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

1,556 researchers whose main subfield is Nursing 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 (486, 31.2%), followed by Australia (190) and the United Kingdom (179). A country with 100 or more opens its institutions in the subfield; the others open their scientists in the table of all authors.

#CountryListed authorsTop 100kShare of subfieldHighest-ranked authorTop institution
1 United States4868831.2%Sandelowski, Margarete J. #336University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing
2 Australia1904012.2%Peters, Micah D.J. #965Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences
3 United Kingdom1793111.5%O'Connor, Siobhán #10,138King's College London
4 Canada109237.0%Morse, Janice M.Rn Ph D(Nurs) #940University of Alberta
5 South Korea5243.3%Lee, Eun Hyun #25,925Chung-Ang University
6 Hong Kong4793.0%Yu, Doris Sau Fung #20,605The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
7 China4723.0%Liu, Jianghong #29,980Fudan University
8 Sweden3772.4%Ulrich, Roger S. #3,749Linköpings Universitet
9 Ireland3492.2%Coyne, Imelda T. #7,195University of Galway
10 Taiwan3432.2%Chou, Kueiru #38,865Taipei Medical University
11 Iran3312.1%Hasankhani, Hadi #74,281Qazvin University of Medical Sciences
12 Spain3212.1%Gómez Urquiza, José Luis #64,565Universidad de Granada
13 Italy3021.9%Palese, Alvisa #71,489Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata
14 Saudi Arabia3031.9%Alharbi, Talal Ghazi #73,157King Saud University
15 Jordan1841.2%ALBashtawy, Mohammed Sa’d #50,665Al Al-Bayt University
16 Finland1641.0%Elo, Satu #38,504Oulun Yliopisto
17 Norway1631.0%Moksnes, Unni Karin #77,763OsloMet – StorbyUniversitetet
18 Singapore1551.0%Shorey, Shefaly Y. #8,862NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
19 Türkiye1320.8%Ayaz-Alkaya, Sultan #56,687İstanbul Aydın Üniversitesi
20 Belgium1110.7%Beeckman, D. #40,486Universiteit Gent
21 Israel920.6%Khalaila, Rabia N. #95,474University of Haifa
22 Netherlands900.6%Francké, Anneke L. #153,112University Medical Center Utrecht
23 Egypt810.5%Abou Hashish, Ebtsam Aly #48,608Faculty of Nursing
24 Switzerland810.5%de Geest, Sabina M. #86,830Medizinischen Fakultät
25 United Arab Emirates710.4%AL Maqbali, Mohammed Abdullah Hamedan #67,088University of Sharjah
26 Portugal610.4%Laranjeira, C. A. #95,426Escola Superior de Enfermagem do Porto (ESEP)
27 Germany510.3%Kottner, Jan #47,623Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
28 Greece520.3%Fradelos, Evangelos C. #82,810University of Thessaly
29 Oman500.3%Chan, Moon Fai #115,819Sultan Qaboos University
30 Denmark500.3%Egerod, Ingrid #179,089Aarhus Universitet
31 Thailand410.3%Turale, Sue #78,904International Nursing Review
32 New Zealand400.3%Crowe, Marie T. #104,062Auckland University of Technology
33 Philippines400.3%Lopez, Violeta #104,341Holy Angel University
34 India400.3%Singh, Suresh Prasad #263,937National Institute of Technology Rourkela
35 Indonesia310.2%Efendi, Ferry #52,646Universitas Airlangga
36 Slovenia300.2%Prosen, Mirko #106,487University of Primorska
37 Brazil300.2%Lopes-Júnior, Luís Carlos #212,682Universidade de São Paulo
38 Qatar210.1%Nashwan, Abdulqadir J. #26,159Hamad Medical Corporation
39 Cyprus210.1%Charalambous, Andreas #49,121Cyprus University of Technology
40 Kazakhstan210.1%Cruz, Jonas Preposi #92,996Nazarbayev University School of Medicine
41 Georgia200.1%Gorski, Lisa A. #109,757Consulting LLC
42 Japan200.1%Takase, Miyuki #132,554Yasuda Women’s University
43 Palestine200.1%Ayed, Ahmad Juma #156,000Arab American University
44 Puerto Rico200.1%Cope, Diane G. #174,935Florida Cancer Specialists
45 South Africa200.1%Lubbe, Welma #243,195North-West University
46 Lebanon200.1%Fawaz, Mirna A. #299,399Beirut Arab University
47 Iceland200.1%Sveinsdóttir, Herdís #320,705School of Health Sciences
48 Poland200.1%Dobrowolska, Beata B. #376,289Medical University of Lublin
49 Malaysia110.1%Pahlevan-Sharif, Saeed #41,484Taylor's University Malaysia
50 Vietnam110.1%Lieu, Qui X. #61,631Viet Nam National University Ho Chi Minh City
51 Bangladesh100.1%Rony, Moustaq Karim Khan #101,759International University of Business Agriculture and Technology
52 Czechia100.1%Klugar, Miloslav #150,766Ministerstvo Zdravotnictví České Republiky
53 Liberia100.1%Bevans, Margaret F. #182,162NIH
54 France100.1%Têot, Luc #187,146Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Montpellier
55 Brunei100.1%Abdul Rahman, Hanif #257,774Universiti Brunei Darussalam
56 Macao100.1%Gao, Lingling #353,474Macao Polytechnic University
57 Ghana100.1%Aziato, Lydia #361,605University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ghana
58 Mexico100.1%Toledano-Toledano, Filiberto #366,573Hospital Infantil de México Federico Gómez
59 Malta100.1%Baldacchino, Donia R. #394,068L-Università ta' Malta
60 Argentina100.1%Saban, Mor #441,739Universidad Favaloro
61 Romania100.1%Ghitea, Timea Claudia #1,135,855Universitatea din Oradea, Facultatea de Medicina