Top countries for Oncology & Carcinogenesis

Which countries have the most top-cited scientists in Oncology & Carcinogenesis?

7,821 researchers whose main subfield is Oncology & Carcinogenesis 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 (3,372, 43.1%), followed by China (888) and the United Kingdom (432). 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 States3,3721,48843.1%Kalluri, Raghu K. #77The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
2 China88823111.4%Zhang, Zhongheng #819Fudan University
3 United Kingdom4321895.5%Balkwill, Frances R. #1,942The Institute of Cancer Research
4 Italy3691274.7%La Vecchia, Carlo #1,008Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milan
5 Germany3511284.5%Brenner, Hermann #726German Cancer Research Center
6 Japan286933.7%Maeda, Hiroshi #3,515Graduate School of Medicine
7 France2581083.3%Bray, Freddie Ian #52Centre international de Recherche sur le Cancer
8 Canada242993.1%Baracos, V. Elaine #3,405Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
9 Australia203742.6%Loi, Sherene M. #2,925The University of Sydney
10 Netherlands201752.6%Van Den Bent, M. J. #2,229The Netherlands Cancer Institute
11 South Korea142501.8%Cho, Byoungchul #8,813Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan university
12 Spain131451.7%Esteller, Manel B. #603Vall d‘Hebron Institut de Oncologia
13 Switzerland83351.1%Hanahan, Douglas A. #78Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois
14 Belgium75441.0%van Cutsem, Éric J.D.G. #4,533Institut Jules Bordet
15 Sweden74210.9%Larsson, Susanna C. #1,473Karolinska Institutet
16 India72180.9%Sharma, Rajesh S. #8,837Tata Memorial Hospital
17 Taiwan62100.8%Yang, James Chih Hsin #8,916China Medical University
18 Denmark58230.7%Overgaard, Jens #12,189Aarhus Universitet
19 Hong Kong54220.7%Yu, Jun #1,954Chinese University of Hong Kong
20 Austria43180.5%Heinze, Georg #9,040Medizinische Universität Wien
21 Singapore37140.5%Sethi, Gautam #11,767National Cancer Centre, Singapore
22 Israel35100.4%Yarden, Yosef #8,199Chaim Sheba Medical Center Israel
23 Greece29140.4%Trichopoulou, Antonia D. #3,756National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
24 Iran29110.4%Mirzaei, Hamed Reza #7,137Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences
25 Poland2690.3%Rutkowski, Piotr L. #15,014Maria Sklodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology
26 Norway25110.3%Aune, Dagfinn #2,040Oslo Universitetssykehus
27 Finland2170.3%Joensuu, Heikki T. #4,667Tampere University
28 Ireland1570.2%Duffy, Michael Joseph #4,563Trinity College Dublin
29 Portugal1420.2%Cardoso, Fatima #11,588Universidade do Porto
30 Saudi Arabia1450.2%Rahmani, Arshad Husain #14,934King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre
31 Brazil1220.2%Barrios, Carlos Henrique Escosteguy #6,984Universidade de São Paulo
32 Liberia1270.2%Pazdur, Richard M. #9,179National Institutes of Health
33 Czechia1040.1%Hemminki, Kari #14,960Masaryk University
34 Qatar1040.1%Ahmad, Aamir #19,203Hamad Medical Corporation
35 Türkiye920.1%Guven, Deniz Can #66,530Hacettepe Üniversitesi
36 Russia910.1%Yuzhalin, Arseniy E. #67,403Bashkir State Medical University
37 Romania730.1%CALINA, DANIELA Cornelia #22,196Universitatea de Medicina si Farmacie Iuliu Hatieganu din Cluj-Napoca
38 New Zealand720.1%Ferguson, Lynnette R. #32,639Auckland Cancer Society Research Centre
39 Macao730.1%Zhao, Qi #36,783University of Macau
40 United Arab Emirates720.1%Amin, Amr A. #55,442University of Sharjah
41 Egypt630.1%Marei, Hany E. #28,030Mansoura University
42 Mexico620.1%Romieu, Isabelle #37,344Instituto Nacional de Cancerologia, México
43 Chile610.1%Calaf, Gloria M. #56,202Universidad de Tarapacá
44 Slovenia620.1%Kos, Janko #59,410Onkološki Inštitut Ljubljana
45 Cyprus530.1%Stylianopoulos, Triantafyllos #11,637European University Cyprus
46 Colombia520.1%Muñoz, Nubia #33,459Instituto Nacional de Cancerología
47 Lebanon520.1%Khuri, Fadlo R. #60,838American University of Beirut
48 Jordan510.1%Sultan, Iyad Y. #85,525King Hussein Cancer Center
49 Hungary420.1%Győrffy, Balázs #684Semmelweis Egyetem
50 Bangladesh410.1%Islam, Md Rabiul #14,327BRAC University
51 Puerto Rico410.1%Lu, Karen H. #40,353Moffitt Cancer Center
52 Iraq320.0%Heshu, Sulaiman Rahman #48,715University of Sulaimani
53 Malaysia310.0%Wong, Kah Keng #64,581Universiti Sains Malaysia, Health Campus
54 Luxembourg300.0%Noman, Muhammad Zaeem #165,873Luxembourg Institute of Health
55 Slovakia300.0%Mego, Michal #173,009Jesseniuss Faculty of Medicine
56 South Africa220.0%Denny, Lynette A. #48,734Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town
57 Serbia220.0%Jurišić, Vladimir B. #65,097Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Kragujevac
58 Morocco200.0%Bakrim, Saad #125,811Université Ibn Zohr
59 Thailand200.0%Reungwetwattana, Thanyanan #196,140Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University
60 Estonia110.0%Sak, K. #36,065NGO Praeventio
61 Pakistan110.0%Farooqi, Ammad Ahmad #53,586Institute of Biomedical and Genetic Engineering
62 Nigeria110.0%Okunade, Kehinde Sharafadeen #56,729College of Medicine, University of Lagos
63 Costa Rica110.0%Herrero, Rolando #67,005Instituto Costarricense de Investigacion y Ensenanza en Nutricion y Salud Costa Rica
64 Rwanda110.0%Uwishema, Olivier #76,940Oli Health Magazine Organization
65 Bulgaria100.0%Vinciguerra, Manlio #105,364Medical University-Varna
66 Libya100.0%Almangush, Alhadi #110,320Libyan Authority for Scientific Research
67 Guinea-Bissau100.0%Lunet, Nuno #111,469Hospital Nacional Simão Mendes
68 Argentina100.0%Koltai, Tomas #116,614Centro Gallego de Buenos Aires
69 Ukraine100.0%Bondarenko, I. M. #122,386Dnipro State Medical University
70 Indonesia100.0%Anwar, Sumadi L. #166,054Universitas Gadjah Mada
71 Croatia100.0%Pećina, P. N. #193,108University of Zagreb School of Medicine
72 Ghana100.0%Vanderpuye, Verna D.N.K. #232,038Korle Bu Teaching Hospital