Top institutions in the United Kingdom for Chemistry

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

649 researchers in the United Kingdom whose main field is Chemistry are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 3.5% of all listed authors in the United Kingdom, and 6th of 109 countries in the field. 230 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). University of Oxford has the most (38), followed by Imperial College London (34) and University of Cambridge (28). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors

649

3.5% of all in the United Kingdom

In the global top 100,000

230

35.4% of them

Country rank in the field

of 109 countries in Chemistry

Highest-ranked

#895

Thakur, Vijay Kumar

#	Institution	Listed authors	Top 100k	Rank worldwide	Highest-ranked author
1	University of Oxford	38	17	#32	Morris, Garrett M. #14,038
2	Imperial College London	34	13	#34	Welton, Tom #3,299
3	University of Cambridge	28	10	#58	Reisner, Erwin #13,129
4	Faculty of Science and Engineering	26	8	#69	Chilton, Nicholas F. #12,344
5	University of Liverpool	22	7	#93	Cooper, Andrew Ian #1,864
6	University College London	22	7	#96	Heinrich, Michael M. #4,019
7	University of Birmingham	20	6	#116	Friščić, Tomislav #4,005
8	University of York	19	9	#129	Clark, James H. #3,688
9	Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine	17	9	#162	Bugg, Timothy D.H. #19,196
10	University of Strathclyde	17	3	#168	Murphy, John A. #65,638
11	University of Glasgow	16	9	#178	Farrugia, Louis J. #8,471
12	Durham University	15	7	#200	Steed, Jonathan W. #12,807
13	University of Bristol	15	7	#203	Brereton, Richard G. #15,981
14	Cardiff University	14	6	#218	Hutchings, Graham John #2,890
15	The University of Manchester	12	4	#296	de Visser, Sam P. #30,921
16	Queen's University Belfast	11	5	#325	Stuart L. James, Stuart L. #8,278
17	AstraZeneca	11	0	#363	Goodwin, Richard J.A. #104,512
18	EaStCHEM St Andrews	10	5	#373	O' Hagan, David #6,161
19	University of Leeds	10	5	#379	Halcrow, Malcolm A. #15,025
20	Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre	10	3	#383	Taylor, Robin #20,897
21	The University of Sheffield	10	5	#390	Willett, Peter #27,357
22	University of Reading	8	3	#498	Hamley, Ian W. #5,184
23	University of Bath, Department of Chemistry	8	2	#508	James, Tony D. #15,444
24	The University of Edinburgh	8	3	#517	Attfield, John Paul #27,047
25	University of Bath	8	3	#542	Packham, David E. #48,439
26	University of Southampton	8	1	#546	Day, Graeme M. #50,328
27	University of Leicester	7	2	#580	Abbott, Andrew P. #1,095
28	University of Nottingham	7	1	#592	El-Seedi, H. R. Rushdey #7,240
29	Manchester Metropolitan University	7	4	#605	Banks, Craig E. #21,502
30	Newcastle University	7	3	#627	Al Musaimi, Othman Ibrahem Yousef #41,995
31	University of Warwick	6	3	#688	Perrier, Sébastien #10,933
32	University of East Anglia	6	2	#724	Gibbons, Simon #47,778
33	EaStCHEM Edinburgh	5	1	#795	Mckeown, Neil B. #7,445
34	King's College London	5	1	#842	Houghton, Peter John #34,337
35	Department of Chemical Engineering	5	1	#868	Hardacre, Christopher #63,556
36	Loughborough University	5	0	#908	Thomas, Noreen Louise #108,187
37	Heriot-Watt University	5	0	#915	Stylios, George K. #126,139
38	University of Dundee	4	3	#950	Hopkins, Andrew L. #6,280
39	UCL School of Pharmacy	4	1	#960	Neidle, Stephen #12,805
40	Cranfield University	4	3	#962	Turner, Anthony P. F. #13,340
41	Liverpool John Moores University	4	2	#971	Sarker, Satyajit Dey #17,967
42	University of Lincoln	4	1	#1,014	Barbour, Leonard J. #50,494
43	University of Sussex	4	1	#1,053	Layfield, Richard A. #75,352
44	University of Aberdeen	4	1	#1,070	Anderson, James A. #95,890
45	Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine	3	1	#1,253	Hider, Robert #50,966
46	Swansea University	3	1	#1,312	Barron, Andrew Ross #97,377
47	University of Central Lancashire	3	0	#1,333	Stec, Anna A. #113,015
48	University of St Andrews	3	0	#1,373	Walton, John Christopher #146,553
49	Astex Pharmaceuticals	3	0	#1,396	Murray, Christopher W. #167,439
50	Queen Mary University of London	3	0	#1,445	Moss, Gerard P. #230,326

