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Which countries have the most top-cited scientists in Nanoscience & Nanotechnology?

4,133 researchers whose main subfield is Nanoscience & Nanotechnology 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 (2,285, 55.3%), followed by the United States (587) and South Korea (173). 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	2,285	2,248	55.3%	Wang, Zhong Lin #1	University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
2	United States	587	581	14.2%	Gogotsi, Yury G. #25	College of Engineering
3	South Korea	173	165	4.2%	Park, Nam-gyu #302	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
4	Australia	158	155	3.8%	Dai, Liming #498	RMIT University
5	Hong Kong	126	124	3.0%	ZHANG, Hua #491	City University of Hong Kong
6	United Kingdom	96	93	2.3%	Snaith, Henry James #210	Imperial College London
7	Singapore	86	85	2.1%	Novoselov, Konstantin Sergeevich #104	National University of Singapore
8	Germany	84	79	2.0%	Janek, Jürgen #2,006	Technische Universität München
9	India	72	68	1.7%	Sengeni, Anantharaj #3,804	Central Electrochemical Research Institute India
10	Canada	53	53	1.3%	Chen, Zhongwei #2,381	University of Toronto
11	Japan	44	42	1.1%	Ariga, Katsuhiko #2,069	National Institute for Materials Science
12	Switzerland	39	38	0.9%	Grätzel, Michael #67	ETH Zürich
13	Spain	37	37	0.9%	Díez-Pascual, Ana María #1,250	Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques
14	Saudi Arabia	37	34	0.9%	Nazeeruddin, Mohammad Khaja #2,811	King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
15	Taiwan	27	25	0.7%	Liu, Ru Shi #12,278	National Taiwan University
16	Netherlands	22	22	0.5%	Dekker, Cees #5,095	Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
17	Italy	21	21	0.5%	Manna, Liberato #4,554	Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
18	France	21	20	0.5%	Bianco, Alberto #12,534	Institut de Science et d’Ingénierie Supramoléculaires
19	Macao	20	19	0.5%	Pan, Hui #5,147	University of Macau
20	Sweden	16	16	0.4%	Hagfeldt, Anders #5,293	Linköpings Universitet
21	Israel	12	11	0.3%	Gazit, Ehud #3,620	Tel Aviv University
22	Belgium	12	12	0.3%	Hens, Zeger #18,682	KU Leuven
23	Iran	11	11	0.3%	Iravani, Siavash #570	Independent Researcher
24	Poland	9	8	0.2%	Bandosz, Teresa J. #10,343	Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej w Lublinie
25	Finland	8	8	0.2%	Sun, Zhipei #21,501	Tampere University
26	Czechia	7	6	0.2%	Pumera, Martin #560	University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague
27	Denmark	7	7	0.2%	Mishra, Yogendra Kumar #23,075	Technical University of Denmark
28	Türkiye	7	6	0.2%	Tasoglu, Savas #30,169	Koç University
29	Austria	6	6	0.1%	Eder, Dominik #49,634	Johannes Kepler University Linz
30	Ireland	5	5	0.1%	Coleman, Jonathan N. #1,923	Trinity College Dublin
31	Portugal	5	5	0.1%	Conde, Joao #22,569	CICECO – Instituto de Materiais de Aveiro
32	United Arab Emirates	5	5	0.1%	Shahzad, Faisal #32,912	Khalifa University
33	Brazil	4	4	0.1%	Campos, Estefânia V.R. #39,775	Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho
34	Greece	3	3	0.1%	Stoumpos, Constantinos C. #12,917	University of Crete
35	Bangladesh	3	3	0.1%	Islam, Md Saïful #19,674	Jashore University of Science and Technology
36	Russia	3	2	0.1%	Stevenson, Keith J. #22,729	Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology
37	Indonesia	3	3	0.1%	Iskandar, Ferry #58,193	Institut Teknologi Bandung
38	New Zealand	2	2	0.0%	Waterhouse, Geoffrey I. N. #7,133	University of Auckland
39	Puerto Rico	2	2	0.0%	Chen, Zhongfang #18,825	Universidad de Puerto Rico
40	Iraq	2	2	0.0%	Kayani, Kawan F. #28,271	University of Sulaimani
41	Qatar	2	2	0.0%	Eid, Kamel A.M. #41,108	Qatar University
42	Malaysia	2	2	0.0%	Piao, Chai Siang #55,680	Monash University Malaysia
43	Romania	1	1	0.0%	Grumezescu, Alexandru Mihai #4,970	National University of Science and Technology POLITEHNICA Bucharest
44	Ecuador	1	1	0.0%	Alexis, Frank #27,279	Universidad San Francisco de Quito
45	Ukraine	1	1	0.0%	Grigorenko, Alexander N. #55,819	S. P. Timoshenko Institute of Mechanics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
46	Thailand	1	1	0.0%	Hantanasirisakul, Kanit #57,906	Vidyasirimedhi Institute of Science and Technology
47	Latvia	1	1	0.0%	Šutka, Andris #70,355	Riga Technical University
48	Peru	1	1	0.0%	Mayorga-Martínez, Carmen C. #77,342	Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas
49	Luxembourg	1	1	0.0%	Lagerwall, Jan Peter Felix #77,533	University of Luxembourg
50	Pakistan	1	1	0.0%	Ovais, Muhammad #80,189	PengyouX Pvt Ltd