Top institutions in the United Kingdom for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

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Which institutions in the United Kingdom have the most top-cited scientists in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology?

341 researchers in the United Kingdom whose main subfield is Biochemistry & Molecular Biology are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 1.9% of all listed authors in the United Kingdom, and 2nd of 70 countries in the subfield. 146 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). University of Cambridge has the most (20), followed by The Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology (19) and University College London (14). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors

341

1.9% of all in the United Kingdom

In the global top 100,000

146

42.8% of them

Country rank in the subfield

of 70 countries in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Highest-ranked

#347

Murphy, Michael P.

#	Institution	Listed authors	Top 100k	Rank worldwide	Highest-ranked author
1	University of Cambridge	20	11	#10	Dobson, Christopher Martin #1,627
2	The Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology	19	13	#12	Emsley, Paul #11,323
3	University College London	14	4	#23	Duchen, Michael R. #8,320
4	University of Dundee	12	6	#38	Hardie, David Grahame #710
5	Imperial College London	12	6	#40	Carling, D. #10,161
6	University of Oxford	12	8	#43	Ratcliffe, Peter J. #15,313
7	University of Liverpool	10	3	#64	Trayhurn, Paul #26,815
8	King's College London	9	3	#77	Rice-Evans, Catherine A. #6,322
9	University of Oxford Medical Sciences Division	9	3	#83	Platt, Frances M. #32,314
10	University of Glasgow	7	2	#116	Ryan, Kevin M. #47,880
11	University of Leeds	7	2	#117	Turner, Anthony J. #66,337
12	University of York	6	3	#132	Cowtan, Kathryn D. #18,446
13	Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell-Matrix Research	6	2	#142	Kadler, K. E. #59,063
14	MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit	5	3	#153	Murphy, Michael P. #347
15	EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute	5	3	#155	Laskowski, Roman A. #2,936
16	University of Bristol	5	2	#157	Halestrap, Andrew P. #4,184
17	Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine	5	2	#159	Maret, Wolfgang #5,050
18	Nuffield Department of Medicine	5	4	#179	Rastinejad, Fraydoon #35,861
19	Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health	5	1	#204	Bella, Jordi #92,205
20	The Babraham Institute	5	0	#207	Ktistakis, Nicholas T. #103,705
21	Medical Research Council	4	1	#221	Crick, Francis Harry Compton #2,853
22	University of Dundee School of Medicine	4	3	#226	Dinkova-Kostova, Albena T. #8,354
23	Wellcome Trust	4	4	#228	Pérez-Riverol, Yasset #12,777
24	UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology	4	3	#232	Abramov, Andrey Yurevich #17,260
25	University of East Anglia	4	1	#271	Richardson, David John #48,063
26	School of Medical Education	4	3	#280	Saretzki, Gabriele Christine #55,840
27	Cambridge Institute for Medical Research	3	2	#332	McCoy, Airlie J. #9,419
28	The Francis Crick Institute	3	1	#333	Lindahl, Tomas #9,669
29	The University of Sheffield	3	2	#345	Williamson, Michael P. #26,099
30	University of St Andrews	3	1	#394	RAMSAY, Rona R. #77,254
31	University of Essex	3	1	#403	Cooper, Christopher C. #88,477
32	UCL Division of Medicine	3	1	#415	Segal, Anthony W. #99,507
33	Faculty of Science and Engineering	3	0	#422	Scrutton, Nigel S. #110,278
34	Aston University	3	0	#426	Spickett, Corinne M. #113,481
35	Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry	3	0	#466	Campanella, Michelangelo #202,354

The top 100 in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology in the United Kingdom, in order

1
Murphy, Michael P.
MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit
2
Hardie, David Grahame
University of Dundee
3
Dobson, Christopher Martin
University of Cambridge
4
Berridge, Michael John
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
5
Brown, Guy Charles
University of Cambridge
6
Crick, Francis Harry Compton
Medical Research CouncilNobel laureate
7
Laskowski, Roman A.
EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute
8
Cohen, Philip
University of Dundee
9
Williamson, Gary
Queen's University Belfast
10
Halestrap, Andrew P.
University of Bristol
11
Maret, Wolfgang
Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine
12
Rice-Evans, Catherine A.
King's College London
13
Vendruscolo, Michele
University of Cambridge
14
Duchen, Michael R.
University College London
15
Dinkova-Kostova, Albena T.
University of Dundee School of Medicine
16
Croll, Tristan Ian
Altos Labs
17
McCoy, Airlie J.
Cambridge Institute for Medical Research
18
Lindahl, Tomas
The Francis Crick InstituteNobel laureate
19
Carling, D.
Imperial College London
20
Emsley, Paul
The Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology
21
Evans, Philip R.
The Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology
22
Pérez-Riverol, Yasset
Wellcome Trust
23
Thornton, Janet M.
Wellcome Trust
24
Juge, Nathalie
Quadram Institute Bioscience
25
Ratcliffe, Peter J.
University of OxfordNobel laureate
26
Abramov, Andrey Yurevich
UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
27
Read, Randy J.
University of Cambridge
28
Barber, James
Imperial College London
29
Blundell, Tom L.
University of Cambridge
30
Cowtan, Kathryn D.
University of York
31
Fersht, Alan R.
University of Cambridge
32
Hayes, John D.
University of Dundee School of Medicine
33
Badawy, Abdulla Abu Bakr
Cardiff Metropolitan University
34
Alessi, Dario R.
University of Dundee
35
Hirst, Judy
MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit
36
Saibil, Helen R.
Birkbeck, University of London
37
Wardman, Peter
University of Oxford
38
Henderson, Richard
The Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular BiologyNobel laureate
39
Ramakrishnan, V. R.
The Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular BiologyNobel laureate
40
Bayley, Hagan P.
University of Oxford
41
Klug, Aaron
The Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular BiologyNobel laureate
42
Woolfson, Dek N.
University of Bristol
43
Stuart, David Ian
University of Oxford
44
Harwood, John L.
Cardiff University
45
Walker, John E.
MRC Mitochondrial Biology UnitNobel laureate
46
Williamson, Michael P.
The University of Sheffield
47
Murshudov, Garib N.
The Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology
48
Walczak, Henning
UCL Cancer Institute
49
Trayhurn, Paul
University of Liverpool
50
Chothia, Cyrus H.
The Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology
51
Griffin, Julian L.
University of Aberdeen
52
Russell, R. G.
The University of Sheffield
53
Gutteridge, John MC
National Institute for Biological Standards and Control
54
Angelova, Plamena Rumyanova
UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
55
Platt, Frances M.
University of Oxford Medical Sciences Division
56
Murzin, Alexey G.
The Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology
57
Milligan, Graeme A.
College of Medical, Veterinary & Life Sciences
58
O'Donnell, Valerie B.
Cardiff University School of Medicine
59
Sanger, Frederick
University of CambridgeNobel laureate
60
Rastinejad, Fraydoon
Nuffield Department of Medicine
61
Rabbani, Naila
Warwick Medical School
62
Ganley, Ian G.
University of Dundee
63
Rothman, James E.
UCL Queen Square Institute of NeurologyNobel laureate
64
Nagase, H.
Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology
65
Bootman, Martin David
The Open University
66
Robinson, Carol V.
University of Oxford
67
Murphy, Gillian
Department of Oncology
68
Kunji, Edmund R.S.
University of Cambridge
69
Wilson, Mark R.
University of Exeter Medical School
70
Ryan, Kevin M.
University of Glasgow
71
Richardson, David John
University of East Anglia
72
D'Arcy, Mark Sean
Hertfordshire International College
73
Hooper, Nigel M.
The University of Manchester
74
Dwek, Raymond Allen
University of Oxford Medical Sciences Division
75
Vanhaesebroeck, Bart
University College London
76
Curry, Stephen
Imperial College London
77
Hider, Robert
Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine
78
Winn, Martyn David
Science and Technology Facilities Council
79
Vizcaíno, Juan Antonio
Wellcome Trust
80
Hermjakob, Henning
EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute
81
Waksman, Gabriel J.
University College London
82
Armstrong, Fraser A.
St. John's College, Oxford
83
Saretzki, Gabriele Christine
School of Medical Education
84
Wallace, Bonnie A.
Birkbeck, University of London
85
Cohen, Gerald Mm
University of Leicester
86
Sarkar, Sovan
University of Birmingham
87
Filipovic, Milos R.
University of Glasgow
88
Rigden, Daniel John
University of Liverpool
89
Serpell, Louise C.
University of Sussex
90
Kadler, K. E.
Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell-Matrix Research
91
Perutz, Max F.
The Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular BiologyNobel laureate
92
Howarth, Mark R.
University of Cambridge
93
Murray, Andrew J.
University of Cambridge
94
Ferns, Gordon A.A.
Brighton and Sussex Medical School
95
Orchard, Sandra E.
EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute
96
Humphries, Martin J.
Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell-Matrix Research
97
Turner, Anthony J.
University of Leeds
98
Jackson, Malcolm J.
University of Liverpool
99
Farndale, Richard William
University of Cambridge
100
Ellis, Reginald John
University of Warwick

341 listed scientists in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology in the United Kingdom

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