Top countries for Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences

52 countries · Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences

Search countries

Which countries have the most top-cited scientists in Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences?

1,974 researchers whose main subfield is Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences 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 (899, 45.5%), followed by the United Kingdom (198) and China (193). 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	899	830	45.5%	Emanuel, Kerry A. #263	National Center for Atmospheric Research
2	United Kingdom	198	184	10.0%	Lenton, Timothy M. #839	Met Office
3	China	193	170	9.8%	Piao, Shilong Long #1,116	Institute of Atmospheric Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences
4	Germany	133	114	6.7%	Rockström, Johan #653	Max Planck Institute for Meteorology
5	Canada	53	50	2.7%	Oke, Timothy R. #675	Environment and Climate Change Canada
6	Australia	50	47	2.5%	Perkins-Kirkpatrick, Sarah E. #2,452	UNSW Sydney
7	France	49	45	2.5%	Ciais, Philippe #1,369	Sorbonne Université
8	Netherlands	39	35	2.0%	P van Vuuren, Detlef Peter P. #2,860	Universiteit Utrecht
9	Switzerland	37	34	1.9%	Seneviratne, Sonia I. #1,374	Institut für Atmosphäre und Klima
10	Japan	32	28	1.6%	Watanabe, Masahiro #13,657	The University of Tokyo
11	Italy	23	21	1.2%	Giorgi, Filippo #1,535	Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
12	Belgium	23	22	1.2%	Miralles, Diego G. #9,777	European Commission Joint Research Centre
13	India	21	19	1.1%	Mishra, Vimal #4,508	Indian Institute of Science
14	Austria	19	17	1.0%	Riahi, Keywan #6,927	International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg
15	Sweden	18	16	0.9%	Manzoni, Stefano #9,640	Stockholms universitet
16	Spain	17	17	0.9%	Vicente-Serrano, Sergio M. #1,933	CSIC - Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología (IPE)
17	Finland	16	13	0.8%	Kulmala, Markku #5,741	Helsingin Yliopisto
18	Hong Kong	15	12	0.8%	Chen, Jianli #19,636	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
19	Norway	13	12	0.7%	Peters, Glen P. #1,492	CICERO Senter for Klimaforskning
20	South Korea	13	12	0.7%	Timmermann, Axel #12,743	Seoul National University
21	Denmark	11	10	0.6%	Elberling, Bo #38,794	Technical University of Denmark
22	Israel	9	7	0.5%	Rosenfeld, Daniel #5,024	Hebrew University of Jerusalem
23	Saudi Arabia	8	7	0.4%	Wada, Yoshihide #1,553	King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
24	Greece	8	6	0.4%	Matzarakis, A. P. #6,409	Technical University of Crete
25	Portugal	8	6	0.4%	Pires, José C.M. #26,988	Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa
26	New Zealand	7	7	0.4%	Trenberth, Kevin E. #191	University of Auckland
27	Brazil	7	7	0.4%	Marengo, José António #3,760	Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais
28	Russia	7	6	0.4%	Tsyganenko, Nikolai A. #52,256	Saint Petersburg State University
29	Singapore	5	4	0.3%	Balasubramanian, Rajasekhar Kumar #21,587	National University of Singapore
30	Türkiye	5	3	0.3%	Citakoglu, Hatice #37,674	Erciyes Üniversitesi
31	Czechia	5	4	0.3%	Kyselý, Jan #38,979	Charles University
32	Taiwan	4	4	0.2%	Huang, Norden E. #3,690	National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
33	South Africa	4	3	0.2%	New, Mark G. #39,836	University of Cape Town
34	Ethiopia	2	2	0.1%	Bewket, Woldeamlak #21,108	Addis Ababa University
35	Iran	2	1	0.1%	Alizadeh, Omid #24,165	University of Tehran
36	Ireland	2	2	0.1%	Mills, Gerald M. #40,392	University College Dublin
37	Cyprus	2	2	0.1%	Zittis, George #48,240	The Cyprus Institute
38	Thailand	2	2	0.1%	Amnuaylojaroen, Teerachai #50,110	University of Phayao
39	Serbia	2	1	0.1%	Janjić, Zaviša I. #61,547	University of Belgrade
40	Chile	1	1	0.1%	Garreaud, R. Darío #4,355	Universidad de Chile
41	United Arab Emirates	1	1	0.1%	Majda, Andrew Jonjon #23,447	NYU Abu Dhabi
42	Egypt	1	1	0.1%	El-Kenawy, Ahmed M. #29,970	Mansoura University
43	Bermuda	1	1	0.1%	Bates, Nicholas Robert #34,106	Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences
44	Nigeria	1	1	0.1%	Ayanlade, Ayansina #52,645	Obafemi Awolowo University
45	Bangladesh	1	1	0.1%	Salam, Abdus #53,503	University of Dhaka
46	Indonesia	1	1	0.1%	Murdiyarso, Daniel #60,312	IPB University
47	Poland	1	1	0.1%	Winiwarter, Wilfried #64,893	Uniwersytet Zielonogórski
48	Argentina	1	1	0.1%	Villalba, Ricardo #72,294	Instituto Argentino de Nivologia, Glaciologia y Ciencias Ambientales
49	Malaysia	1	1	0.1%	Halder, Bijay #75,215	Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
50	Nepal	1	1	0.1%	Shrestha, Arun Bhakta #92,966	International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development Nepal
51	Hungary	1	1	0.1%	Unger, János #94,697	Szegedi Tudományegyetem (SZTE)
52	Slovakia	1	0	0.1%	Kocifaj, Miroslav #140,871	Slovak Academy of Sciences