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

6,985 researchers whose main subfield is Materials are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list. China has the most (2,764, 39.6%), followed by the United States (832) and India (448). 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	China	2,764	773	39.6%	Nan, Cewen #623	University of Science and Technology Beijing
2	United States	832	390	11.9%	Ritchie, Robert O. #140	College of Engineering
3	India	448	120	6.4%	Sathish, T. #126	Indian Institute of Science
4	United Kingdom	267	130	3.8%	Ashby, Michael F.A. #462	The University of Manchester
5	Germany	234	75	3.4%	Raabe, Dierk #87	Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon GmbH
6	Japan	215	66	3.1%	Inoue, Akishisa #1,200	Tohoku University
7	Australia	182	93	2.6%	Nie, Jianfeng #1,782	RMIT University
8	South Korea	169	52	2.4%	Kim, Hyoung Seop #2,911	Yeungnam University
9	Italy	145	47	2.1%	Baino, Francesco #5,950	Politecnico di Torino
10	Saudi Arabia	129	33	1.8%	Saji, Viswanathan S. #5,822	King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
11	Iran	112	38	1.6%	Salavati-Niasari, Masoud #1,425	Iran University of Science and Technology
12	Canada	97	33	1.4%	Czerwiński, Frank #5,712	Université McGill
13	France	97	39	1.4%	Davidovits, Joseph #8,631	Université de Lorraine
14	Türkiye	83	30	1.2%	Çam, G. #4,198	Harran Üniversitesi
15	Hong Kong	70	33	1.0%	Zhu, Y. T. #796	City University of Hong Kong
16	Poland	67	19	1.0%	Golewski, Grzegorz Ludwik #2,182	Politechnika Lubelska
17	Malaysia	65	13	0.9%	Sapuan, S. M. #5,789	Universiti Putra Malaysia
18	Russia	64	22	0.9%	Valiev, R. Z. #3,088	National University of Science & Technology (MISIS)
19	Singapore	58	30	0.8%	Zhou, Kun #4,097	National University of Singapore
20	Spain	55	11	0.8%	LLorca, Javier #16,172	CSIC - Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Metalurgicas (CENIM)
21	Egypt	49	12	0.7%	Farouk Deifalla, Ahmed Farouk #10,384	National Research Centre
22	Sweden	46	15	0.7%	Guo, Sheng #4,670	The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
23	Portugal	41	15	0.6%	Davim, J. P. #1,224	Universidade do Porto
24	Switzerland	39	17	0.6%	Züttel, Andreas #1,950	Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology
25	Pakistan	38	20	0.5%	Ahmad, Jawad #24,933	The Islamia University of Bahawalpur
26	Taiwan	37	14	0.5%	Yeh, Jien Wei #114	National Tsing Hua University
27	Netherlands	35	12	0.5%	Villegas, Irene Fernandez #18,621	Delft University of Technology
28	Austria	34	9	0.5%	Eckert, Juergen H. #14,525	Montanuniversitat Leoben
29	Belgium	32	9	0.5%	Van-Humbeeck, Jan #7,025	KU Leuven
30	Brazil	30	10	0.4%	Mansur, Herman Sander #14,647	Universidade Federal de São Carlos
31	Czechia	30	11	0.4%	Praus, Petr #34,532	University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague
32	Finland	27	6	0.4%	Mozafari, Masoud Amin #5,559	Oulun Yliopisto
33	Romania	26	10	0.4%	Bungau, Simona Gabriela #14,395	National University of Science and Technology POLITEHNICA Bucharest
34	Greece	25	5	0.4%	Kechagias, John D. #10,429	University of Patras
35	Norway	25	8	0.4%	Yartys, Volodymyr A. #67,526	Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet
36	Indonesia	22	3	0.3%	Nandiyanto, Asep Bayu Dani #5,045	Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia
37	United Arab Emirates	22	12	0.3%	Al-Ketan, Oraib #16,203	Khalifa University
38	Denmark	21	10	0.3%	Hansen, Niels Erik Ottesen #4,706	Technical University of Denmark
39	Nigeria	19	5	0.3%	Oguzie, Emeka Emmanuel #25,396	Federal University of Technology, Akure
40	New Zealand	16	7	0.2%	Pickering, Kim Louise #16,801	University of Auckland
