Top countries for Industrial Engineering & Automation

Which countries have the most top-cited scientists in Industrial Engineering & Automation?

2,759 researchers whose main subfield is Industrial Engineering & Automation 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 (975, 35.3%), followed by the United States (544) and Italy (127). 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 China97536035.3%Duan, Guangren #494Beihang University
2 United States54426019.7%Lewis, Frank Leroy T. #829College of Engineering
3 Italy127454.6%Bemporad, Alberto #5,338Politecnico di Milano
4 Germany104393.8%Ding, Steven Xianchun #2,943Technische Universität München
5 United Kingdom99463.6%Mao, Xuerong #1,554Imperial College London
6 Canada81282.9%Altintas, Yusuf #5,780University of Toronto
7 France79282.9%Polyakov, Andrey E. #2,463CNRS Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
8 South Korea66182.4%Park, Juhyun #5,419Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
9 Australia65302.4%Han, Qing-Long #2,420The Australian National University
10 Switzerland48261.7%Scaramuzza, Davide #1,071ETH Zürich
11 Hong Kong48301.7%Qin, S. Joe #3,310The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
12 Japan48151.7%Nakajima, Kohei #24,962The University of Tokyo
13 Netherlands43221.6%Gibson, Ian #10,939Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
14 Singapore38211.4%Xie, Lihua Hua #2,073National University of Singapore
15 India36121.3%Chakraborty, Shankar #13,626Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
16 Sweden31161.1%Wang, Lihui #977The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
17 Spain3071.1%Seuret, Alexandre #14,399Universidad de Sevilla
18 Belgium2580.9%Kruth, Jean Pierre #2,871KU Leuven
19 Greece2180.8%Mourtzis, Dimitris #1,840University of Patras
20 Mexico2090.7%Moreno, Jaime A. #16,728Tecnológico de Monterrey
21 Türkiye19100.7%Sitti, Metin #579Koç University
22 Norway19100.7%Fossen, Thor I. #935Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet
23 Taiwan1950.7%Mobayen, Saleh #14,937National Tsing Hua University
24 Poland1230.4%Gupta, Munish Kumar #13,083Opole University of Technology
25 United Arab Emirates1220.4%Haddadin, Sami #17,638Khalifa University
26 Vietnam1130.4%Trung, Do Duc #26,092Le Quy Don Technical University
27 Iran1050.4%Shojaei, K. #29,546Islamic Azad University, Najafabad Branch
28 Portugal1050.4%Leitão, Paulo #35,388Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto
29 Saudi Arabia1020.4%Mahmoud, Magdi S. #46,585King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
30 Macao930.3%Xu, Qingsong #5,504University of Macau
31 Russia840.3%Polyak, Boris T. #3,335Saint Petersburg State University
32 New Zealand750.3%Xu, Xun W. #2,415University of Auckland
33 Denmark720.3%Bai, Shaoping #57,762Aalborg University
34 Austria600.2%Sauter, Thilo #101,675TU Wien
35 Brazil520.2%Geromel, Josè C. #73,029Universidade Estadual de Campinas
36 Israel430.1%Levant, Arie #2,960Tel Aviv University
37 Cyprus420.1%Polycarpou, Marios M. #9,499KIOS Research and Innovation Center of Excellence
38 Slovakia420.1%Petráš, Ivo #16,814Technická Univerzita v Košiciach
39 Hungary430.1%Monostori, László #39,118Budapest University of Technology and Economics
40 Iraq410.1%Basil, Noorulden #71,214Mustansiriyah University
41 Romania410.1%Lungu, Mihai Aureliu #87,407University of Craiova
42 Slovenia400.1%Pušavec, Franci #126,075Univerza v Ljubljani
43 Pakistan400.1%Ishfaq, Kashif #162,857University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore
44 Finland320.1%LaValle, Steven M. #5,864Oulun Yliopisto
45 South Africa320.1%Chua, Chee Kai #11,258Singapore University of Technology and Design
46 Bangladesh310.1%Mia, Mozammel #20,452BRAC University
47 Tunisia300.1%Bouteraa, Yassine Saleh #128,692Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Sfax
48 Algeria300.1%Bounemeur, Abdelhamid #178,930Ecole Nationale Polytechnique de Constantine
49 Kazakhstan300.1%Varol, Huseyin Atakan #188,921Nazarbayev University
50 Malaysia210.1%Foo, K. Y. #10,101Universiti Sains Malaysia
51 Czechia210.1%Saska, Martin #63,877Czech Technical University in Prague
52 Thailand200.1%Dehouche, Nassim #100,923Mahidol University
53 Serbia110.0%Stojanovic, Vladimir #4,973University of Kragujevac
54 Ethiopia110.0%Sefene, Eyob Messele #46,875Bahir Dar University
55 Chile110.0%Urrea Onate, Claudio #72,430Universidad de Santiago de Chile
56 Luxembourg100.0%Voos, Holger #103,151University of Luxembourg
57 Qatar100.0%Meskin, Nader #122,220Qatar University
58 Ireland100.0%Ghadimi, Pezhman #136,647University College Dublin
59 Jordan100.0%Al Janaideh, Mohammad #161,784The University of Jordan
60 Bulgaria100.0%Maximov, Jordan T. #187,721Technical University of Gabrovo
61 Oman100.0%Ramanathan, Arunachalam M. #191,190Sultan Qaboos University
62 Egypt100.0%Sharkawy, Abdel Nasser #219,434Qena University
63 Estonia100.0%Tepljakov, Aleksei #224,088Tallinna Tehnikaülikool