Top countries for Urban & Regional Planning

Which countries have the most top-cited scientists in Urban & Regional Planning?

321 researchers whose main subfield is Urban & Regional Planning 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 (81, 25.2%), followed by the United Kingdom (64) and the Netherlands (25). 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 States818125.2%Brenner, Neil #1,490University of California, Los Angeles
2 United Kingdom646019.9%Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés #441University College London
3 Netherlands25257.8%Vanclay, Frank M. #5,721Universiteit van Amsterdam
4 Australia21196.5%Yigitcanlar, Tan #1,226University of Melbourne
5 China14144.4%Yang, Yuanyuan #11,019Tongji University
6 Italy13114.0%Geneletti, Davide #8,218Politecnico di Milano
7 Germany12113.7%Hassink, Robert #15,568Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
8 Canada1093.1%Rees, William E. #24,633The University of British Columbia
9 Hong Kong982.8%Lu, Yi #4,868The University of Hong Kong
10 Norway772.2%Cooke, Philip N. #10,177Universitetet i Stavanger
11 Sweden772.2%Grillitsch, Markus #28,708Lunds Universitet
12 Belgium651.9%Antrop, Marc #27,346KU Leuven
13 Finland541.6%Stead, Dominic #25,285Aalto University
14 Denmark441.2%Mouratidis, Kostas #1,516Københavns Universitet
15 South Africa441.2%Watson, Vanessa J. #8,802University of Cape Town
16 Spain330.9%Anguelovski, Isabelle #2,798Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
17 Ireland330.9%Cugurullo, Federico #12,487University College Dublin
18 Israel330.9%Yiftachel, Oren #21,641Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
19 South Korea330.9%Lee, Sugie #70,696Chung-Ang University
20 Austria220.6%Trippl, Michaela #18,724Universität Wien
21 Greece210.6%Angelidou, Margarita #27,772Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
22 France220.6%Torre, Andre #35,875Université Paris-Saclay
23 Estonia220.6%Bell, Simon M. #39,583Eesti Maaülikool
24 Saudi Arabia220.6%Almatar, Khalid Mohammed #45,469Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University
25 Taiwan220.6%Han, Ketsung #48,197National Chin-Yi University of Technology
26 Iran220.6%Khavarian-Garmsir, Amir Reza #68,086University of Isfahan
27 Thailand110.3%Taecharungroj, Viriya #25,677Mahidol University
28 Namibia110.3%Chigbu, Uchendu Eugene #33,861Namibia University of Science and Technology
29 New Zealand110.3%van der Heijden, Jeroen #37,707Victoria University of Wellington
30 United Arab Emirates110.3%Zhu, Pengyu #40,474Masdar Institute of Science and Technology
31 Singapore110.3%Tan, Puay Yok #50,718National University of Singapore
32 Portugal110.3%Medeiros, Eduardo José Rocha #62,996Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal
33 Poland110.3%Wach, Krzysztof #68,790Krakow University of Economics
34 Japan110.3%Rupprecht, Christoph D. D #74,099Ehime University
35 Switzerland110.3%Hersperger, Anna M. #84,924Eidgenössische Forschungsanstalt für Wald, Schnee und Landschaft WSL
36 Nigeria110.3%Adegun, Olumuyiwa Bayode #86,752Federal University of Technology, Akure
37 Ghana110.3%Oteng-Ababio, Martin #87,284University of Ghana
38 Egypt100.3%Elshater, Abeer M. #141,025Ain Shams University
39 Bangladesh100.3%Talukder, Mohammad Badruddoza #245,231International University of Business Agriculture and Technology