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Which countries have the most top-cited scientists in Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging?

2,743 researchers whose main subfield is Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging 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 (1,153, 42.0%), followed by Germany (243) and China (187). 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	1,153	214	42.0%	Weissleder, R. #827	Harvard Medical School
2	Germany	243	43	8.9%	Ntziachristos, Vasilis #5,434	German Cancer Research Center
3	China	187	12	6.8%	Tian, Jie #19,132	Peking Union Medical College Hospital
4	South Korea	136	16	5.0%	Ye, Jongchul #4,129	Seoul National University Hospital
5	United Kingdom	125	22	4.6%	Arridge, Simon R. #15,621	King's College London
6	Italy	116	15	4.2%	Lencioni, Riccardo Antonio #8,882	Sapienza Università di Roma
7	Netherlands	110	29	4.0%	Boellaard, Ronald #6,930	Radboud University Medical Center
8	Canada	95	15	3.5%	Chow, James C.L. #6,954	The University of British Columbia
9	Switzerland	90	15	3.3%	Lomax, Tony John #19,583	University Hospital Bern
10	France	85	13	3.1%	Vilgrain, Valérie #23,206	Université Paris Cité
11	Japan	85	10	3.1%	Naganawa, Shinji #23,378	Graduate School of Medicine
12	Australia	44	10	1.6%	Hofman, Michael S. #12,801	Monash University
13	Austria	38	1	1.4%	Baltzer, P. A. #42,538	Medizinische Universität Wien
14	Sweden	37	1	1.3%	Sundín, Anders E. #96,286	Uppsala Universitet
15	Belgium	33	0	1.2%	Sijbers, Jan #117,779	KU Leuven– University Hospital Leuven
16	India	20	1	0.7%	Suri, Jasjit S. #21,474	All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
17	Hong Kong	14	5	0.5%	Wáng, Yì Xiáng J. #16,574	Chinese University of Hong Kong
18	Türkiye	14	3	0.5%	Kocak, Burak #24,148	Bilkent Üniversitesi
19	Spain	12	3	0.4%	Vano, E. #66,456	MRI Unit
20	Denmark	10	2	0.4%	Thomsen, Henrik Segelcke #44,061	Rigshospitalet
21	Greece	10	0	0.4%	Klontzas, Michail E. #116,908	University of Crete
22	Israel	8	2	0.3%	Greenspan, Hayit K. #16,556	Tel Aviv University
23	Taiwan	8	1	0.3%	Kao, Chiahung #54,115	Chang Gung Memorial Hospital
24	Iran	8	0	0.3%	Shalbaf, Ahmad #183,830	Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences
25	Ireland	7	1	0.3%	Brady, Adrian Paul #24,420	Mercy University Hospital
26	Singapore	6	1	0.2%	Townsend, David William #76,369	National University of Singapore
27	Brazil	4	1	0.1%	Kitamura, Felipe C. #68,044	Universidade de São Paulo
28	Egypt	4	1	0.1%	Abdel Razek, Ahmed Abdel Khalek #88,879	Mansoura University
29	Saudi Arabia	4	0	0.1%	Madkhali, Osama #255,318	Jazan University
30	Norway	4	0	0.1%	Skaane, Per #270,637	UiT Norges Arktiske Universitet
31	Portugal	3	0	0.1%	Jones, John Griffith #163,834	University of Coimbra, Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology
32	Jordan	3	0	0.1%	Al Ibraheem, Akram Naif #205,890	King Hussein Cancer Center
33	United Arab Emirates	3	0	0.1%	Abuzaid, Mohamed Mahmoud #222,181	University of Sharjah
34	Poland	3	0	0.1%	Kunikowska, Jolanta #317,511	Medical University of Warsaw
35	Chile	3	0	0.1%	Turner, James E.H. #329,577	Gemini ObservatorySouthern Operations Center
36	South Africa	2	1	0.1%	Sathekge, Mike Machaba #58,853	University of Pretoria, Department of Nuclear Medicine
37	Romania	2	0	0.1%	Sporea, Ioan #190,341	Universitatea de Medicina si Farmacie Victor Babes din Timisoara
38	Puerto Rico	2	0	0.1%	Little, Brent P. #296,247	Mayo Clinic Florida
39	Russia	2	0	0.1%	Semyachkina-Glushkovskaya, Oxana V. #325,970	Saratov State University
40	New Zealand	1	0	0.0%	Subramaniam, Rathan M. #112,034	Otago Medical School
41	Macao	1	0	0.0%	Mao, Ning #216,377	Macao Polytechnic University
42	Argentina	1	0	0.0%	Orlando, José Ignacio #228,419	Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
43	Finland	1	0	0.0%	Laakso, Ilkka M. #255,526	Aalto University
44	Malaysia	1	0	0.0%	Ng, Kwan Hoong #257,249	Universiti Malaya
45	Slovenia	1	0	0.0%	Vrtovec, Tomaž #287,834	Univerza v Ljubljani
46	Croatia	1	0	0.0%	Petranovic-Ovcaricek, Petra #356,327	Klinički Bolnički Centar Sestre Milosrdnice
47	Sudan	1	0	0.0%	Osman, Alexander F.I. #394,694	Al Neelain University
48	Mexico	1	0	0.0%	Vega Carrillo, H. R. #482,973	Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas