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Which countries have the most top-cited scientists in Sociology?

453 researchers whose main subfield is Sociology 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 (268, 59.2%), followed by the United Kingdom (60) and Australia (22). 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	268	267	59.2%	Brubaker, Rogers #1,002	University of California, Los Angeles
2	United Kingdom	60	59	13.2%	Urry, John R. #1,788	University College London
3	Australia	22	22	4.9%	Connell, Raewyn W. #616	University of Melbourne
4	Germany	22	22	4.9%	Vertovec, Steven #2,462	Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
5	Netherlands	13	12	2.9%	Kalmijn, Matthijs #9,218	Universiteit van Amsterdam
6	Canada	12	12	2.6%	Schieman, Scott #18,408	University of Toronto
7	Sweden	9	9	2.0%	Rydgren, Jens #15,376	Stockholms universitet
8	Italy	7	7	1.5%	Burt, Ronald S. #1,060	Università di Trento
9	Switzerland	6	6	1.3%	Joppke, Christian G. #15,318	University of Bern
10	Israel	6	6	1.3%	Offer, Shira #38,780	Tel Aviv University
11	France	5	5	1.1%	Bourdieu, Pierre #800	École Pratique des Hautes Études
12	Denmark	4	4	0.9%	Jæger, Mads Meier #29,005	Københavns Universitet
13	China	3	3	0.7%	Wu, Xiaogang #17,295	NYU Shanghai
14	Spain	3	3	0.7%	Esping-Andersen, Gösta #39,618	Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona
15	Singapore	2	1	0.4%	Yeung, Wei Jun Jean #22,200	National University of Singapore
16	Hong Kong	2	1	0.4%	Hooke, Robert A. #52,374	The University of Hong Kong
17	United Arab Emirates	1	1	0.2%	England, Paula #6,932	NYU Abu Dhabi
18	South Africa	1	1	0.2%	Burawoy, Michael #11,278	University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
19	Lithuania	1	1	0.2%	Jorgenson, Andrew K. #13,963	Vilniaus Universitetas
20	Russia	1	1	0.2%	Goldstone, Jack A. #27,611	Volgograd Institute of Management, RANEPA
21	Belgium	1	1	0.2%	Kuipers, Giselinde #44,366	KU Leuven
22	Ireland	1	1	0.2%	Favell, Adrian #54,128	University College Cork
23	Cyprus	1	1	0.2%	Roudometof, Victor #62,205	University of Cyprus
24	Taiwan	1	1	0.2%	Lan, Pei Chia #76,592	National Taiwan University
25	Finland	1	1	0.2%	Keskinen, Suvi #99,913	Helsingin Yliopisto