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Which countries have the most top-cited scientists in Networking & Telecommunications?

4,837 researchers whose main subfield is Networking & Telecommunications 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 (1,457, 30.1%), followed by the United States (889) and the United Kingdom (245). 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	1,457	316	30.1%	Lyu, Zhihan #571	Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
2	United States	889	245	18.4%	Shannon, Claude E. #98	College of Engineering
3	United Kingdom	245	61	5.1%	Liu, Yuanwei #2,536	University of Glasgow
4	Saudi Arabia	191	47	3.9%	Hossain, M. Shamim #3,058	King Saud University
5	India	179	39	3.7%	Kumar, Neerai Sathish #5,598	Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
6	Canada	162	49	3.3%	Shen, Xuemin (Sherman) #3,094	University of Toronto
7	Australia	149	49	3.1%	Moustafa, Nour #738	University of Technology Sydney
8	Italy	135	32	2.8%	Conti, Mauro #9,487	Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna
9	South Korea	133	24	2.7%	Ullah, Inam #20,782	Sejong University
10	Hong Kong	93	35	1.9%	Hsu, Lita #5,740	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
11	Germany	89	25	1.8%	Winter, Andreas J. #6,581	Technische Universität Darmstadt
12	France	71	15	1.5%	Di Renzo, Marco #1,504	Université Grenoble Alpes
13	United Arab Emirates	64	24	1.3%	DIng, Zhiguo Ding #904	Khalifa University
14	Spain	61	5	1.3%	Fernández-Caramés, Tiago M. #7,898	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
15	Singapore	57	20	1.2%	Niyato, Dusit (Tao) #2,261	Nanyang Technological University
16	Taiwan	57	10	1.2%	Rahmani, Amir Masoud #7,044	National Sun Yat-Sen University
17	Finland	54	14	1.1%	Basar, Ertugrul #2,035	Oulun Yliopisto
18	Türkiye	53	10	1.1%	Elbir, Ahmet M. #11,674	İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi
19	Japan	47	10	1.0%	Kato, Nei #12,645	Tohoku University
20	Pakistan	45	5	0.9%	Javed, Abdul Rehman #28,465	National University of Sciences and Technology
21	Sweden	44	8	0.9%	Björnson, Emil #2,788	The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
22	Switzerland	39	12	0.8%	Sayed, Ali H.H. #6,824	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
23	Greece	35	7	0.7%	Karagiannidis, George K. #18,845	Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
24	Malaysia	31	4	0.6%	Islam, Mohammad Tariqul #12,414	Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
25	Israel	28	7	0.6%	Eldar, Yonina C. #964	Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
26	Belgium	28	8	0.6%	de Lathauwer, Lieven #19,279	Universiteit Gent
27	Netherlands	26	3	0.5%	Leus, Geert J.T. #58,728	Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
28	Iran	25	5	0.5%	Hosseinzadeh, Mehdi #1,722	University of Tehran
29	Ireland	25	8	0.5%	Pham, Quoc Viet #17,126	University College Dublin
30	Qatar	23	3	0.5%	Qadir, Junaid #1,699	Hamad Bin Khalifa University, College of Science and Engineering
31	Vietnam	19	3	0.4%	Nayyar, Anand #7,784	Duy Tan University
32	Denmark	16	2	0.3%	Popovski, Petar #11,746	Aalborg University
33	Egypt	16	2	0.3%	Mohsen, Saeed #57,329	Faculty of Electronic Engineering
34	South Africa	14	2	0.3%	Kasongo, Sydney Mambwe #27,171	University of Johannesburg
35	Bangladesh	14	1	0.3%	Chowdhury, Mostafa Zaman #93,802	University of Dhaka
36	Jordan	13	1	0.3%	Obaidat, Mohammad S. #41,911	The University of Jordan
37	Poland	13	3	0.3%	Krupka, Jerzy #51,405	Politechnika Warszawska
