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

81 researchers whose main subfield is Music 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 (41, 50.6%), followed by the United Kingdom (15) and Australia (9). 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	41	1	50.6%	Hess, Juliet #53,235	Michigan State University
2	United Kingdom	15	1	18.5%	Born, Georgina #57,750	University of Huddersfield
3	Australia	9	0	11.1%	Barrett, Margaret S. #118,372	Monash University
4	Canada	4	1	4.9%	Creech, Andrea #87,730	Université McGill
5	Hong Kong	3	0	3.7%	Leung, Bo Wah #241,646	The Education University of Hong Kong
6	Finland	2	0	2.5%	Westerlund, Heidi Maria #358,360	Sibelius-Akatemia
7	Norway	2	0	2.5%	Karlsen, Sidsel #365,958	Norwegian Academy of Music
8	Germany	1	1	1.2%	Adorno, Theodor W. #98,499	Freie Universität Berlin
9	Denmark	1	0	1.2%	Dahl, Sofia #483,150	Aalborg University
10	China	1	0	1.2%	Schippers, Huib #615,442	Zhaoqing University
11	Ireland	1	0	1.2%	Varvarigou, Maria #638,198	University of Limerick
12	Luxembourg	1	0	1.2%	Nijs, Luc #645,748	University of Luxembourg