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Which institutions in the United Kingdom have the most top-cited scientists in Biomedical Research?

1,572 researchers in the United Kingdom whose main field is Biomedical Research are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 8.6% of all listed authors in the United Kingdom, and 2nd of 105 countries in the field. 677 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). University of Cambridge has the most (75), followed by University of Oxford (68) and Imperial College London (55). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors

1,572

8.6% of all in the United Kingdom

In the global top 100,000

677

43.1% of them

Country rank in the field

of 105 countries in Biomedical Research

Highest-ranked

#122

Calder, Philip C.

#	Institution	Listed authors	Top 100k	Rank worldwide	Highest-ranked author
1	University of Cambridge	75	38	#4	Dobson, Christopher Martin #1,627
2	University of Oxford	68	38	#7	Cavalier-Smith, Thomas #7,614
3	Imperial College London	55	19	#17	Ferguson, Neil Morris #8,244
4	University College London	52	20	#20	Partridge, Linda Donald #4,383
5	The Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology	40	26	#48	Scheres, Sjors H.W. #640
6	King's College London	39	19	#49	Segata, Nicola #742
7	The Francis Crick Institute	38	24	#52	Vousden, Karen #4,415
8	University of Oxford Medical Sciences Division	36	17	#58	Springmann, Marco #5,248
9	University of Exeter	32	10	#73	Smith, Austin G. #12,501
10	London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine	32	13	#74	Peeling, Rosanna Wai Wan #23,098
11	Wellcome Sanger Institute	31	18	#76	Blaxter, Mark L. #5,019
12	EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute	28	17	#89	Birney, Ewan #956
13	University of Birmingham	25	8	#109	de Magalhães, João Pedro #3,669
14	University of Liverpool	25	7	#113	Trayhurn, Paul #26,815
15	University of Dundee	24	12	#114	Hardie, David Grahame #710
16	University of Bristol	22	7	#133	Halestrap, Andrew P. #4,184
17	University of Leeds	20	10	#158	Wilcox, Mark H. #17,521
18	UK Health Security Agency	19	7	#165	Ladhani, Shamez N. #11,584
19	University of Glasgow	18	4	#187	Maizels, Rick M. #12,842
20	The University of Edinburgh	17	7	#195	Rambaut, Andrew A. #1,559
21	Queen's University Belfast	17	6	#199	Williamson, Gary #3,821
22	Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health	16	7	#216	Griffiths-Jones, Sam #6,877
23	The University of Manchester	15	8	#229	Denning, David W. #390
24	University of East Anglia	15	6	#245	Quince, Christopher #25,872
25	University of Reading	13	10	#273	Gibson, G. R. #2,034
26	University of Nottingham	13	7	#274	Foster, Tim J. #4,102
27	Nuffield Department of Medicine	13	4	#295	Rastinejad, Fraydoon #35,861
28	UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health	12	7	#311	Rahman, Shamima #13,815
29	University of York	12	3	#316	Cowtan, Kathryn D. #18,446
30	The University of Sheffield	12	4	#323	Williamson, Michael P. #26,099
31	Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry	12	4	#324	Prendergast, Andrew J. #27,414
32	University of Southampton	11	2	#334	Calder, Philip C. #122
33	University of Aberdeen	11	8	#336	Speakman, John Roger #1,989
34	MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research	11	4	#341	Holm, Liisa U. #4,007
35	University of East Anglia, Norwich Medical School	11	7	#346	Livermore, David M. #5,769
36	Imperial College Faculty of Medicine	11	9	#349	Anderson, Roy Malcolm #9,543
37	Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine	10	4	#375	Maret, Wolfgang #5,050
38	The Babraham Institute	10	4	#378	Reik, Wolf #7,361
39	Cardiff University	10	5	#388	Cooper, David N. #15,235
40	University of Southampton, Faculty of Medicine	10	3	#399	Elia, Marinos #30,047
41	John Innes Centre	10	4	#412	Coen, Enrico S. #52,178
42	Newcastle University	9	4	#429	Mathers, John C. #10,941
43	Medical Research Council	8	4	#462	Crick, Francis Harry Compton #2,853
44	School of Medical Education	8	5	#465	Von Zglinicki, Thomas #5,452
45	University of Dundee School of Medicine	8	6	#474	Dinkova-Kostova, Albena T. #8,354
46	AstraZeneca	8	5	#491	Cingolani, Pablo E. #26,345
47	Royal Veterinary College University of London	8	3	#494	Hutchinson, John R. #31,739
48	The Pirbright Institute	8	3	#499	Dixon, Linda K. #36,173
49	College of Biomedical and Life Sciences	8	1	#501	Russell, A. Denver #36,671
50	University of Sussex	8	4	#505	Baden, Tom #43,813
51	Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine	8	1	#507	Casewell, Nicholas R. #53,546
52	Cambridge Institute for Medical Research	7	5	#530	Ron, David #4,123
53	MRC Human Genetics Unit	7	5	#536	Ponting, Chris Paul #6,867
54	Quadram Institute Bioscience	7	4	#544	Juge, Nathalie #15,120
55	University of St Andrews	7	2	#563	Johnston, Ian Alistair #32,170
56	Wellcome Trust/ Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute	7	4	#568	Surani, M. Azim #35,761
57	Aston University	7	2	#573	Flower, Darren R. #38,285
58	University of Exeter Medical School	7	1	#576	Barroso, Inês E. #41,678
59	University of Leicester	7	1	#587	Cohen, Gerald Mm #56,499
60	Department of Medicine	7	1	#185	Peacock, Sharon J. #58,267
61	MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit	6	4	#615	Murphy, Michael P. #347
62	Department of Veterinary Medicine	6	2	#626	Parkhill, Julian #8,758
63	University of Aberdeen School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition	6	3	#633	Aminov, Rustam I. #10,428
64	UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology	6	4	#646	Abramov, Andrey Yurevich #17,260
65	College of Medical, Veterinary & Life Sciences	6	3	#659	Milligan, Graeme A. #32,868
66	Animal and Plant Health Agency	6	2	#675	Fooks, Anthony Richard #47,664
67	Bristol Medical School	6	2	#681	Paternoster, Lavinia #55,995
68	Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell-Matrix Research	6	2	#685	Kadler, K. E. #59,063
69	Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust	6	1	#691	Breuer, Judith J. #63,462
70	The Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics	6	0	#711	Mahajan, Anubha #101,131
71	MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit	5	4	#742	Hemani, Gibran #7,106
72	Queen Mary University of London	5	1	#747	Ruban, Alexander V. #9,619
73	Wellcome Trust	5	5	#752	Pérez-Riverol, Yasset #12,777
74	Sir William Dunn School of Pathology	5	2	#766	Proudfoot, Nicholas J. #23,042
