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Which countries have the most top-cited scientists in Religions & Theology?

254 researchers whose main subfield is Religions & Theology 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 (106, 41.7%), followed by the United Kingdom (47) and Canada (14). 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	106	11	41.7%	Campbell, Heidi A. #19,510	Boston University
2	United Kingdom	47	2	18.5%	Voas, David #58,593	University of Leeds
3	Canada	14	0	5.5%	Slingerland, Edward G. #102,442	University of Waterloo
4	Australia	11	1	4.3%	Yilmaz, Ihsan #63,038	Deakin University
5	Netherlands	10	2	3.9%	Meyer, Birgit #26,409	Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
6	Israel	9	0	3.5%	Fredriksen, Paula #153,478	Hebrew University of Jerusalem
7	Germany	8	1	3.1%	Knoblauch, Hubert #78,836	Technische Universität Berlin
8	Switzerland	6	0	2.4%	Stolz, Jörg #219,372	Université de Lausanne (UNIL)
9	South Africa	6	0	2.4%	Nicolaides, Angelo C. #275,153	University of Pretoria
10	Norway	5	0	2.0%	Nongbri, Brent #192,488	Det teologiske Menighetsfakultet
11	Sweden	4	0	1.6%	Asprem, Egil #180,113	Stockholms universitet
12	Belgium	4	0	1.6%	Houtman, Dick #217,321	KU Leuven
13	Poland	4	0	1.6%	Oviedo, Lluís #265,426	Nicolaus Copernicus Superior School
14	China	3	0	1.2%	Boer, Roland #606,177	Renmin University of China
15	Finland	2	1	0.8%	Pihkala, Panu #4,267	Helsingin Yliopisto
16	South Korea	2	0	0.8%	Jung, Jong Hyun #303,513	Sungkyunkwan University
17	Denmark	2	0	0.8%	Sedgwick, Mark J. #337,408	Aarhus Universitet
18	Spain	2	0	0.8%	Griera, Mar Del Mar #367,061	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
19	Italy	1	0	0.4%	Evolvi, Giulia #169,245	Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna
20	Kenya	1	0	0.4%	Chitando, Ezra #254,472	Faith to Action Network
21	Ghana	1	0	0.4%	Asamoah-Gyadu, Johnson Kwabena #362,179	Trinity Theological Seminary
22	Philippines	1	0	0.4%	Del Castillo, Fides A. #542,746	De La Salle University
23	Japan	1	0	0.4%	Siderits, Mark #545,463	Kyoto University
24	Macao	1	0	0.4%	Harrison, Victoria S. #586,671	University of Macau
25	Türkiye	1	0	0.4%	Bensaid, Benaouda #586,979	İstanbul Sabahattin Zaim University
26	Chile	1	0	0.4%	Fernández, Samuel E. #609,821	Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
27	Portugal	1	0	0.4%	Fedele, Anna #613,634	Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa