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

208 researchers whose main subfield is Social Work 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 (98, 47.1%), followed by the United Kingdom (38) and Australia (20). 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	98	20	47.1%	Berger, Roni B. #14,162	Washington University in St. Louis, George Warren Brown School of Social Work
2	United Kingdom	38	8	18.3%	Dominelli, Lena #49,646	University of Huddersfield
3	Australia	20	4	9.6%	Gray, Mel M.A. #43,519	The University of Newcastle, Australia
4	Canada	13	6	6.3%	Liebenberg, Linda #20,476	University of Toronto
5	Israel	13	0	6.3%	Ben-Arieh, Asher #101,384	Tel Aviv University
6	Ireland	6	2	2.9%	Lundy, Laura #18,686	Trinity College Dublin
7	South Africa	2	1	1.0%	van Breda, Adrian D. #46,398	University of Johannesburg
8	China	2	1	1.0%	Jiang, Shan #80,185	Zhejiang University
9	New Zealand	2	0	1.0%	Beddoe, Liz #101,629	University of Auckland
10	Sweden	2	0	1.0%	Överlien, Carolina #139,708	Uppsala Universitet
11	Singapore	2	0	1.0%	Lee, Jungup #191,725	National University of Singapore
12	Cyprus	1	1	0.5%	Spyrou, Spyros #57,598	European University Cyprus
13	Hong Kong	1	1	0.5%	Wong, Daniel Fu Keung #75,376	The University of Hong Kong
14	Bangladesh	1	1	0.5%	Islam, M. Rezaul #84,480	University of Dhaka
15	Estonia	1	0	0.5%	Toros, Karmen #110,259	Tallinn University
16	Norway	1	0	0.5%	Skivenes, Marit #129,689	Universitetet i Bergen
17	Georgia	1	0	0.5%	Jaskyte, Kristina #138,446	The University of Georgia, Tbilisi
18	Germany	1	0	0.5%	James, Sigrid S. #158,346	Universität Kassel
19	Portugal	1	0	0.5%	Magalhães, Eunice Vieira #173,130	Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
20	Finland	1	0	0.5%	Alanen, Leena #230,355	University of Jyväskylä
21	Spain	1	0	0.5%	Gallardo-Peralta, Lorena Patricia #356,619	Universidad Complutense de Madrid