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Which countries have the most top-cited scientists in Political Science & Public Administration?

899 researchers whose main subfield is Political Science & Public Administration 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 (423, 47.1%), followed by the United Kingdom (123) and the Netherlands (48). 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	423	420	47.1%	Ostrom, Elinor #34	Stanford University
2	United Kingdom	123	121	13.7%	Hood, Christopher C. #2,661	London School of Economics and Political Science
3	Netherlands	48	48	5.3%	Meijer, Albert Jacob #2,840	Universiteit van Amsterdam
4	Germany	38	36	4.2%	Mergel, Ines A. #4,134	Freie Universität Berlin
5	Italy	34	33	3.8%	Della Porta, Donatella D. #5,599	European University Institute, San Domenico di Fiesole
6	Australia	27	27	3.0%	Schlosberg, David #2,572	The Australian National University
7	Switzerland	24	23	2.7%	Kriesi, Hanspeter #2,335	Universität Zürich
8	Sweden	24	24	2.7%	Rothstein, Bo #10,832	Göteborgs Universitet
9	Canada	21	21	2.3%	Howlett, Michael P. #608	Université McGill
10	Denmark	18	18	2.0%	Torfing, Jacob #3,194	Aarhus Universitet
11	Belgium	18	18	2.0%	Hooghe, Marc #11,586	KU Leuven
12	Austria	17	17	1.9%	Wagner, Markus #8,339	Central European University
13	Norway	14	12	1.6%	Christensen, Tom #12,811	Universitetet i Oslo
14	Israel	10	10	1.1%	Vigoda-Gadot, Eran #13,285	Hebrew University of Jerusalem
15	Hong Kong	9	9	1.0%	Tummers, Lars G. #5,888	City University of Hong Kong
16	France	9	9	1.0%	Hay, Colin #22,716	Centre d'Études Européennes et de Politique Comparée de Sciences Po
17	Spain	9	9	1.0%	Bel, Germá G. #23,662	Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona
18	South Korea	6	5	0.7%	Moon, Myung-jae #24,828	Yonsei University
19	Finland	4	4	0.4%	Oberthür, Sebastian #42,254	Helsingin Yliopisto
20	China	3	3	0.3%	Feiock, Richard Clark #21,698	Zhongnan University of Economics and Law
21	India	3	2	0.3%	Bhan, Gautam #63,757	Indian Institute for Human Settlements
22	Singapore	2	2	0.2%	Cashore, Benjamin W. #43,876	Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
23	Ukraine	2	2	0.2%	Kulyk, Volodymyr #45,660	Kyiv School of Economics, Ukraine
24	Ireland	2	2	0.2%	Dukalskis, Alexander #75,634	University College Dublin
25	Chile	1	1	0.1%	Rovira Kaltwasser, Cristóbal #14,706	Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
26	Greece	1	1	0.1%	Stavrakakis, Yannis #27,665	Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
27	Mexico	1	1	0.1%	Peeters, Rik #39,432	Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas
28	Russia	1	1	0.1%	Salamon, Lester M. #49,068	HSE University
29	Portugal	1	1	0.1%	Magalhães, Pedro C. #58,772	Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa
30	Estonia	1	1	0.1%	Perez, Carlota #68,158	Tallinna Tehnikaülikool
31	Pakistan	1	1	0.1%	Nisar, Muhammad Azfar #76,035	Lahore University of Management Sciences
32	Slovenia	1	1	0.1%	Kuhar, Roman #80,361	Univerza v Ljubljani
33	Czechia	1	1	0.1%	Guasti, Petra #91,755	Sociologický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i.
34	Poland	1	1	0.1%	Stanley, Ben #91,779	SWPS Uniwersytet Humanistycznospołeczny
35	Japan	1	0	0.1%	Zhai, Yida #132,340	University of Tsukuba