75	Liverpool John Moores University	5	2	#768	Cronin, Mark T.D. #23,270
76	The Institute of Cancer Research	5	4	#775	Helin, Kristian #28,553
77	Cardiff University School of Medicine	5	2	#786	O'Donnell, Valerie B. #33,058
78	University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Faculty of Medical Sciences	5	3	#811	Goodfellow, Michael #51,560
79	University of Bath, Department of Life Sciences	5	2	#812	Ingham, Philip William #53,565
80	Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine	5	1	#816	Bending, Gary Douglas #59,620
81	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew	5	1	#829	Kersey, Paul Julian #71,338
82	University of Surrey	5	2	#830	McFadden, J. J. #72,170
83	Loughborough University	5	0	#859	Malik, Danish Javed #122,982
84	St George’s, University of London	5	0	#873	Bicanic, Tihana A. #181,772
85	The Rowett Institute	4	3	#879	Flint, Harry James #1,916
86	Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences	4	3	#525	Rayman, M. P. #2,022
87	Genome Damage and Stability Centre	4	3	#897	Caldecott, Keith W. #10,376
88	Edinburgh Medical School	4	3	#899	Woolhouse, Mark E.J. #10,882
89	University of Bath	4	2	#909	Hurst, Laurence D. #16,289
90	Brunel University London	4	2	#920	Kortenkamp, Andreas #21,274
91	Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust	4	1	#936	Richardson, Malcolm D. #29,534
92	University of Birmingham, College of Medical and Dental Sciences	4	1	#950	Hawkey, Peter Michael #35,146
93	Cranfield University	4	1	#969	Magan, Naresh #46,476
94	University of Kent	4	2	#990	Wang, Chao #63,799
95	University of Warwick	4	2	#995	Didelot, Xavier #65,892
96	Heriot-Watt University	4	1	#1,004	Siddiqui, Ruqaiyyah Bano #75,662
97	University of Essex	4	1	#1,017	Cooper, Christopher C. #88,477
98	Faculty of Science and Engineering	4	1	#1,024	Takano, Eriko #97,599
99	The Natural History Museum, London	4	0	#1,034	Rollinson, D. #118,784
100	University of Strathclyde	4	0	#1,055	Heinz, Eva #153,287
101	Birkbeck, University of London	3	2	#1,130	Saibil, Helen R. #22,581
102	MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine	3	2	#1,149	Wilkie, Andrew O.M. #30,807
103	University of Plymouth	3	2	#1,156	Handy, Richard D. #34,763
104	Swansea University	3	1	#1,171	Brown, Amy E. #40,753
105	Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology	3	2	#1,173	Nagase, H. #40,996
106	Department of Oncology	3	2	#1,181	Murphy, Gillian #44,107
107	University of Central Lancashire	3	1	#1,194	Lowe, Nicola M. #49,095
108	Genomics Ltd	3	1	#1,216	Plagnol, Vincent #61,566
109	University of Stirling	3	1	#1,228	Desbois, Andrew P. #66,304
110	School of Medical Sciences	3	1	#1,232	Eisner, David A. #68,337
111	Ulster University	3	1	#1,251	Strain, J. J. #77,478
112	Swansea University Medical School	3	1	#1,273	Griffiths, William J. #90,334
113	Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust	3	1	#1,277	Righi, Elda #91,526
114	The James Hutton Institute	3	1	#1,278	Cock, Peter J.A. #91,796
115	UCL Medical School	3	0	#1,344	Griffiths, Paul David #129,290
116	Norwich Research Park	3	0	#1,356	Peck, Michael W. #134,188
117	The Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies	3	0	#1,359	Watson, Mick #134,988

