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

1,780 researchers whose main subfield is Optics 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 (497, 27.9%), followed by China (456) and Germany (113). 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	497	141	27.9%	Boyd, Robert W. #681	College of Engineering
2	China	456	68	25.6%	Pan, Bing #2,395	Nanjing University
3	Germany	113	27	6.3%	Hell, Stefan W. #2,627	Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
4	United Kingdom	108	26	6.1%	Padgett, Miles J. #1,158	University of Southampton
5	Australia	59	18	3.3%	Kivshar, Yuri S. #581	The Australian National University
6	France	53	11	3.0%	Gigan, Sylvain #16,073	Sorbonne Université
7	Japan	44	7	2.5%	Goda, Keisuke #42,091	The University of Tokyo
8	Italy	43	10	2.4%	Longhi, Stefano #953	Politecnico di Milano
9	Canada	41	7	2.3%	Corkum, Paul B. #4,491	University of Ottawa
10	Israel	27	7	1.5%	Segev, Mordechai (Moti) #11,699	Tel Aviv University
11	Spain	26	2	1.5%	Mitchell, Morgan W. #69,807	Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques
12	Russia	24	8	1.3%	Khonina, Svetlana Nikolaevna #9,245	Samara National Research University
13	Switzerland	23	9	1.3%	Novotný, Lukas #5,324	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
14	South Korea	23	4	1.3%	Lee, Byoungho #9,240	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
15	Netherlands	21	4	1.2%	Koenderink, A. Femius #45,674	FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics - AMOLF
16	Hong Kong	20	6	1.1%	Zhang, Xiang #2,708	The University of Hong Kong
17	Denmark	19	6	1.1%	Bozhevolnyi, Sergey I. #15,767	Technical University of Denmark
18	India	19	2	1.1%	Simon, Rajiah #50,775	Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
19	Singapore	16	5	0.9%	Shen, Yijie #7,547	Nanyang Technological University
20	Austria	16	3	0.9%	Drexler, Wolfgang #39,105	Medizinische Universität Wien, Zentrum für Medizinische Physik und Biomedizinische Technik
21	Poland	15	3	0.8%	Rojek, Izabela #50,177	Politechnika Wrocławska
22	Greece	11	2	0.6%	Kantaros, Antreas #26,972	University of Crete
23	Türkiye	9	2	0.5%	Biswas, Anjan #6,612	Karadeniz Technical University
24	Taiwan	9	2	0.5%	Wu, Pin Chieh #80,967	National Cheng Kung University
25	Saudi Arabia	8	1	0.4%	Alshomrani, Ali Saleh #80,889	King Abdulaziz University
26	Finland	7	0	0.4%	Fickler, Robert #128,724	Itä-Suomen yliopisto
27	Belgium	7	0	0.4%	Haelterman, Marc #210,436	Université Libre de Bruxelles
28	Iran	6	1	0.3%	Mirzazadeh, M. A. #50,655	University of Guilan
29	Mexico	6	0	0.3%	Rosales-Guzmán, Carmelo #104,469	Centro de Investigaciones en Optica, A.C.
30	Egypt	5	1	0.3%	Arnous, Ahmed H. #35,526	Faculty of Science
31	Sweden	5	2	0.3%	L’Huillier, Anne #43,686	The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
32	Hungary	4	0	0.2%	Horváth, Gábor Zs K. #117,364	Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem
33	New Zealand	4	0	0.2%	Lekner, John #133,658	University of Auckland
34	Malaysia	3	0	0.2%	Alam, Mohammad Nur E. #134,560	Universiti Putra Malaysia
35	Pakistan	3	0	0.2%	Baqir, Muhammad Abuzar #161,223	COMSATS University Islamabad
36	Czechia	3	0	0.2%	Klapetek, Petr #241,518	Czech Metrology Institute
37	Brazil	3	0	0.2%	Gomes, Anderson Stevens Leônidas #286,194	Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
38	Cyprus	2	2	0.1%	Yıldırım, Yakup #13,498	Near East University
39	Ukraine	2	1	0.1%	Bekshaev, Aleksandr Y. #62,611	Odesa I.I. Mechnikov National University
40	Macao	2	1	0.1%	Yuan, Zhen #87,934	University of Macau
41	Romania	2	0	0.1%	Roșca, Cosmina Mihaela #599,509	Universitatea Petrol-Gaze din Ploiesti
42	Uzbekistan	1	1	0.1%	Ganeev, R. A. #85,562	Institute for Advanced Studies, New Uzbekistan University
43	Panama	1	0	0.1%	Ghimire, Shambhu #118,003	Universidad de Panamá
44	Lithuania	1	0	0.1%	Malinauskas, Mangirdas #125,749	Vilniaus Universiteto Lazerinių Tyrimų Centras
45	Algeria	1	0	0.1%	Triki, Houria #131,981	Université Badji Mokhtar - Annaba
46	Qatar	1	0	0.1%	Belić, Milivoj R. #149,684	Hamad Bin Khalifa University, College of Science and Engineering
47	Slovenia	1	0	0.1%	Humar, Matjaž #163,856	Institut Jožef Stefan
48	Chile	1	0	0.1%	Vicencio, Rodrigo A. #176,063	Instituto Milenio de Investigación en Óptica
49	South Africa	1	0	0.1%	Roux, Filippus Stefanus #226,237	University of KwaZulu-Natal
50	Bangladesh	1	0	0.1%	Mollah, Md Aslam #246,034	Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology
51	Portugal	1	0	0.1%	Huidobro, Paloma Arroyo #268,705	Instituto de Telecomunicações
52	Ireland	1	0	0.1%	Sheridan, J. T. #294,835	University College Dublin
53	Luxembourg	1	0	0.1%	Brida, Daniele #378,611	University of Luxembourg
54	Norway	1	0	0.1%	Skaar, Johannes #404,068	Universitetet i Oslo
55	Belarus	1	0	0.1%	Novitsky, Andrey V. #473,328	Belarusian State University
56	Armenia	1	0	0.1%	Gevorgyan, Ashot H. #748,164	Yerevan State University
57	Oman	1	0	0.1%	Khan, Sameen Ahmed #4,352,059	Dhofar University