41	South Africa	15	7	0.2%	Du Plessis, Anton #3,722	University of Johannesburg
42	Slovenia	15	4	0.2%	Podgornik, Bojan #25,618	Institut Jožef Stefan
43	Iraq	15	2	0.2%	Hassan, Waqed Hammed #71,071	University of Technology- Iraq
44	Ireland	14	6	0.2%	Yin, Shuo #26,929	University of Limerick
45	Thailand	14	4	0.2%	Qin, Jiaqian #33,054	Chiang Mai University
46	Israel	13	2	0.2%	Eliaz, Noam #9,360	Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
47	Bangladesh	11	7	0.2%	Hadi, M. A. #29,665	International University of Business Agriculture and Technology
48	Mexico	11	1	0.2%	Meredig, Bryce #84,697	Centro de Investigacion Cientifica de Yucatan
49	Qatar	10	6	0.1%	Tarlochan, Faris #37,200	Qatar University
50	Hungary	9	5	0.1%	Singh, Tej #7,720	Budapest University of Technology and Economics
51	Vietnam	9	4	0.1%	Choi, Seung Bok #26,355	Industrial University of Ho Chi Minh City
52	Ukraine	7	2	0.1%	Tatarchuk, Tetiana R. #22,736	National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”
53	Slovakia	7	2	0.1%	Baláž, Matej #55,160	Slovak Academy of Sciences
54	Morocco	6	1	0.1%	Hsissou, Rachid #13,360	International University of Rabat
55	Serbia	5	0	0.1%	Ćirić-Marjanović, Gordana N. #118,649	Institut za Nuklearne Nauke Vinca
56	Ethiopia	4	0	0.1%	Sivanraju, Rajkumar #116,720	Bahir Dar University
57	Latvia	4	0	0.1%	Krauklis, Andrey E. #164,062	Latvijas Universitāte
58	Belarus	3	2	0.0%	Trukhanov, Alex V. #14,304	Scientific Practical Materials Research Centre of NAS of Belarus
59	Chile	3	0	0.0%	Viswanathan, Mangalaraja Ramalinga #107,550	Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana
60	Macao	3	0	0.0%	Lo, Kin Ho #109,358	University of Macau
61	Cameroon	3	0	0.0%	Kamseu, Elie #128,407	Ministry of Scientific Research and Innovation-Cameroon
62	Kazakhstan	3	0	0.0%	Araby, Sherif #164,781	Nazarbayev University
63	Argentina	3	0	0.0%	Fernández-Guillermet, Armando #179,459	Universidad Nacional de San Martín
64	Estonia	2	1	0.0%	Prashanth, K. G. #10,385	Tallinna Tehnikaülikool
65	Kuwait	2	1	0.0%	Ismail, Adel A. #30,789	Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research
66	Cyprus	2	1	0.0%	Shahedi Asl, Mehdi #42,777	University of Kyrenia
67	Jordan	2	2	0.0%	AL-Oqla, Faris M. #50,885	Hashemite University
68	Bulgaria	2	1	0.0%	Nikolova, Maria P. #84,254	University of Rousse
69	Luxembourg	2	2	0.0%	Bramfitt, Bruce L. #95,330	ArcelorMittal
70	Azerbaijan	2	0	0.0%	Abbas Ashraf, Ghulam Abbas #136,550	Khazar University
71	Oman	2	0	0.0%	Ahmad, Md Wasi #155,233	Dhofar University
72	Croatia	2	0	0.0%	Musić, Svetozar #167,673	Institut Ruđer Bošković
73	Algeria	2	0	0.0%	Fellah, Momoun #173,375	Université Abbes Laghrour Khenchela
74	Georgia	1	1	0.0%	Sharifianjazi, Fariborz S. #59,326	The University of Georgia, Tbilisi
75	Colombia	1	1	0.0%	Colorado Lopera, Henry Alonso #78,051	Universidad de Antioquia
76	Kenya	1	1	0.0%	Bodunrin, Michael Oluwatosin #81,204	African Academy of Sciences
77	Botswana	1	1	0.0%	Olakanmi, Eyitayo Olatunde #83,120	Botswana International University of Science and Technology
78	Bahrain	1	0	0.0%	Hussain, Ghulam #117,381	University of Bahrain
79	Peru	1	0	0.0%	Mantari, J. L. #117,546	Universidad de Ingenieria y Tecnologia - UTEC
80	Mongolia	1	0	0.0%	Temuujin, Jadambaa #119,903	Citi University
81	Syria	1	0	0.0%	Zaarour, Bilal #131,833	International University for Science and Technology
82	San Marino	1	0	0.0%	Bacciocchi, Michele #188,424	Università degli Studi della Repubblica di San Marino
83	Sri Lanka	1	0	0.0%	Ekanayake, Imesh Udara #231,645	Ceylon Institute for Artificial Intelligence Research (CIAIR)
84	Somalia	1	0	0.0%	Parveez, Bisma #240,087	Hormuud University