Top countries for Medical Informatics

Search countries

Which countries have the most top-cited scientists in Medical Informatics?

466 researchers whose main subfield is Medical Informatics 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 (206, 44.2%), followed by Canada (51) and Australia (44). 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	206	71	44.2%	Cook, David Allan #1,084	Vanderbilt University Medical Center
2	Canada	51	18	10.9%	Eysenbach, Gunther #468	Université McGill
3	Australia	44	17	9.4%	Coiera, Enrico W. #8,480	The University of Queensland
4	United Kingdom	33	14	7.1%	Harden, Ronald Mc G. #10,529	University of Nottingham Medical School
5	Netherlands	21	10	4.5%	ten Cate, Olle Th J. #2,051	Universiteit Maastricht
6	Germany	12	2	2.6%	Gilbert, Stephen Henry #43,488	Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg
7	Singapore	9	2	1.9%	Cleland, Jennifer A. #30,615	Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine
8	Iran	7	2	1.5%	Sheikhtaheri, Abbas #48,038	Iran University of Medical Sciences
9	Sweden	6	1	1.3%	Rotgans, Jerome Ingmar #73,222	Karolinska Institutet
10	South Korea	6	0	1.3%	Park, Hyeounae #117,040	College of Nursing
11	Qatar	5	2	1.1%	Househ, Mowafa Said #6,937	Hamad Bin Khalifa University, College of Science and Engineering
12	Switzerland	5	2	1.1%	Denecke, Kerstin #19,239	Berner Fachhochschule
13	Taiwan	5	0	1.1%	Shabbir, Syed Abdul #143,776	Taipei Medical University
14	China	5	0	1.1%	Liu, Jialin #154,438	Huazhong University of Science and Technology
15	Finland	4	1	0.9%	Kujala, Sari #65,486	Terveyden ja Hyvinvoinnin Laitos
16	Israel	4	1	0.9%	Haimi, Motti #99,204	Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
17	Italy	3	2	0.6%	Giorgino, Toni #23,336	Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
18	Spain	3	2	0.6%	Leppink, Jimmie #44,570	Leppink Analytics
19	Norway	3	1	0.6%	Wootton, Richard #72,752	Universitetssykehuset Nord-Norge
20	Ethiopia	3	1	0.6%	Tilahun, Binyam Chakilu #91,824	University of Gondar
21	Denmark	3	0	0.6%	Tolsgaard, Martin Grønnebæk #136,824	Aalborg Universitetshospital
22	Türkiye	2	1	0.4%	Olawade, David Bamidele #33,344	Bahceşehir Cyprus University
23	Austria	2	1	0.4%	Ammenwerth, Elske #35,520	Private University for Health Sciences and Health Technology
24	South Africa	2	1	0.4%	Kelders, Saskia Marion #93,353	North-West University
25	Ireland	2	0	0.4%	Carroll, Noel #127,288	University of Galway
26	Greece	2	0	0.4%	Bamidis, Panagiotis D. #128,604	Faculty of Health Sciences
27	Saudi Arabia	2	0	0.4%	Alanazi, Abdullah T. #140,201	King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences
28	New Zealand	2	0	0.4%	Wilkinson, T. J. #189,694	University of Otago, Christchurch
29	Hong Kong	2	0	0.4%	Ming, Wai Kit #201,395	City University of Hong Kong
30	Hungary	1	1	0.2%	Mesko, Bertalan #4,865	Debreceni Egyetem
31	Oman	1	1	0.2%	Masters, Ken #18,981	Sultan Qaboos University
32	Slovenia	1	1	0.2%	Kokol, Peter #37,610	Univerza v Mariboru Fakultete za Elektrotehniko, Računalništvo in Informatiko
33	Bangladesh	1	1	0.2%	Hoque, Md Rakibul #46,104	University of Dhaka
34	France	1	1	0.2%	Lamy, Jean Baptiste #64,782	University Sorbonne Paris Nord
35	India	1	0	0.2%	Kalyan, Katikapalli Subramanyam #110,173	Akmmus AI
36	United Arab Emirates	1	0	0.2%	Taylor, David C.M. #191,509	Gulf Medical University
37	Belgium	1	0	0.2%	Boelen, Charles #215,090	Réseau international francophone pour la responsabilité sociale en santé
38	Portugal	1	0	0.2%	Lapão, Luis Velez #230,347	Universidade Nova de Lisboa
39	Kuwait	1	0	0.2%	Alhuwail, Dari #250,987	Kuwait University
40	Barbados	1	0	0.2%	Azim Majumder, Md Anwarul #254,103	Bridgetown International University
41	Iraq	1	0	0.2%	Alsalem, Mohammed Assim #261,437	University of Mosul