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

1
Thakur, Vijay Kumar
Biorefining and Advanced Materials Research Centre
2
Abbott, Andrew P.
University of Leicester
3
Cooper, Andrew Ian
University of Liverpool
4
Habtemariam, Solomon
Pharmacognosy Research & Herbal Analysis Services UK
5
Hutchings, Graham John
Cardiff University
6
Welton, Tom
Imperial College London
7
Clark, James H.
University of York
8
Friščić, Tomislav
University of Birmingham
9
Heinrich, Michael M.
University College London
10
Idriss, Hicham
University College London
11
Hamley, Ian W.
University of Reading
12
Morgan, David J.
Cardiff University
13
O' Hagan, David
EaStCHEM St Andrews
14
Hopkins, Andrew L.
University of Dundee
15
Harris, Kenneth D.m.
UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
16
El-Seedi, H. R. Rushdey
University of Nottingham
17
Mckeown, Neil B.
EaStCHEM Edinburgh
18
Khutoryanskiy, Vitaliy V.
University of Reading
19
Rhodes, Christopher J.
Kingston University
20
Stuart L. James, Stuart L.
Queen's University Belfast
21
Farrugia, Louis J.
University of Glasgow
22
Goodacre, Royston
University of Liverpool
23
O'Boyle, Noel M.
EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute
24
Dove, Andrew P.
University of Birmingham
25
Perrier, Sébastien
University of Warwick
26
Chilton, Nicholas F.
Faculty of Science and Engineering
27
Neidle, Stephen
UCL School of Pharmacy
28
Steed, Jonathan W.
Durham University
29
Reisner, Erwin
University of Cambridge
30
Turner, Anthony P. F.
Cranfield University
31
Turner, Nicholas J.
Faculty of Science and Engineering
32
Morris, Garrett M.
University of Oxford
33
Williams, Charlotte K.
University of Oxford
34
Abraham, Michael H.
University College London
35
Hunter, Christopher A.
University of Cambridge
36
Fuchter, Matthew John
Imperial College London
37
Halcrow, Malcolm A.
University of Leeds
38
Cooper, M. Allister
University of Cambridge
39
Mason, Timothy J.
Coventry University
40
James, Tony D.
University of Bath, Department of Chemistry
41
Forgan, Ross S.
University of Glasgow
42
Adams, Dave J.
University of Glasgow
43
Brereton, Richard G.
University of Bristol
44
Vollrath, Fritz
University of Oxford
45
Cole, Jacqueline M.
Department of Physics
46
Sarker, Satyajit Dey
Liverpool John Moores University
47
Bugg, Timothy D.H.
Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine
48
Wilson, Ian David
Imperial College Faculty of Medicine
49
Tu, Xin
University of Liverpool
50
Taylor, Robin
Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre
51
Compton, Richard G.
University of Oxford
52
Banks, Craig E.
Manchester Metropolitan University
53
Segall, Matthew D.
Optibrium Ltd.
54
Willis, Michael C.
University of Oxford
55
Liddle, Stephen T.
Faculty of Science and Engineering
56
Dunn, Warwick B.
University of Liverpool
57
Aggarwal, Varinder K.
University of Bristol
58
Seddon, Kenneth Richard
Queen's University Belfast
59
Morris, Russell E.
EaStCHEM St Andrews
60
Budd, Peter M.
Faculty of Science and Engineering
61
Allen, Frank H.
Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre
62
Nitschke, Jonathan R.
University of Cambridge
63
Zysman-Colman, Eli
EaStCHEM St Andrews
64
Sherwood, James R.
University of York
65
Attfield, John Paul
The University of Edinburgh
66
Walton, Richard I.
Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine
67
Willett, Peter
The University of Sheffield
68
Vashist, Sandeep Kumar
The Binding Site Group Ltd.
69
Hallett, Jason Patrick
Imperial College London
70
Schofield, Christopher J.
University of Oxford
71
de Visser, Sam P.
The University of Manchester
72
Meldrum, Fiona C.
University of Leeds
73
Hassan, Mohammed Mahbubul
University of the Arts London
74
Cronin, Lee
University of Glasgow
75
Smith, David K.
University of York
76
Bryce, Martin R.
Durham University
77
Barnes, Howard Anthony
Aberystwyth University
78
Beer, Paul D.
University of Oxford
79
Viant, M. R.
University of Birmingham
80
Sadler, Peter John
Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine
81
Kennedy, John F.
Chembiotech Laboratories
82
Houghton, Peter John
King's College London
83
Cruz-Cabeza, Aurora J.
Durham University
84
Goodwin, Andrew L.
University of Oxford
85
Schmidt, Bernhard V.K.J.
University of Glasgow
86
Rahman, Khalid
Liverpool John Moores University
87
Tsang, Shik Chi Edman
University of Oxford
88
O’Reilly, Rachel K.
University of Birmingham
89
Mills, Andrew R.
The University of Sheffield
90
Fairen-Jimenez, David
University of Cambridge
91
Anderson, Harry Laurence
University of Oxford
92
Brown, Richard James Christopher
National Physical Laboratory
93
Adams, Robert D.
University of Oxford
94
Al Musaimi, Othman Ibrahem Yousef
Newcastle University
95
Ciulli, Alessio
University of Dundee
96
David, William I.F.
ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
97
Wirth, Thomas
Cardiff University
98
Horrocks, A. R.
University of Bolton
99
Waring, Michael J.
Newcastle University
100
Gibson, Matthew I.
Faculty of Science and Engineering

649 listed scientists in Chemistry in the United Kingdom

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