Top countries for Virology

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

1,678 researchers whose main subfield is Virology 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 (785, 46.8%), followed by China (148) and the United Kingdom (131). 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 States78517546.8%Larson, Heidi Jane #1,263National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
2 China148208.8%Gao, George Fu #4,266Fudan University
3 United Kingdom131357.8%Mallapaty, Smriti #6,480University College London
4 Germany78114.6%Mettenleiter, Thomas C. #23,935Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute
5 Australia55103.3%Holmes, Edward C. #1,771University of Melbourne
6 Canada5593.3%Zheng, Chunfu #16,649University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine
7 France4882.9%Krupovic, Mart #30,325Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
8 Japan4652.7%Kawaoka, Yoshihiro K. #14,208National Institute of Infectious Diseases
9 Netherlands4362.6%Wang, Ying #41,004Erasmus MC
10 Switzerland3432.0%Ford, Nathan P. #42,755Organisation Mondiale de la Santé
11 Spain3021.8%Sanjuán, Rafael #37,221CSIC-UAM - Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa (CBM)
12 South Africa29101.7%Bekker, Linda-Gail Gail #13,664University of Cape Town
13 Italy2231.3%Antinori, Andrea #63,697Università degli studi di Bari Aldo Moro
14 India1621.0%Petrovsky, Nikolai P. #22,962National Institute of Virology India
15 Belgium1230.7%Van-Damme, Pierre A. #37,240KU Leuven
16 South Korea1210.7%Lee, Changhee #89,289International Vaccine Institute, Seoul
17 Hong Kong1020.6%Poon, Leo Lit Man #59,180The University of Hong Kong Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine
18 Singapore930.5%Chua, Kaw Bing #37,981National University of Singapore
19 Brazil900.5%Grinsztejn, Beatriz Gilda Jegerhorn #116,977Instituto Nacional de Infectologia Evandro Chagas (INI)
20 Thailand800.5%Whitehead, Stephen S. #101,162Mahidol University
21 Finland720.4%Simmonds, Peter N. #6,156Helsingin Yliopisto
22 Denmark720.4%Belsham, G. J. #71,015Københavns Universitet
23 Austria510.3%Krammer, Florian H. #1,451Medizinische Universität Wien Zentrum für Virologie
24 Sweden500.3%Liu, Margaret Ann #125,542Karolinska Institutet
25 Taiwan500.3%Lin, Liang Tzung #193,493Taipei Medical University
26 Uganda500.3%Sewankambo, Nelson K. #275,978School of Medicine, Makerere University College of Health Sciences
27 Pakistan410.2%Briddon, Rob William #95,461Quaid-i-Azam University
28 Norway400.2%Cox, Rebecca Jane #120,512Universitetet i Oslo
29 Argentina400.2%Cahn, Pedro Enrique #228,994Fundacion Huesped
30 New Zealand400.2%Petousis-Harris, Helen A. #252,479University of Otago
31 Iran310.2%Bolhassani, Azam #35,739Pasteur Institute of Iran
32 Vietnam310.2%Bangsberg, David R. #81,103VinUniversity
33 Russia300.2%Lukashev, Alexander N. #118,770Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Tropical and Vector Borne Diseases
34 Hungary300.2%Harrach, Balázs #174,468HUN-REN Veterinary Medical Research Institute
35 Greece300.2%Touloumi, Giota #222,524School of Medicine
36 Ireland200.1%Mallon, Patrick W.G. #180,654UCD School of Medicine
37 Malaysia200.1%Kamarulzaman, Adeeba Binti #181,492Monash University Malaysia
38 Czechia200.1%Ruzek, Daniel #202,547Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
39 Poland200.1%Pyrc, Krzysztof #242,740Uniwersytet Jagielloński
40 Portugal200.1%Taveira, Nuno Costa #265,292Egas Moniz School of Health and Science
41 Botswana200.1%Shapiro, Roger L. #303,372Botswana Harvard Health Partnership
42 Mexico200.1%Arias, Carlos F. #327,915Instituto de Biotecnología de la UNAM
43 Kenya200.1%Ngure, Kenneth K. #368,415Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology
44 Slovenia110.1%Poljak, Mario #56,020Univerza v Ljubljani Medicinska Fakulteta
45 Kazakhstan100.1%Aljofan, Mohamad #122,148National Laboratory Astana
46 Zambia100.1%Takada, Ayato #141,643University of Zambia
47 Georgia100.1%Margolis, Leonid B. #155,704Ilia State University (ISU)
48 Slovakia100.1%Klempa, Boris #187,169Institute of Virology Slovak Academy of Sciences
49 Puerto Rico100.1%Vermund, Sten Halvor #228,888Global Virus Network
50 Egypt100.1%Kandeil, A. Mohamed #249,349National Research Centre
51 Serbia100.1%Knezevic, Petar N. #266,361University of Novi Sad
52 Cameroon100.1%Njouom, Richard #273,060Centre Pasteur du Cameroun
53 Croatia100.1%Tomaić, Vjekoslav #303,202Institut Ruđer Bošković
54 Luxembourg100.1%Muller, Claude P. #348,481Luxembourg Institute of Health
55 Oman100.1%Abdel-Moneim, Ahmed Sayed #360,512Sultan Qaboos University College of Medicine and Health Sciences
56 Gambia100.1%Wilson, Rose Jane Isobel #370,618Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia
57 Estonia100.1%Merits, Andres #388,151Tartu Ülikool
58 United Arab Emirates100.1%Ahmad, Waqar #394,432United Arab Emirates University
59 Bangladesh100.1%Kayesh, Mohammad Enamul Hoque #407,001Patuakhali Science and Technology University
60 Colombia100.1%Urcuqui-Inchima, Silvio #416,177Universidad de Antioquia