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

306 researchers whose main subfield is Philosophy 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 (163, 53.3%), followed by the United Kingdom (54) and the Netherlands (13). 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	163	100	53.3%	Floridi, Luciano #49	New York University
2	United Kingdom	54	24	17.6%	Bostrom, Nick #8,881	University of Oxford
3	Netherlands	13	7	4.2%	Robeyns, Ingrid A.M. #7,065	Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
4	Canada	13	8	4.2%	Mills, Charles Wright #11,282	University of Toronto
5	Australia	11	6	3.6%	Levy, Neil L. #7,560	Macquarie University
6	Germany	6	3	2.0%	Habermas, Jürgen #11,781	Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
7	Denmark	5	3	1.6%	Zahavi, Dan #6,291	Aarhus Universitet
8	Switzerland	4	2	1.3%	Heidegger, Martin #44,037	University of St. Gallen
9	Hong Kong	4	1	1.3%	Cappelen, Herman #52,005	City University of Hong Kong
10	South Africa	3	2	1.0%	Metz, Thaddeus #17,475	University of Pretoria
11	Sweden	3	2	1.0%	Hansson, Sven Ove #18,685	The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
12	Spain	3	1	1.0%	Shepherd, Joshua #76,098	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
13	Norway	3	2	1.0%	Baumgartner, Michael #78,248	Universitetet i Bergen
14	New Zealand	3	1	1.0%	Popper, Karl R. #79,019	University of Auckland
15	France	3	2	1.0%	Douven, Igor #82,744	Sorbonne Université
16	Finland	2	1	0.7%	Ylikoski, Petri #98,408	Helsingin Yliopisto
17	Italy	2	0	0.7%	Sangiovanni, Andrea #122,312	European University Institute, San Domenico di Fiesole
18	Japan	2	0	0.7%	Wansing, Heinrich #128,098	Tohoku University
19	Israel	1	1	0.3%	Enoch, David #24,220	Hebrew University of Jerusalem
20	Belgium	1	1	0.3%	Nanay, Bence #28,406	Universiteit Antwerpen
21	China	1	1	0.3%	Dentith, M. R.X. #54,677	Beijing Normal University
22	Singapore	1	1	0.3%	Li, Chenyang #68,225	School of Humanities
23	Austria	1	1	0.3%	Gheaus, Anca #73,970	Central European University
24	India	1	1	0.3%	Setiya, Kieran #80,906	MIT
25	Portugal	1	0	0.3%	Macagno, Fabrizio #113,983	Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa
26	Russia	1	0	0.3%	Husserl, Edmund #148,936	HSE University
27	Taiwan	1	0	0.3%	Chan, Joseph C W C.W. #166,203	Academia Sinica, Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences