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

872 researchers whose main subfield is Sport Sciences 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 (195, 22.4%), followed by the United Kingdom (128) and Australia (112). 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	195	108	22.4%	Hagger, Martin S. #1,063	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
2	United Kingdom	128	73	14.7%	Smith, Brett M. #2,563	Loughborough University
3	Australia	112	68	12.8%	Gabbett, Tim J. #2,169	The University of Queensland
4	Canada	60	38	6.9%	Phillips, Stuart Martin #1,420	The University of British Columbia
5	Spain	49	23	5.6%	Hopkins, Will G. #2,724	Universidad de Granada
6	Germany	32	14	3.7%	Memmert, Daniel #13,613	Deutsche Sporthochschule Köln
7	Norway	23	10	2.6%	Bahr, Roald M. #2,408	Norges Idrettshøgskole
8	France	19	14	2.2%	Carling, Christopher J. #21,415	Laboratoire Interuniversitaire de Biologie de la Motricité
9	Switzerland	18	11	2.1%	Mountjoy, Margo Lynn #11,456	International Olympic Committee
10	Portugal	17	8	1.9%	Clemente, Filipe Manuel #5,920	Faculdade de Motricidade Humana, Universidade de Lisboa
11	Italy	17	9	1.9%	Marcora, Samuele Maria #8,454	Università degli Studi di Padova
12	Denmark	16	9	1.8%	Ntoumanis, Nikos #4,231	Syddansk Universitet
13	Netherlands	16	8	1.8%	van Mechelen, Willem #14,344	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
14	Belgium	15	8	1.7%	Meeusen, Romain R. #8,833	Vrije Universiteit Brussel
15	New Zealand	14	6	1.6%	Laursen, Paul B. #34,197	Auckland University of Technology
16	Brazil	13	4	1.5%	Silva, Diego Augusto Santos #16,777	Universidade de São Paulo
17	Sweden	12	6	1.4%	Borg, Gunnar A.V. #2,889	Linköpings Universitet
18	Japan	12	6	1.4%	Suzuki, Katsushiko #12,617	Waseda University
19	Finland	11	7	1.3%	Komi, Paavo V. #14,910	University of Jyväskylä
20	Greece	9	5	1.0%	Flouris, Andreas D. #29,014	University of Thessaly
21	Hong Kong	8	2	0.9%	Grgic, Jozo #6,284	Chinese University of Hong Kong
22	Israel	8	2	0.9%	Hoffman, Jay R. #28,273	Tel Aviv University
23	Ireland	8	5	0.9%	Delahunt, Eamonn #32,550	University College Dublin
24	South Africa	7	3	0.8%	Noakes, Timothy D. #14,055	University of Cape Town
25	Austria	6	3	0.7%	Jeukendrup, Asker E. #5,125	Universität Innsbruck
26	China	6	3	0.7%	Khan, Karim Basu #6,729	Ningbo University
27	Qatar	5	2	0.6%	Chamari, K. #45,367	Aspetar Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Hospital
28	Tunisia	5	0	0.6%	Dergaa, Ismail #105,546	Institut Supérieur du Sport et de l'Education Physique de Sfax
29	Singapore	4	1	0.5%	Chow, Jia Yi #68,623	Nanyang Technological University
30	Croatia	3	1	0.3%	Markovic, Goran #30,196	University of Zagreb, Faculty of Kinesiology
31	South Korea	2	2	0.2%	Taylor, Nigel A.S. #60,721	Seoul National University
32	Türkiye	2	1	0.2%	Brewer, Britton W. #85,225	Springfield College
33	Slovenia	2	0	0.2%	Sǎrabon, Nejc #106,292	University of Primorska
34	Iran	2	0	0.2%	Asadi, Abbas #126,258	Payame Noor University
35	Malaysia	1	1	0.1%	Bailey, R. Peter #27,972	UCSI University
36	Ecuador	1	1	0.1%	López-Gil, José Francisco #30,203	Universidad Espíritu Santo
37	Chile	1	1	0.1%	Ramirez-Campillo, Rodrigo #30,342	Universidad Andrés Bello
38	Hungary	1	1	0.1%	Szabo, Attila #40,384	Széchenyi István University
39	Taiwan	1	1	0.1%	Chang, Yu Kai #40,682	National Taiwan Normal University
40	Slovakia	1	1	0.1%	Zemková, Erika #46,531	Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave
41	Cyprus	1	1	0.1%	Batrakoulis, Alexios #48,848	European University Cyprus
42	United Arab Emirates	1	1	0.1%	Nassis, George P. #58,132	University of Kalba
43	Faroe Islands	1	1	0.1%	Mohr, Magni M. #72,866	University of the Faroe Islands
44	Lithuania	1	1	0.1%	Ziv, Gal #78,504	Lithuanian Sports University
45	Monaco	1	0	0.1%	Bermon, Stéphane #120,242	Health and Science
46	Serbia	1	0	0.1%	Milanović, Zoran #129,859	University of Niš
47	Colombia	1	0	0.1%	Pino-Ortega, J. #140,895	National Pedagogical University
48	Poland	1	0	0.1%	Krzysztofik, Michal #159,301	Akademia Wychowania Fizycznego im. Jerzego Kukuczki w Katowicach
49	Czechia	1	0	0.1%	Elavsky, Steriani #165,144	Ostravská Univerzita v Ostrave
50	Costa Rica	1	0	0.1%	Rojas-Valverde, Daniel #191,211	Universidad Nacional