The top 100 in Biomedical Research in the United Kingdom, in order

1
Calder, Philip C.
University of Southampton
2
Murphy, Michael P.
MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit
3
Denning, David W.
The University of Manchester
4
Scheres, Sjors H.W.
The Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology
5
Hardie, David Grahame
University of Dundee
6
Segata, Nicola
King's College London
7
Birney, Ewan
EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute
8
Bateman, Alex G.
EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute
9
Rambaut, Andrew A.
The University of Edinburgh
10
Dobson, Christopher Martin
University of Cambridge
11
Durbin, Richard M.
University of Cambridge
12
Flint, Harry James
The Rowett Institute
13
Speakman, John Roger
University of Aberdeen
14
Rubinsztein, David Chaim
University of Cambridge
15
De Strooper, B.
UK Dementia Research Institute
16
Rayman, M. P.
Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences
17
Gibson, G. R.
University of Reading
18
Gadd, Geoffrey Michael
University of Dundee
19
Kouzarides, Tony
University of Cambridge
20
Bird, Adrian P.
Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology
21
Berridge, Michael John
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
22
Brown, Guy Charles
University of Cambridge
23
Crick, Francis Harry Compton
Medical Research CouncilNobel laureate
24
Laskowski, Roman A.
EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute
25
Hannon, Gregory J.
Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute
26
Stratton, Michael R.
Wellcome Sanger Centre
27
Cohen, Philip
University of Dundee
28
de Magalhães, João Pedro
University of Birmingham
29
Piddock, Laura J.V.
University of Birmingham
30
Williamson, Gary
Queen's University Belfast
31
Holm, Liisa U.
MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research
32
Foster, Tim J.
University of Nottingham
33
Ron, David
Cambridge Institute for Medical Research
34
Halestrap, Andrew P.
University of Bristol
35
Partridge, Linda Donald
University College London
36
Vousden, Karen
The Francis Crick Institute
37
Callaway, Ewen
Caring in Bristol
38
Blaxter, Mark L.
Wellcome Sanger Institute
39
Maret, Wolfgang
Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine
40
Martin, Paul B.
University of Bristol
41
Springmann, Marco
University of Oxford Medical Sciences Division
42
Von Zglinicki, Thomas
School of Medical Education
43
Livermore, David M.
University of East Anglia, Norwich Medical School
44
Lancaster, Madeline A.
The Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology
45
Ridley, Anne J.
University of Bristol
46
Rice-Evans, Catherine A.
King's College London
47
Finn, Robert Daniel
EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute
48
Jackson, Stephen P.
University of Cambridge
49
Prosser, James I.
University of Aberdeen
50
Apweiler, Rolf
European Molecular Biology Laboratory
51
Ponting, Chris Paul
MRC Human Genetics Unit
52
Griffiths-Jones, Sam
Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health
53
Watt, Fiona M.
King's College London
54
Hemani, Gibran
MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit
55
Baulcombe, David C.
University of Cambridge
56
Reik, Wolf
The Babraham Institute
57
Cavalier-Smith, Thomas
University of Oxford
58
Kell, Douglas Bruce
The University of Manchester
59
Vendruscolo, Michele
University of Cambridge
60
Ferguson, Neil Morris
Imperial College London
61
Duchen, Michael R.
University College London
62
Dinkova-Kostova, Albena T.
University of Dundee School of Medicine
63
Parkhill, Julian
Department of Veterinary Medicine
64
Walsh, Timothy R.
University of Oxford
65
Whelan, Kevin
King's College London
66
Croll, Tristan Ian
Altos Labs
67
Hawksworth, David Leslie
Jodrell Laboratory
68
Teichmann, Sarah Amalia
University of Cambridge
69
Jumper, John M.
DeepMind Technologies LimitedNobel laureate
70
Sahai, Erik A.
The Francis Crick Institute
71
McCoy, Airlie J.
Cambridge Institute for Medical Research
72
Anderson, Roy Malcolm
Imperial College Faculty of Medicine
73
Ruban, Alexander V.
Queen Mary University of London
74
Spencer, Jeremy Pe Edward
University of Reading
75
Lindahl, Tomas
The Francis Crick InstituteNobel laureate
76
Carling, D.
Imperial College London
77
Martincorena, Iñigo
Wellcome Sanger Institute
78
Caldecott, Keith W.
Genome Damage and Stability Centre
79
Aminov, Rustam I.
University of Aberdeen School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition
80
Ralser, Markus
The Francis Crick Institute
81
Downward, Julian
The Francis Crick Institute
82
Talbot, Nicholas J.
The Sainsbury Laboratory
83
McVean, Gil A.T.
Ellison Institute of Technology, Oxford Limited
84
Helleday, Thomas
The Sheffield Medical School
85
Woolhouse, Mark E.J.
Edinburgh Medical School
86
Mathers, John C.
Newcastle University
87
Wilson, Daniel J.
University of Oxford
88
Emsley, Paul
The Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology
89
Hodgkin, Alan L.
University of CambridgeNobel laureate
90
Chin, Jason W.
The Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology
91
Ladhani, Shamez N.
UK Health Security Agency
92
Evans, Philip R.
The Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology
93
Gil, Jesus
Medical Research Council
94
Ashburner, Michael
University of Cambridge
95
Davies, Julian E.
Imperial College London
96
Smith, Austin G.
University of Exeter
97
Pérez-Riverol, Yasset
Wellcome Trust
98
Fisher, Matthew C.
Imperial College Faculty of Medicine
99
Maizels, Rick M.
University of Glasgow
100
Louis, Petra
The Rowett Institute

1,572 listed scientists in Biomedical Research in the United Kingdom

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