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Top institutions in the United Kingdom for Business & Management

42 institutions · Business & Management · United Kingdom

Which institutions in the United Kingdom have the most top-cited scientists in Business & Management?

283 researchers in the United Kingdom whose main subfield is Business & Management are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 1.5% of all listed authors in the United Kingdom, and 2nd of 83 countries in the subfield. 275 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). London Business School has the most (9), followed by University of Bath, School of Management (8) and University of Oxford, Saïd Business School (8). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors
283
1.5% of all in the United Kingdom
In the global top 100,000
275
97.2% of them
Country rank in the subfield
#2
of 83 countries in Business & Management
Highest-ranked
#986
Alvesson, Mats
#InstitutionListed authorsTop 100kRank worldwideHighest-ranked author
1London Business School99#9Ibarra, Herminia #16,901
2University of Bath, School of Management87#17Crane, Andrew #10,956
3University of Oxford, Saïd Business School88#18Eccles, Robert G. #13,960
4Bayes Business School, City University of London77#21Banerjee, Subhabrata Bobby #2,819
5Alliance Manchester Business School77#23Buckley, Peter Jim S. #3,528
6King's College London77#24Stephan, Ute #4,399
7Durham University77#25Amankwah-Amoah, Joseph #5,005
8Cambridge Judge Business School77#28Marquis, Christopher #6,497
9Warwick Business School77#32Voss, Chris A. #42,315
10University of Bath65#36Alvesson, Mats #986
11University of Oxford66#49Vaara, Eero #6,684
12Aston Business School66#51Prasanta K. Dey, Prasanta Kumar #7,970
13University of Bristol66#60Parker, Martin #53,833
14University of Surrey55#66Gawer, Annabelle #2,529
15Imperial College Business School55#68Autio, Erkko #3,206
16Southampton Business School55#69Baruch, Yehuda #3,497
17Sheffield University Management School55#76Dawson, Jeremy F. #8,671
18University of Cambridge55#79Neely, Andy D. #10,261
19The University of Sheffield55#86Warr, Peter B. #19,804
20University of Nottingham44#99Wright, Mike T. #1,255
21University of Northumbria44#100Antony, Jiju #1,501
22King’s Business School44#124Witt, Michael A. #15,469
23University of Kent44#128Papadopoulos, Thanos #16,548
24University of Glasgow43#146Chia, Robert C.H. #34,185
25Essex Business School44#153Kummitha, Rama Krishna Reddy #53,505
26University of Birmingham33#201Child, John #9,741
27Cranfield School of Management33#208Christopher, Martin G. #10,819
28Imperial College London33#210Corley, Kevin G. #11,343
29Lancaster University Management School33#218Anderson, Alistair R. #13,902
30University of Sussex33#219Tourish, Dennis J. #14,402
31Henley Business School32#220Narula, Rajneesh #14,858
32Birkbeck, University of London33#231Kinman, Gail #20,526
33Adam Smith Business School33#236Mason, Colin M. #23,545
34University of York33#237Jia, Fu #24,277
35Leeds University Business School33#249Wong, Chee Yew #31,514
36UCL School of Management33#250Vergne, Jean Philippe #31,624
37Heriot-Watt University33#256Mubarik, Muhammad Shujaat #37,095
38University of Exeter Business School33#261Whiteman, Gail #47,750
39Durham University Business School33#263Epitropaki, Olga #49,117
40University of Sussex Business School33#264Strange, Roger N. #49,229
41University of Strathclyde33#266Cope, Jason #52,765
42York St John University33#271McElwee, Gerard #74,245

