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Which countries have the most top-cited scientists in Legal & Forensic Medicine?

335 researchers whose main subfield is Legal & Forensic Medicine 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 (54, 16.1%), followed by Australia (30) and Italy (30). 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	54	3	16.1%	Butler, John M. #17,507	National Institute of Standards and Technology
2	Australia	30	4	9.0%	Byard, Roger W. #23,796	University of Technology Sydney
3	Italy	30	1	9.0%	Cattaneo, Cristina Barbara #81,673	Università degli Studi di Milano
4	Germany	26	2	7.8%	Madea, Burkhard #20,483	Universitätsklinikum Frankfurt
5	United Kingdom	23	2	6.9%	Dror, Itiel E. #18,796	University of Dundee
6	Switzerland	19	0	5.7%	Thali, Michael Josef #163,262	Université de Lausanne (UNIL)
7	China	18	0	5.4%	Wang, Zheng #184,231	West China School of Basic Medical Sciences and Forensic Medicine
8	India	17	2	5.1%	Krishan, Kewal #7,201	Centurion University of Technology and Management
9	Canada	13	0	3.9%	Anderson, Gail S. #105,090	Simon Fraser University
10	Netherlands	10	2	3.0%	Kayser, Manfred H. #7,765	Netherlands Forensic Institute - NFI
11	Sweden	9	1	2.7%	JONES, A. W. #41,645	Karolinska Institutet
12	Spain	8	1	2.4%	Phillips, Christopher P. #49,089	Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
13	Poland	8	1	2.4%	Matuszewski, Szymon #56,792	Institute of Forensic Research
14	France	8	1	2.4%	Kintz, Pascal Jean #64,004	Hopital Raymond Poincare
15	Japan	8	0	2.4%	Ishida, Yuko #293,205	Wakayama Medical University
16	Portugal	7	1	2.1%	Dinis-Oliveira, R. J. #6,129	Universidade de Coimbra
17	Denmark	7	1	2.1%	Lynnerup, Niels #98,668	Det Sundhedsvidenskabelige Fakultet
18	Norway	6	1	1.8%	Gill, Peter D. #30,079	Universitetet i Oslo
19	Saudi Arabia	4	1	1.2%	Menezes, Ritesh G. #42,950	Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University
20	South Africa	4	0	1.2%	Steyn, Maryna M. #191,100	Faculty of Health Sciences
21	Austria	3	1	0.9%	Parson, Walther #61,733	Universität Salzburg
22	Finland	3	0	0.9%	Oura, Petteri #443,996	Faculty of Medicine
23	New Zealand	2	0	0.6%	Buckleton, John S. #284,610	PHF Science - New Zealand Institute for Public Health and Forensic Science
24	Israel	2	0	0.6%	Simmons, Tal L. #357,389	Hebrew University of Jerusalem
25	Brazil	2	0	0.6%	Gusmão, Leonor #391,268	Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
26	Czechia	2	0	0.6%	Hejna, Petr #395,507	Charles University
27	Türkiye	1	1	0.3%	I̊şcan, Mehmet Yaşar #90,961	Istanbul Üniversitesi
28	Chile	1	0	0.3%	Püschel, Klaus I. #123,190	Facultad de Medicina
29	Ireland	1	0	0.3%	Thompson, T. J.U. #130,265	Maynooth University
30	South Korea	1	0	0.3%	Lee, Hwan Young #313,937	Seoul National University College of Medicine
31	Qatar	1	0	0.3%	Bidmos, Mubarak A. #375,843	Qatar University
32	Vietnam	1	0	0.3%	Parsons, Thomas J. #502,721	VinUniversity
33	Greece	1	0	0.3%	Kranioti, Elena F. #514,168	University of Crete Medical School
34	Ecuador	1	0	0.3%	Zambrano, Ana Karina #543,028	Universidad UTE
35	Serbia	1	0	0.3%	Djurić, Marija P. #575,801	Belgrade University School of Medicine
36	Belgium	1	0	0.3%	Thevissen, Patrick Werner #667,259	KU Leuven Beeldvorming & Pathologie
37	Slovenia	1	0	0.3%	Zupanič Pajnič, Irena #708,339	Univerza v Ljubljani Medicinska Fakulteta