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

2,807 researchers whose main subfield is Polymers are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list. China has the most (788, 28.1%), followed by the United States (318) and India (164). 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	China	788	205	28.1%	Sun, Runcang Cang #879	Nanjing Forestry University
2	United States	318	145	11.3%	Andrady, Anthony L. #413	College of Engineering
3	India	164	61	5.8%	Sabu, Thomas P. #1,465	Institute of Chemical Technology
4	Japan	120	40	4.3%	Gong, Jian Ping #924	Institute of Science Tokyo
5	Iran	89	34	3.2%	Saberi-Riseh, Roohallah #8,538	University of Tehran
6	South Korea	86	22	3.1%	Park, Soo-jin #1,853	Yeungnam University
7	Germany	85	35	3.0%	Schubert, Ulrich S. #2,490	Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research
8	Canada	79	40	2.8%	Mohanty, Amar Kumar #10,271	University of Toronto
9	France	75	34	2.7%	Dufresne, Alain #1,024	Université Grenoble Alpes
10	United Kingdom	74	33	2.6%	Thakur, Vijay Kumar #895	University of Birmingham
11	Egypt	73	29	2.6%	Emam, Hossam E. #5,929	National Research Centre
12	Italy	70	23	2.5%	Siracusa, V. M. #13,151	Università di Pisa
13	Saudi Arabia	63	23	2.2%	Umoren, Saviour Alphonsus #11,326	King Saud University
14	Spain	60	18	2.1%	Mecerreyes, David #7,846	Universidad del Pais Vasco
15	Australia	54	22	1.9%	Moad, Graeme #9,214	The University of Queensland
16	Poland	50	19	1.8%	Sionkowska, Alina #6,310	Institute - Center for Molecular and Macromolecular Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences
17	Türkiye	49	11	1.7%	Sahiner, Nurettin #10,109	İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi
18	Malaysia	40	16	1.4%	Jawad, Ali H. #8,930	Universiti Putra Malaysia
19	Netherlands	26	9	0.9%	Ragaert, Kim J. #45,161	Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
20	Thailand	25	9	0.9%	Siengchin, Suchart #698	Chulalongkorn University
21	Romania	24	14	0.9%	Vasile, Cornelia #11,594	Petru Poni Institute of Macromolecular chemistry
22	Brazil	23	5	0.8%	Poletto, Matheus #42,405	Universidade de São Paulo
23	Taiwan	22	6	0.8%	Kuo, Shiao Wei #12,341	National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
24	Belgium	21	9	0.7%	Hoogenboom, Richard #5,387	Universiteit Gent
25	Sweden	21	11	0.7%	Oksman, Kristiina N. #13,478	The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
26	Portugal	20	5	0.7%	Banea, M. D. #17,127	CICECO – Instituto de Materiais de Aveiro
27	Finland	20	8	0.7%	Sixta, Herbert #27,671	Aalto University
28	Pakistan	19	5	0.7%	Kausar, Ayesha #1,092	Government College University Faisalabad
29	Switzerland	16	5	0.6%	Kröger, Martin #51,201	ETH Zürich
30	Greece	15	4	0.5%	Bikiaris, Dimitrios N. #4,907	Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
31	South Africa	14	6	0.5%	Ray, Suprakas Sinha #3,316	University of Johannesburg
32	Bangladesh	13	2	0.5%	Mondal, Md Ibrahim Hossain #62,026	University of Dhaka
33	Singapore	12	3	0.4%	Li, Lin #68,668	National University of Singapore
34	Morocco	11	2	0.4%	Habibi, Youssef #9,964	Mohammed VI Polytechnic University
35	Czechia	11	3	0.4%	Stejskal, Jaroslav #10,229	University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague
36	Russia	11	3	0.4%	Malkin, Alexander Yakovlevich #57,688	A.V.Topchiev Institute of Petrochemical Synthesis, RAS
