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

143 researchers whose main subfield is Social Sciences Methods 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 (99, 69.2%), followed by the Netherlands (15) and Canada (6). 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	99	99	69.2%	Bentler, Peter M. #105	University of California, Los Angeles
2	Netherlands	15	15	10.5%	Hox, Joop J.C.M. #6,038	Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
3	Canada	6	6	4.2%	Byrne, Barbara M. #1,126	The University of British Columbia
4	Spain	4	4	2.8%	Maydeu-Olivares, Alberto #6,424	Universitat Rovira i Virgili
5	Germany	4	4	2.8%	Robitzsch, Alexander #18,401	Zentrum für Internationale Bildungsvergleichsstudien (ZIB)
6	United Kingdom	3	3	2.1%	Pawson, Ray #14,272	University of Leeds
7	Australia	3	3	2.1%	Andrich, David #27,008	The University of Western Australia
8	Singapore	2	2	1.4%	Epskamp, Sacha #719	National University of Singapore
9	Belgium	1	1	0.7%	Rosseel, Yves #307	Universiteit Gent
10	Sweden	1	1	0.7%	Jöreskog, Karl Gustav #13,058	Uppsala Universitet
11	Hong Kong	1	1	0.7%	de la Torre, Jimmy #13,981	The University of Hong Kong
12	Taiwan	1	1	0.7%	Li, Chenghsien #23,520	National Sun Yat-sen University, College of Management
13	Switzerland	1	1	0.7%	Strobl, Carolin #54,188	Universität Zürich
14	Macao	1	1	0.7%	Lai, Mark Hok Chio #70,492	University of Macau
15	South Korea	1	0	0.7%	Cho, Eunseong #109,425	Kwangwoon University