More data on highly cited researchers, courtesy of the Institute for Scientific Information. Remember: this data does not include the humanities, and is tilted towards research in the hard sciences and medicine. The data also favors scholarship published in English. With those caveats in mind, here are the nations with the ten highest per capita representation of "highly cited ISI researchers"; the number in parentheses is the number of people in the country for which there is one ISI highly cited researcher.
1. United States (93,880)
2. Switzerland (96,103)
3. United Kingdom (170,454)
4. Israel (186,486)
5. Sweden (200,000)
6. Canada (219,310)
7. Denmark (234,782)
8. Netherlands (250,769)
9. Australia (256,962)
10. New Zealand (273,333)
Some other countries (not rank ordered):
Austria: 1 per 800,000
Belgium: 1 per 433,333
France: 1 per 530,973
Germany: 1 per 430,208
Italy: 1 per 1,260,869
Japan: 1 per 669,633
Finland: 1 per 742,857
Norway: 1 per 657,142
Singapore: 1 per 875,000
Spain: 1 per 3,500,000
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