37	Austria	11	4	0.4%	Bechtold, Thomas E. #66,186	BOKU University
38	Iraq	10	3	0.4%	Aziz, Shujahadeen B. #3,345	University of Sulaimani
39	Norway	8	3	0.3%	Chinga-Carrasco, Gary #32,769	RISE, Paper and Fibre Research Institute AS
40	Hungary	8	2	0.3%	Pukánszky, Béla A. #33,421	Budapest University of Technology and Economics
41	Israel	7	3	0.2%	Domb, Avi Jacob #26,424	Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
42	Hong Kong	7	2	0.2%	Kan, C. W. #27,243	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
43	New Zealand	7	0	0.2%	Ali, Mohammed Azam #114,425	University of Auckland
44	Indonesia	7	0	0.2%	Abral, Hairul #124,608	Badan Riset dan Inovasi Nasional
45	United Arab Emirates	6	3	0.2%	Jawaid, Mohammad #4,873	Khalifa University
46	Ireland	6	2	0.2%	Collins, Maurice N. #23,332	University of Limerick
47	Chile	6	3	0.2%	Jadoun, Sapana #25,987	Universidad San Sebastián
48	Qatar	6	2	0.2%	Khan, Muhammad Umar Aslam #60,695	Qatar University
49	Vietnam	4	1	0.1%	Phan-Thien, N. #30,343	Mekong University
50	Slovenia	4	2	0.1%	Gorgieva, Selestina #84,219	Univerza v Mariboru
51	Slovakia	4	1	0.1%	Ebringerová, Anna #95,031	Polymer Institute of Slovak Academy of Sciences
52	Mexico	4	0	0.1%	Elias-Zuniga, Alex #119,385	Tecnológico de Monterrey
53	Argentina	4	0	0.1%	Alvarez, Vera A. #128,126	Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata
54	Algeria	4	0	0.1%	Belaadi, Ahmed #155,491	Université Oran 1
55	Oman	3	2	0.1%	Bhatia, Saurabh C. #7,803	Dhofar University
56	Tunisia	3	1	0.1%	Boufi, Sami #33,392	Faculté des Sciences de Sfax
57	Kazakhstan	3	0	0.1%	Berillo, Dmitriy A. #167,802	M.kozybayev North Kazakhstan University
58	Denmark	2	1	0.1%	Hansen, Charlès M. #13,630	Jens Bornoes Vej 16
59	Peru	2	1	0.1%	Torres, Fernando G. #56,235	Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru
60	Serbia	2	0	0.1%	Radetić, Maja M. #139,067	University of Belgrade Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy
61	Macao	2	0	0.1%	Liu, Jiayue #178,176	Institute of Chinese Medical Sciences
62	Nigeria	1	1	0.0%	Idumah, Christopher Igwe #7,503	Nnamdi Azikiwe University
63	Jordan	1	1	0.0%	Al-Saleh, Mohammed H. #28,319	Jordan University of Science and Technology
64	Brunei	1	1	0.0%	Sabet, Maziyar #34,321	Universiti Teknologi Brunei
65	Libya	1	0	0.0%	Yahya, Esam Bashir #103,359	Alasmarya Islamic University
66	Kuwait	1	0	0.0%	Munir, Muhammad Tajammal #113,537	American University of the Middle East
67	Lebanon	1	0	0.0%	Khalil, Mahmoud I. #121,962	Beirut Arab University
68	Yemen	1	0	0.0%	Almulaiky, Yaaser Q. #162,143	Taiz University
69	Mauritius	1	0	0.0%	Goonoo, Nowsheen #192,587	University of Mauritius
70	Syria	1	0	0.0%	Al Lafi, Abdul G. #202,835	Atomic Energy Commission of Syria
71	Colombia	1	0	0.0%	Palencia, Manuel S. #213,093	Universidad del Valle, Cali
72	Ghana	1	0	0.0%	Tawiah, Benjamin #225,909	Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology
73	Bulgaria	1	0	0.0%	Antov, Petar Yordanov #228,876	University of Forestry
74	Croatia	1	0	0.0%	Rogina, Anamarija #239,108	Sveučilište u Zagrebu, Fakultet kemijskog inženjerstva i Tehnologije
75	Lithuania	1	0	0.0%	Platnieks, Oskars #239,348	Kaunas University of Technology
76	Kenya	1	0	0.0%	Madivoli, E. S. #243,484	Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology
77	Azerbaijan	1	0	0.0%	Narmani, Asghar #258,181	Ministry of Science and Education of the Republic of Azerbaijan