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Which countries have the most top-cited scientists in Information & Library Sciences?

340 researchers whose main subfield is Information & Library Sciences 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 (109, 32.1%), followed by the United Kingdom (29) and Canada (22). 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	109	26	32.1%	Chen, Chaomei #296	The University of Texas at Austin
2	United Kingdom	29	12	8.5%	Thelwall, Mike A. #1,299	The University of Sheffield
3	Canada	22	9	6.5%	Larivière, Vincent #6,802	Western University
4	China	20	2	5.9%	Pang, Hua #7,633	Wuhan University
5	Spain	15	1	4.4%	Ortega, José Luis #75,302	Universidad de Granada
6	Netherlands	12	6	3.5%	Waltman, Ludo #916	Universiteit Leiden
7	Pakistan	10	1	2.9%	Mahmood, Khalid #37,227	University of the Punjab
8	South Africa	8	2	2.4%	Ngulube, Patrick #87,214	University of South Africa
9	Germany	7	1	2.1%	Bornmann, Lutz #1,412	Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
10	Finland	7	3	2.1%	Savolainen, Reijo #12,080	Tampere University
11	India	7	0	2.1%	Tandon, Urvashi #111,065	Chitkara University, Punjab
12	South Korea	7	0	2.1%	Park, Han Woo #118,242	Sungkyunkwan University
13	Norway	6	2	1.8%	Aksnes, Dag W. #33,287	Studier av innovasjon, forskning og utdanning
14	Taiwan	6	1	1.8%	Hsiao, Kuolun #37,304	National Taiwan University
15	Sweden	6	1	1.8%	Huvila, Isto #75,467	The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
16	Nigeria	6	1	1.8%	Adetayo, Adebowale Jeremy #97,240	Babcock University
17	Denmark	5	3	1.5%	Wullum Nielsen, Mathias Wullum #26,434	Københavns Universitet
18	Italy	5	2	1.5%	Abramo, Giovanni #31,509	Universitas Mercatorum
19	Israel	5	1	1.5%	Bar-Ilan, Judit #41,989	Bar-Ilan University
20	Australia	5	0	1.5%	Du, Jia Tina #109,530	Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga
21	Singapore	3	0	0.9%	Lee, Chei Sian #129,429	Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
22	Iran	3	0	0.9%	Ramazi, Shahin #230,785	Tarbiat Modares University
23	Malaysia	3	0	0.9%	Kumar, Sameer #270,747	Universiti Malaya
24	Ireland	3	0	0.9%	Sonnenwald, Diane H. #278,666	University College Dublin
25	Türkiye	3	0	0.9%	Darvish, Hamid R. #308,389	Kastamonu University
26	Vietnam	2	1	0.6%	Vuong, Quan Hoang #23,421	Phenikaa University
27	Belgium	2	2	0.6%	Rousseau, Ronald #42,122	KU Leuven
28	Austria	2	1	0.6%	Ross-Hellauer, Tony #64,494	Know-Center, Graz
29	Hungary	2	0	0.6%	Koltay, Tibor #119,568	Eszterházy Károly Catholic University
30	Poland	2	0	0.6%	Kulczycki, Emanuel #188,244	West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin
31	Hong Kong	2	0	0.6%	Ke, Qing #217,023	City University of Hong Kong
32	Jordan	2	0	0.6%	Hamad, Faten Fatehi #254,757	The University of Jordan
33	New Zealand	2	0	0.6%	Cullen, Rowena J. #290,925	Victoria University of Wellington
34	Lebanon	1	1	0.3%	Meho, Lokman I. #49,945	American University of Beirut
35	Qatar	1	1	0.3%	El-Gohary, Hatem #70,639	College of Business and Economics, Qatar University
36	Switzerland	1	0	0.3%	Mutz, Rüdiger #178,541	Universität Zürich
37	Ukraine	1	0	0.3%	Nazarovets, Serhii A. #249,652	Borys Grinchenko Kyiv Metropolitan University
38	Tanzania	1	0	0.3%	Lwoga, Edda Tandi #265,861	College of Business Education
39	Uruguay	1	0	0.3%	Dodel, Matias #273,182	Universidad Católica del Uruguay
40	France	1	0	0.3%	Schöpfel, Joachim #274,058	Université de Lille
41	Malawi	1	0	0.3%	Chawinga, Winner Dominic #278,250	Mzuzu University
42	Portugal	1	0	0.3%	Vieira, Elizabeth S. #307,111	Prudêncio Impermeabilizações
43	Japan	1	0	0.3%	Ho, Kevin K.W. #336,931	University of Tsukuba
44	Mexico	1	0	0.3%	Machin-Mastromatteo, Juan D. #381,989	Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua
45	Saudi Arabia	1	0	0.3%	Alghamdi, Omar A. #418,368	Saudi Electronic University