38	Norway	12	5	0.2%	Vasilakos, Athanasios V. #19,237	Universitetet i Agder
39	Luxembourg	12	3	0.2%	Ottersten, Björn E. #25,744	University of Luxembourg
40	Brazil	11	3	0.2%	Rodrigues, Joel J.P.C. #8,910	Universidade Estadual de Campinas
41	Macao	11	5	0.2%	Li, Dong #18,222	Macau University of Science and Technology
42	Russia	11	1	0.2%	Yarotsky, Dmitry A. #53,617	Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences
43	Iraq	11	1	0.2%	Al-Qurabat, Ali Kadhum M. #56,152	Al-Mustaqbal University
44	Austria	11	0	0.2%	Steiner, Wilfried #104,281	TU Wien
45	Portugal	9	1	0.2%	Rodriguez, Jonathan #48,181	Instituto de Telecomunicações
46	Lebanon	9	1	0.2%	el-Hajj, Mohammed Ibrahim #49,769	American University of Beirut
47	Kuwait	8	1	0.2%	Alzoubi, Yehia Ibrahim #87,936	Kuwait College of Science & Technology
48	Ukraine	7	0	0.1%	Tuz, Vladimir R. #290,188	V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University
49	Czechia	6	2	0.1%	Martinek, Radek #59,760	VSB – Technical University of Ostrava
50	Mexico	6	0	0.1%	Marmolejo-Saucedo, Jose Antonio #127,552	Universidad Panamericana
51	Cyprus	5	3	0.1%	Al-Turjman, Fadi M. #3,481	Near East University
52	Yemen	5	2	0.1%	Alsamhi, Saeed Hamood #29,418	Taiz University
53	Hungary	5	2	0.1%	Csiszâr, Imre #32,244	Budapest University of Technology and Economics
54	New Zealand	5	0	0.1%	Shafi, Mansoor #183,138	University of Canterbury
55	Oman	4	1	0.1%	Shafiq, Muhammad Zubair #40,448	College of Medicine
56	Thailand	4	2	0.1%	Khan, Arfat Ahmad #57,027	Khon Kaen University
57	Tunisia	4	1	0.1%	Cheikhrouhou, Omar #66,213	Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Sfax
58	Kazakhstan	3	0	0.1%	Razaque, A. #112,883	Nazarbayev University
59	Morocco	3	0	0.1%	Ghogho, Mounir #160,914	Mohammed VI Polytechnic University
60	Algeria	3	0	0.1%	Friha, Othmane #186,501	Université d’Alger 1
61	Iceland	2	2	0.0%	Kozieł, Sławomir Marcin #11,344	Reykjavík University
62	Serbia	2	1	0.0%	Harrington, Roger F. #42,264	University of Belgrade
63	Montenegro	2	1	0.0%	Stanković, Ljubiša Jubis #56,333	University of Montenegro
64	Croatia	2	1	0.0%	Diamant, Roee #84,143	University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing
65	Ethiopia	2	0	0.0%	Abdissa, Chala Merga #108,898	Addis Ababa University
66	Nigeria	2	0	0.0%	Bukar, Umar Ali #189,789	Taraba State University, Jalingo
67	Sri Lanka	2	0	0.0%	Silva, Bhagya Nathali #204,266	Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology
68	Romania	2	0	0.0%	Albu, Felix #207,791	Universitatea Valahia din Targoviste
69	Libya	2	0	0.0%	Hamdi, Khairi A. #306,818	University of Benghazi
70	Slovenia	2	0	0.0%	Kaur, Ramanpreet #313,340	Institut Jožef Stefan
71	Chile	1	1	0.0%	Wu, Jinsong #45,819	Universidad de Chile
72	Indonesia	1	0	0.0%	Pethuraj, Mohamed Shakeel #111,259	Universitas Alma Ata
73	Bahrain	1	0	0.0%	Waqas, Muhammad #115,480	University of Bahrain
74	Belarus	1	0	0.0%	Asadchy, Viktar S. #120,302	Francisk Skorina Gomel State University
75	Armenia	1	0	0.0%	Malekian, Reza #121,167	American University of Armenia
76	Philippines	1	0	0.0%	Alipio, Melchizedek I. #198,047	De La Salle University
77	North Macedonia	1	0	0.0%	Grcev, Leonid D. #268,748	Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje
78	Argentina	1	0	0.0%	Colominas, Marcelo Alejandro #273,118	Universidad Nacional de Entre Rios
79	Brunei	1	0	0.0%	Hussain, Saddam #277,250	Universiti Brunei Darussalam
80	Ecuador	1	0	0.0%	Govea, Jaime #307,157	Universidad de las Americas - Ecuador
81	Bulgaria	1	0	0.0%	Ganchev, Ivan #381,912	Paisii Hilendarski University of Plovdiv