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

435 researchers whose main subfield is Zoology 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 (93, 21.4%), followed by Germany (35) and Brazil (33). 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	93	8	21.4%	Janzen, Daniel H. #19,840	American Museum of Natural History
2	Germany	35	1	8.0%	Vences, Miguel #37,263	Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig
3	Brazil	33	3	7.6%	Zaher, H. El Dine #68,602	Universidade de São Paulo
4	Russia	27	1	6.2%	Subbotin, Sergei A. #98,492	A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution Russian Academy of Sciences
5	China	21	0	4.8%	Zhang, Feng #182,011	University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
6	Australia	19	4	4.4%	Mound, Laurence A. #45,300	Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
7	United Kingdom	17	0	3.9%	Gower, David J. #100,072	The Natural History Museum, London
8	Pakistan	15	0	3.4%	Rehman, Abdul #160,835	University of the Punjab
9	South Africa	12	0	2.8%	Villet, Martin H. #250,123	University of Cape Town
10	Canada	10	1	2.3%	Maddison, Wayne Paul #19,180	Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids and Nematodes
11	Italy	10	0	2.3%	Seinhorst, Jan Willem #111,515	Sapienza Università di Roma
12	France	10	0	2.3%	Castanet, Jacques #137,282	Sorbonne Université
13	Poland	10	0	2.3%	Jałoszyński, Paweł #141,509	University of Wrocław
14	Japan	9	1	2.1%	Futai, Kazuyoshi #96,430	Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies
15	India	8	1	1.8%	Kunte, Krushnamegh K. #89,212	National Centre for Biological Sciences
16	Singapore	7	2	1.6%	Kottelat, Maurice #40,880	Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum
17	Belgium	7	0	1.6%	Moens, Maurice #257,219	Universiteit Gent
18	Czechia	7	0	1.6%	Kočárek, Petr #323,943	Charles University
19	Denmark	5	0	1.1%	Rasmussen, Claus #113,372	Statens Naturhistoriske Museum
20	Ecuador	5	0	1.1%	Guayasamin, Juan Manuel #209,918	Universidad San Francisco de Quito
21	Spain	5	0	1.1%	de la Riva, Ignacio J. #317,736	CSIC - Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN)
22	Netherlands	4	1	0.9%	Wood, Thomas James #77,735	Naturalis Biodiversity Center
23	Saudi Arabia	4	0	0.9%	Nadeem, M. S. #183,379	King Abdulaziz University
24	Switzerland	4	0	0.9%	Burckhardt, Daniel H. #206,447	Natural History Museum of Geneva
25	Norway	4	0	0.9%	Ødegaard, Frode #495,940	Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet
26	Serbia	4	0	0.9%	Qamar, Safi Ur Rehman #598,133	Bioengineering Research and Development Center (BioIRC)
27	Argentina	3	0	0.7%	Mirande, Juan Marcos #221,627	Fundacion Miguel Lillo
28	Sweden	3	0	0.7%	Erséus, Christer #259,696	Naturhistoriska riksmuseet
29	New Zealand	3	0	0.7%	Lentle, Roger Graham #297,207	Earth Sciences New Zealand
30	Taiwan	3	0	0.7%	Chan, Tinyam Y. #337,078	National Taiwan Ocean University
31	Finland	3	0	0.7%	Zamani, Alireza #495,109	Luonnontieteellinen Keskusmuseo
32	Austria	3	0	0.7%	Aspöck, Ulrike #511,396	Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna
33	Hong Kong	2	1	0.5%	Alexander, Robert Mc Neill #30,158	Lingnan University, Hong Kong
34	Malaysia	2	0	0.5%	Das, Indraneil #126,734	Universiti Malaysia Sarawak
35	Portugal	2	0	0.5%	Carretero, Miguel Ángel #192,095	Universidade do Porto, Department of Biology
36	Hungary	2	0	0.5%	Páll-Gergely, Barna #423,145	Széchenyi István University
37	Vietnam	2	0	0.5%	Nguyen, Truong Quang #428,005	Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology
38	South Korea	2	0	0.5%	Karanovic, Ivana #493,784	Hanyang University
39	Romania	2	0	0.5%	Moldovan, Oana Teodora #578,142	Institute of Speleology Emil Racovita
40	Türkiye	2	0	0.5%	Çiplak, Battal #697,345	Akdeniz Üniversitesi
41	Morocco	2	0	0.5%	Taybi, Fouzi Abdelkhaleq #1,154,138	Université Mohammed Premier Oujda
42	Madagascar	1	0	0.2%	Fisher, Brian L. #113,526	Madagascar Biodiversity Center
43	Peru	1	0	0.2%	Catenazzi, Alessandro #118,130	Instituto Peruano de Herpetología
44	Costa Rica	1	0	0.2%	Sharkey, Michael Joseph #290,653	Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica
45	Kenya	1	0	0.2%	Coyne, Danny L. #318,008	International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)
46	Mali	1	0	0.2%	Müller, Günter C. #344,110	Université des Sciences, des Techniques et des Technologies de Bamako
47	Slovakia	1	0	0.2%	Jablonski, Daniel #358,524	Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave
48	Greece	1	0	0.2%	Karaouzas, Ioannis #383,556	Hellenic Centre for Marine Research
49	Brunei	1	0	0.2%	Grafe, T. Ulmar #429,383	Universiti Brunei Darussalam
50	Georgia	1	0	0.2%	Tarkhnishvili, David N. #564,599	Ilia State University (ISU)
51	Sri Lanka	1	0	0.2%	Benjamin, Suresh P. #574,979	National Institute of Fundamental Studies, Sri Lanka
52	Montenegro	1	0	0.2%	Pešić, Vladimir Vukašinović #608,058	University of Montenegro
53	Ireland	1	0	0.2%	Myers, Alan An A. #752,160	University College Cork
54	Ukraine	1	0	0.2%	Radchenko, Alexander G. #757,322	I.I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
55	Latvia	1	0	0.2%	Shavrin, Alexey V. #4,184,641	Daugavpils University