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Which countries have the most top-cited scientists in Mining & Metallurgy?

802 researchers whose main subfield is Mining & Metallurgy 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 (333, 41.5%), followed by Australia (89) and the United States (48). 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	333	18	41.5%	Zhang, Lifeng #12,199	University of Science and Technology Beijing
2	Australia	89	12	11.1%	van Deventer, Jannie S.J. #3,522	Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
3	United States	48	5	6.0%	Thomas, Brian G. #26,864	College of Engineering
4	India	41	3	5.1%	Mishra, Barada Kanta #49,454	National Metallurgical Laboratory India
5	Japan	32	1	4.0%	Sasaki, Keiko #73,273	Tohoku University
6	Canada	30	8	3.7%	Dutrizac, John E. #61,534	Université McGill
7	Türkiye	29	4	3.6%	Kaya, Muammer #31,711	Karadeniz Technical University
8	South Korea	18	4	2.2%	Park, Joohyun #19,830	Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources
9	Iran	14	0	1.7%	Rashchi, Fereshteh #175,472	University of Tehran
10	Finland	13	2	1.6%	Holappa, Lauri E.K. #64,213	Aalto University
11	Poland	12	1	1.5%	Brodny, Jarosław #41,461	AGH University of Krakow
12	South Africa	12	1	1.5%	Petersen, Jochen #87,817	University of Cape Town
13	Sweden	11	1	1.4%	Chehreh Chelgani, S. #22,472	Luleå University of Technology
14	United Kingdom	10	3	1.2%	Crundwell, Frank K. #32,753	Imperial College London
15	Romania	10	1	1.2%	Mihai, Florin Constantin #66,764	Universitatea Alexandru Ioan Cuza
16	Germany	10	2	1.2%	Reuter, Markus A. #69,612	Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen
17	Russia	9	0	1.1%	Aleksandrova, Т. N. #263,245	Saint Petersburg Mining University
18	Brazil	8	1	1.0%	Tavares, Luís Marcelo M. #10,977	Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
19	Ukraine	8	0	1.0%	Lozynskyi, Vasyl #187,745	Dnipro University of Technology
20	Austria	6	0	0.7%	Schenk, Johannes Leopold #118,677	Montanuniversitat Leoben
21	Belgium	6	0	0.7%	Jones, Peter Tom #151,824	KU Leuven
22	France	5	0	0.6%	Birat, Jean Pierre L. #112,213	Université de Lorraine
23	Egypt	5	0	0.6%	Mousa, Elsayed A. #163,409	Central Metallurgical Research and Development Institute
24	Norway	4	0	0.5%	Kowalczuk, Przemyslaw Boguslaw #153,464	Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet
25	Italy	3	0	0.4%	Vegliò, Francesco #104,203	SmartWaste Engineering S.r.l.
26	Mexico	3	0	0.4%	Lapidus-Lavine, Gretchen T. #313,095	Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana -Unidad Iztapalapa
27	Czechia	3	0	0.4%	Sedlakova-Kadukova, Jana #471,574	Czech University of Life Sciences Prague
28	Spain	3	0	0.4%	Shatokha, V. I. #548,062	Universidad Complutense de Madrid
29	Kazakhstan	2	1	0.2%	Akcil, Ata Utku #28,754	Nazarbayev University
30	Netherlands	2	1	0.2%	Yang, Yongxiang #84,535	Delft University of Technology
31	Vietnam	2	0	0.2%	Xuan Nam, Bui #124,335	Ton-Duc-Thang University
32	Greece	2	0	0.2%	Panias, Dimitrios #175,566	National Technical University of Athens (NTUA)
33	Latvia	2	0	0.2%	Burlakovs, Juris #290,379	Riga Technical University
34	Chile	2	0	0.2%	Yianatos, Juan B. #586,576	Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María
35	Slovakia	2	0	0.2%	Kovanic, Ludovit #594,546	Technická Univerzita v Košiciach
36	Hungary	1	0	0.1%	Mucsi, Gábor #146,706	Miskolci Egyetem
37	Malaysia	1	0	0.1%	Ilankoon, I. M.S.K. #206,689	Monash University Malaysia
38	Pakistan	1	0	0.1%	Khoso, Sultan Ahmed #264,397	Mehran University of Engineering & Technology
39	Botswana	1	0	0.1%	Mamvura, Tirivaviri A. #424,482	Botswana International University of Science and Technology
40	Ghana	1	0	0.1%	Saim, Alex Kwasi #542,367	University of Mines and Technology
41	Bulgaria	1	0	0.1%	Panayotova, Marinela I. #553,710	University of Mining and Geology St. Ivan Rilski
42	Azerbaijan	1	0	0.1%	Monhemius, Andrew John #573,801	Anglo Asian Mining plc
43	Portugal	1	0	0.1%	Nogueira, Carlos A. #579,788	Laboratório Nacional de Energia e Geologia
44	Mauritius	1	0	0.1%	Adams, Mike D. #584,187	Lifezone Ltd
45	Jordan	1	0	0.1%	Al-Thyabat, S. S. #657,723	Al-Hussein Bin Talal University
46	Zambia	1	0	0.1%	Chanda, Emmanuel Knox C. #662,347	University of Zambia
47	Luxembourg	1	0	0.1%	Hadler, Kathryn #738,549	Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology
48	Indonesia	1	0	0.1%	Hidayat, Taufiq #879,968	Institut Teknologi Bandung