The top 100 in Business & Management in the United Kingdom, in order

  1. 1
    Alvesson, Mats
    University of Bath
  2. 2
    Wright, Mike T.
    University of Nottingham
  3. 3
    Antony, Jiju
    University of Northumbria
  4. 4
    Garza-Reyes, Jose Arturo
    University of Derby
  5. 5
    Gawer, Annabelle
    University of Surrey
  6. 6
    Banerjee, Subhabrata Bobby
    Bayes Business School, City University of London
  7. 7
    Singh, Sanjay Kumar
    University of Dundee
  8. 8
    Autio, Erkko
    Imperial College Business School
  9. 9
    Baruch, Yehuda
    Southampton Business School
  10. 10
    Buckley, Peter Jim S.
    Alliance Manchester Business School
  11. 11
    Cornelissen, Joep P.
    University of Liverpool Management School
  12. 12
    McMullen, Jeffery S.
    Imperial College Business School
  13. 13
    Stephan, Ute
    King's College London
  14. 14
    Amankwah-Amoah, Joseph
    Durham University
  15. 15
    Ntim, Collins G.
    Southampton Business School
  16. 16
    Brown, Andrew D.
    University of Bath
  17. 17
    Marquis, Christopher
    Cambridge Judge Business School
  18. 18
    Bryman, Alan E.
    University of Leicester School of Business
  19. 19
    Kumar, Anil
    London Metropolitan University
  20. 20
    Vaara, Eero
    University of Oxford
  21. 21
    Behl, Abhishek
    Keele Business School
  22. 22
    Maitlis, Sally
    University of Oxford
  23. 23
    Lawrence, Thomas B.
    University of Oxford
  24. 24
    Prasanta K. Dey, Prasanta Kumar
    Aston Business School
  25. 25
    Caputo, Andrea
    University of Lincoln
  26. 26
    Dawson, Jeremy F.
    Sheffield University Management School
  27. 27
    Budhwar, Pawan S.
    Aston Business School
  28. 28
    Marlow, Susan
    University of Nottingham
  29. 29
  30. 30
    Child, John
    University of Birmingham
  31. 31
    Neely, Andy D.
    University of Cambridge
  32. 32
    Christopher, Martin G.
    Cranfield School of Management
  33. 33
    Dimov, Dimo P.
    University of Bath
  34. 34
    Crane, Andrew
    University of Bath, School of Management
  35. 35
    Corley, Kevin G.
    Imperial College London
  36. 36
    Spicer, André
    Bayes Business School, City University of London
  37. 37
    West, Michael Alun
    Lancaster University
  38. 38
    Christensen, Clayton M.
    University of Oxford
  39. 39
    Gerged, Ali Meftah
    Sheffield University Management School
  40. 40
    Willmott, Hugh C.
    Bayes Business School, City University of London
  41. 41
    Anderson, Alistair R.
    Lancaster University Management School
  42. 42
    Eccles, Robert G.
    University of Oxford, Saïd Business School
  43. 43
    Tracey, Paul J.
    University of Cambridge
  44. 44
    Hughes, Mathew (Mat)
    University of Leicester School of Business
  45. 45
    Tourish, Dennis J.
    University of Sussex
  46. 46
    Kayikci, Yasanur
    Sheffield Business School
  47. 47
    Narula, Rajneesh
    Henley Business School
  48. 48
    Perkmann, Markus
    Imperial College Business School
  49. 49
    Witt, Michael A.
    King’s Business School
  50. 50
    Fotaki, Marianna
    University of Warwick
  51. 51
    Fu, Xiaolan
    University of Oxford
  52. 52
    Papadopoulos, Thanos
    University of Kent
  53. 53
    Brammer, Steve J.
    University of Bath, School of Management
  54. 54
    Ibarra, Herminia
    London Business School
  55. 55
    Nielsen, Karina M.
    Sheffield University Management School
  56. 56
    Whittington, Richard
    University of Oxford, Saïd Business School
  57. 57
    Williams, Colin C.
    Sheffield University Management School
  58. 58
    Cooper, Cary L.
    Alliance Manchester Business School
  59. 59
    Minbaeva, Dana B.
    King's College London
  60. 60
    Jacobides, Michael G.
    London Business School
  61. 61
    Nicholls, Alex James
    University of Oxford, Saïd Business School
  62. 62
    Howard-Grenville, Jennifer A.
    Cambridge Judge Business School
  63. 63
    Wu, Chiahuei
    Durham University
  64. 64
    Wu, Jie
    University of Aberdeen
  65. 65
    Bowen, Frances E.
    Norwich Business School
  66. 66
    Yu, Wantao
    Roehampton Business School
  67. 67
    Warr, Peter B.
    The University of Sheffield
  68. 68
    Khan, Zaheer
    University of Aberdeen Business School
  69. 69
    Kinman, Gail
    Birkbeck, University of London
  70. 70
    Reinecke, Juliane
    King's College London
  71. 71
    Pinkse, Jonatan M.
    King's College London
  72. 72
    Kumar, Vikas
    University of Portsmouth
  73. 73
    Jackson, Michael C.
    University of Hull
  74. 74
    Hagedoorn, John
    Royal Holloway, University of London
  75. 75
    Brown, Ross
    University of St Andrews
  76. 76
    Belitski, Maksim
    Henley Business School
  77. 77
    Moore, Celia
    Imperial College Business School
  78. 78
    Brouthers, Keith D.
    King’s Business School
  79. 79
    Mason, Colin M.
    Adam Smith Business School
  80. 80
    Li, Feng
    Bayes Business School, City University of London
  81. 81
    Jia, Fu
    University of York
  82. 82
    Jafari-Sadeghi, Vahid
    Aston Business School
  83. 83
    Upadhyay, Arvind
    London Metropolitan University
  84. 84
    Haque, Faizul
    Southampton Business School
  85. 85
    Gabriel, Yiannis
    University of Bath
  86. 86
    Niven, Karen
    The University of Sheffield
  87. 87
    Kor, Yasemin Y.
    Cambridge Judge Business School
  88. 88
    Frynas, Jȩdrzej George
    The Open University
  89. 89
    Zollo, Maurizio
    Imperial College Business School
  90. 90
    Davies, Andrew C.
    University of Sussex
  91. 91
    Hayton, James C.
    Business School
  92. 92
    Muñoz, Pablo
    Durham University
  93. 93
    Thompson, Edmund R.
    University of Bath, School of Management
  94. 94
    Ali, Murad
    University of Northumbria
  95. 95
    Krammer, Sorin M.S.
    University of Surrey
  96. 96
    Koh, Lenny S.C.
    The University of Sheffield
  97. 97
    Burnes, Bernard
    University of Stirling
  98. 98
    Collinson, David L.
    Lancaster University Management School
  99. 99
    Grimes, Matthew G.
    University of Cambridge
  100. 100
    Wang, Catherine L.
    Brunel Business School

283 listed scientists in Business & Management in the United Kingdom

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Data: Ioannidis, John P.A. (2026), ‘August 2026 data-update for “Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators”’, Mendeley Data, v9, doi:10.17632/btchxktzyw.9. 2026 list, ranked by composite citation score (c) excluding self-citations.

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