidala, Joseph A. #130,668	Moffitt Cancer Center
49	Liberia	1	1	0.0%	Metcalfe, Dean Darrel #24,808	NIH
50	Colombia	1	1	0.0%	Anaya, Juan Manuel #34,131	Universidad de la Costa
51	Cyprus	1	1	0.0%	Kontoghiorghes, George J. #52,735	Postgraduate Research Institute of Science, Technology, Environment and Medicine Limassol
52	Iceland	1	1	0.0%	Kristinsson, Sigurdur Yngvi #63,060	Landspitali - The National University Hospital of Iceland
53	Bangladesh	1	1	0.0%	Rahman, Mahbuba #77,997	North South University
54	Luxembourg	1	0	0.0%	Brenner, Dirk #106,300	University of Luxembourg
55	Jamaica	1	0	0.0%	Serjeant, Graham Roger #131,442	The University of the West Indies Mona Campus
56	Palestine	1	0	0.0%	Behrens, Edward M. #153,074	Division of Rheumatology
57	Qatar	1	0	0.0%	Al-Khodor, Souhaila #155,033	Sidra Medicine
58	Macao	1	0	0.0%	Chen, Xin #166,745	University of Macau
59	Ethiopia	1	0	0.0%	Shibabaw, Tewodros #172,564	University of Gondar
60	Sri Lanka	1	0	0.0%	Malavige, Gathsauri Neelika #175,328	University of Sri Jayawardenapure
61	Morocco	1	0	0.0%	Bousfiha, Ahmed Aziz #202,329	Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Ibn Rochd
62	Tanzania	1	0	0.0%	Makani, Julie B. #223,089	Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences
63	Croatia	1	0	0.0%	Jonjic̈, Stipan #236,883	Faculty of Medicine, University of Rijeka
64	Estonia	1	0	0.0%	Peterson, Pärt #259,259	Tartu Ülikool