Top countries for Statistics & Probability

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Which countries have the most top-cited scientists in Statistics & Probability?

516 researchers whose main subfield is Statistics & Probability 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 (260, 50.4%), followed by the United Kingdom (52) and Canada (24). A country with 100 or more opens its institutions in the subfield; the others open their scientists in the table of all authors.

#CountryListed authorsTop 100kShare of subfieldHighest-ranked authorTop institution
1 United States26023650.4%Breiman, Leo #16University of California, Berkeley
2 United Kingdom525010.1%Wood, Simon N. #200University of Cambridge
3 Canada24234.7%Neal, Radford M. #5,528University of Waterloo
4 Germany20193.9%Bürkner, Paul Christian #544Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
5 China17133.3%Peng, Shige #5,845Peking University
6 France15142.9%Biau, Gérard #8,154Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique
7 Australia14142.7%Hyndman, Rob J. #1,994The University of Queensland
8 Netherlands13132.5%Rizopoulos, Dimitris #8,352Erasmus MC
9 Switzerland12122.3%Bûhlmann, Peter #1,892ETH Zürich
10 Austria991.7%Hornik, Kurt #1,030WU Vienna University of Economics and Business
11 Belgium761.4%Rousseeuw, Peter J. #432KU Leuven
12 Italy771.4%Giudici, Paolo S. #9,494Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna
13 Sweden651.2%Sjölander, Arvid #34,200Karolinska Institutet
14 Spain551.0%Robins, James M. #499Glovo
15 Saudi Arabia551.0%Aslam, Muhammad #6,137King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
16 Taiwan440.8%Shmueli, Galit #3,846National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
17 New Zealand440.8%Lumley, Thomas S. #5,325University of Auckland
18 Israel440.8%Benjamini, Yoav #7,917Tel Aviv University
19 India330.6%Kundu, Debasis #6,319Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
20 Hong Kong330.6%Huang, Jian #21,091The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
21 Türkiye320.6%Eryilmaz, Serkan N. #31,894Atilim University
22 Egypt300.6%Abonazel, Mohamed Reda #144,985Faculty of Graduate Studies for Statistical Research
23 Denmark220.4%Andersen, Per Kragh #11,662Det Sundhedsvidenskabelige Fakultet
24 Greece220.4%Mavridis, Dimitrios #30,425University of Ioannina
25 Brazil220.4%Cordeiro, Gauss Moutinho #35,748Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
26 South Africa220.4%Lesaffre, Emmanuel M.E.H. #47,968Stellenbosch University
27 Ireland220.4%Parnell, Andrew C. #62,384University College Dublin
28 United Arab Emirates210.4%Dalalyan, Arnak S. #66,277Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
29 Pakistan210.4%Ahmad, Zubair #82,317Ibn-e-Sina Institute of Technology
30 Japan110.2%Akaike, Hirotsugu #420The Institute of Statistical Mathematics
31 Iraq110.2%Algamal, Zakariya Y. #41,370University of Mosul
32 South Korea110.2%Lee, Juhee #56,283Hongik University
33 Chile110.2%Leiva, Víctor #68,761Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso
34 Hungary110.2%Székely, Gábor J. #87,233Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics
35 Norway110.2%Aalen, Odd O. #87,438Universitetet i Oslo
36 Kuwait100.2%Ghitany, Mohamed E. #100,498Kuwait University
37 Singapore100.2%Xia, Yingcun #101,328National University of Singapore
38 Cyprus100.2%Fokianos, Konstantinos #103,703University of Cyprus
39 Czechia100.2%Sindhu, Tabassum Naz #105,542VSB – Technical University of Ostrava
40 Jordan100.2%Al-Omari, Amer Ibrahim Falah #108,072Al Al-Bayt University
41 Ukraine100.2%Mishura, Yuliya S. #116,670Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv