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

395 researchers whose main subfield is Law 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 (159, 40.3%), followed by the United Kingdom (68) and the Netherlands (24). 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	159	51	40.3%	Sunstein, Cass R. #233	Harvard Law School
2	United Kingdom	68	14	17.2%	Yeung, Karen #25,300	University of Oxford
3	Netherlands	24	6	6.1%	Kotzé, Louis J. J. #23,816	Universiteit van Amsterdam
4	Australia	24	3	6.1%	Gunningham, Neil A. #27,333	Melbourne Law School
5	Germany	17	7	4.3%	Wachter, Sandra #16,552	Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
6	Canada	11	3	2.8%	Borrows, John #59,105	University of Toronto
7	Italy	9	1	2.3%	Mantelero, Alessandro #60,367	European University Institute, San Domenico di Fiesole
8	Belgium	7	2	1.8%	Hildebrandt, Mireille #39,146	Vrije Universiteit Brussel
9	Israel	7	0	1.8%	Barak, Aharon #110,608	University of Haifa
10	Ireland	6	0	1.5%	Schabas, William A. #104,644	University College Dublin
11	Switzerland	5	2	1.3%	Pauwelyn, Joost #68,136	Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement,Geneve
12	Denmark	5	2	1.3%	Madsen, Mikael Rask #77,988	Københavns Universitet
13	India	4	1	1.0%	Singh, Bhupinder #28,348	O.P. Jindal Global University
14	Singapore	4	2	1.0%	Truby, Jon Mark #32,682	National University of Singapore
15	Indonesia	4	1	1.0%	Armia, Muhammad Siddiq #73,494	Universitas Islam Negeri Ar-Raniry
16	Hong Kong	4	1	1.0%	Chaisse, Julien #74,690	Chinese University of Hong Kong
17	Spain	4	0	1.0%	Aloisi, Antonio #124,695	IE Universidad
18	Finland	3	2	0.8%	Koskenniemi, Martti #24,923	Helsingin Yliopisto
19	France	3	1	0.8%	de Schütter, Olivier #62,183	Sciences Po Paris
20	Luxembourg	3	0	0.8%	Zetzsche, Dirk A. #111,244	University of Luxembourg
21	Norway	3	0	0.8%	Langford, Malcolm #130,754	Universitetet i Oslo
22	Poland	2	0	0.5%	Sadurski, Wojciech #133,548	University of Warsaw
23	Qatar	2	0	0.5%	Dimitropoulos, Georgios #145,981	Hamad Bin Khalifa University
24	Hungary	2	0	0.5%	Halmai, Gábor #179,245	Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem
25	New Zealand	2	0	0.5%	Macpherson, Elizabeth Jane #186,371	University of Canterbury
26	South Africa	2	0	0.5%	Adelman, Sam #208,942	Nelson Mandela University
27	Portugal	1	1	0.3%	De Gregorio, Giovanni #50,368	Católica Global School of Law
28	Ukraine	1	0	0.3%	Leheza, Yevhen Oleksandrovych #144,289	Dnipro Humanitarian University
29	Austria	1	0	0.3%	Sajó, András #153,305	Central European University
30	Japan	1	0	0.3%	Alemanno, Alberto #187,857	The University of Tokyo
31	Czechia	1	0	0.3%	Kosař, David #218,472	Masaryk University
32	Argentina	1	0	0.3%	Finnis, John M. #229,624	Universidad de Mendoza
33	Lithuania	1	0	0.3%	Kalpokas, Ignas #235,350	Kaunas University of Technology
34	Brazil	1	0	0.3%	Legrand, Pierre #258,985	Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná
35	Macao	1	0	0.3%	Neuwirth, Rostam J. #260,412	University of Macau
36	Jordan	1	0	0.3%	Al-Billeh, Tareq Nicola #491,888	Applied Science Private University
37	Sweden	1	0	0.3%	Malekian, Farhad #6,927,157	Institute of International Criminal Law