Top countries for Languages & Linguistics

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Which countries have the most top-cited scientists in Languages & Linguistics?

545 researchers whose main subfield is Languages & Linguistics 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 (149, 27.3%), followed by the United Kingdom (110) and Hong Kong (36). 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 United States14913927.3%Suresh Canagarajah, A. A. #1,005University of California, Los Angeles
2 United Kingdom11010020.2%Hyland, Ken #163University College London
3 Hong Kong36316.6%Lee, Ju Seong #4,199The University of Hong Kong
4 Australia28245.1%Ellis, Rod #1,038The University of Sydney
5 Canada27275.0%MacIntyre, Peter Daniel #625University of Toronto
6 China20193.7%Wang, Yongliang #1,977Shanghai International Studies University
7 Netherlands16152.9%Blommaert, Jan #2,103Radboud Universiteit
8 Spain15142.8%Dijk van, Teun A. #510Universidad del Pais Vasco
9 New Zealand15132.8%Zhang, Lawrence Jun #4,789University of Auckland
10 Germany14142.6%Haspelmath, Martin #7,035Universität Freiburg
11 Japan12112.2%Saito, Kazuya #9,970Kansai University
12 Switzerland1091.8%Mondada, Lorenza #3,719University of Bern
13 Belgium971.7%Peters, Elke #22,008KU Leuven
14 Israel871.5%Shohamy, Elana #10,920Tel Aviv University
15 Austria761.3%Wodak, Ruth #1,748Universität Wien
16 Singapore761.3%Lee, Icy #4,414National University of Singapore
17 Sweden761.3%Henry, Alastair M. #16,408Stockholms universitet
18 Norway661.1%Borg, Simon #5,558Universitetet i Oslo
19 Iran430.7%Derakhshan, Ali #713Golestan University
20 Macao440.7%Teng, Mark Feng #2,163Macao Polytechnic University
21 Saudi Arabia440.7%Alamer, Abdullah #8,622King Faisal University
22 Finland430.7%Peräkylä, Anssi #57,958Helsingin Yliopisto
23 Poland330.6%Pawlak, Miroslaw #10,984Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
24 Hungary330.6%Kövecses, Zoltán #11,365Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem
25 South Korea330.6%Lee, Sangmin Michelle #13,800Kyung Hee University
26 Ireland330.6%Moorkens, Joss #36,544Dublin City University
27 Taiwan320.6%Tai, Tzuyu #40,428National Taiwan Normal University
28 South Africa330.6%Stroud, Christopher #75,794University of the Western Cape
29 Denmark220.4%Van Leeuwen, Theo Jacob #7,202Syddansk Universitet
30 France210.4%Rizzi, Luigi #49,430Collège de France
31 Italy220.4%Barbieri, Marcello P. #74,120Dipartimento di Morfologia ed Embriologia
32 Slovenia110.2%Kormos, Judit #8,558Univerza v Ljubljani
33 Chile110.2%Sato, Masatoshi #15,000Universidad Andrés Bello
34 Lebanon110.2%al-Badawi, Mohammed #33,614Holy Spirit University of Kaslik (USEK)
35 Türkiye110.2%Teimouri, Yasser #36,252Boğaziçi Üniversitesi
36 Thailand110.2%Reinders, Hayo #41,633King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi
37 Malaysia110.2%Zein, Subhan #53,967Sunway University
38 Indonesia110.2%Widodo, Handoyo Puji #95,064PERIISAI Center for Social Science Research-PERIISAI
39 Kazakhstan110.2%Manan, Syed Abdul #95,534Nazarbayev University
40 Argentina100.2%Porto, Melina #100,355Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas