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Which countries have the most top-cited scientists in Science Studies?

143 researchers whose main subfield is Science Studies 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 (44, 30.8%), followed by the United Kingdom (30) and the Netherlands (14). A country with 100 or more opens its institutions in the subfield; the others open their scientists in the table of all authors.

#CountryListed authorsTop 100kShare of subfieldHighest-ranked authorTop institution
1 United States444230.8%Jasanoff, Sheila S. #1,431University of Pittsburgh
2 United Kingdom302921.0%Geels, Frank W. #95University of Sussex
3 Netherlands14139.8%Frenken, Koen #5,305Universiteit van Amsterdam
4 Germany885.6%Blind, Knut #13,280Technische Universität Berlin
5 Italy664.2%Moed, Henk F. #21,036Sapienza Università di Roma
6 France553.5%Latour, Bruno #1,114Médialab Sciences Po
7 Australia553.5%Raven, R. P.J.M. #13,394The University of Sydney
8 Canada543.5%Birch, Kean B. #24,163York University
9 Switzerland442.8%Markard, Jochen #4,929ETH Zürich
10 Sweden442.8%Bergek, Anna #17,257Lunds Universitet
11 China332.1%Liu, Weishu #13,709Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics
12 South Africa221.4%Schot, Johan A. #13,999College of Business and Economics
13 Austria221.4%von der Gracht, Heiko A. #19,400University for Continuing Education Krems
14 Norway221.4%Steen, Markus #57,381SINTEF Digital
15 Finland221.4%Meyer, Martin S. #82,852Vaasan Yliopisto
16 Denmark211.4%Wray, K. Brad #92,183Aarhus Universitet
17 Taiwan110.7%Ho, Yuhshan #814CT HO Trend
18 Belgium110.7%Glänzel, Wolfgang #18,978KU Leuven
19 Spain110.7%D'Este, Pablo #66,996CSIC-UPV - Instituto de Gestión de la Innovación y del Conocimiento (INGENIO)
20 South Korea110.7%Yun, Jinhyo Joseph #78,402Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology
21 Portugal110.7%Mendonça, Sandro #94,506Universidade de Lisboa

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Data: Ioannidis, John P.A. (2026), ‘August 2026 data-update for “Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators”’, Mendeley Data, v9, doi:10.17632/btchxktzyw.9. 2026 list, ranked by composite citation score (c) excluding self-citations.

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