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

516 researchers whose main subfield is Paleontology 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 (140, 27.1%), followed by the United Kingdom (101) and Germany (42). 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	140	77	27.1%	Erwin, Douglas H. #7,627	Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
2	United Kingdom	101	59	19.6%	Bronk Ramsey, Christopher #1,215	University College London
3	Germany	42	13	8.1%	Kiessling, Wolfgang #23,382	Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
4	China	40	17	7.8%	Cheng, Hai J. #5,314	Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology Chinese Academy of Sciences
5	France	25	6	4.8%	Bard, Édouard K. #33,413	CNRS Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
6	Australia	19	10	3.7%	Rohling, Eelco J. #12,976	The Australian National University
7	Italy	17	2	3.3%	Erba, Elisabetta #40,732	Sapienza Università di Roma
8	Canada	16	8	3.1%	Clague, John Joseph #21,484	University of Saskatchewan
9	Netherlands	11	6	2.1%	Vandenberghe, J. #20,616	Universiteit Utrecht
10	Norway	10	7	1.9%	Hammer, Øyvind S. #19,748	Universitetet i Bergen
11	Switzerland	10	5	1.9%	Heiri, Oliver #58,044	ETH Zürich
12	Poland	9	2	1.7%	Tarkowski, R. #7,713	Mineral and Energy Economy Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences
13	Argentina	9	3	1.7%	Ezcurra, Martín Daniel #23,823	CONICET−Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales “Bernardino Rivadavia”
14	Spain	9	1	1.7%	Rull, Valentí #58,714	Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
15	Sweden	9	2	1.7%	McLoughlin, Stephen #79,656	Naturhistoriska riksmuseet
16	South Africa	7	2	1.4%	Meadows, Michael E. #34,480	University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
17	Denmark	4	3	0.8%	Murray, Andrew S. #24,242	Aarhus Universitet
18	Brazil	4	3	0.8%	Kellner, Alexander W.A. #44,292	Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
19	Japan	4	2	0.8%	Kaiho, Kunio #68,541	The University of Tokyo
20	Austria	4	1	0.8%	Spótl, Christoph #86,575	Universität Wien
21	Belgium	4	0	0.8%	Yin, Qiuzhen #122,696	UCLouvain
22	Finland	4	0	0.8%	Fortelius, Mikael #142,278	Luonnontieteellinen Keskusmuseo
23	Estonia	2	1	0.4%	Sugita, Shinya #36,545	Institute of Ecology, Tallinn
24	New Zealand	2	1	0.4%	Gregory, Murray R. #60,867	University of Auckland
25	Russia	2	1	0.4%	Ruban, Dmitry Aleksandrovitch #74,645	Southern Federal University
26	Malta	2	0	0.4%	Scerri, Eleanor M.L. #112,037	L-Università ta' Malta
27	Hong Kong	2	0	0.4%	Liu, Kambiu #124,603	Chinese University of Hong Kong
28	Singapore	1	1	0.2%	Horton, Benjamin Peter #47,724	Earth Observatory of Singapore
29	Ireland	1	1	0.2%	McElwain, Jennifer C. #54,346	Trinity College Dublin
30	Ethiopia	1	0	0.2%	Geraads, Denis #110,545	Italo-Spanish Archaeological Mission at Melka Kunture and Balchit
31	Hungary	1	0	0.2%	Ó́si, Attila #132,017	Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem
32	Serbia	1	0	0.2%	Marković, Slobodan B. #204,697	University of Novi Sad
33	Lebanon	1	0	0.2%	Azar, Dany #230,197	Université Libanaise
34	Slovakia	1	0	0.2%	Cernanský, Andrej #256,889	Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave
35	Ukraine	1	0	0.2%	Perkovsky, Evgeny E. #687,229	I.I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine