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747 researchers in the United Kingdom whose main field is Biology are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 4.1% of all listed authors in the United Kingdom, and 3rd of 104 countries in the field. 468 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). University of Oxford has the most (41), followed by University of Cambridge (32) and University of Exeter (30). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors

747

4.1% of all in the United Kingdom

In the global top 100,000

468

62.7% of them

Country rank in the field

of 104 countries in Biology

Highest-ranked

#215

Gaston, Kevin J.

#	Institution	Listed authors	Top 100k	Rank worldwide	Highest-ranked author
1	University of Oxford	41	28	#17	May, Robert M. #941
2	University of Cambridge	32	17	#26	Sutherland, William J. #1,653
3	University of Exeter	30	24	#28	Gaston, Kevin J. #215
4	University of Bristol	24	18	#47	Innes C. Cuthill, Innes C. #10,786
5	The University of Edinburgh	22	14	#54	Charlesworth, Brian #3,856
6	The University of Sheffield	20	17	#65	Grime, J. Philip #6,049
7	University of St Andrews	19	14	#69	Ruxton, Graeme Douglas #4,885
8	Rothamsted Research	19	11	#70	Hawkesford, Malcolm John #7,796
9	University College London	18	15	#72	Yang, Ziheng #275
10	The Natural History Museum, London	18	11	#77	Purvis, Andy #9,945
11	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew	16	14	#93	Antonelli, Alexandre E. #2,633
12	Imperial College London	16	10	#98	Crawley, Michael J. #14,291
13	UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology	15	11	#112	Reynolds, Colin S. #12,603
14	University of Nottingham	15	6	#115	Salt, David E. #18,828
15	Lancaster Environment Centre	14	9	#119	Bardgett, Richard D. #705
16	John Innes Centre	14	10	#123	Osbourn, Anne E. #7,817
17	University of Leeds	14	9	#126	Phillips, Oliver L. #8,694
18	British Antarctic Survey	14	8	#127	Barnes, David Keith Alan #9,784
19	University of York	13	11	#138	Thomas, Chris D. #4,263
20	University of East Anglia	12	8	#152	Hewitt, Godfrey M. #3,368
21	Plymouth Marine Laboratory	12	6	#153	Clarke, Kenneth Robert #3,371
22	University of Glasgow	12	8	#167	Monaghan, Pat #18,433
23	University of Birmingham	11	6	#171	FOYER, Christine H. #662
24	The James Hutton Institute	11	5	#173	White, Philip J. #1,152
25	University of Reading	11	10	#177	Pagel, Mark #5,894
26	Durham University	11	4	#193	Huntley, Brian #41,274
27	University of Sussex	9	7	#226	Goulson, Dave #1,073
28	University of Essex	8	5	#259	Pretty, Jules N. #944
29	Queen Mary University of London	8	3	#268	Chittka, Lars #7,048
30	University of Liverpool	8	7	#272	Parker, Geoff A. #11,082
31	University of Aberdeen	8	5	#284	Lusseau, David M. #20,972
32	University of Southampton	8	2	#296	Trueman, Clive N.G. #58,611
33	University of Plymouth	7	4	#302	Thompson, Richard C. #244
34	Norwich Research Park	6	3	#357	Jones, Jonathan D.G. #5,621
35	Centre for the Environment Fisheries and Aquaculture Science	6	4	#373	Jennings, Simon #16,554
36	Swansea University	6	3	#397	Wilson, Rory Paul #40,739
37	The University of Manchester	6	4	#401	Ennos, Anthony Roland #45,557
38	Bangor University	6	4	#414	Creer, Simon A. #77,012
39	Marine Biological Association	5	2	#426	Smale, Dan A. #4,665
40	Zoological Society of London Institute of Zoology	5	5	#429	Wang, Jinliang #6,895
41	BirdLife International	5	4	#433	Butchart, Stuart H.M. #8,445
42	Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine	5	3	#435	Keeling, Matt J.C. #10,389
43	Royal Holloway, University of London	5	4	#444	Koricheva, Julia K. #14,551
44	Newcastle University	5	2	#485	Stewart, Gavin B. #54,241
45	Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh	4	3	#554	Hollingsworth, Peter M. #21,138
46	King's College London	4	4	#565	Mulligan, Mark #32,807
47	University of Warwick	4	2	#581	Whipps, John M. #48,884
48	University of the West of England	4	2	#588	Everard, Mark #54,279
49	College of Biomedical and Life Sciences	4	2	#600	Symondson, William O.C. #67,405
50	Liverpool John Moores University	4	1	#603	Hodkinson, Ian D. #70,373
51	Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC)	3	2	#643	Reed, Mark S. #2,435
52	University of Dundee	3	2	#659	Jones, Hamlyn G. #9,345
53	Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University	3	1	#662	Leyser, H. M.Ottoline #9,573
54	University of Cambridge Conservation Research Institute	3	3	#664	Coomes, David Anthony #11,931
55	Bournemouth University	3	2	#683	Britton, John Robert #23,257
56	Keele University	3	1	#695	Bruce, Toby J.A. #30,432
57	Lancaster University	3	2	#704	Sayer, Emma J. #33,483
58	Cardiff University	3	2	#705	Ormerod, Steve J. #33,574
59	The Scottish Association for Marine Science	3	1	#717	Burrows, Michael T. #40,004
60	University of Salford	3	1	#731	Martin, Stephen John M. #48,436
61	College of Medical, Veterinary & Life Sciences	3	3	#737	Gilbert, Lucy #49,636
62	National Institute of Agricultural Botany	3	1	#762	Xu, Xiangming #67,804
63	Oxford Brookes University	3	3	#767	Nekaris, K. A.I. #74,242
64	Queen's University Belfast	3	1	#772	Cuthbert, Ross Noel #77,172
65	Aberystwyth University	3	0	#798	Mur, Luis AJ J. #101,669
66	British Trust for Ornithology	3	0	#826	Robinson, Robert A. #154,439
67	CABI, United Kingdom	3	0	#827	Day, Roger K. #165,030

The top 100 in Biology in the United Kingdom, in order

1
Gaston, Kevin J.
University of Exeter
2
Thompson, Richard C.
University of Plymouth
3
Yang, Ziheng
University College London
4
Costanza, Robert
University College London
5
FOYER, Christine H.
University of Birmingham
6
Bardgett, Richard D.
Lancaster Environment Centre
7
May, Robert M.
University of Oxford
8
Pretty, Jules N.
University of Essex
9
Goulson, Dave
University of Sussex
10
White, Philip J.
The James Hutton Institute
11
Malhi, Yadvinder Singh
University of Oxford
12
Sutherland, William J.
University of Cambridge
13
Mace, Georgina M.
University College London
14
Raven, John A.
The James Hutton Institute
15
Klingenberg, Christian Peter
Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health
16
Reed, Mark S.
Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC)
17
Antonelli, Alexandre E.
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
18
Clutton-Brock, Tim H.
University of Cambridge
19
Hewitt, Godfrey M.
University of East Anglia
20
Clarke, Kenneth Robert
Plymouth Marine Laboratory
21
Newbold, Tim
University College London
22
Godfray, Charles H.
University of Oxford
23
Charlesworth, Brian
The University of Edinburgh
24
Myers, Norman
Green Templeton College
25
Thomas, Chris D.
University of York
26
Pettorelli, Nathalie W.
University College London
27
Macdonald, David W.
University of Oxford
28
Maynard-Smith, John
University of Sussex
29
Seddon, Nathalie
University of Oxford
30
Smale, Dan A.
Marine Biological Association
31
Charlesworth, Deborah
The University of Edinburgh
32
Ruxton, Graeme Douglas
University of St Andrews
33
Magurran, Anne E.
University of St Andrews
34
Kamoun, Sophien
The Sainsbury Laboratory
35
Balmford, Andrew P.
University of Cambridge
36
Lewis, Simon L.
University College London
37
Jones, Jonathan D.G.
Norwich Research Park
38
Pagel, Mark
University of Reading
39
Grime, J. Philip
The University of Sheffield
40
Haddaway, Neal Robert
Freelance Researcher
41
Smirnoff, Nicholas
University of Exeter
42
Oldroyd, Giles E.D.
University of Cambridge
43
Beerling, David J.
The University of Sheffield
44
Wang, Jinliang
Zoological Society of London Institute of Zoology
45
Chittka, Lars
Queen Mary University of London
46
Peres, Carlos A.
University of East Anglia
47
Hawkesford, Malcolm John
Rothamsted Research
48
Osbourn, Anne E.
John Innes Centre
49
Flowers, Timothy John
University of Sussex
50
Cushman, Samuel Alan
University of Oxford
51
Baker, Neil R.
University of Essex
52
Butchart, Stuart H.M.
BirdLife International
53
Phillips, Oliver L.
University of Leeds
54
Blackburn, Tim M.
University College London
55
Jones, Hamlyn G.
University of Dundee
56
Potts, Simon Geoffrey
University of Reading
57
Leyser, H. M.Ottoline
Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University
58
Barnes, David Keith Alan
British Antarctic Survey
59
Purvis, Andy
The Natural History Museum, London
60
Hodge, Angela
University of York
61
Hector, Andy
University of Oxford
62
Woodward, F. Ian
The University of Sheffield
63
Keeling, Matt J.C.
Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine
64
Freckleton, Robert P.
The University of Sheffield
65
Stevens, Carly J.
Lancaster Environment Centre
66
Innes C. Cuthill, Innes C.
University of Bristol
67
Brown, Katrina
University of Exeter
68
Maathuis, F. J.M.
University of York
69
Bebber, Daniel Patrick
University of Exeter
70
Parker, Geoff A.
University of Liverpool
71
Chase, Mark W.
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
72
Adams, William M.
University of Cambridge
73
Elliott, Michael
University of Hull
74
Coomes, David Anthony
University of Cambridge Conservation Research Institute
75
Graham, Nicholas Anthony James
Lancaster Environment Centre
76
Milner-Gulland, Eleanor Jane
University of Oxford
77
Lawton, John Hartley
The Hayloft
78
Reynolds, Colin S.
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
79
Benton, Tim Guy
University of Leeds
80
Caro, Tim M.
University of Bristol
81
Fitter, Alastair H.
University of York
82
Crawley, Michael J.
Imperial College London
83
Koricheva, Julia K.
Royal Holloway, University of London
84
Hill, William G.
The University of Edinburgh
85
Pearson, Richard G.
University College London
86
Clarke, Andrew
University of East Anglia
87
Hadfield, Jarrod D.
The University of Edinburgh
88
Ewers, Robert Mark
Imperial College London
89
Tyack, Peter L.
University of St Andrews
90
Whittaker, Robert J.
University of Oxford
91
Tobias, Joseph Andrew
Imperial College London
92
Jennings, Simon
Centre for the Environment Fisheries and Aquaculture Science
93
Silvertown, Jonathan W.
The University of Edinburgh
94
Bullock, James M.
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
95
Martin, Cathie R.
John Innes Centre
96
Monaghan, Pat
University of Glasgow
97
Salt, David E.
University of Nottingham
98
Read, David John
The University of Sheffield
99
Newton, Ian
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
100
Sims, David W.
Marine Biological Association

747 listed scientists in Biology in the United Kingdom

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