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Which countries have the most top-cited scientists in Industrial Relations?

52 researchers whose main subfield is Industrial Relations are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list. The United Kingdom has the most (16, 30.8%), followed by Australia (11) and the United States (9). 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 Kingdom	16	13	30.8%	Guest, David E. #3,962	King's College London
2	Australia	11	10	21.2%	Cooke, Fang Lee #5,312	Monash University
3	United States	9	4	17.3%	Kaufman, Bruce E. #37,324	Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations
4	Netherlands	4	4	7.7%	Paauwe, Jaap #29,323	Tilburg School of Social and Behavioral Sciences
5	Canada	2	1	3.8%	Vosko, Leah F. #81,546	York University
6	Ireland	2	0	3.8%	McDonnell, Anthony #102,677	University College Cork
7	New Zealand	1	1	1.9%	Boxall, Peter F. #23,640	University of Auckland Business School
8	France	1	1	1.9%	Alfes, Kerstin #40,323	ESCP Business School
9	China	1	1	1.9%	Shen, Jie #40,792	Shenzhen University
10	Germany	1	1	1.9%	Hauff, Sven #83,562	Helmut Schmidt University - University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg
11	Belgium	1	1	1.9%	Pulignano, Valéria #97,552	KU Leuven
12	United Arab Emirates	1	0	1.9%	Hameed, Zahid #101,923	Ajman University
13	Saudi Arabia	1	0	1.9%	Timming, Andrew R. #119,917	Alfaisal University - College of Business
14	Italy	1	0	1.9%	Guerci, Marco #124,341	Università degli Studi di Milano