Top Scientists in Switzerland (2026)
Explore researchers affiliated with institutions in Switzerland who appear in the 2026 single-year World's Top 2% Scientists dataset.
Historical listings in Switzerland
Annual numbers of listed scientists.
Countries with similar listing totals
Closest by the number of scientists listed in 2026 single-year dataset.
Top 10 Researchers in Switzerland
Ordered by original worldwide rank in the 2026 single-year dataset.
| Switzerland | Worldwide | Researcher | Discipline | c-score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 67 |
Grätzel, Michael
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne |
Enabling & Strategic Technologies | 4.66 |
| 2 | 78 |
Hanahan, Douglas A.
Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research Lausanne |
Clinical Medicine | 4.64 |
| 3 | 134 |
Scrivener, Karen Louise
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne |
Built Environment & Design | 4.52 |
| 4 | 193 |
Provis, John Lloyd
Paul Scherrer Institut |
Built Environment & Design | 4.42 |
| 5 | 407 |
Kor?ner, Christian
Universität Basel |
Biology | 4.26 |
| 6 | 452 |
Siegrist, Michael
ETH Zürich |
Enabling & Strategic Technologies | 4.24 |
| 7 | 523 |
Bibri, Simon Elias
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne |
Earth & Environmental Sciences | 4.20 |
| 8 | 781 |
Lothenbach, Barbara
Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology |
Built Environment & Design | 4.10 |
| 9 | 802 |
Helbing, Dirk
ETH Zürich |
Physics & Astronomy | 4.10 |
| 10 | 817 |
Akdi?, Cezmi A. A.
Swiss Institute of Allergy and Asthma Research |
Clinical Medicine | 4.09 |
Top 10 Institutions in Switzerland
Number of listed scientists by recorded affiliation.
Top 10 Disciplines in Switzerland
Number of listed scientists by Science-Metrix broad field.
How to interpret these rankings
These pages present scientists associated with Switzerland in the 2026 single-year dataset. Country refers to the affiliation country recorded in the source data, not necessarily citizenship or nationality. Worldwide rank is taken from the dataset; country positions and institution totals are calculations made by this website.
Country position is based on the number of listed scientists, not an official assessment of national research quality. Institution counts use distinct nonblank affiliation names as recorded, so variants of the same institutional name may be counted separately. Historical changes describe representation in successive datasets and should not be interpreted as direct changes in research quality.
Frequently Asked Questions
Answers about Switzerland based on the 2026 single-year ranking data.
3,595 researcher records are associated with Switzerland in the 2026 single-year dataset. This is a count of listed researchers, not of all scientists working in the country.
Countries are ordered by their number of listed researcher records in the selected 2026 single-year dataset. The resulting position does not measure overall research quality, productivity, or national scientific capacity.
The Top 10 Institutions and Top 10 Disciplines charts show the most frequently represented institution names and disciplinary classifications among the listed researchers associated with Switzerland. These are counts of researchers, not institutional or disciplinary quality scores.
The selected dataset contains 474 distinct nonblank institution names for Switzerland. Differences in institutional naming may cause the same organization to appear under more than one name.
You can examine both views, but they reflect different citation-impact periods. A difference in counts or positions should not be interpreted as a direct change in research performance without considering the ranking methodology and data coverage.
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