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Which countries have the most top-cited scientists in Social Psychology?

1,102 researchers whose main subfield is Social Psychology 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 (572, 51.9%), followed by the United Kingdom (97) and Canada (66). 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	572	562	51.9%	Bandura, Albert #4	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
2	United Kingdom	97	93	8.8%	Van Der Linden, Sander L. #370	University of Kent
3	Canada	66	65	6.0%	Russell, James A. #282	The University of British Columbia
4	Australia	61	59	5.5%	Ryan, Richard M. #9	The University of Queensland
5	Netherlands	51	50	4.6%	Lakens, Daniël #245	Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
6	Germany	49	47	4.4%	Bamberg, Sebastian #3,903	Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
7	Israel	19	16	1.7%	Schwartz, Shalom H. #100	Hebrew University of Jerusalem
8	Italy	17	16	1.5%	Caprara, Gian Vittorio #6,992	Sapienza Università di Roma
9	Spain	16	14	1.5%	Salanova, M. #9,343	Universidad de Málaga
10	Poland	15	13	1.4%	Karwowski, Maciej #5,370	University of Wrocław
11	New Zealand	14	14	1.3%	Milfont, Taciano L. #5,205	University of Auckland
12	Belgium	14	13	1.3%	Kuppens, Peter #6,428	UCLouvain
13	Switzerland	12	12	1.1%	Orth, Ulrich #3,100	Universität Zürich
14	China	10	10	0.9%	Hsee, Christopher K. #19,965	Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business(CKGSB)
15	Austria	9	9	0.8%	Benedek, Mathias #7,948	Universität Graz
16	Denmark	9	8	0.8%	Petersen, Michael Bang #11,980	Aarhus Universitet
17	Hong Kong	8	8	0.7%	Chen, Fangfang #3,103	The University of Hong Kong
18	France	7	6	0.6%	Nettle, Daniel #7,079	CNRS Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
19	Norway	5	5	0.5%	Furnham, Adrian F. #908	Handelshøyskolen BI
20	Finland	5	5	0.5%	Runco, Mark A. #1,866	Aalto University
21	Sweden	4	4	0.4%	Hartig, Terry #1,898	Uppsala Universitet
22	Türkiye	4	4	0.4%	Arslan, Gökmen #5,201	Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi
23	South Africa	3	3	0.3%	Steger, Michael F. #1,747	North-West University
24	South Korea	3	2	0.3%	Joshanloo, Mohsen #8,247	Keimyung University
25	Japan	3	3	0.3%	Yamagishi, Toshio #24,031	Tamagawa University
26	Portugal	3	3	0.3%	Batel, Susana #28,707	Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
27	Taiwan	3	3	0.3%	Hwang, Kwang-Kuo Kuo #67,466	National Taiwan University
28	Greece	2	1	0.2%	Efklides, Anastasia #16,482	Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
29	Philippines	2	2	0.2%	Bernardo, Allan B.I. #33,564	De La Salle University
30	Chile	2	1	0.2%	Casas, Ferrán #67,722	Universidad Andrés Bello
31	Malaysia	1	1	0.1%	Swami, Viren #4,470	Perdana University
32	Ireland	1	1	0.1%	Glaveanu, Vlad Petre #7,704	Dublin City University
33	Singapore	1	1	0.1%	Cremer, David De #8,137	National University of Singapore
34	Brazil	1	1	0.1%	Fischer, Ronald #8,521	Instituto D'Or de Pesquisa e Ensino
35	Egypt	1	1	0.1%	Abdel-Khalek, Ahmed M. #19,378	Alexandria University
36	Serbia	1	1	0.1%	Jovanović, Veljko #26,722	University of Novi Sad
37	Bulgaria	1	1	0.1%	Minkov, Michael #27,958	Varna University of Management
38	Bangladesh	1	1	0.1%	Khaleque, Abdul #35,843	Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology
39	Lithuania	1	1	0.1%	Joye, Yannick #38,805	Vilniaus Universitetas
40	Slovenia	1	1	0.1%	Bosnjak, Michael #48,947	Univerza v Ljubljani
41	Jamaica	1	1	0.1%	Trivers, Robert L. #55,771	St Elizabeth
42	Estonia	1	1	0.1%	Allik, Jüri #60,294	Tartu Ülikool
43	United Arab Emirates	1	1	0.1%	Henry, P. J. #65,170	NYU Abu Dhabi
44	Mexico	1	1	0.1%	Merino-Soto, César A. #86,769	Tecnológico de Monterrey
45	Cyprus	1	0	0.1%	Apostolou, Menelaos #114,658	University of Nicosia
46	Peru	1	0	0.1%	Dominguez-Lara, Sergio Alexis #115,855	Universidad de San Martín de Porres
47	Jordan	1	0	0.1%	Alhasan, Tariq Kamal #151,188	Applied Science Private University